Guest Room and Joanna Zylinska & Yanai Toister Photographer Contest 2025

The Guest Room: Joanna Zylinska & Yanai Toister Photographer Contest 2025 portal are now open, Guest Room aims to spark collaboration and creative exchange. For this edition, Joanna Zylinska – an artist, writer, and professor of media philosophy and critical digital practice at King’s College London – joins forces with Yanai Toister, an internationally exhibited artist whose practice centers on photography and conceptual art. Apply Here

Application Deadline: 07 January 2025, 11:59 PM

Theme for Guest Room (WHERE is the photographic image)

The question, “What is photography?”, has shaped the debate around, and practice of, the photographic medium since its early days. This question has become even more prominent in the age of digital imaging and AI. But we want to shift the focus from photography’s identity to its location, literal and metaphorical. This leads us to ask: Where is the photographic image today? Is it in the eye? In the brain? In our memory? In a database? Joanna Zylinska and Yanai Toister invite submissions that offer poetic, experimental and inventive responses to these questions.

Who hosts this contest?

• Der Greif e.V. Atelierstr. 18, 81671 Munich Germany

Why submit to Guest Room?

• Be discovered by an expert in contemporary art and photography
• Get published in an online showcase on Der Greif alongside emerging artists from all over the world
• Get the chance to be awarded a 1.000 € MPB Guest Room Scholarship

Eligibility for Guest Room and Joanna Zylinska & Yanai Toister Photographer Contest 2025

• Der Greif Guest Room accepts submissions from everyone.

Voluntary donation

After over a decade of serving the international photography community Der Greif is now finally a registered non-profit. We believe this organizational structure best reflects our artistic and cultural mission. As always, your artistic contribution makes our work on Der Greif possible.

Since starting Guest Room in January 2015, we’ve been working hard to invite a broad range of practitioners, from gallerists to editors and curators. We are convinced that this format is an interesting and low-barrier approach to help artists get their work in front of people who might be interested in working with them. For this reason, we are asking you to consider making a financial contribution as well.

That’s why we’re suggesting a voluntary donation of 8€ as a submission fee. 100% of the funds we collect from your donations will go towards helping us continue providing interesting opportunities for the photography community through Guest Room, and thus expand Der Greif.

How to Apply Guest Room: Joanna Zylinska & Yanai Toister Photographer Contest 2025

Upload:

• 1 Project per submission
• 1 to 5 files per project
• Allowed file types: JPG, GIF, MOV, MP4, MPG, M4V, M2TS
• Videos: At least 1080px on the long edge, max 10 minutes
• GIFs: At least 500px on the long edge
• Images: At least 1500px on the long edge

Click Here and Apply

Please note: Images which have been selected for a previous Der Greif opportunity are not eligible for re-submission. We want to support the broadest range of photographers possible and therefore encourage you to submit work that has not yet been selected by our past Guest Curators. Any images which do not comply with these terms will be removed from the selection process.