JRNL Magazine Winter/Spring 2027 Issue Open Call

About this call

FOTOFILMIC's JRNL Magazine invites photographers working in any lens-based practice, from film and alternative or historical processes to digital and hybrid methods, to submit a body of work for its Winter/Spring 2027 issue. The magazine is open to all topics and subjects. Three guest editors, artist Pixy Liao, photo director Emily Keegin and C/O Berlin Co-Head of Program Boaz Levin, review the submissions over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, and each selected photographer receives 9 spreads (18 pages). Selections are announced on January 14, 2027, and the issue is released at a launch party in Tokyo, Japan in March 2027.

Who can apply

• Open to applicants of any nationality
• Medium: Photography
• Entry fee: $35
• Open to all types of photographic work (film, analog and digital) and all lens-based practices; no AI-generated imagery. Topics and subjects are open. Each submission is 10 to 25 images from a single series, project or cohesive body of work, all created on or after January 1, 2017. Up to two submissions per photographer. Images are uploaded as JPEG files, 1500px wide for horizontals or 1500px high for verticals at 72ppi, named lastname_firstname_01.jpg, at most 2 MB each. The online form also asks for a website and Instagram (N/A if not applicable), a short bio and an artist statement. Entrants confirm the copyrights of the submitted images are theirs and authorize FotoFilmic to use them for promotional and marketing purposes solely related to the JRNL call and publication. Entry fee US$35 per submission (up to 25 images), paid after submitting the form; unpaid submissions are not validated and are not passed to the editors. Jurying runs December 15, 2026 to January 12, 2027 and results are announced January 14, 2027. Selected photographers must provide high-resolution images of all the works they submitted, a short biography and an artist or project statement (each up to 200 words) by January 31, 2027. Their complimentary copy is mailed free of any cost, or can be picked up at the March 2027 launch in Tokyo.