We are seeking photographic projects to be displayed on poster panels in the busy concourse of Můstek metro station at Wenceslas Square, in the centre of Prague, during the Fotograf.zone festival.

We welcome works that loosely relate to the festival theme: Language and Interpersonal Communication. Language is a tool that shapes our identity, relationships, and power structures. Words can connect or divide, heal or harm. What does language allow us to express, and what does it conceal? How does it influence our ability to understand or perceive reality?

The four selected projects will be exhibited in the Můstek metro concourse. The festival will cover all costs for production, printing, and installation of the exhibition.

The deadline for the submissions is September 7, 2025.
Early birds at reduced price are welcome until July 30, 2025.

JURY:
Libuše Jarcovjáková
Maren Lubbke-Tidow
István Virágvölgy
ETC magazine – Hana Čeferin, Ajda Ana Kocutar, Lara Mejač

SUBMISSION TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

• CV (.pdf)
• Portfolio (.pdf, max 10 MB)
• Project description + images (description maximum 1 500 characters, all in one file .pdf, max 10 MB)
• The exhibition space consists of 16 vitrines with a size of 147 cm x 75 cm.
• All e-mail attachments must be properly identified (Surname_Name + CV / Portfolio / Project)
• There is no limit to the number of projects an author can submit.
• The participation fee per project is 35 € (Early bird: 28 €)
• Send your projects to email: kristyna.khinova@fotograf.zone and indicate “OPEN CALL FEST” in the email subject line
  
  

INSTRUCTION:

• Please send the fee to the following bank account number: 2800358798/2010
• IBAN: CZ8420100000002800358798
• BICcode/SWIFT: FIOBCZPPXXX
• (please add “OPEN CALL_FF_surname” in the note)
  
  

The winners will be announced on September 28, 2025 on www.fotograf.zone and social media @fotograf.zone and addressed by email.

For more information, do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail:
kristyna.khinova@fotograf.zone

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Jury 2025

Libuše Jarcovjáková (*1952)

is currently one of the most influential and visible Czech photographers at home and abroad. In recent years, she has received attention thanks to a number of international exhibitions, for example in Arles, France, where she headlined the 50th edition of the famous Les Rencontres d'Arles, or, more recently, thanks to her participation in the exhibition Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s - 1980s at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, USA. Libuše Jarcovjáková (*1952) graduated from FAMU in Prague. For many years she photographed the Roma and Vietnamese community in Czechoslovakia and the famous Prague LGBTQ bar, T-Club. After 1985 she legally moved to West Berlin. After returning to the Czech Republic in 1992, she began teaching photography at a number of art colleges. Her original photography books Black Years (2017) and Evokativ (2019) are among the gems of their genre.

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Maren Lübbke-Tidow (*1968) 

is an author, critic, and curator based in Berlin, with a focus on contemporary photography. Her writings appear in magazines, catalogs and artists' books. Together with Rebecca Wilton, she has been running the interview project Lighting the Archive on forms of archiving the photographic since 2020.Since 2021, she has been Artistic Director of the European Month of Photography - EMOP Berlin, where she a.o.co-curated the anniversary exhibition Politics of Touch at the Amtsalon (Berlin) in 2023 and the main festival exhibition what stands beween us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) in 2025. From 1997 to 2016 she was involved with Camera Austria (Graz) as an editor and curator, including serving as editor-in-chief from 2011 to 2014. Over the past decade, Lübbke-Tidow has also taught at various universities and art academies. The EMOP Berlin is a biennial festival that collaborates with numerous institutions across the city. In her role as Artistic Director, Maren Lübbke-Tidow is responsible for the festival's program, including the EMOP Opening Days – a three-day discursive programme to kick off the festival – and the main festival exhibition.

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István Virágvölgyi (*1982)

studied freehand drawing, desktop publishing, photography and earned a master’s degree from library and information studies at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). He worked at the leading Hungarian news portal Origo first as photo editor and then as head of photography between 2007 and 2011. Then he joined MTI Hungarian News Agency and served as head of the photo desk for three years. He lectured about documentary photography and photo editing at the Budapest Metropolitan University between 2014–2019 and about photo history at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2022–2023. Since 2014 he workes as curator of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, since 2022 he also serves as artistic director, he is secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary and the editor of Weekly Fortepan blog. Since 2016 he is cultural advisor of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma and since 2018 volunteer editor of the Fortepan digital photo archive. He is married, has two children, lives and works in Budapest.

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ETC.

is an innovative platform that combines the presentation of artists in an annually published magazine, a year-long international exhibition cycle and various forms of collaboration and promotion such as conferences, presentations, talks and other events. Founded in 2021 to promote emerging artists, ETC. aims to build bridges between domestic and international contemporary art production and thought, becoming a new form of presenting, exhibiting and reflecting on contemporary artistic production. With each issue, the magazine addresses current issues in the fields of society, environment, and art, and is thus designed as a platform for diverse voices and opinions from across Europe. 

Hana Čeferin (*1995)

is a curator, editor and art historian. She has been head of the programme of Mala galerija BS in Ljubljana since 2024 and is an assistant at the Department of Theory at UL ALUO. Between 2023 and 2024, she was Head of the Biennial of Design in Ljubljana. From 2015 to 2023, she worked with Galerija Fotografija in Ljubljana and Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. Since 2021, she has been the editor of ETC. Magazine. As an independent curator, she has collaborated with the Improper Walls gallery in Vienna, KS Room Feldbach, the Alt+1000 Photography Festival in Switzerland, Cankarjev dom, Škuc Gallery, and others. She was a participant in the School of Art (SCCA).

Ajda Ana Kocutar (*1994)

is a curator and producer, co-founder and co-curator of ETC. Magazine (2021–), and has been collaborating as an editor and curator with MGLC (International Centre for Graphic Arts) (2024–), and is the assistant curator of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. She was formerly a member of the DobraVaga collective (2017–23) and head of the cultural and arts education program at Kino Šiška (2022–23). She curates numerous exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad and regularly contributes texts for exhibition catalogues and other publications. She completed her education at the School of Art (SCCA) and furthered her studies at the Salzburg Summer Academy and Utrecht Summer School.

Lara Mejač (*1994)

works as a curator and producer in the field of contemporary visual and new media art. Between 2016 and 2023, she was the curator, producer and program coordinator at DobraVaga Gallery in Ljubljana. In addition, she worked for different institutions and galleries, such as Museum of Modern Art+Museum of Contemporary Art (MG+MSUM) in Ljubljana and Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. She has curated and produced exhibitions in various galleries in Slovenia and abroad. She is currently the curator of the intermedia exhibition series Enter Here at Ravnikar Gallery Space in Ljubljana, curator and producer for Projekt Atol in Ljubljana, and artistic director of the International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor (along with Davide Bevilacqua). She is a co-founder and member of the curatorial team of ETC. Magazine, which took over the artistic direction of Ljubljana Artweekend in 2024. She was a participant in the School of Art (SCCA).