To mark our 30th birthday we are launching a new opportunity to publish work that combines poetry and photography.
Developed by Photoworks and David Solo in collaboration with Jane & Jeremy, in this pilot project we will publish two existing projects as colour pamphlet publications. We estimate each pamphlet to be approximately 6x9in in size, 32-48 pages on a print run of 750.
We are searching for projects where the poetry and photography are in dialogue. The call is open internationally to any artists or artists regardless of experience/affiliation/status to submit an existing, unpublished project for consideration. It may be a single artist creating poems and photos or a collaboration. The work must be original, unpublished poetry/photographs authored by the submitters. The text should be largely/predominantly in English.
Submissions will be evaluated based on the strength of the images and text and how well they work together to suggest further readings/interpretation (i.e. more than caption or illustration). We will also consider how the project will work in the context of the pamphlet format.
Judges:
- Danit Ariel (Photoworks)
- Salma Begum
- Jane & Jeremy
- Jonathan May
- David Solo
The successful artist/s will receive a fee of £1,000 and 10 copies of their finished publication.
Please submit your project for consideration before the deadline, midday BST 13 May, 2025.
To apply, you must be:
- Over the age of 18
- Submitting a finished or near completed, previously unpublished photo poetry work (one submission per artist/collaboration)
- Willing to work with our design collaborators Jane & Jeremy within the format for the pilot series they are developing
