Verzasca Foto 2027 Open Call

Selected works will be exhibited in the 2027 edition of Verzasca Foto Festival, engaging with rural Alpine landscapes within the Verzasca Valley, in Switzerland.

Overview

Verzasca Foto Festival 2027 becomes biennial, inviting international photographers to engage with rural Alpine landscapes, merge art with local territories, and explore observation, relation, and storytelling in the Verzasca Valley.

The festival supports emerging international photographers and fosters visual arts in rural and peripheral areas. Narrative, documentary, and conceptual works are invited to interact with the local territory, establishing a material relationship with the land. Exhibitions will take place in woodlands and village settings, merging artworks with natural surroundings. Set in an Alpine valley of small stone villages and dense forests, the festival provides an intimate, informal space for the exchange of ideas and perspectives.

Through the open call, they are looking for photographic projects developed over time through a direct relationship with peripheral, rural, and marginal places, regardless of the background of those who make them. They are interested in perspectives capable of revealing living, rooted, and often invisible practices: everyday gestures that sustain landscapes, economies, languages, and relationships. This is not about representing marginality as a condition, but about entering into dialogue with realities often far from dominant centres, without idealisation or simplification.

Practical Info

The open call is free and open to all. Submissions may include photo series from any time or place, optionally accompanied by slides or video for projection. Production costs are covered, and selected artists receive a participation fee. Notifications will be sent by the end of June 2026.

About Verzasca Foto Festival

Founded in 2013 by Alfio Tommasini, Rico Baumann, and Matilde Beretta, the Verzasca Foto Association organizes cultural activities in the valley’s forests and villages. Guided by care for landscape, time, and relationships, it supports photography that observes, tells stories, and fosters lasting memory. Sustainability, collaboration with local artisans, and slow, attentive cultural exchange are central to its approach.