FUTURES Nordic Talents 2027

About this call

In collaboration with the FUTURES platform, Copenhagen Photo Festival nominates four young photographers and lens-based artists from the Nordic countries each year to join FUTURES, a European photography platform for new talents. Member artists receive an artist fee of €500 from FUTURES and can take part in online conversations with experts, tutoring sessions, an annual FUTURES platform event, events across the platform's other members and FUTURES meet-ups, and may enter open calls for a traveling exhibition and an annual exhibition open only to FUTURES artists. FUTURES promotes its artists on its website, social media and print material. The festival adds a screening of the nominated artists' submitted works during Copenhagen Photo Festival 2027 in Denmark, publication in the FUTURES archive on the festival's website, promotion on its social media, free entry to the 2027 festival, an invitation to its networking days and a portfolio session with Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen. A programme committee selects the four talents.

Who can apply

• Limited by country or region
• Medium: Photography
• Entry fee: DKK 100
• You must have been resident of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden for at least the past 12 months, be born in 1988 or later, and have received education in photography or art or have a CV showing continual professional experience within the last 3 years (since 2024), such as an exhibition or a publication. Applicants should be interested in becoming a member of an international network. Applicants should present a cohesive photography or art project with a conceptual background that relates to their body of work and practice; it can be an ongoing project or a new project developed for the festival and this open call. Applicants to previous FUTURES open calls may apply again, unless they were already selected as FUTURES members. Submit one PDF (max 10 MB) with a CV and bio (two pages at most), a project description (one page at most) and 10 to 20 photos from your latest or current project, through the application form on the festival's website, the only way to be considered. Application fee DKK 100, covering administrative costs. Answers in mid December 2026; selected talents announced in February 2027. The festival does not give feedback on unsuccessful applications.