Deadline: 31 August 2025
The Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography is calling artists, academics, enthusiasts, and professionals, who have a passion and serious interest in vernacular photography and everyday imaging.
The Eidolon Grant aims to identify phenomena, collections, histories, practices, and trends within vernacular photography with the aim of offering new interpretations and analyses. Thematising both photographic heritages and contemporary photographic practices is eidolon’s mission and they invite you to join them in this important exploration.
Their goal is to equally represent the vast range of past everyday photographic practices while also raising awareness of the significance of contemporary image culture. They aim to highlight how historical photographic traditions continue to shape society and visual communication today, while exploring the impact of emerging digital and social media practices on current visual trends and societal narratives.
Categories
- Contemporary everyday photographic cultures: The Eidolon Grant invites projects that critically engage with the evolving phenomena of digital images, social media platforms, networked image cultures, and their social, political, historical, and aesthetic implications in the 21st century.
- Everyday photographs of the past: The Eidolon Grant seeks projects that engage with the significance of 19th and 20th-century everyday photography, through both private and public archives, whether hidden or well-known, and explore collective histories and memories.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: 25,000 EUR
Application Requirements
- Please send them an abstract no longer than 10,000 characters highlighting the focus and main narrative of the idea in question, a brief argument about the significance of the chosen topic, and a draft timeline of the realisation process.
- Submitting specific images or visual materials used in the project or serving as inspiration is not a must, but it can strongly influence the jury’s decision and is firmly recommended.
- Please attach a short CV and a summary of your previously realised projects.
- If you apply with an idea for a long-form essay/article series/original book idea, please send them a short selection of your previously written material.
- If you intend to work with a third party (an archive, collection or institution) please include their declaration of consent in your application.
For more information, visit Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography.
