READING THE PROJECT
Each jury gives the year its critical direction
The Open Call is not a competition with a fixed set of judges. Each edition gathers a different international jury, photographers, editors, and curators who read the year's submissions and shape the final selection. Across four editions, these twenty-three voices have helped define not only who is selected, but how each year is read.
Jacob Aue Sobol
MAGNUM PHOTOS · DENMARK
Magnum Photos member, raw black-and-white work across Greenland, Tokyo, Guatemala, and Siberia.
Ami Vitale
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
National Geographic contract photographer since 2005, Nikon Ambassador, six World Press Photo awards.
Bill Shapiro
FORMERLY LIFE · NEW YORK
Former Editor-in-Chief of LIFE Magazine's final print edition and founding editor of LIFE.com.
Marco Savarese
EYESHOT · ITALY
Founded Eyeshot in 2018, directs the editorial vision and the annual Open Call.
Richard Kalvar
MAGNUM PHOTOS · PARIS
Member of Magnum Photos since 1975, known for the surreal undercurrents of his street work.
Lucrezia Bonarota
EYESHOT · ITALY
Editorial Director of Eyeshot since 2022, leads the publishing direction across books and magazines.
Darcy Padilla
INDEPENDENT · USA
Long-term documentary projects on poverty and marginalization. Guggenheim Fellow, W. Eugene Smith Grant.
Reza Deghati
PHOTOJOURNALIST · NGO AINA
Photojournalist with 30+ years documenting war and peace. Founder of NGO Aina, Fellow of National Geographic Society, author of 27 books.
Alessia Glaviano
PHOTOVOGUE · ITALY
Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of PhotoVogue Festival. Curator and critic, leads Vogue Italia's photo programming.
Natela Grigalashvili
INDEPENDENT · GEORGIA
First female photojournalist in post-Soviet Georgia. Documentary work on rural Georgia, founder of photography clubs across the country.
Ed Kashi
VII PHOTO AGENCY
Photojournalist and member of VII Photo Agency. Known for visual storytelling on social and political issues. Co-founder of Talking Eyes Media.
Jody MacDonald
INDEPENDENT · CANADA
Canadian documentary and adventure photographer. Long-form work on climate and remote landscapes, featured in National Geographic and Outside Magazine.
Emin Özmen
MAGNUM PHOTOS · TURKEY
Magnum Photographer. Two World Press Photo awards and Public Prize of The Bayeux Calvados awards for war correspondents.
Trent Parke
MAGNUM PHOTOS · AUSTRALIA
First Australian Full Member of Magnum Photos. Work held in National Gallery of Australia, Magnum London, and Magnum Paris.
F. Dilek Yurdakul
INDEPENDENT · TURKEY
Street and documentary photographer, 200+ awards. Contributor to National Geographic Turkey and National Geographic YourShot.
Narelle Autio
INDEPENDENT · AUSTRALIA
First Australian to win the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Two Walkley Awards for journalism, two first-prize World Press Photo awards.
Kitra Cahana
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC · CANADA
Documentary photographer, videographer, TED Senior Fellow. National Geographic contributor, first prize World Press Photo 2010.
Richard Koci Hernandez
EMMY WINNER · USA
Street photographer with film-noir black-and-white work. Emmy Award winner, decades of practice in the modernist photography tradition.
Isadora Kosofsky
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC · USA
Documentary photographer, writer, filmmaker. National Geographic Photographer, contributor to NYT, TIME, The New Yorker, Le Monde.
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
INDEPENDENT · NEW YORK
Documentary and portrait photographer based in New York City. Contributor to The New York Times, Vogue, National Geographic, Washington Post.
Siegfried Hansen
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY · GERMANY
German street photographer known for geometric compositions and precise framing. Member of the iN-PUBLiC street collective.
Vineet Vohra
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY · INDIA
Indian street photographer known for vibrant color work and intuitive timing. Co-founder of APF Magazine, renowned mentor and educator.
Mark Abramson
INDEPENDENT · NY/LA
Photographer based between Los Angeles and New York City. Frequent contributor to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post.