Wiesbaden Photo Days Open Call 2025

The open call is for photographers, artists and photo students from all over the world. There are no stylistic or technical restrictions, nor are there any restrictions on the nationality or age of the applicants.

Overview

Since its inception in 2002, the Wiesbadener Fototage (Wiesbaden Photo Days) has offered photographers the opportunity to submit photo series for the exhibitions. For the 13th Wiesbadener Fototage 2025, we have retained this format, which is unique in the German photo festival landscape, and are looking forward to a large number of participants in our open call.

The Wiesbadener Fototage (Wiesbaden Photo Days) have seen themselves as a festival for contemporary artistic and documentary photography with international participation. The content of the exhibitions and the festival program is based on the respective annual theme. Conceptually, the Wiesbadener Fototage is based on the triad of exhibitions, accompanying program and sponsorship awards.

Practical Info

We are looking for photo series/video works that deal with the content of this year's festival theme Future? What Future?!

Photographers from all over the world can enter up to two photo series for the seven main exhibitions of the 13th Wiesbadener Fototage. It is also possible to submit one or two 1-channel video works. There are no stylistic or technical restrictions, nor are there any restrictions on the nationality or age of the applicants. The only thing that counts is that the content is related to the festival theme and that the quality of the realisation is convincing. Submitted photo series must contain a minimum of six individual images and a maximum of 12 images. AI-based work must be identified as such.

An independent jury will select up to 40 positions for the seven exhibition venues from all the photographic and video works submitted. Die Jury is composed of Nicole Ahland (Wiesbaden Cultural Office), Prof. Andrea Diefenbach (University of Arts Bremen), Kim Engels (Wiesbaden Women’s Museum), Daniel Oschatz (OSCHATZ Visuelle Medien), Marc Peschke (Team Wiesbadener Fototage) and Juergen Strasser (Artistic Director of the Wiesbadener Fototage).

What can selected applicants expect? Among other things ...

1. Participation in the photo exhibitions of the 13th Wiesbadener Fototage
2. An exhibition fee of 250 euros
3. A travel allowance of up to 150 euros for participation in the opening weekend
4. The chance to win two sponsorship prizes of 1,500 euros each
5. A publication in the catalogue of the 13th Wiesbadener Fototage
6. National and international promotion of the festival