Parallel Voices 2025

OPEN CALL - Parallel Voices 2025

Photometria International Photography Festival wishing to continue the promotion of modern photographic creation, announces a portfolio contest from November 1st to December 31st 2025.
Participants are asked for one (1) portfolio of fifteen (15) photographs, of which eight (8) will be selected. Through them, the photographer will deal with a topic of his preference, an idea or even the narration of a story. 

The best nine (9) portfolios that will be selected will be the material of the exhibition entitled “Parallel Voices”, for 2026. 

The selection of the portfolios will be based on the following characteristics:

A. The relevance of the pictures to the topic.

B. The coherence of the pictures as a united whole.

C. The artistic and aesthetic quality of the photos.

Jury team

Panagiotis Papoutsis, Founder – Photometria Festival

Achilleas Tziakos , Founder – Photometria Festival

Panagiotis Pappas, Artistic Director – Photometria Festival 

Instructions

The cost for every participant is 15 euros (15 €).

Each photographer has to send his pictures at a digital form via WeTransfer at portfolio@photometria.gr. Also, in the same WeTransfer the following data should be sent in PDF:

Self portrait of the photographer

Project title

Full name (name and surname)

Nationality

Address, City

E-mail

Phone number

A short CV (up to 150 words)

Short description of the project (up to 150 words)

Detailed project description (up to 300 words) (if exists)

Results

The results will be announced on February 1, 2026, at the website of the festival (www.photometria.gr), at social networks, whereas the winners will be informed also via email.

The best nine (9) portfolios that will be selected will be the material of the exhibition entitled “Parallel Voices”, for 2026.

Terms of Participation

1. Your participation is going to be valid only if you have sent the portfolio and paid the cost of your participation.
2. In case the photographs depict individuals without their knowledge or their approve, the responsibility lies exclusively on the photographer at whom the work belongs to and not on Photometria International Photography Festival.

3. The large side of the pictures sent must be 1500 pixels wide and 300 ppi in resolution.

4. Of those who will be excelled from the contest, it will be requested in time, to send their pictures at full resolution to be printed for the following exhibition.

5. The final day which pictures will be accepted is December 31, 2025 00:59 CET.

6. The results will be announced at the website of the festival (www.photometria.gr), at social networks, whereas the winners will be informed also via email.

7. The excelled portfolios will be the material of the exhibition entitled ‘’Parallel Voices”, which will take place at place specified by the festival. Photometria International Photography Festival reserves the right to use the excelled pictures for the promotion of these exhibitions, as also at future promotional acts of the festival, with reference to the creator of the work. The printed portfolios will be reserved at the archive of the festival which holds the right to manage them and re-exhibit them.

8.  By entering the competition, you agree to your information by email to the actions of Photometria Festival. 

The submission of your portfolio entails the acceptance of the above terms of the festival from each individual competitor.

We are waiting for your participation!