Project Selection 2024 by Harry Gruyaert

The selection of photographic projects is open! Projects will be reviewed by Harry Gruyaert, special guest of Trieste Photo Days 2024. Up for grabs a solo exhibition at the 2025 edition of the festival.

The photographic open call for the selection of free-themed photographic projects to be exhibited at the 12th edition of the international photography festival Trieste Photo Days in 2025 officially opens.

An exceptional judge will select the submitted projects: Harry Gruyaert, Belgian photographer and member of the Magnum agency, whose works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Foto/Industria in Bologna, and the Deutsche Börse Foundation, among others. He has also received numerous awards, including the Kodak Award (1976) and the PhotoEspana Lifetime Achievement Award (2016).

Gruyaert will award the best project, which he will personally announce and present live at the Trieste Photo Days 2024 on Sunday 27 October 2024, in Sala Xenia. The winning project will win a personal exhibition produced, set up and presented at the 12th edition of Trieste Photo Days in 2025 as well as a free two-night stay for two people to attend the exhibition.

» How to enter

• Selections are open from Monday, 16th September to Sunday, 20th October 2024 and aimed at both professional and amateur photographers
• Photographers must register and upload their projects to the new user area my.dotlogic.net
• To participate in the selection, a registration fee of 30 € per project is required
• The call is open to photographers from all the world

» Rules

• The projects theme is free and up to the author's choice
• Projects can contain a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 20 images
• Each author can participate with as many projects as wished
• We accept both color and black and white photos
• Projects and portfolios may be accompanied by a short description/presentation. We reserve the right to modify, edit and/or not publish content considered offensive and/or not in line with the portfolio
• Photos must not contain signatures, watermarks or frames
• To make sure that the order of the photos is correct, add the numbers in the desired sequence to the file name (eg “filename03.jpg”, “08filename.jpg”, …)
• The winning project will be announced Sunday, 27th October 2024, at Sala Xenia, during Trieste Photo Days 2024
• Each photographer retains the moral and intellectual property rights on their works nominated for the Call. Each author grants the dotART association the non-exclusive right to use the winning/selected images to promote/advertise the association’s non-profit activities, upon official communication to the author (whose name will always be attributed to the work)

» Technical characteristics of the images

• JPG format
• RGB color mode
• Single files must be less than 9 MB each
• Smallest side minimum size: 2000px / longest side maximum size: 6000px
• The filename (filename.jpg) must not contain special characters (accents, apostrophes, symbols, etc.)

Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert grew up in a strict, traditional Catholic-Flemish family.

Since he was very young, he knew that he wanted to do film and photography. In 1962 he left for Paris as soon as he could to flee the oppressive constraints of home life. It was in Paris that he became a photographer, while working as a freelance director of photography for Flemish television between 1963 and 1967.
In New York in 1968, he discovered Pop Art and “thus saw objects of everyday life in a different way”. In the early 1970s, while he was living in London, he was fascinated by the color image of the first TV screens, another resounding influence on his way of seeing, and worked on a series of color television screen shots later to become the TV Shots series, now part of the Centre Pompidou’s collection.

Around the same period he also photographed his homeland and produced two books, Made in Belgium and Roots, with a new edition in 2018.
By the end of the 1970s Gruyaert had made significant bodies of work in North Africa, the Middle East, the United States, Europe and India, where he refused stereotypical exoticism in favor of a deeper aesthetic. “For me, photography is not only about composition and color, it has to say something about the time and the place” he has said of his work.

In 1982 he joined Magnum Photos. Among other important works, the three editions of Rivages, published in 2003, 2008 and 2018 and East/West published in 2017, are a testimony of how Gruyaert likes to work in different environments, with contrasting lights and colors. As well as many notable personal projects, Gruyaert has also worked with industrial and commercial clients including luxury brand Hermès.

Among several important exhibitions, he had a retrospective of his work in Paris in 2015 and a major show at the FOMU in Antwerp in 2018. In the summer 2023, he showed a large selection of Ciba vintage prints at Le Bal, in Paris.

Gruyaert’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and Foto/Industria in Bologna and the Deutsche Börse Foundation among others and he is the recipient of several awards like the Kodak Prize (1976) and the PhotoEspana Life Achievement Award (2016).

Harry Gruyaert lives in Paris and is represented by Gallery FIFTY ONE in Antwerp.

Learn more about Harry:
https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/harry-gruyaert/