About Open Call 2018

The 12th edition of GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival invites photographers and visual artists from all over the world to share their vision on the 2018 theme Post-conflict: reframing a dialogue. The aim is to reflect on the meaning of conflict while focusing the festival’s theme on its aftermath, the consequences of conflict and the reconstruction of post-conflict dialogues. This includes how reframing a broken discourse often gives way to new possibilities, situations, ideas and relationships.

The present edition also intends to explore both external and internal post-conflict struggles. These can manifest to impact everything from technology and politics to nature and education, fundamentally changing the way we live our lives. GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival is launching its first Open Call to submissions of all visual art forms – photography, video, installation, performance, intervention, digital, fiction, documentary and beyond. The intention is to showcase the very best visual works which challenge the way we think and question established ideas of engagement.

All shortlisted will be published on June 22. The winner will be announced on June 27 and his or her work will be exhibited during the festival, which runs from September 5th to 30th 2018. The design of the exhibiton will be made under the criteria of the curator of GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival.

The Festival will assume the exhibition costs as well as a fee of 400 euros and accommodation for 2 nights during the Opening Week of the Festival (from September 5th to 9th)

To make this happen the Festival have partnered with the Der Greif Collective and submissions platform Picter.

About GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival

Promoted by the Begihandi collective, GETXOPHOTO is a festival dedicated to image that takes place in Getxo (Basque Country, Spain) during September. It brings different proposals from photographers and visual storytellers from all over the world to the city, setting a contemporary conversation about the theme proposed each year.

GETXOPHOTO aims to push preconceived boundaries about visual narration and the spaces where it is shown, predominantly exhibiting in unconventional public spaces and creating an open dialogue with its audience while filling its everyday with images. Exhibitions, installations, projections, talks, collaborations, experimental laboratories and many activities complete the program of the Festival.

The Festival will celebrate its 12 year anniversary, following on an impressive artistic trajectory showcasing critically acclaimed photographers, i.e Martin Kollar; Martin Parr; Martin Schoeller; Nadav Kander; Naomi Harris; Peter Dench; Phil Toledano; Marcos López; Ricardo Cases; Wang Qingsong; Alessandra Sanguinetti; Roger Ballen; Cristina De Middel; Thomas Mailaender; Vincent Fournier; Pieter Hugo; Jacques – Henri Lartigue; Paul Fusco among many others in approximately 20 annual exhibitions and under the curatorial vision of international professionals Alejandro Castellote, Frank Kalero, Christian Cajoulle and Monica Allende. For more information about the Festival visit getxophoto.com

Jurors

Yumi Goto
Independent photography curator, editor, researcher, consultant, educator and publisher.

Her work focuses on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders. She collaborates with local and international artists who live and work in areas affected by conflict, natural disasters, current social problems, human rights abuses and women’s issues. She often works with human rights advocates, international and local NGOs, humanitarian organizations and as well as being involved as a nominator and juror for the international photographic organizations, festivals and events. She is now based in Tokyo and also a co-funder and curator for the Reminders Photography Stronghold which is curated membership gallery space in Tokyo enabling a wide range of photographic activities.

Monica Allende
Independent curator, creative producer and educator

Allende is an independent curator, creative producer and educator. She is collaborating with WeTransfer as a creative director, she was the director of FORMAT17 International Photography Festival, she has collaborated with Screen Projects and is producing several multidisciplinary projects with artists and digital platforms worldwide.
Previously Monica was the Photo Editor at the Sunday Times Magazine, where she launched Spectrum, the award-winning photography section. She is a visiting lecturer at the London College of Communication and lectures and teaches workshops at ScreenLab, London; EFTI, Madrid; Tashkeil, Saudi Arabia; the University of Sunderland’s Mentorship Business Programme; Festival Internazionale a Ferrara; WPP workshop Angola; Magnum Professional Practice Workshops, among others.
She nominates photographers for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the Prix Pictet and The Joop Swart Masterclass/ WPP; FOAM Paul Huf Award and she has served on juries worldwide including the World Press Photo, Bar Tur Photobook Award, La Fabrica/Photo London Dummy Award, Phmuseum Award, Visura Grant, National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, among many other. Monica produced and curated Darfur: Images Against Impunity, an exhibition and a book by Stanley Greene, Lynsey Addario and Alvaro Ybarra Zavala.
She is the recipient of the Amnesty International Media Photojournalism Award, the Picture Editor’s Award, the Online Press Award and Magazine Design Award for Best Use of Photography.

Christian Caujolle
Independent curator and critic

A recognised critic and eminent curator, Caujolle has made an enormous contribution to the world of photography. He collaborated with and was a pupil of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Roland Barthes. He was the graphics editor of Libération, founder of the Agence VU´, artistic director of Les Rencontres d´Arles and curated international festivals such as the Foto Biennale in Rotterdam and PhotoEspaña. Since 1983 he has organised several exhibitions and edited monographs on artists including Jacques Henri Lartigue, William Klein, Anders Petersen, Raymond Depardon, Michael Ackerman and Cristina García Rodero. Caujolle has participated in workshops and conferences in many countries in Europe and Asia and served as a jury member for World Press Photo and other prestigious international competitions. Currently he is the director of PhotoPhnomPenh in Cambodia and in 2013 he took over as curator of GETXOPHOTO Photography Festival.

Simon Bainbridge
Editor of British Journal of Photography

As editor of the world's longest running photography magazine, Simon Bainbridge has overseen its transformation from a weekly trade journal into an award-winning monthly magazine, focused on personal projects and creative commissions. In his 15 years as editor, he has given BJP a more contemporary and international outlook, also developing a programme of activities such as our International Photography Awards, and Portrait of Britain, our nationwide exhibition seen by more than 20 million people. Additionally, he has juried or nominated dozens of photography awards, and has curated two shows on photography. He is currently completing a book on portraits of artists.

Shoair Mavlian
Curator and Director of Photoworks

Shoair Mavlian is director of Photoworks and is responsible for curating the 2018 Brighton Photo Biennial. From 2011-2018 she was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she curated the major exhibitions ‘Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art’ (2018), 'The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection' (2016), 'Conflict, Time, Photography' (2014), 'Project Space: A Chronicle of Interventions' (2014) and 'Harry Callahan' (2013). While at Tate Modern she also researched acquisitions and curated displays from the permanent collection including ‘Dayanita Singh’ (2017), 'Lynn Cohen and Taryn Simon' (2017), 'Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen' (2016), 'Close Up: Identity and the Photographic Portrait' (2015), 'Charlotte Posenenske and Ursula Schulz-Dornburg' (2014), 'Lewis Baltz and Minimalism' (2012), and 'New Documentary Forms' (2011). Recent independent curatorial projects include the exhibition 'Don McCullin: Looking Beyond the Edge' (Les Rencontres d'Arles, 2016) and 'In flux' (Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre, Greece, 2015 and Getxo Photo 2017).