2023 REVELA’T Photography Awards
The call for exhibitions is open to all photographers who have an analogue project and the ambition, desire and motivation to show it to the world by exhibiting at the first festival of contemporary analogue photography on the planet.
We are looking for interesting proposals, which are linked to the theme of the edition, “Paths”from original perspectives and points of view. An open, simple and suggestive theme, which can take us to many places; paths of life, imaginary, marked or peripatetic paths; or the literal path, which gives us the opportunity to discover new landscapes. Show us your path, how far do you want to go?
Revela’T is a projection platform that puts on the same level and embraces internationally important photographers with emerging photographers because we believe in the strength of the projects and in the importance of giving opportunities to authors who may not yet have a recognized trajectory, and thus, Revela’T is a means of international projection in this first stage of its path.
Three winning projects will be selected to be exhibited at Revela’T Festival 2023, but all participants will be given the opportunity to share their project in a digital screening that will take place at the Festival’s main venue.
CALENDAR
The ELEVENTH edition of the Revela-T Festival will be held from 3 to 18 June 2023.
The call for projects will be open from now until 20 December 2022.After this period, no exhibition proposals will be accepted.
The jury will give its verdict on 2 February 2023.
THE JUDGES
We’re very pleased to count with some relevant figures of the photography industry on the international panorama, that will be the ones selecting the three projects to exhibit at Revela’T 2023
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Blanca Berlín
Sociologist, photographer and gallery owner. She began her professional career as an urban planner, but gradually turned to photography, a profession she exercised for more than 20 years. Her images and texts have illustrated various newspapers, magazines, books and travel guides both nationally and internationally. Since 2007 he has directed the Blanca Berlín gallery in Madrid, which specializes in national and international photography, understood as the plurality of contemporary visual manifestations under the umbrella of hybridization. She has curated exhibitions and participated in juries and portfolio viewings. Among other awards, in 2012 she received the PhotoEspaña Off Festival Award for the best exhibition, receiving a Special Mention in the 2018 edition. In 2020 she was awarded the MAV (Women in the Visual Arts) prize for her career as a gallery owner. Several of the artists represented by her gallery have received important awards, and her catalog includes a dozen National Photography Prizes, the most recent being the one awarded in 2022 to Cristóbal Hara. |
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Michael Kirchoff
Photographer, independent curator and juror, and advocate for the photographic arts. He has been a juror for Photolucida’s Critical Mass, and has reviewed portfolios for several fine art photographic organizations and non-profits in the U.S. and abroad. Michael has been a contributing writer for Lenscratch, Light Leaked, and Don’t Take Picturesmagazine. In addition, he spent ten years (2006-2016) on the Board of the American Photographic Artists in Los Angeles (APA/LA), producing artist lectures, as well as business and inspirational events for the community. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief at Analog Forever Magazine, Founding Editor for the photographer interview website, Catalyst: Interviews, and Contributing Editor for the column, Traverse, at One Twelve Publishing. Previously, Michael spent over four years as Editor at BLURMagazine. |
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Moritz Neumüller
Curator, educator and writer in the field of photography and new media. He has worked in research and management positions for international institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, La Fábrica in Madrid and PhotoIreland in Dublin. He is currently chief curator of Photobook week Aarhus, Denmark. Since 2010 he directs The Curator Ship, a platform that provides useful information for visual artists. At the same time, he started the ArteConTacto project, to improve access to arts and culture. From 2016 to 2019, Neumüller was the Communication Manager for the award-winning EU project ARCHES. |
JUDING CRITERIA
All those photographers of any nationality, origin or place of residence, who carry out their activity in both the field of chemical or analog photography, may apply. An international jury will value positively – but it won’t be mandatory- the projects with an exhibition proposal and the contemporary ones. The relation to the theme of the edition will be well considered. The jury’s decision can not be revoked.
Photographers have to take into account that 10-15 imagesin JPG formatwith at least 1500px on the long edgeare required to submit a project.
PRIZES
1st winnerwill receive
- Up to 1500€ in production or transport of the project
- Travel support to come to the festival during the Main Weekend up to 150€
- Accomodation for 1 night during the Main Weekend of Revela’T
- National and International exposure
- FULL PASS and acces to the exclusive BRUNCH
- Inclusion in the program of the festival and international promotion
- Gathering with professionals of the industry during the Main Weekend
- Media presence
2nd winnerwill receive
- Up to 1000€ in production or transport of the project
- Travel support to come to the festival during the Main Weekend up to 100€
- Accomodation for 1 night during the Main Weekend of Revela’T
- National and International exposure
- FULL PASS and acces to the exclusive BRUNCH
- Inclusion in the program of the festival and international promotion
- Gathering with professionals of the industry during the Main Weekend
- Media presence
3rd winnerwill receive
- Up to 500€ in production or transport of the project
- Travel support to come to the festival during the Main Weekend up to 100€
- Accommodation for 1 night during the Main Weekend of Revela’T
- National and International exposure
- FULL PASS and access to the exclusive BRUNCH
- Inclusion in the program of the festival and international promotion
- Gathering with professionals of the industry during the Main Weekend
- Media presence
All the submitterswill have the opportunity to exhibit their project on a screening during the whole month of the festival that will take place in the same space as the rest of the exhibitions.
