The PhotoVogue Global Open Call 2025 invites all women artists and individuals who identify with womanhood to submit works that explore the diverse ways women represent themselves and one another through photography and video.
The illusion of linear progress—the belief that rights, visibility, and recognition are irrevocable—has been shattered by the current political climate. Around the world, we are witnessing increasing pushback against women’s autonomy, from reproductive rights to freedom of expression, reminding us that what once seemed secure can also be taken away.
As these rights are contested, it becomes more urgent than ever to not only consider how women see but how they continue to carve out spaces for their perspectives. In a world where their ability to shape narratives and define vision remains a battleground, representation is both an act of resistance and a tool for change.
For generations, women have fought not only to reclaim how they are seen but to assert their right to see on their own terms. Photography and video have long been arenas where vision is not just about aesthetics but about power.
This year’s PhotoVogue Global Open Call is dedicated to Women by Women—a celebration of the myriad ways women represent themselves and each other through photography and video.
This open call does not seek to define a singular “woman’s gaze” but rather to embrace the limitless ways in which women see, interpret, and reconstruct vision. It is not about opposing dominant visual paradigms but about affirming women’s perspectives as diverse, fluid, and self-determined.
We welcome submissions from all women and those who identify with womanhood—across race, gender identity, sexuality, ability, and socio-political backgrounds.
Identity is not only shaped by who holds the camera but also by the act of being seen.
As Susan Sontag reminds us in On Photography, photography does not merely reflect reality—it constructs it.
At a time when women’s identities are under attack, when their rights and very existence are being erased, photographing women is an act of affirmation. It is a declaration that they exist, that they see, and that they are seen—on their own terms.
Women by Women: A Global Open Call
Deadline June 1, 2025
PhotoVogue
International
