photovogue’s regional open call: wana panorama

PhotoVogue’s Regional Open Call invites photographers and video makers from West Asia and North Africa and their diaspora to bring forward their perspectives, celebrating image-making as a space of expression, resilience, and cultural dialogue, and offering global visibility to their work.

WANA Panorama is PhotoVogue's regional initiative to champion the plurality of voices from WANA, moving beyond monolithic narratives to showcase the region's complexity, resilience, and diverse visual languages. At a time of profound transformation across the region, this open call aims to create space for artists to represent themselves and their communities on their own terms, fostering visibility, nuance, and connection through image-making.

WANA is not a monolithic space. It is shaped by a wide range of cultures, histories, and social realities, as well as by ongoing transformations and forms of resilience. For this reason, this open call does not aim to define the region, but to create a platform where artists can represent themselves, their communities, and their environments on their own terms.

We are particularly interested in works that reflect the diversity of lived experience, whether through intimate storytelling, explorations of identity and belonging, engagements with fashion and visual culture, or reflections on social, political, and environmental realities. At the same time, the open call welcomes practices that move beyond representation, embracing experimentation, abstraction, and new visual forms.