Image: FUTURES Meet Up 2024 hosted by PhotoIreland in Dublin last 17-19 October 2024 with the support oif FUTURES, Creative Europe and the Arts Council of Ireland. Image Credit: Evanna Devine

PhotoIreland launches the 8th FUTURES Talent Call for artists, opening the opportunity for the first time to all UK practitioners. The 2025 call is now open and will close at 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024.

FUTURES Talent Call 2025

PhotoIreland and FUTURES provide selected participants with:

• A participation fee of €500
• Futures Conversations with international professionals, online and in-person
• Travel, accommodation, and per diem for artists is covered for participation in the Annual Event. The Annual Event of 2024 takes place at the Tbilisi Photo Festival, in Georgia.
• Participation in the programme of the Annual Event, including talks, workshops etc.
• Opportunity to apply to the internal open call for the annual travelling exhibition, which in 2025 is co-curated by Tbilisi Photo Festival (GE), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), and Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), with PhotoIreland as publishing partner with OVER Journal.
• Opportunity to apply for a mentorship session with FUTURES member organisations
• Access to exclusive Magnum workshops especially developed for FUTURES artists.
• All FUTURES artists are featured online at futures-photography.com
• All artists are promoted via the FUTURES social media channels and the annual publication

Access Bursaries

In addition, PhotoIreland provides access bursaries for artists. The purpose of the Access Bursary is to provide an equal opportunity for all artists by facilitating and accommodating those with specific requirements and circumstances that normally prevent the artist from participating fully in their practice. If you may require some financial support to enable your participation due to accessibility reasons, please include these in your application, including an estimate of costs. Examples of accessibility costs may include (but are not exclusive to) financial support towards: a caretaker; parental support (co-parent assistance, childminder, etc); transport; overnight stay; technical support and others.

If you are experiencing any barriers with the application process, please email us info@photoireland.org

Application Process

1- SUBMISSION
Before 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024, submit your work by emailing a single PDF file to pif.submissions@gmail.com, including the word FUTURES in the subject, containing:

• • • • Your 200 words max. bio in third person
      • Your artist statement
      • Your CV
      • A description of your latest project in 500 words max. including all details as needed (year, location of project, etc.)
      • A selection of low resolution images that represent your latest project (make sure these are optimised for web use, PDFs with large files will be sent back)
      • Brief information of past projects if any (links are accepted)

Once you submit the requested files, you should expect acknowledgement from us within 2 working days.

2- FOLLOW UP
After the jury process is completed, we will send an update to all artists. If you are selected, you will be required to send right away high resolution files at 300dpi, in flattened TIFF format, 4500px on the long side, as follows:

• • • A selection of 15 images from your submitted work
    • Your portrait

We do not extend deadlines, so it is very important you give yourself plenty of time in case of technical errors, or to ask any questions, as problems cannot be resolved in the final few hours of the submission.

The deadline for submissions is 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024.

Schedule

Deadline 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024
Confirmation of receipt within 48 hours
Jury Process 16 December 2024-19 January 2025
All Artists Contacted before 24th January 2025
Final Materials (if selected) 25-29 January 2025

About the FUTURES Platform

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, FUTURES Photography Platform is a platform focused on amplifying emerging talents in photography in Europe. Since 2017, the aim of FUTURES Photography Platform is to pool the resources and talent programmes of leading photography institutions across Europe in order to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of its selected artists. The FUTURES Photography Platform has grown since 2018 a collaborative network of 20 prominent institutions operating in the field of photography around Europe. These are: CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), Der Greif (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf Magazine (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), and Centre de la photographie Genève (CH) and our research member, Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT)

In addition to the many local events and opportunities organised by the FUTURES members, an annual event brings together all artists and arts professionals from the platform. The format and events programmed change every year and in the past have included our presence at Unseen Amsterdam, involving a showcase of all the Futures artists, a special exhibition of a smaller selection of Futures artists, portfolio reviews, special Futures magazine publication, in addition to events like artists and members talks, networking opportunities etc. Beyond this work, the platform artists are promoted online, in publications, and have a profile page on the FUTURES website, where their work is featured: futures-photography.com/artists

Since its inception, PhotoIreland has been the Irish member of the platform. Being invited as funding member was a clear sign of recognition of our work and ambition, and it has given us the opportunity to work in cooperation with many respected organisations, accessing and supporting exciting contemporary practices by artists and curators, while allowing us to promote Irish artists in the European arena.

To date, PhotoIreland has put forward 35 artists for the platform. They are: Aindreas Scholz, Aisling McCoy, Aoife Herrity, Audrey Gillespie, Barry W Hughes, Becks Butler, Berta Mars, Chris Finnegan, Cian Burke, Ciaran Óg Arnold, Clare Lyons, Debbie Castro, Dorje de Burgh, Emilia Rigaud, Emma O’Brien, Garry Loughlin, George Voronov, Jamin Keogh, Jialin Long, Leon Nevill Gallagher, Mark Duffy, Mark McGuinness, Megan Doherty, Miriam O’ Connor, Niamh Barry, Patrick O’Byrne, Pauline Rowan, Phelim Hoey, Róisín White, Ronan McCall, Ryan Allen, Sarah Navan, Shia Conlon, Vera Ryklova, and Yvette Monahan. These Irish FUTURES artists were selected having carefully considered their practice and their career.