Who We Are

Eyeshot publishes street and documentary photography in print. Books and magazines, edited and sequenced as objects worth keeping. Each publication places emerging photographers alongside established ones, in the same printed space, on the same printed page.

Independence is a daily choice, not a slogan. Eyeshot works without external funding, without algorithmic gatekeeping, and without the genre conventions that often narrow street and documentary photography. Each photographer is paid royalties on every copy sold. The Open Call is open to all, with tiered fees, students free, and hardship waivers.

Eyeshot reads photography that earns its time. Street and documentary work that holds attention beyond the first frame, that resists shortcuts, that takes ambiguity as material rather than mistake. The project pays attention to image-makers who think in long arcs: years, not posts. Algorithms, festivals, and gallery circuits each set their own gatekeeping. Eyeshot tries to read past all three.

Every publication is designed and produced in Italy on FSC-certified paper. Limited editions, never reprinted after the deadline. Plastic-free packaging, shipped worldwide. Printing in Italy is a supply-chain choice, not an aesthetic one: it keeps relationships and responsibilities close.

Five people based in Italy, each with a defined role in the project. Editorial, logistics, video, design: every part of the chain run by the same person, year after year.

Eyeshot was founded in Italy in 2018. By 2022 the project had taken the shape of a publishing house, with the first Open Call opening it to a public reading rather than a private one. In 2024 the first exhibition opened at Magazzino Arti Sceniche, giving the project a public home in its own city. Each year since has added one annual reading, one printed edition, one room of voices to the archive.