NIDA International Photography Symposium 2018 is pleased to launch an open call for lens based works for a curated evening of projections in Nida, Lithuania. The topic of this open call is Self Reflection, tying in with the overall topics of this year’s programme.

We invite artists and photographers of any age, nationality and geographic location to submit lens based works in a form of photographic series or short videos (up to 10 min) exploring the topic. We are looking for broad and innovative interpretations of self reflection, whether it’s personal or family narratives, stories of communities or nations, trajectories of humanity, or perhaps reflections on the photographic medium itself.

We welcome analogue and digital experiments, collage works, videos, augmented photography, simulations and anything that may fall into the broad category of lens based media.

Selected works of up to 20 authors will be screened during NIDA International Photography Symposium 2018 in Lithuania in the first week of September (09.04.-09.09). The symposium is now in it’s 41st year and has grown to attract local and international artists, photographers, lecturers, historians and critics to a special location on Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea. This year’s programme explores different topics including Self Reflection.

One winning photographer or artist will be invited to present their practice in an artist talk, hotel, breakfast and return travel to Nida (up to 200 EUR) covered by the organisers.

This is a great opportunity to share your work with an international audience of photographers, artists, curators, critics and gallery representatives in a unique setting of pine forests and sand dunes.