Cultivating Diasporic Futures: Uprooting Hate Open Call for Emerging Photographers Under 31
Cultivating Diasporic Futures - Uprooting Hate is a pilot mentorship programme supporting five under-31 Black and/or diasporic intersectional photographers to envision and create transformative futures. Working alongside an established artist-mentor, selected practitioners will develop new visual projects that uproot structures of hate and cultivate new possibilities for liberation, resilience and joy.
This programme explores hate in its complex, layered forms: racism, misogyny, afroqueerphobia, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, disablism, classism, colonialism, and cultural or institutional violence. At the same time, centring practices of care, reparative action, resistance, and world-building. Your project might document collective action, celebrate community resilience, trace intimate stories, or imagine new ways of being and seeing. Whether rooted in memory work, speculation, or lived experience, we're interested in creative/subversive lens-based work that refuses to let hate have the final word: engaging photography as a tool not just for witnessing, but for world-building and envisioning liberatory, diasporic futures.
This programme culminates in a month-long group exhibition at Four Corners Gallery during October 2026 (extending into November as part of their Diasporic Futures Season), alongside the next iteration of the annual PhotoMonth Photography Festival in October 2026. The exhibition will be accompanied by a small publication booklet showcasing the work created and amplifying the artists’ voices in print.
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