Deadline: 15 December 2024
Are you a photographer or visual artist seeking deeper narratives and new strategies for your lens-based practice? Do you need editorial support and idea development for an ongoing project? Are you ready to expand your visual stories through publications, exhibitions, and multimedia formats? If yes, then this call is for you!
Reimagining African Narratives is a 6-month photography fellowship fostering responsible collaboration from an African perspective. Through online and in-person workshops, participants receive expert mentorship to advance long-term projects, challenge traditional documentary formats, and engage a global audience through hands-on editing and publishing sessions.
Reimagining African Narratives aims to foster responsible collaboration in photography, ensuring participants develop clear project statements and communicate their ideas confidently and effectively.
This fellowship seeks applicants whose work intersects themes relating to the natural world, social impact and social justice through community-centred narratives about nature, conservation challenges, environmental impact and climate resilience.
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The program focuses on responsibility, challenging stereotypes, and creating impactful publications.
Topics
- Ethics, aesthetics, and relevant theoretical discussions.
- Developing narratives engaged with specific territories.
- Decolonising visual strategies and representations of the Global South.
- Innovative methodologies of community participation through photography.
- Project Conceptualization, editing and construction of visual narratives.
- Exploring different materials and distribution methods (publishing, exhibitions etc).
- Strategies for audience development.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be 18 years of age or older, from ANY African nationality, and preferably residing on the continent.
- Must be available to travel to South Africa for workshops and Congress, and committed to attending both online and in-person sessions.
- Must possess intermediate to advanced photography skills, with basic knowledge of editing and digital file preparation software.
- Must have a project in development or ready to be developed over the course of the workshops, with the option to include alternative photographic processes.
- Applicants are responsible for obtaining and paying for their own visas and covering home-country transport costs to the airport and back.
Application Requirements
- Meet Eligibility Criteria for the Workshop call-out.
- Must be dedicated to attend on-line sessions beginning in Mid – January, followed by in-person sessions from 25 March – 4 April 2025, and additional online sessions until June 2025.
- Have a project in development, or ready to be developed over the course of the workshops, intersecting themes relating to the natural world, social impact and social justice through community-centred narratives about nature, conservation challenges, environmental impact and climate resilience.
- Completed Application Form.
- Copy of your passport (Included with the form).
- Links to your project imagery and artist statement about your work.
- Motivation and/or a 2min video introducing yourself, what you do and how this opportunity may benefit your goals (also included in the form).
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