Open Calls

Guest room is a format that fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, Arles-based Alejandro León Cannock (Director, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation and Delphine Mansard (Director, Librairie du Palais) are exploring the theme "Have You Checked Your Screen Time? Forms and Logics of Excess."

This edition of Guest Room brings together photographic projects that deal with excess not as a topic, but as a condition of the present. Excess is understood as a core logic of today’s capitalist system. Photography becomes a method to question, expose, and reflect on this condition, even when doing so also puts the photographic image itself into question. Photography is understood here in its expanded sense, encompassing documentary images, constructed scenes, archival material, moving images, and hybrid forms that respond differently to the same condition.

Deadline: February 28 at 11:59 PM CET

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"In Focus" invites artists and publishers to submit recent photobooks and artist books for editorial consideration. This open call creates space for critical and poetic approaches to the photobook as a form of authorship, collaboration, and storytelling. We welcome publications that engage thoughtfully with contemporary life, visual culture, and the material and narrative possibilities of the book.

Selected projects will be featured in Der Greif’s editorial platform, offering international visibility and long-term archival presence.

Deadline: March 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM CET

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Sisterhood in Practice is an open call conceived as a space for solidarity, exchange, and collective growth in contemporary photography. Launching for International Women’s Day 2026, it invites FLINTA artists to share photographic work engaging with womanhood as lived experience, political position, relational practice, and evolving identity.

The initiative prioritises process and dialogue over competition. Selected works will be shown in a one-month online exhibition on Der Greif’s homepage.

Selected artists will also be invited to take part in Der Greif’s Face-to-Face program, joining small-group online critique sessions to share work in progress, exchange feedback, and receive guidance from the female-identifying Der Greif team.

For more information, the link is below.

Deadline: February 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM CET

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