We are excited to announce that our December 2021 online group exhibition, “Photography Out of Control! New Approaches to Experimental Photography” is being curated by Pablo Giori, photographer and the Co-Director of EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography in Barcelona! To enter, all you need to do is read and respond to the following prompt with your analog photography. The best of these images will be showcased in an online show, beginning December 13th, 2021. Good luck!

Pablo Giori writes: Throughout the history of photography, artists constantly searched for new forms of expression. There are really interesting cases, for example, artists who recover historical processes that expired from the industrial point of view to express themselves. This is where the so-called historical (non-industrial) processes find a second life as a unique artistic form of expression. The great umbrella of experimental photography includes thousands of artists who invest their time in subverting industrial photography by questioning its apparatus.

By extension, experimental photography is an attitude and a way of doing things, not just a result. The 84 homemade, historical, experimental, and non-industrial techniques that can be used for experimental purposes are an access door to a new visual culture but not an end in itself. We have to learn them all and, subsequently, go on to destroy and subvert their current limits.

For this exhibition, we look for artists who work with homemade, historical, experimental, and non-industrial techniques in the crossroads between science, photography, and arts. We look for new experimental images that think about the future of experimental photography by asking new questions about the message or about the techniques used! Photography is out of control!

Deadline for Submissions is November 30th, 2021

About the Curator

Pablo Giori is the Co-Director of EXP. 22 International Festival on Experimental Photography (Barcelona, July 20-24, 2022), the only summer camp dedicated to photographic experimentation. The festival is organized every year and hosts more than 50 artists, 15 workers, 50 volunteers, and 300 participants from all over the world. Giori is passionate about both historical photographs, working on archives, and experimental processes. He has published three books: Pere Català i Pic: Photography, Publicity, Avantgarde and Literature (2016), Unexpected Inhabitants (2016), and Twelve Key Ideas on Double Exposure and Film Swap (2019). He was the founder of BADEM (Barcelona Double Exposure Movement) and the creator of the #FilmSwapWorldWide project with more than 120 photographers from all over the world. He has organized and curated 16 exhibitions of his works and of other historical and contemporary artists. He is really interested in creating a global horizontal community for photographers to work together and find support as they work.

Connect with Pablo on his Website and Instagram.

Submission Guidelines: 

Image Specifications:
1) Only .jpg files will be accepted.
2) Images must be 1500px on the shortest side at 72dpi.
3) No photo-shopped borders or watermarks. 
4) Only one image may be submitted.
5) Image must be named in the following format: “FirstNameLastName1.jpg”, etc.

Email Specifications:
1) The subject line of your email should state: "Submission: Photography out of Control!”
2) Please ATTACH your images to the email. Do not embed them. Do not attach a google drive or dropbox link. 
3) Please do not send PDF or Text Files. Please put all information into the body of the email.

Specific information needed for each Submission:
1) Your name as you would like it to appear.
2) The Camera and Process used to create your images.
3) Title of your photograph. Write out each title exactly as you would like it to appear.
4) Email Address in the text of the email.
5) The Website Address you would like your images linked to.

Format Request:

“TITLE” by YOUR NAME | CAMERA + FILM, PROCESS
YOUR URL

Send your submission to submissions@analogforevermagazine.com by November 30th, 2021.

Note: Due to the large number of submissions we receive you may not receive a response. Though we try our best to respond to everyone, we do not guarantee a response. Thank you for understanding.

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