open calls and opportunities
Share your work and ideas! We regularly put out calls for photographs, papers, events and more. Find current open calls here, and you can join our newsletter to find out about future opportunities.
call for writing
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The Liberatory Space of the Photography Studio
Are you an unagented or emerging writer looking to publish new work? We're inviting pitches for texts that critically engage with the ways in which the photography studio can serve as a liberatory space to explore expression and identity
Deadline to pitch: 10am, Monday 6 January 2025
call for Events
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Spirit of London
Calling all emerging creative practitioners! Submit your event proposal exploring themes of community, celebration and cultural preservation for an opportunity to make it happen with Autograph's support.
Deadline to apply: 10am, Monday 6 January 2025
call for papers
Encounters in the Archive
Submit your project or research addressing how creative practices can disrupt power structures embedded in archival collections.
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
Banner image: From Autograph's Canvas(s) project, 2016 - 2017.
Images on page: 1) Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Untitled, c. 1988-1989. © Rotimi Fani- Kayode. Courtesy of Autograph, London. 2) Abi Morocco Photos, Aina Street, Shogunle, Lagos, 1979. © Abi Morocco Photos. Courtesy Lagos Studio Archives. 3) Sasha Huber, Tailoring Freedom – Fassena [detail], 2022. Metal staples on photograph on wood, 49 x 69 cm. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by The Power Plant, Toronto; Autograph, London; Turku Art Museum, Finland; and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, 2022. Original image courtesy the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and. Ethnology, Harvard University, 35-5- 10/53048.
