Project Groundswell invites photographers and lens-based artists to submit projects on the theme of climate action. Project Groundswell is an opportunity to deepen understanding, amplify hope and inspire further action by making visible what is being done to address climate change.

  
**What's the theme?**

  
We invite artists/photographers to submit work that engages with any of the wide range of climate actions that are currently underway anywhere in the world. To give just a few examples, we welcome critical explorations of how individuals, grassroots movements or wider societal initiatives are tackling climate change by reducing carbon emissions, assisting circular economies, promoting biodiversity, exposing greenwashing, or enabling climate justice.

  
What approaches? In addition to documentary, independent photoreportage and socially-engaged practices, we also welcome more oblique, personal, diaristic or conceptual approaches. So long as the work is relevant to climate action, we want to see it!

  
Please note: Raising awareness about the effects of climate change is not enough. This Call is for photographic/video projects that make visible how individuals, communities or wider social groups are working to combat climate change.

**Four Overall Winners each receive:**

  
* A fee of €5,000
* Museum-quality printing and framing of their work for a major curated four-person touring exhibition.
* Publication of the work as a monograph photobook, with an introductory critical essay about the work.
* Exhibition presented in the core programmes of Fotohof, Photo Museum Ireland, Cortona On The Move Festival and Imago Lisboa Festival in 2026.
* Support of up to €800 for travel and accommodation for the Overall Winners to attend two exhibitions.
* At the close of Project Groundswell, one set of exhibition prints will be given to the artist, the other set will be held in the Fotohof Archive for posterity.

  
**Twelve Finalists each receive:**

  
* A fee of €1,000
* Mentoring and support for the development of their work into a short audio-visual piece.
* Inclusion in the premiere projection event at Imago Lisboa and at events in Fotohof, Photo Museum Ireland and Cortona on the Move.
* Inclusion and promotion of the work on the Groundswell website.
* Promotion on the organising partners' platforms.
* The chance to be selected as one of the four Overall Winners.

Add

Project Groundswell

Opportunities

For Artists

ArtConnect

Support