PHOTO 2024 Open Call
PHOTO 2024 Open Call
PHOTO 2024 Open Call
Submissions are invited from emerging, mid-career and established artists and photographers worldwide to participate in PHOTO 2024 in Melbourne, Australia.
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About

Apply to exhibit at PHOTO 2024, ‘Australia’s most prestigious photography festival’ (British Journal of Photography).

Following the success of PHOTO 2021 (originally conceived as PHOTO 2020), and PHOTO 2022, Photo Australia will deliver the third edition of the festival – PHOTO 2024 – in collaboration with over 50 museums, galleries and education partners across Victoria, from 1 to 24 March 2024. Curated in response to a central theme, the Open Call is an opportunity to participate in a ‘world-leading platform for image makers’ (Wallpaper*) dedicated to new photography, art and ideas.

Project proposals are invited from emerging, mid-career and established artists and photographers worldwide to participate in the festival’s Outdoor Program. The award-winning biennial’s Outdoor Program is a trail of expertly-produced temporary public artworks displayed on building facades, lightboxes, and bespoke free-standing frames in central Melbourne.

At PHOTO 2022, 11 individuals were selected through the Open Call and were exhibited alongside artists including Cindy Sherman (US), Gillian Wearing (UK), Paul Mpagi Sepuya (US), Mohamed Bourouissa (FR/AG) and Hoda Afshar (IR/AU).

‘PHOTO 2022 was beautifully curated and produced to a high standard... having worked with a lot of festivals, I would put this up there as one of the best experiences I've had.’
—Alexandra Lethbridge (UK), PHOTO 2022 Open Call artist.

‘PHOTO 2022 has allowed me to view my work in a completely new way and opened my mind to the potential impact of what I'm doing.’
—Richmond Kobla Dido (GH), PHOTO 2022 Open Call artist.

THEME

Society is shifting on a radical scale. From the ecological to the social and political, the future of the world is on a precipice – impacted by climate catastrophe, pandemics, war and revolution, through to threats to civil liberties and human rights. What happens next is far from clear.

PHOTO 2024 will explore possible and parallel futures. We invite visionary artists, photographers, curators and academics to consider potential scenarios that lie ahead, and how current actions and activisms are creating future realities.

Where are we headed? Where do we want to be? And how can our lives in the present impact our short-term and long-term futures?

Photographers and artists are invited to submit proposals that respond to one of the following thematic strands:

SOCIAL FUTURES — exploring the ways in which society is shaped. This includes ideas ranging from queer, urban and Afro-futurisms, to the tensions between utopia and dystopia. Activist movements, protests, and fights for human rights are taking place across the globe, raising the questions: who has the power in society? Who is in control?

ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES — reflecting on the Anthropocene and climate catastrophe. As resources become sparse and the human-made increasingly outweighs the natural, what solutions can be offered? And what urgent stories need to be told?

INDIGENOUS FUTURES — placing Indigenous thinking front and centre. From decolonial and ‘Deep Time thinking’, to land management, science fiction and speculative storytelling; these self-determined imaginings are key to an Indigenous-led future.

TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURES — investigating existing and emerging technological developments, such as machine learning, virtual realities, and the prospect of space travel. And how can our lives in the present impact our short-term and long-term futures?

Images from previous festivals
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Atong Atem
Atong Atem
Richmond Kobla Dido
Richmond Kobla Dido
Anu Kumar
Anu Kumar
Henry Wolff
Henry Wolff
Hannah Bronte
Hannah Bronte
Misha Velljo Prut
Misha Velljo Prut
Marton Perlaki
Marton Perlaki
Eliza Hutchinson
Eliza Hutchinson
Inside Out
Inside Out
Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi
Patrick Waterhouse
Patrick Waterhouse

Any questions?

Please feel free to contact us.

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