2023 OPEN CALL
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE LENS OF A CAMERA -
AN ARCHIVE OF EVERY DAY LIFE
MEET THE JURORS
Phillip Roberts
(Bodleian Library, Bern and Ronny Schwartz Curator of Photography)
Phillip is the Bern and Ronny Schwartz curator of Photography at the Bodleian Library. He is a writer, an artist and a media historian. His work is all about the ways that life is captured and recorded by media technologies, and what is lost.
Jermaine Francis
(Photographer)
Jermaine Francis is a London based Photographer and Artist who’s practice works within the disciplines of Book, Gallery & editorial, primarily in the discourse of the Photo Document.He contributes projects to magazines such as I-D, Autre Magazine, Beauty Papers, Boy Brother Friend. His most recent project ‘A Storied Ground’ which ask the viewer to consider the Black figures complicated relationship with the English Landscape & Nature, is exhibiting at Galeriepcp Paris 2022. He will also be making a new work for the Oxford Photo Festival in april 2023.
Alicia Colen,
Director, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC)
Alicia Colen serves as one of the directors of Howard Greenberg Gallery. Having been with the gallery since 2007, Alicia is responsible for client relations, artists relations, and has organized numerous exhibitions for the Gallery including William Gedney, All Facts Eventually Lead to Mysteries (2016); One Third of Nation: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration (2020); and Baldwin Lee (2022).
Matthew Finn
Photographer, winner of the 2017 Photo Oxford Open Call)
Matthew Finn (b. 1971, UK) explores personal relationships both within the corpus of the family as well as the wider stage of personal relationships through long-term photographic projects.
He is the recipient of the Jerwood/Photoworks Award 2015 and has published 2 monographs; Mother (Dewi Lewis, 2017) and School of Art (Stanley/Barker, 2019).
Emily Graham
(Magnum Cultural Commissions and Partnerships; Photographer)
Emily Graham is an artist and photography consultant based in London. She also works as a photography consultant, working on exhibitions and cultural programming with partners including Magnum Photos, Saatchi Gallery, American Museum in Bath.
She has exhibited internationally, most recently at PhotoEspaña 2022 (Spain). Her first book The Blindest Man was published in July 2022 by VOID.
Kalpesh Lathigra
(Photographer)
Kalpesh Lathigra was born in London, England, in 1971 and studied photography at the London College of Printing. He started life in photojournalism at The Independant newspaper in 1994 where he won 1st prize in World Press Photo competition.
Kalpesh now works in long term projects as well as magazine and editorial assignments. He has been awarded both the W. Eugene Smith and Churchill Fellowships and has received numerous awards including The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and PhotoEspaña Descrumbientos. And he has been exhibited widely including shows at; Jen Beckman Gallery New York, Johannesburg Photo Umbrella, Taylor Wessing, London and Sifest Italy.
WHAT WINNERS RECIEVE
The series winner:
- Prominent inclusion in an dedicated exhibition of up to 8 of your winning series images
- Prominent inclusion on the Festival website and social media
- A 30 minute Zoom meeting with the juror of their choice.
- 10 day Jury Curated Instagram Takeover of Photo Oxford IG account
Single Image winner:
- Prominent inclusion in an Open Call winners exhibition during Photo Oxford
- Prominent inclusion on the Festival website and social media
- 3 day Instagram Take Over of Photo Oxford IG account
Runners Up:
10 Runners up will be featured in the physical and online exhibitions.
PREPARING YOUR IMAGES
File type
Images should be saved as jpegs at the highest quality available, with a colour profile attached. Either the RGB or sRGB colour profiles are recommended. Digital scans from film are also eligible providing they meet these technical guidelines.
Image size and resizing
Whilst no image sizes will be rejected at upload, winning images will be required to be printed, and so must be of sufficient quality to allow this. It is therefore advised that images measure a minimum of 1500 pixels on the longest side after any cropping. Where images submitted are smaller than this, it will be assumed that this is the largest image size available to the photographer, and may affect that image's chances of winning. The submission of larger file sizes is encouraged if available.
There are Photoshop and other image software tutorials online that show you how to best resize an image.
Image Manipulation
There are no restrictions regarding the manipulation of images using software or other techniques, provided that all imagery is the exclusive work of the submitting photographer and does not include any element that is the copyright of another.
Image sharpening, noise reduction and colour saturation
Excessive sharpening, noise reduction and colour saturation techniques should be avoided. We appreciate that entrants will attempt to prepare their entries to optimise appearance and appeal on screen, and this may include these techniques. Excessive use of any or all of them can result in an entry that will be unsuitable for printed media and therefore become invalid as a result.
Image descriptions
We encourage photographers to include a description about their work during the upload process. This is a great way to tell a story or other interesting facts about your image. The judges and the crowd will be able to read this while rating to give them insight into how you came about the shot.
Metadata
We would advise all entrants to add copyright information in the metadata of all submissions.
SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS HERE