The Art of Photography Show, headquartered on La Mesa Boulevard in La Mesa Village, stages international juried exhibitions of contemporary photographic art. The show produces printed exhibition catalogues and stages gallery-wall presentations requiring archival matting and custom framing, production needs sourced in part through the frame department at Michaels on Fletcher Parkway. Each annual competition is judged by a single museum curator—past jurors include leaders from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Portland Art Museum. Award pools totaling $10,000 fund artist grants ranging from $400 honorariums to a $2,000 top prize, underwriting the same emerging-talent pipeline that feeds visual-arts instruction at Art With Larisse on the other end of the creative career arc. Selected works are exhibited at the San Diego Art Institute and published in a printed catalogue, giving entrants museum-wall exhibition credit with archival giclée printing on conservation-grade substrates.