International Photo Competition: Traces Remain
Know before you apply
- Photographers of any nationality
- Amateur or professional photographers over 18
- Artists exploring memory and traces of time
- Must be over 18
- Submit 8–20 digital images
- Grand prize 2,000 EUR
The 14th edition of the Phodar International Photo Festival Biennale in Bulgaria is calling for applications from photographers from all over the world on the theme of ‘Traces Remain’.
The title is borrowed from the novel of the same name by Bulgarian writer Pavel Vezhinov. In the context of the Biennale, it draws attention to the traces that time, human presence and historical events leave on the world — and to photography’s capacity to preserve and reinterpret them.
The theme offers broad possibilities for artistic interpretation — from personal memory and relationships between generations to social conflicts and the transformation of our surroundings. It invites photographers to explore both the visible evidence of lived experience and that which continues to exert an influence without taking an obvious visual form. For traces also remain in the ways we live, remember and see.