Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Heather Canlas Rigg, who is part of the curatorial collective ma ma and Artistic Director of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, has decided to collaborate with Capture Photography Festival's Executive Director Emmy Lee Wall. Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: "Photography and Drawing". Submit before the deadline on June 22nd. One artist from this open call will receive our Guest Room Scholarship, sponsored by MPB: an artist stipend of 1.000 €.
We are excited to announce Shirin Neshat as the guest editor for Issue #16.
Shirin Neshat works with highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives that question issues of power, religion, race, gender and the relationship between the past and present, East and West, individual and collective through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile.
Shirin Neshat invites you to submit work that responds to a line from the poem “Common Love” from Persian poet Ahmad Shamlou:
"I am a common pain, scream me!"
We look forward to receiving your submission by the extended deadline of June 8th.