Kassel Dummy Award Shortlist

Four KABK Photography students and graduate, both BA & MA are shortlisted for the prestigious Kassel Dummy Award 2023: Fleur Huijsdens, Rafael Roncanto, Katia Motylëva and Alexandra Corcode. Their works were chosen among 383 unpublished photobook dummies from 46 countries. Congratulations!

"Your Death is in my Hands" by Alexandra Corcode (3rd year PH). The book is a visual exploration of taxidermy in both the technical and artistic way, combining archival material with personal images shoot between The Netherlands and Romania.

FLEUR HUIJSDENS, FELIS SILVESTRIS CATUS

Fleur Huijsdens’ KABK Photography graduation project (2022) is a series of portraits of cats. It focuses on the human relationship with cats, a relationship that, throughout history, has gone through many changes. This collection of portraits depicts a broad spectrum of emotions, but are they the genuine emotions of the portrayed cats? By portraying cats based on human archetypes, such as the nutty professor, the old neighbor, or the crying Maria, Huijsdens discovered how humans tend to project their emotions onto these animals. We would like to believe that we understand what our pet is feeling. We see different emotions, but let's be honest, are there any?

KATIA MOTYLËVA, LOSS

Ukrainian photographer and videomaker Katia Motylëva graduated from KABK in 2022 with her project “Loss”. The shortlisted book deals with all the events that started 2014 with the occupation of Donbas by Russia and now have escalated into a full-scale war. It is a personal story about the war in Ukraine, the life of a woman and her family in the midst of hostilities. As she puts it, “This work is my attempt to tell about loss and not be forgotten”.

Tropical Trauma Misery Tour by Alumnus Rafael Roncanto (Photography & Society, 2021) is a tragicomedy about violence, falsehoods, and digital populism in the networked image era. Roncanto’s Master graduation project explores strategies for overcoming dangerous political illusions by tackling the farce and media opportunism of the Brazilian president and far-right populist Jair Messias Bolsonaro— the Myth. In 2018, Bolsonaro was stabbed during a presidential rally campaign. Against a backdrop of polarization, micro-narratives, and misinformation, The Myth starred in an online political campaign where he had complete control over his narrative and self-presentation. This tour investigates how the ambiguity of the stabbing event exposes the connection between violence and network propaganda in the Brazilian political game.

Permanently Open

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Entry Fee: free opeN Galerie Asterisk

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Entry Fee: free opeN Open Eye Gallery

Entry Fee: free

March 2023

17.03. Booooooom “Pictures and Songs”

Black&White images of people, places, and things in combination of a selected song of your choice that fits with photographs. Images do not have to be shot on B&W film to be eligible, digital images converted to B&W are acceptable.

Booooooom will be selecting work by 50+ photographers for what will become a black & white book.

Entry Fee

23.03. Innovate Grant

Innovate Grant accepts submissions from applicants 18 years or older, from around the world within the following two categories:

Art, Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Sculpture, Film / Video, Mixed Media, Installation, New Media

Photography; Portrait, Conceptual, Still Life, Black&White, Documentary, Street, Composite, Collage

Innovate Grant will distribute (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer.

Entry Fee

26.03 Gibellina Photoroad Call

for Projects & Call for Open Air Installations

What role does vision play in a condition of total openness? What does it mean to design an open-air space? How are new meanings created in an empty space?

Gibellina Photoroad invites photographers, artists and curators to respond to the questions with visual installation.

You may be selected for:

- An open air and site-specific installation/ exhibition, which will be exhibited in the fourth edition of the festival (28th July/30th September 2023)

- The entrance in the Permanent Collection of Fondazione Orestiadi

- Collective screening at FormatInternational Photography Festival- Derby, UK 2024

- Publication in the catalog and in digital and paper publications of the festival

Entry fee

30.03. The Kranj Foto Fest Theme: Human-Nature. Powerful and thought-provoking stories that showcase the relationship between humanity and the environment.

Submissions can include documentary photography, fine art photography, and any other form of contemporary photography that explores the theme in a meaningful and impactful way.

The jury will select ONE WINNER who will receive a 1000 EUR cash prize and have a solo exhibition in Kranj, Slovenia, at the program of Kranj Foto Fest 2023 (from August 23rd to September 23rd 2023), and will shortlist a number of photographers for group exhibitions all around the picturesque alpine town of Kranj.

Entry fee

31.03.

(2023)

Artphilein Photobook Contest the necessary conversations on topics such as representation, inclusion, environmental sustainability, the politics of everyday life, and the power of change held by social movements.

Contemporary “In biology, regeneration is the process of renewal, restoration and tissue growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage”. Participants are invited to present a project which, starting from a traumatic event - caused by human or natural disasters - highlights and describes a regeneration process for a person or a community or an urban space or an ecosystem.

Entry fee

MAY 2023

01.05. Magnum Photo Submission 2023, Photo Projects

The award grants the winner with the production of the photobook to be published by Artphilein Editions and an exhibition at one of the De Pietri Artphilein Foundation spaces in Lugano and in Lenzburg, in partnership with Fotofestival Lenzburg 2024.

Free

31.12. Pulpo gallery 2023 open call solo show

Entries can take any form of 2-dimensional (such as paintings) or 3-dimensional (such as sculptures) art (NFT submissions are allowed as well) and need to be submitted via Instagram. The winner will receive an all-expenses-paid solo show at PULPO GALLERY in 2024.

Free APRIL 2023

23.04. Encontros Da Imagem –International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Discovery Awards 2023 Essay for the Future: Considering the present as we imagine and build the future together. Encontros da Imagem invites artists to explore the challenges that the world continues to experience and keep up

Through the open call Magnum Photos accepts portfolio submissions from all international professional photographers. Selected applicants will be contacted by one of Magnum’s photographers and invited to become a ‘Nominee Member’ of Magnum.

Free

08.05. The Royal Photographic Society, The RPS International Photography Exhibition is the world’s longest running photography exhibition. RPS encourages everyone to participate in the annual open call - new, emerging and established photographers. Selected artists will have an opportunity to participate in a group exhibition at The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol, UK, and other nationwide venues, alongside a prize fund to support future photographic projects.

Free

15.05. Photo Vogue Global Open Call, Photo Vogue Global Open Call is looking for artists who work with photography and video and address the question of what does beauty mean today? The call is open for all visual aesthetics and techniques.

Free