DIFFERENT WORLDS 2024
12th International open call for young photographers from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
The Photon competition for young and emerging artists in the field of contemporary original photography will be held for the 12th time this year. Open to photographers up to 35 years of age (including year of birth 1989) who come from the CEE region (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Austria, Poland, Romania) and who are based elsewhere but come from these countries.
The competition encourages artistic photography and works that demonstrates originality and innovation both in their formal approach and in their choice of themes and concepts. There is no set theme. We accept work that falls within a broad spectrum of photographic and photography-related practises. The first prize brings a solo exhibition at Photon Gallery in 2025 with production support. The work of the ten selected artists will be presented in a group exhibition in Ljubljana in October 2024.
JURY
The selection of authors and works will be decided by a three-member international jury consisting of:
• Gábor Máté, Hungarian photographer, professor and head of the Department of Photography at MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest.
• Peter Koštrun, Professor of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
• Ivana Tomanović, Professor of Photography at the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad.
• Sara Nuša Golob Grabner, independent curator of contemporary art and photography.
THE APPLICATION SHOULD INCLUDE:
• One or two completed projects or projects in progress. Each project must contain a maximum of 20 and a minimum of 4 photos with a resolution of at least 1800 pixels per long side, in PDF or JPG format. Projects must not be older than three years.
• Each project description and its coceptual basis (mandatory in English) of up to 1500 characters.
• A short biography of the applicant.
• Additional technical information: the photographic techniques used to create the photograph (analogue or digital photography, photo collage, photo montage, photo installation, appropriation of found photographs, etc.), the dimensions of the works and the optimal way of presenting them in an exhibition format.
Please adhere strictly to the entry criteria and submit all materials listed.
SUBMISSION OF THE APPLICATION
The complete application should be packed in one zip file and have the following title:
Name_Surname_ProjectTitle.zip.
Please send the zip file along with the application form at https://bit.ly/DW_24.
If you have any problems submitting your application, please contact us at spela@photon.si.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION
Applicants are requested to submit their applications no later than midnight on Friday, 6th of September.
Applicants will be notified of the results of the selection process no later than 10 days after the deadline.
EXHIBITION
The selected artists will be presented in a group exhibition at the Photon Gallery, which opens its doors on Wednesday, 9 October 2024. The exhibition will be accompanied by a small exhibition catalogue. After Ljubljana, the exhibition will travel to other European cities of the project partners.
OUR CONTACT
For more information, please contact spela@photon.si and +386 59 977907 (weekdays, 12-6 pm); contact person: Špela Pipan.