HOME-S
Open cal for exhibition
EXTENSION UNTIL: 04.02.2026
Photopolis Festival invites photographers to explore the idea of home home in its widest possible sense—personal or collective, permanent or temporary, intimate or political, visible or invisible. Home may be a physical space, a relationship, a landscape or something carried – a feeling, a memory.
Submissions may engage with domestic spaces, landscapes, communities, rituals, migration, belonging, displacement, care, family, solitude, identity, or the everyday gestures that make a place feel lived in—or unlivable. Home can be where you are, where you were, where you long to return, or somewhere that exists only in memory or fiction.
The plural HOME(s) highlights the multiplicity and fluid nature of the concept. This prefestival open call welcomes diverse photographic approaches, including documentary, conceptual, staged, experimental practices, as well as the use and creative reworking of archival and found photographic material.
Terms
Participants are invited to submit 1 – 3 photos (in high resolution) on the above theme, from which up to 1 photo may be selected.
The photos cannot have been created using AI technology.
Deadline for submissions until 30 January 2026.
The selected photos will be the material of the exhibition “Home-s“, which will be exhibited at the Kapralos Museum, in Agrinio, Greece.
Exhibition date: April 2026.
Jury team: Eleni Mouzakiti and Lila Zotou.
The decision of the jury is final and is not open to any objection.
The submission of entries to the invitation is free of charge. The selected photographers to participate in the exhibition will pay, after the selection of the photographs, the printing and hanging costs 45 €.
Selected photographers will be notified by email.
Participants in the competition declare that they grant the organizers the right to publish, exhibit the photographs and post them on social media in order to promote the Festival, provided that the names of the authors are mentioned, without the right to remuneration.
The copyright of the photographs belongs to their authors.
The prints will be destroyed one after the end of the exhibition.
Participation in the competition automatically implies that failure to comply strictly with the terms of the competition is grounds for exclusion from the judging.
The photo files must have a high printable resolution (the long side must be at least 4000 px at 240 dpi) and the file name must have the photographer’s Name followed by the number 1, 2, 3… and send it by wetransfer.com or other cloud to the email: photopolisfestival@gmail.com along with a word file stating the name, city, phone number, email and Instagram (if any). Please do not send files directly via email. Use a transfer service (such as wetransfer.com, https://www.swisstransfer.com/, etc.).
Within 24 hours of receiving it, we will send you an email receipt of your entry.
If you do not receive the confirmation email within 24 hours, please let us know at: info@photopolis.gr
Eleni Mouzakiti
Photographer, Curator
Eleni Mouzakiti is a visual artist, educator and curator of photographic exhibitions and publications.
She studied German Language and Literature at the University of Athens, FU Berlin and Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg.
She holds an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a PhD in Photography as an Art Practice from Derby University, UK.
Her photographic work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and festivals internationally. Her works belong to the collection of the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA, the Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki, the State Museum of Contemporary Art, the ACG Art Collection and other private collections.
Eleni has designed and taught the course of Photography Practice Theory and History at the Department of Fine Arts (Ioannina University), the Hellenic Center for Photography, the Athens School of Fine Arts (adult education program in photography) and in the postgraduate program – MA in Photography and Visual Language – of AKTO / Middlesex University, UK.
She has curated numerous photography exhibitions and publications and is a founding member of The Provinces, a platform that collects and promotes photographic projects that deal with the Greek periphery.
Committed to long- term projects in her artistic work she focuses on issues of ‘absorptive’ behavior in the public realm, leisure time geography, landscape as a fantasy of “belonging”
Lila Zotou
Photographer, Photography teacher
Lila Zotou holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts and Sciences of Arts, from Ioannina University (GR) and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Utrecht Academy of the Arts (NL).
Her practice ranges across notions of belonging, identity formation and the role of memory and space in that process. In her course of study she has paid close attention to the Theory and Art of Photography, while her methodology is focused on the genre of new documentary photography and visual storytelling. She lives and works in Oslo, as an independent art photographer, photo instructor and curator.
Her most recent collaborations include exhibitions and curatorial work with museums such as Oslo Interkulturelt Museum, ByMuset, Ås Kunstforening, Teknisk Museum, Praksis Oslo, and Cyan Gallery. As well as teaching fine art photography and portfolio development with galleries and institutions such as the Cyan Studio, iFocus Gallery, Oslo Photo Club, Chios Photo Club, Oslo Red Cross, Asfaphoto Courses and more recently with the Henie Onstad Art Center where she works as an artistic research assistant.
|She is a member of the Norwegian Association of Fine Art Photographers.
Exhibition “Mother Nature – Mother Earth” at Kapralos Museum (2025)
