Unpublished Photo 2024 - Global Open Call-for 18 to 30 Year Old Photographers

Entries for the 2024 edition of the international UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest have just opened. Young photographers born between 1994 and 2006 have the chance until April 15th to submit their portfolios. The contest is promoted by the Fondazione culture e musei and MUSEC Lugano, in collaboration with the 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery in Milan and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice. Unpublished Photo is a competition that aims to embrace and attract new, young, and emerging contemporary photographers, aged between 18 and 30. UP is now in its fifth edition, the competition continues to attract a growing number of young artists from all over the world every year. The initiative was first launched by the Milanese gallery 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS, and then taken forward by MUSEC in Lugano, in 2020 with the aim of strengthening cross-border collaborations and showing continual support of young artists' work. An exhibition will be staged of the winners works at MUSEC in Lugano, from the 31st October 2024 through 2nd March 2025. A series of collateral events dedicated to photography enthusiasts will also be organised to complement the exhibition. At the end of the exhibition in Lugano, the works exhibited will become part of the MUSEC collections, thus enriching a photographic heritage that today counts over 40.000 works from the mid-19th century to the present day. How to participate All photographers born between 1994 and 2006 can participate. Applicants have to submit by April 15th 2024 (12:00 am local time) their photographic projects, consisting of 10 previously unpublished images; No themes or fees apply just the images accompanied by a project description and brief biography, but projects must be stylistically and technically coherent. Applicants must compulsorily accompany their projects with a description and a biography narrating their relationship with photography. An online application form is available at the following link: https://www.fcmusei.ch/contest/