analogueNOW 2026

Open Call for Analog Photo Projects

ROOM FOR DOUBT

Analog photography is rooted in experimentation, trial-and-error processes, and often uncertain outcomes, thus enabling spaces that resist contemporary demands for productivity, efficiency, and overachievement. By carving room for doubt, the exhibition platforms humble approaches to one’s artistic practice and to the world. Room for Doubt refers to the spaces—mental, emotional, physical, or social—where certainty gives way to questioning. Departing from the saying “seeing is believing”, we also invite photographers whose work encourages critical thinking and makes us question our assumptions and beliefs.

Room for doubt welcomes projects that embrace uncertainty as a fertile, creative ground, and doubt as a necessary tool for learning how to see the world differently.

WHEN AND WHERE?

Festival

🗓️Friday, May 8 – Sunday, May 10, 2026
📍Fotogalerie Friedrichshain (Helsingforser Pl. 1, 10243 Berlin) & Nirgendwo (Helsingforser Str. 10, 10243 Berlin)

Exhibition “Room for doubt”

🗓️May 9 – June 19, 2026 / Opening reception: Friday, May 8, 7 PM
📍Fotogalerie Friedrichshain (Helsingforser Pl. 1, 10243 Berlin)

HOW TO APPLY?

Submit your project by February 27, 2026 via swisstransfer at opencall@analoguenow.com

Your application must include:

  • Up to 15 images as JPGs (less than 1 MB per image)
  • A short bio (up to 100 words), including your contact info and collective/school affiliation 
  • A brief project statement (up to 250 words)

We accept analog photography projects or hybrid projects partly based on analog processes.

We accept individual and group projects, as well as completed and in-progress projects. 

THE COLLABORATION

Interested applicants are invited to contact analogueNOW’s curation team (see contacts below) with any questions they might have regarding the application procedure or their projects.

Please note that discussing your project with the analogueNOW team before submitting your application does not guarantee selection.

Our primary criteria when evaluating submissions are the relevance of the projects to the theme and the coherence of the final exhibition as a whole.

The selected participants will be invited to meet with analogueNOW’s curation team to discuss their projects, receive feedback to further develop them when applicable, and collaborate on their presentation within the exhibition.

As an analogueNOW exhibition, all final curatorial decisions remain with the analogueNOW team.

Please note that projects will not be presented or hung per collective or school. Each selected project will be considered and exhibited as the work of an individual photographer.

Selected artists are responsible for covering their own production costs. analogueNOW oversees all exhibition communications and covers promotional expenses. During installation, limited production support, including tools and frames, may be provided to exhibiting artists, subject to prior discussion with analogueNOW. Installation and deinstallation are carried out collaboratively by the exhibiting artists and the analogueNOW team.

A public program will accompany the exhibition, including guided tours and artist talks.

TIMELINE

February: Interested participants are invited to contact analogueNOW regarding their projects or the application procedure
February 27: Open Call deadline (projects do not need to be finalized; submitted material should convey the project’s direction)
March 2: Announcement of Open Call results
March: Selected artists meet with analogueNOW’s curation team to finalize their projects and discuss presentation
April 28: Deadline for delivery of artworks to Fotogalerie Friedrichshain
May 4 – 8: Installation of the exhibition
June 19 – 21: Deinstallation of the exhibition

CONTACTS

Claire Ducresson-Boët: c.ducresson-boet@analoguenow.com
Alice Odegova: a.odegova@analoguenow.com
Tom Stanka: t.stanka@analoguenow.com
Clara Stein: c.stein@analoguenow.com