landscape color photo of Alpaca Kingdom - Palccoyo, Highlands of Cusco, Peru by Nicolas Castermans

Open Call Award Editors’ Picks of December 2021

‘A good photographer gets right inside the story, gets accepted as part of it, stands in the right place at the right time, and presses the shutter’. – Bill Hurn

Following the results of our recent Open Call photography award (judged by Editor and Curator of Foam Magazine Elisa Medde), our editors are excited to share some of the competition entries that didn’t make it through to the final round. These images, nonetheless display remarkable skill and technique; encompass a diversity of unique and fascinating subjects, and a variety of genres, and are, in our opinion, well worthy of exposure.

– Discover the 2021 Open Call Award winners & finalists here

Published January 18, 2022 - Congratulations to all selected artists: Rodislav Driben, Paul Lichte, Tom Tautz, Ilanna Barkusky, Gary Lawson, Hilda Champion, Anna Karvounari, Alessio Pannini, Nicolas Castermans, Iris Valentina, Ed Silvester, Stephen Taylor,

Call for entries

fashion fine art studio portrait of woman by Ivana Sunjic
© Ivana Sunjic
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