1. RECIPIENTS

The Open Call for the Discovery Awards 2024, is open to all artists, professional or amateur, national or international over 18 years old. Artists may participate on an individual basis or as a collective;

The limit date for the application is April 28th 2024.

2. AWARDS

The jury will select the top 5 projects that will be invited to exhibit their work in the 34rd edition of the festival from the 20th of September to the 3rd November 2024 in Braga, Portugal.

WINNER: from the top 5 the jury will choose a winner who will receive a prize of 1.000€.

In addition to the 5 projects selected for exhibition, there will also be 15 selected to be part of a video projection that will be part of this edition of the festival.

3. APPLICATION

All projects that are lens based are eligible (photography, video, installation, mixed media).

The submitted projects don’t have any theme, but should have a consistent narrative and have been developed after 2022.

Each project should have between 15 and 20 images (except video).

Each project should have a short synopsis about the contents (max. 10 lines).

Each project submitted will be considered a single application.

Each application has a registration fee of 30€.

Each artist can submit a maximum of 3 projects.

Artists take full responsibility for the authorship of the images/work presented in the contest.

4. CONDITIONS

The production costs of the selected works for exhibition will be covered in total by the organization of the festival. All decisions concerning the production of the exhibition (prints, frames, layouts, assembly, and so on) will be made by the curator and the artist.

The artists will have images of their work reproduced in the catalog of the festival, and they will receive a copy of it.

Besides covering the total costs of the production of the exhibition, the organization covers 2 nights of accommodation in Braga on the opening weekend of the festival from the 20th to the 22nd of September, 2024.

5 . IMAGE USE

The images that are part of the selected work, can be used by the festival in order to promote exhibitions and activities in it.

The works selected and produced for the 2024 edition of the festival will become part of the festival's archive at the end of this edition;

In future, the festival may use the produced images for exhibitions (individual or collective), within the festival or in partnership with similar institutions. This will always be communicated to the authors beforehand. Whenever possible, and on a case-by-case basis, the festival will try to ensure that the artist receives a fee for their participation in these exhibitions.

All the selected finalists will need to sign a Declaration of Agreement and Consent for the use of the images of their project, explained above.

NOTE: Any omitted issues in this regulation, shall be addressed by the festivals Board of Directors.