Photo Oxford 2023 - Open Call

The Photo Oxford 23 Open Call welcomes work from photographers, curators, collectives and artists from around the world.

Our stellar panel of jurors are ready to engage with new and refreshing visions of life and personal experience expressed through photography.

Photo Oxford is an international festival of photography that takes place biannually. The dates for our next edition are 14th April to 6th May 2023. As the name suggests it takes place in the beautiful and historic city of Oxford which is a short train ride away from London.

The Festival is known for its connections to the great museums and colleges of the world famous universities of Oxford but we look to the world for participants and seek to engage in a global conversation about photography.

The world is in flux - everything is changing at almost every level of our daily lives. The jurors are looking for work that documents ‘personal inventories of experience’ which ties in with the Festival’s theme - ‘The Hidden Power of the Archive’. We want to see how the world looks to you right now. Fresh, energetic and connected to the great themes of our age: identity, climate change, Covid, sexuality, the domestic landscape, work (or lack of it), inflation, power (and shortages of it) and democracy for starters. But what is in your ‘personal inventory’ that speaks to your recent experience? We want to see tomorrow’s archives being formed today. That’s what we want to see.

You can enter with a single image or a series of between 5 and 15 images.