Life with social media is exhausting. AI floods the world with machine generated images. The more connected we are, the more isolated we feel. In response, emerging voices and veteran visual storytellers turn to the tactility of the photographic object, the intentionality of the development process, and the uniqueness of a composition captured on a roll of film. They seek connection and community through photography. The future, so it seems, is analog.

Fast Forward considers how photography creates a space for camaraderie and interaction, and how analog processes play a pivotal role in such conversations.

We invite submissions of single images or series, collages and photomontages, Lomo explorations, experimental printing, or disposable magic that consider the emergence of analog aesthetics in the second quarter of the twenty-first century.

Show us how photography becomes a third space for you, how it captures and articulates intimate and familiar moments as well as communal belonging. We want to see how your community is shaped through cameras, and what communication and human interactions means for you today.