Photoville Festival 2024 Open Call

Photoville is eager to showcase projects across all spectrums of visual storytelling during the 2024 edition of the festival held in New York City.

Overview

Photoville is looking for all types of photographic and lens-based work. It welcomes everything from documentary and photojournalism, to fine art, sports, and conceptual work. Alternative processes such as photo collage, tintypes, and cyanotypes are all welcome too.

Practical Info

The festival is seeking for work that addresses various issues including immigration, healthcare, education, racial inequality, climate change, social justice, incarceration, women’s rights, youth and intergenerational stories, police reform, housing, and so much more. Photoville do ask photographers to remember that this is a public festival that will be on view in highly-trafficked public spaces. Please avoid images that may be shocking — particularly images of nudity, sexual intercourse, drug use, or violence.

There are three applications — two for exhibitions (open to all photo-based artists, collectives, non-profit organizations and commercial entities), and one for public programming (for anyone interested in presenting a talk, workshop, or interactive experience). Selected artists will have a one-on-one virtual meeting with the Photoville team to discuss the specifics of their exhibition. This will include information about curatorial, technical, and financial elements. All selected artists will be expected to work with the Photoville team to produce their exhibition. This may mean designing their own exhibition and working with the Photoville team to make sure it’s print-ready for a large-scale exhibition. Or this may mean providing high resolution files and copy edited text to the Photoville team to design, and then working with them to proof and finalize your exhibition.

About Photoville

United Photo Industries Inc (d.b.a Photoville) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY. Their mission is to build a wide, diverse audience for photographic narratives and nurture a new lens of representation, through the creation of unique and highly innovative environments such as our free annual community photo festival. Since Photoville’s inception, they have been devoted to building an inclusive community of visual artists.