Theme for Guest Room

Guest Room fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, galleries and curator Ghislain Pascal and New York-based photographer Sebastian Perinotti collaborate to explore the following theme:

"Identity on Collision Course"

Identities are not fixed. They move, clash, overlap, and collide with the world around us. Inside every image, there is a tension between how we see ourselves and how others see us, between the masks we wear and the truths that slip through. Photography has always been a stage for these collisions as traces of transformation, resilience and enrichment. A portrait can show intimacy while performing what is not there. An environment can hold both belonging and exclusion. A digital trace can be both a record and an invention. A face, a gesture, a place, a screen, all become sites where identities encounter friction, contradiction, and possibility.

Today, identity is pulled in many directions at once. It collides with history, with the environment, with culture, with technology. It collides with labels we inherit, embrace, or resist. It collides with images themselves and with the weight of representation and the power of reimagining.

For this Guest Room, we invite work that explores identity through this lens of collision. How do multiple selves meet within one body? How do different identities intersect or clash in public and private space? How do images expose or conceal the forces pressing against us? This call is an invitation to engage with identity not as a fixed state, but as a moving field of impact and encounter: a collision course where photography becomes a way to question, resist, and remake who we are with and against the world.

Why submit to Guest Room?

• Be discovered by an expert in contemporary art and photography
• Get published in an online showcase on Der Greif alongside emerging artists from all over the world
• Win a 1:1 feedback session with the curators
• Submit for free or pay a voluntary donation of 10€
• Please note: Images which have been selected for a previous Der Greif opportunity are not eligible for re-submission. We want to support the broadest range of photographers possible and therefore encourage you to submit work that has not yet been selected by our past Guest Curators. Any images which do not comply with these terms will be removed from the selection process.

Voluntary donation

Der Greif is a registered non-profit. In these challenging economic times – especially for arts organizations and artists – we are convinced to provide a vital platform for our community. If you're in the position to support this mission, we value your support.

Since launching Guest Room in January 2015, we've invited a broad range of professionals (gallerists, editors, curators) to create opportunities for artists to share their work and get it in front of an international network they might not have access to otherwise. We are more commited than ever to continue this work.

We suggest a voluntary 10€ donation to help us sustain these efforts. If you'd like to support us further, we also accept regular donations via our Raisely page.

If you're unable to contribute financially, please email voucher-guestroom-2@dergreif.org to receive a 50% or 100% discount code. Your artistic and financial contributions enable our continued growth.

About Ghislain Pascal

Ghislain Pascal is the co-founder of The Little Black Gallery. In 2018 he started BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!, a programme to promote queer and gay fine art photography. It now represents more than 87 photographers from 34 countries including China, India, Iran, Kenya and Russia, where gay rights are repressed and queer lives under constant threat. BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! includes exhibitions, books, a bi-annual magazine, zines, photography courses, and the main online art platform. In 2024 they opened their first BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café in Fitzrovia, London.

About Sebastian Perinotti

Sebastian Perinotti is photographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied International Relations and Political Science at Universidad de San Andres. Perinotti received his MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons, School for Design in New York in 2017 where he was awarded the Dean’s Merit Scholarship for Academic Achievement. Perinotti has exhibited in Buenos Aires, Miami, New York, Japan, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Amsterdam. Perinotti’s work is held in numerous collections, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo MACRO de Rosario and La Casa de la Cultura in Buenos Aires, as well as private collections around the world. He is represented by The Little Black Gallery.

About Der Greif Guest Room

Guest Room is a monthly online exhibition with open submissions curated in real-time by personalities from the international photography scene. Der Greif is an award-winning organization for contemporary photography. It is print-publication, online-publication, curatorial team and joint project all at once. Der Greif connects the digital and the analogue, exploring and expanding the borders and limits of image-distribution and -reception in the digital era.