EYESHOT OPEN CALL 2022

A LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR CAREER
Eyeshot was founded with the goal of making a relevant contribution to the world of photography and contemporary art with all available resources. We are very keen on innovative perspectives and want to help all street and documentary photographers who are waiting for their chance to get one.

SERIES: 20 FINALISTS
(17 + 3 WINNERS)
A publishing contract that includes editing, printing, distribution, and promotion of a limited edition monograph of your work, entirely curated by Eyeshot, with a total investment of more than 10.000 euros per photographer.

SINGLE: 50 FINALISTS
(47 + 3 WINNERS)
We finance your commitment and dedication to street and documentary photography by awarding 3 prizes: 1st place 1000€ cash prize, 2nd place 500€ cash prize, 3rd place 250€ cash prize, thus gaining international recognition and exposure.
The Jury

Marco Savarese
Founder and editor-in-chief of Eyeshot since 2017. Thanks to his many years of experience in the evaluation and management of emerging and internationally renowned artists, you will have the chance to engage with a person who makes it his daily activity to enhance photographers and their work.

Narelle Autio
Multi award-winning photographer whose artistic career spans over 30 years. In 2002 she became the first Australian to have won the venerable international Leica Oskar Barnack Award. She has also won two Walkley Awards for journalism, and two first-prize World Press Photo awards.

Trent Parke
The first Australian to become a Full Member of Magnum Photos. His work has been exhibited widely and is held in major institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Magnum London, and Magnum Paris.

Emin Özmen
Magnum Photographer. His work has been published by TIME magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Der Spiegel, and Newsweek, among others. Özmen has won several awards, among them two World Press Photo awards and the Public Prize of The Bayeux Calvados awards for war correspondents.

Kitra Cahana
Kitra Cahana is a documentary photographer, videographer, and a TED speaker. She is a contributing photographer to National Geographic. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including two Canada Council Grants, TED Senior Fellowship, a 2015 Pulitzer Center for Investigative Reporting grant, and first prize for the 2010 World Press Photo.

Isadora Kosofsky
Isadora Kosofsky is a documentary photographer, writer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Albuquerque. She is a National Geographic Photographer and has contributed to the NY Times, TIME, The New Yorker, Le Monde, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The London Sunday Times, and many others.

Mark Abramson
Mark Abramson is a photographer based between Los Angeles and New York City. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and has worked on assignments and commissions for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The New Republic, TIME, and Der Spiegel.

Koci Hernandez
Award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia. He is currently an Associate Professor and Bloomberg Chair at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. His photographic work has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The New Yorker, TIME, and a National Geographic Book on iPhone Photography, among others.

Siegfried Hansen
Siegfried Hansen is a member of the renowned collective UP Photographers and a founding member of the German Street Photography Festival. His work has been widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions in Germany and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States. He has been a speaker and a juror at many photo festivals.

Vineet Vohra
Leica Ambassador and the first Indian photographer in the history of Leica, considered one of the most influential street photographers of his generation. Vineet has a special place at the heart of the street photography community in Asia and has made a significant contribution to its development over the past ten years.

PROJECTS REVIEW - INVEST IN YOUR GROWTH
For 80€, you can add a professional review of your work, which will help you assess your situation in depth. At Eyeshot, we like to break the rules, and that’s why we have a unique opportunity for you: the chance to choose the judge to have your work assessed among Marco Savarese, Emin Özmen, Kitra Cahana, Koci Hernandez, Isadora Kosofsky, Mark Abramson, Vineet Vohra, and Siegfried Hansen.

INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION & EXPOSURE
Join us and get a chance to see your work featured in the first-ever exhibition curated by Eyeshot! The exhibition will be held this Nov. 17-23 at the Cembalo Gallery in Rome. It will be an extraordinary event where all the finalists’ works will be not only displayed but also available for purchase in collaboration with the gallery (in agreement with the author). And that’s not all. All finalists’ work will also be included in the Eyeshot Open Call 2022 limited edition photo book!
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NFT MAGAZINES
Eyeshot’s NFT magazine collection combines tradition with the benefits provided by blockchain, offering owners a unique experience between physical and virtual reality.

NFT FINE ART
With this phygital collection, Eyeshot aims to celebrate authors and their pieces of art by combining the uniqueness offered by the blockchain with the uniqueness of the print.
Eyeshot is the first independent publisher working exclusively with street and documentary photographers.
We are headquartered in Italy, with a community sharing the same passion from over 120 countries on 5 continents. We curate limited edition books and magazines. Made by street photographers, for street photographers. With a strict plastic-free policy, Eyeshot is an environmentally friendly publisher. We print on Fedrigoni paper from FSC certified sources, and we support local printing presses.
