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    Guest Room:
    Daniel Boetker-Smith & Tanvi Mishra

    Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Daniel Boetker-Smith, Director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, has decided to collaborate with photo editor, curator, and writer Tanvi Mishra, who has recently curated the Louis Roederer Discovery Award for the 2023 edition of Rencontres d'Arles. Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: "(make) belief".

    "We would like to look at submissions that explore the gap in meaning-making within the image(s) – when we make photographs, what constructions do we deploy? When we piece stories together, what are the slippages?

    Despite photography’s historically contentious relationship with evidence, we find the medium continuing to be used to foreground various ‘truths’. Images can justify narratives or be used to take a position. Some use it to highlight social justice issues, others use it for propaganda.

    Do the resulting outcomes have as much fictive power as that of truth-telling? Is seeing truly believing, or do photographs in their ambiguity offer us possibilities to think otherwise?"

    Selection

      • Melanie Cobham, (Make) Belief 4, Soriano, URY, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Melanie Cobham, (Make) Belief 4, Soriano, URY, 2021
      • Nadia Ettwein, Blue Eyes, Pretoria, ZAF, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Nadia Ettwein, Blue Eyes, Pretoria, ZAF, 2023
      • Oliver Grabowski, Bliss, London, GBR, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Oliver Grabowski, Bliss, London, GBR, 2021
      • Austn Fisher, JESTERS GENDER GAME 2, London, GBR, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Austn Fisher, JESTERS GENDER GAME 2, London, GBR, 2023
      • Abigail Nel, 004 devise, Kensington South, Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZFA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Abigail Nel, 004 devise, Kensington South, Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZFA, 2023
      • Aleksandra Szajnecka, 8, POL, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Aleksandra Szajnecka, 8, POL, 2021
      • Nourin c s, Kaapiri Muthappan, Kochi, Kerala, IND, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Nourin c s, Kaapiri Muthappan, Kochi, Kerala, IND, 2022
      • Sheung Yiu, Between Two Charts, Helsinki, FIN, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Sheung Yiu, Between Two Charts, Helsinki, FIN, 2023
      • Sandeep tk, Government Job, Kerala, IND, 2019 | DER GREIF
        Sandeep tk, Government Job, Kerala, IND, 2019
      • Gal Cipreste, GH, Rio de Janeiro, BRA, 2020 | DER GREIF
        Gal Cipreste, GH, Rio de Janeiro, BRA, 2020
      • Roxana Rios, BUT, I TRANSITION, HGB Gallery, DEU, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Roxana Rios, BUT, I TRANSITION, HGB Gallery, DEU, 2023
      • Ellen Smeets, ellensmeets 04, BEL | DER GREIF
        Ellen Smeets, ellensmeets 04, BEL
      • Andrés Pérez, A dream of Osiris, Bogotá, COL, 2021 | DER GREIF
        Andrés Pérez, A dream of Osiris, Bogotá, COL, 2021
      • Jens Masmann, Alternative narration of a sunset 4, Neverland, DOM, 2020 | DER GREIF
        Jens Masmann, Alternative narration of a sunset 4, Neverland, DOM, 2020
      • Julie Batteux, Krallenmutter I, Netherlands, DEU | DER GREIF
        Julie Batteux, Krallenmutter I, Netherlands, DEU
      • Theresa Stritzinger, Eyelid lift, Berlin, DEU, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Theresa Stritzinger, Eyelid lift, Berlin, DEU, 2023
      • Guillaume Amat, 020, Bardenas Reales Parc, ESP, 2016 | DER GREIF
        Guillaume Amat, 020, Bardenas Reales Parc, ESP, 2016
      • Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Yummy heritage 2, Berlin, DEU, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Yummy heritage 2, Berlin, DEU, 2023
      • Rasha Al Jundi, Cold Water 4, Berlin, DEU, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Rasha Al Jundi, Cold Water 4, Berlin, DEU, 2023
      • Philippe Braquenier, Solar eclipse, Paris, FRA, 2019 | DER GREIF
        Philippe Braquenier, Solar eclipse, Paris, FRA, 2019
      • Lea Greub, no georgian dream, Tbilisi, GEO, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Lea Greub, no georgian dream, Tbilisi, GEO, 2023
      • Aili Markelius, Under Wood, Stockholm, SWE | DER GREIF
        Aili Markelius, Under Wood, Stockholm, SWE
      • Pauline Batista, Implantation, London, GBR, 2019 | DER GREIF
        Pauline Batista, Implantation, London, GBR, 2019
      • Katerina Souliotaki, souliotaki 07, Athens, Greece | DER GREIF
        Katerina Souliotaki, souliotaki 07, Athens, Greece
      • Hashim Nasr, Breathing Above Water, Khartoum, SDN, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Hashim Nasr, Breathing Above Water, Khartoum, SDN, 2023
      • Gabriel Andreu, Heroes #2, London, GBR, 2020 | DER GREIF
        Gabriel Andreu, Heroes #2, London, GBR, 2020
      • Cheryl Mukherji, The Last Time (2), New York, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Cheryl Mukherji, The Last Time (2), New York, USA, 2023
      • Martyna Anna Benedyka, Artefact, Hundorf, ROU, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Martyna Anna Benedyka, Artefact, Hundorf, ROU, 2023
      • Mehri Jamshidi, Apart, Bandar e Turkmen, IRN, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Mehri Jamshidi, Apart, Bandar e Turkmen, IRN, 2023
      • Julia Albrecht, No. 24, Unstruttal, DEU, 2019 | DER GREIF
        Julia Albrecht, No. 24, Unstruttal, DEU, 2019
      • Maria Oliveira, untitled, Ponte de Lima, POR, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Maria Oliveira, untitled, Ponte de Lima, POR, 2022
      • Jake Nemirovsky, 3, Melbourne, AUS | DER GREIF
        Jake Nemirovsky, 3, Melbourne, AUS
      • Abhijit Deb, AO AD 3, North Eastern Region, IND | DER GREIF
        Abhijit Deb, AO AD 3, North Eastern Region, IND
      • Teva Cosic, Untitled (blåkulla), Västerås, SWE, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Teva Cosic, Untitled (blåkulla), Västerås, SWE, 2022
      • Diambra Mariani, honeymoon 004, Michamvi Kae, Zanzibar, TZA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Diambra Mariani, honeymoon 004, Michamvi Kae, Zanzibar, TZA, 2023
      • Vamika Jain, 01, Taj Mahal, Agra, IND | DER GREIF
        Vamika Jain, 01, Taj Mahal, Agra, IND
      • Alan Jeuland, 11, BEL, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Alan Jeuland, 11, BEL, 2022
      • Sina Muehlbauer, Intuition, Berlin, DEU, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Sina Muehlbauer, Intuition, Berlin, DEU, 2023
      • Giovana Schluter Nunes, Elaina with Quarters, Kentucky, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
        Giovana Schluter Nunes, Elaina with Quarters, Kentucky, USA, 2023
      • Alvin Ng, The Doom of Chiron., Rome, ITA, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Alvin Ng, The Doom of Chiron., Rome, ITA, 2022
      • Conner Gordon, Untitled, Oregon, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Conner Gordon, Untitled, Oregon, USA, 2022
      • Anika Spereiter, Signal, Berlin, DEU, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Anika Spereiter, Signal, Berlin, DEU, 2022
      • Margarita V. Beltran, Fear, Bogota, COL, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Margarita V. Beltran, Fear, Bogota, COL, 2022
      • Farzin Foroutan, Untitled, Berlin, DEU, 2022 | DER GREIF
        Farzin Foroutan, Untitled, Berlin, DEU, 2022
      • D. M. Terblanche, Untitled, from HOLYDAY, Potchefstroom, ZAF, 2022 | DER GREIF
        D. M. Terblanche, Untitled, from HOLYDAY, Potchefstroom, ZAF, 2022
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    Daniel Boetker-Smith

    Daniel Boetker-Smith is the Director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography, based in Melbourne. Daniel was an academic for nearly 20 years, before moving into curatorial and directorial roles. He has written for a variety of print and online art/photography publications - Foam (Netherlands), British Journal of Photography (UK), Vault (Australia), Voices of Photography (Taiwan), Photoeye (USA), LensCulture (USA), 1000 Words (UK), GUP Magazine (NL), and others. His published writing and research usually focus on photobooks and photobook publishing in the Asia-Pacific region.

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    Tanvi Mishra

    Tanvi Mishra works with images as a photo editor, curator, and writer. Her interests are rights and representation in image-making and research strategies in visual culture. She has served as the Creative Director of The Caravan, a journal of politics and culture. She is part of the photo-editorial team of PIX, a South Asian publication and display practice. Tanvi works as an independent curator and has recently curated the Louis Roederer Discovery Award for the 2023 edition of Recontres d'Arles. She is currently part of the first international advisory committee of World Press Photo.