photobook feature - in focus

Der Greif invites publishers and artists to submit recently published photobooks and artist books for consideration. This open call is conceived as a space of encounter between practices, geographies, and ways of thinking through the book as a critical and poetic form.

Photobooks are more than containers for images. They are sites of authorship, collaboration, circulation, and resistance. They shape how work is read, shared, and remembered. In a moment defined by accelerated image flows and shifting economies of attention, the photobook remains a place for slowness, intention, and depth, where visual language can unfold on its own terms.

We welcome submissions that challenge, expand, or reimagine what a photobook can be: from intimate self-published works to experimental editions, collective projects, and press-led releases. We are interested in publications that engage critically with contemporary life, visual culture, and the politics of representation, as well as those that foreground materiality, design, and storytelling as integral to the work.

This call is open-ended by design. Rather than prescribing a theme, we invite you to contribute to an ongoing conversation about contemporary photobook culture. We are asking how books are made, why they matter, and what becomes possible through them.