Open Calls

Guest room is a format that fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA Shana Lopes and artist Aspen Mays introduce the theme "A Little Bit of Magic".

We invite artists to consider how magic functions within photography today. What happens when the medium feels overly rational or even the opposite, wildly implausible? Where do artists reinsert illusion and misdirection back into their work? We welcome work that engages doubling, substitution, sleight of hand, constructed realities, staged impossibilities, reenactment, and the pleasure of participating in an illusion. In a moment shaped by synthetic imagery and information overload, how might magic once again become a way to push back or re-enchant the medium of photography?

Deadline: April 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM CET

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Guest room is a format that fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, Arles-based Alejandro León Cannock (Director, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation and Delphine Manjard (Director, Librairie du Palais) are exploring the theme "Have You Checked Your Screen Time? Forms and Logics of Excess."

This edition of Guest Room brings together photographic projects that deal with excess not as a topic, but as a condition of the present. Excess is understood as a core logic of today’s capitalist system. Photography becomes a method to question, expose, and reflect on this condition, even when doing so also puts the photographic image itself into question. Photography is understood here in its expanded sense, encompassing documentary images, constructed scenes, archival material, moving images, and hybrid forms that respond differently to the same condition.

Deadline: March 8 at 11:59 PM CET

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"In Focus" invites artists and publishers to submit recent photobooks and artist books for editorial consideration. This open call creates space for critical and poetic approaches to the photobook as a form of authorship, collaboration, and storytelling. We welcome publications that engage thoughtfully with contemporary life, visual culture, and the material and narrative possibilities of the book.

Selected projects will be featured in Der Greif’s editorial platform, offering international visibility and long-term archival presence.

Deadline: March 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM CET

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