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Discovery Award 2024

The Open Call for Discovery Awards 2024 is now accepting submissions!

The finalists will be able to see their works exhibited in Encontros da Imagem International Photography and Visual Arts festival in 2024, also having the chance to be a part of the annual publication.

The final projects will be evaluated and selected by an independent jury, nationally and internationally known in the visual arts field. We will reveal them very soon!

Finalists receive: Exhibition in the festival in September-October 2024
Winner receives: 1000€ (one thousand euros)

Photobook Award 2023

As part of the 33rd edition of Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts festival, the open call for the Photobook Award EI 2023 is now open. This competition is juried by editors, publishers and other professionals in the publishing industry.

Aware that photography books have gained, in recent years, a leading role in the promotion of photography projects through creative processes of storytelling, it's Encontros da Imagem intention to promote independent authors as well as their body of work. Since 2014, the festival has strove to be a privileged channel for photobook dissemination and promotion, carrying out the Photobook Award 2023, inviting all interested artists to apply for the prize with their photobook.

Discovery Awards

Essay for the Future: Considering the present as we imagine and build the future together.

For the 33rd edition of Encontros da Imagem, we wish to explore the challenges that the world continues to experience and keep up the necessary conversations on topics such as representation, inclusion, environmental sustainability, the politics of everyday life, and the power of change held by social movements. There is an urgent need to stop and listen. While democracy weakens and extremists gain ground in the frenzy of both virtual and real life, we wish to take a step back and think of new forms of organization, ways of life, and creation.

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