FESTIVAL 2027 - OPEN CALL
We are looking for photographic projects developed over time through a direct relationship with peripheral, rural, and marginal places, regardless of the background of those who make them.
We are interested in perspectives capable of revealing living, rooted, and often invisible practices: everyday gestures that sustain landscapes, economies, languages, and relationships. This is not about representing marginality as a condition, but about entering into dialogue with realities often far from dominant centres, without idealisation or simplification.
We are interested in perspectives capable of inhabiting the contradictions of these territories: between isolation and connection, fragility and autonomy, loss and reinvention.
We are looking for photographic stories in which the creative act emerges from marginal geographies, or through the artist’s prolonged presence within them, generating autonomous forms of cultural and social activation, and opening concrete possibilities for reading the present and imagining possible futures.
(ph. Tiago Coelho / Verzasca Foto)
Information and conditions:
Open call submissions are free of charge and open to everyone.
You may submit a photo series taken anytime and anywhere (keeping in mind the exhibition concept).
Verzasca Foto Festival covers the production costs of the exhibitions.
A participation fee will be granted to selected artists.
With your submission, you may also include a slide/video for projection. This is optional and will not affect the selection process.
Selected artists will be contacted by email at the end of June 2026.
DEALINE: 10 JUNE 2026