This open call does not ask for a theme to illustrate. It asks for a position. It asks for a position in relation to the world as it is. In relation to what one refuses. In relation to what one longs for, questions, resists, imagines, or defends.

There is no single answer. It may take the form of intimacy, care, or attention. It may take the form of confrontation, rupture, or refusal. It may involve invention, disobedience, new visual languages, new aesthetics, and the imagining of new worlds.

What matters is not whether the work belongs to fashion, art, documentary, photography, or video. What matters is the force, the urgency, and the necessity behind it.

To create in this context also means allowing oneself a deeper freedom. A freedom from repetition. A freedom from expectation. A freedom from approval. It means creating without the need to please.

At a time when so much is made to disappear into the stream, this open call is an invitation to resist that disappearance. Create from urgency, not habit. Create from conviction, not compliance.

Do not illustrate the world as it is. Answer it.

Do not do so because images alone can repair what is broken, or because they must shock in order to matter. Do so because they can still make visible, still make felt, and still make present.

We seek forms that unsettle or console, disturb or illuminate, confront or accompany. We seek images that carry the force of a real encounter. Images that do not soften themselves in order to be received. Images that insist, against indifference, that something remains at stake.

Because to see, and to make others see, is still a profound form of responsibility. And, perhaps now more than ever, an act of courage.

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