A photography competition for young and emerging photographers, who are starting their careers, rethinking creative strategies, conceptual approach and have a new series to share with our public.

The competition is open to young and emerging authors. We do not restrict submissions by place of residence, nor by age, nor by topic. The most important thing that the artist is starting his/her carrier or rethinking his/her creative strategies, conceptual approach and have a new series to share. The priority working technique should be photography, but we look openly at the submissions covering extended field of photography and lens-based art.

The submitter series should consist of works which were never previously exhibited fully. The jury of artists, publishers and educators will choose 10 finalists. Their group exhibition will be opened in August, 2024. There will be a catalogue published together with the exhibition. The three winners will be selected out of these finalists and announced at the exhibition opening.

This competition is one of the most important activities dedicated to young emerging photographers in two-year plan to try to see what work is produced among the youngest future professionals and what kind of possible “forecast” we could expect. There are not many competitions for young emerging professionals here in Lithuania, so we deeply believe that participating here can be encouraging to keep working and a great possibility to show your work.

• Works of all 10 finalists will take part in a group exhibition at Prospekto gallery (Gedimino ave. 43, Vilnius, Lithuania)
• Three jury selected finalists (who collected highest rates) will get the opportunity to make a personal exhibition at the Vilnius Photography Gallery (Stikliu str. 4, Vilnius, Lithuania) the following year. The organization will support partly the production costs.
• Printed catalogues of the exhibition will be shipped or given at the opening.
• All 10 finalists will be featured on the website www.photography.lt
• Works of all 10 finalists will be featured in a Projection night during the Symposium "NIDA. Meeting photography" in September.

HOW TO ENTER (picter.com)

• The competition is open to authors, who are 18 years old or older, living in Lithuania or abroad.

• Theme is open.

• The series should consist of 10 to 20 photographs, created no earlier than 2019.

• Dimensions of the images: 3000px on the long size is the default (4000px max)

• The series of photographs cannot be exhibited and published before (individual photographs may be displayed in group exhibitions or published in catalogues).

• Deadline: Mar 25, 2024