Open Call to all 2023 Graduates!

Photoworks, Photography+ The Graduate Issue call out is now open for 2023 BA and MA Photography Graduates all around the world.

The Graduate issue is an opportunity that allows us to support emerging artists, and recognise the innovative work being produced by international voices.

Selected works will be published in the next issue of Photography+, our online magazine. One selected artist will receive a year-long Photoworks membership with mentoring meetings from the Photoworks curatorial and learning and engagement team. Our printing partner Spectrum Photographic will award a £200 printing voucher to one selected artist.

Artists will be selected through an open call and the shortlist/final selection of awardees will be decided by the following judging panel:

  • Sunil Shah, artist and writer

  • Vivienne Gamble, founder and director of Seen Fifteen

  • Tanlume Enyatseng, Photoworks Writer in Residence 2023

  • Julia Bunneman , Photoworks Curator

© Austin Cullen, Coyote from the series A Natural History (Built to be Seen), 2022

How to enter

This international open call is free of charge and all recent graduates are welcome to apply. Please submit up to 10 images from a single project alongside a statement of no more than 200 words and your CV by 6 June.

Please be aware that you can enter once with one single project only – we cannot accept multiple projects. Your entry does not necessarily need to be your final graduation project, you can submit any recent body of work.

This opportunity is funded by Photoworks, Picter and our print partner Spectrum Photographic. Photoworks is a registered charity and part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio.

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