Open Calls

Der Greif has invited Zanele Muholi, supported by Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, to guest-edit Issue 19.

The theme for the open call is “I Am Because of You, Mother Earth.”

Muholi asks: "What if the environment was not something outside of us, but something we are part of? What if our bodies, histories, and relationships were understood as landscapes shaped by connection rather than separation?"

We invite photographers, writers, poets, and artists to explore what environment means when we move beyond boundaries between self and surroundings.

Why submit?

• Have your work seen by renowned artist Zanele Muholi
• Get the chance to be published in Issue 19 and get a free copy plus additional copies at a highly discounted rate.
• Be part of related events Der Greif will organize in relation to the release of Issue 19 during Paris Photo 2026 and beyond.
• Get the chance to publish an Artist Feature on dergreif.org, a highly-frequented international source of photographic art.

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

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Guest Room is a monthly online exhibition hosted on Der Greif with open submissions curated by key curators and artists from the field of contemporary photography and visual culture. For this edition, curators Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti explore "Shifting Thresholds".

This edition of Guest Room invites photographic and image-based works that engage with displacement as both a lived experience and an aesthetic condition. Displacement may emerge through migration, body transformation, exile or environmental change, but also through more subtle forms: the dislocation produced by digital mediation, algorithmic vision, and the fragmentation of attention in contemporary image cultures. We are interested in artists who explore how images themselves can shift, circulate, and transform across contexts, platforms, and geographies.

Deadline: May 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM CET

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