Photo Oxford 2023 Open Call

Last edited by Photo Oxford 2023 on 23 January 2023
Salary / Fee: 
€23
Closing Date: 
Tuesday, 28 February, 2023

We are welcoming work from photographers, curators, collectives and artists from around the world. Our stellar panel of jurors are ready to engage with new and refreshing visions of the world expressed through photography. Our team of jurors are:

Alicia Colen, (Director, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC)
Matthew Finn (Photographer, winner of the 2017 Photo Oxford Open Call)
Emily Graham (Magnum Cultural Commissions and Partnerships; Photographer)
Kalpesh Lathigra (Photographer)
Phillip Roberts (Bodleian Library, Bern and Ronny Schwartz Curator of Photography)
Jermaine Francis (Photographer)

The world is in flux - everything is changing at almost every level of our daily lives. The jurors are looking for work that documents ‘personal inventories of experience’ which ties in with the Festival’s theme - ‘The Hidden Power of the Archive’. We want to see how the world looks to you right now. Fresh, energetic and connected to the great themes of our age; identity, climate change, Covid, sexuality, the domestic landscape, work (or lack of it), inflation, power (and shortages of it) and democracy for starters. But what is in your ‘personal inventory’ that speaks to your recent experience?

You can enter a single image or a series of between 5 and 15 images. Submission cost: €23.

The series winner:

- Prominent inclusion in an dedicated exhibition of up to 8 of your winning series images
- Prominent inclusion on the Festival website and social media
- A 30 minute Zoom meeting with the juror of their choice.
- 10 day Jury Curated Instagram Takeover of Photo Oxford IG account

Single Image winner:

- Prominent inclusion in an Open Call winners exhibition during Photo Oxford
- Prominent inclusion on the Festival website and social media
- 3 day Instagram Take Over of Photo Oxford IG account

Runners Up:

10 Runners up will be featured in the physical and online exhibitions

About Photo Oxford

Photo Oxford is a biannual international festival of photography in its 5th edition. The Festival takes advantage of the extraordinary resources available to it from the famous universities of Oxford as well as its close proximity to London. Photo Oxford supports new and exciting ways of engaging with the great issues of the day through photography as well as programming exhibitions of historical importance. In addition there is a full list of events including seminars, symposia and learning opportunities. Photo Oxford is a charity and therefore a non-profit organisation.

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