STCF 2025 is here!
Check out the Call for Entries for our September gallery shows
What’s a toy camera?
Toys have come a long way since we started this Festival in 2013, but our north stars remain the plastic toy cameras that started it all back in the 1960s-70s. For our exhibitions, we welcome photos made with any camera that:
shoots film, or exposes images directly onto to photosensitive paper
has a plastic lens (or no lens — hello pinhole)
offers very minimal (or no) exposure control