Open Calls

Our Earth Day open call is now open! We are inviting lens-based artists to move beyond the human-centric gaze and engage with the intersectional and systemic realities of our planet; treating plants, animals, and geological formations as active protagonists rather than passive photographic subjects. Selected artists will be featured in a month-long online exhibition on our homepage, invited into small-group critique sessions through our Face-to-Face program, and considered for pathways to commercial opportunities through Der Greif Studio.

Deadline: April 8, 2026

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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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"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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