Fotografia Calabria Festival Award 2025

• Fotografia Calabria Festival

• Deadline: May 15th, 2025

• Theme: Shared Root: Places

• Prize: €3,000+ Exhibition in Italy + Publication

• Entry Fees: Yes

• REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE

Call for Entries: IV Edition of the “Common Roots: Places” Festival

The fourth edition of the “Common Roots: Places” festival invites photographers to submit creative projects that explore the profound connection between people and the spaces they occupy. This year’s theme, Common Roots, encourages participants to reflect on how the places we live in, travel through, or imagine help shape our identities and influence our experiences.

Photographers are invited to interpret the theme through one or more of the following lenses:

Everyday PlacesThese are the familiar settings of our daily lives—our homes, neighborhood streets, favorite cafes, or local parks. Though often overlooked, these environments hold rich layers of memory, routine, and shared experience. What stories lie hidden in these ordinary places? How can we use photography to reveal their emotional and historical significance? This category challenges you to see the familiar with fresh eyes, uncovering the beauty and meaning in spaces we usually take for granted.

Popular PlacesIconic landmarks and well-known tourist destinations—such as the canals of Venice or the fields of Tuscany—are photographed endlessly, often in predictable ways. This category asks you to break from convention and reimagine these locations. How can you capture their essence from an unexpected angle or through a different narrative? Focus on overlooked details or surprising contrasts to offer a new perspective that reinvigorates our view of these famed spaces.

Imaginary PlacesSome of the most compelling places are those that exist only in our minds—shaped by dreams, folklore, literature, or memory. In this category, you’re invited to bring those imagined spaces to life through creative photography. Whether through surreal compositions, digital manipulation, or symbolic imagery, explore the border between the real and the unreal. What do these places say about us, our cultures, or our inner worlds?

At the heart of the festival lies the idea of Common Roots—the often-invisible ties that connect us to places through history, culture, and collective memory. These roots shape how we perceive and experience space, even when we’re unaware of their presence. Through your work, consider how you might reveal these hidden layers. Can your photography make the unseen visible? Can it tell the deeper stories embedded in a place?

This is your invitation to explore, interpret, and transform our understanding of place—one image at a time.