Organizer Information
PhotoVogue is a global initiative of Condé Nast dedicated to supporting photographers, video makers, and contemporary image-makers while promoting a more conscious and inclusive visual culture. Through its network of international markets and partners, PhotoVogue provides opportunities for artists through open calls, exhibitions, editorial features, commissions, portfolio reviews, and public programming. Its activities focus on discovering emerging and established talent, encouraging diverse perspectives, and expanding the role of photography and visual storytelling within contemporary culture.
Title & Description
PhotoVogue - Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion
Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion is PhotoVogue’s 2026 Global Open Call, inviting photographers and video makers worldwide to create work that challenges indifference, disrupts familiar visual conventions, and proposes new ways of seeing. Rather than asking artists to illustrate a specific subject or theme, the open call asks applicants to take a position in relation to the world around them.
PhotoVogue is particularly interested in work with a distinct point of view, strong visual language, emotional impact, and a sense of urgency or necessity. Projects may explore intimacy, care, confrontation, resistance, invention, disobedience, new aesthetics, or imagined futures. Submissions can come from fashion, documentary, portraiture, fine art, experimental practices, or other forms of contemporary image-making.
Categories
- Photography / Photo Story
- Video
- Multimedia
- Fashion Photography
- Documentary
- Portraiture
- Fine Art
- Experimental and Contemporary Image-Making
AI-generated works are not eligible.
Eligibility
The open call is international and open to photographers and video makers from around the world. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older. Artists of all career stages and working across different genres are encouraged to participate. Previous PhotoVogue Open Call applicants may submit a new project.
Program Benefits & Awards
Three selected artists will receive a total of $12,000 in grants:
- $6,000 Outstanding Vision Grant — for an artist pushing creative boundaries.
- $4,000 Vision Grant — for an artist presenting a compelling and unique perspective.
- $2,000 Rising Voice Grant — for an emerging artist demonstrating originality and promise.
Selected artists will also receive opportunities for significant international exposure. Their work will be presented at the next PhotoVogue Festival, and they may have the opportunity to be published across Vogue editions worldwide. Selected artists may also participate in the next PhotoVogue Virtual Portfolio Reviews.
Application Fee
None
How to Apply?
Online Application
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: 11 September 2026
Location
New York, United States
Additional Details
Artists retain full copyright of their submitted work. However, by participating, applicants grant Condé Nast a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish, reproduce, distribute, exhibit, and promote submitted materials through PhotoVogue and Condé Nast’s print and digital publications, including exhibitions, editorial features, social media, books, and catalogues associated with the open call. Selection does not guarantee publication or exhibition. Applicants must hold all necessary rights to their submitted materials.