FUTURES open call – hungarian talents 2025

The Capa Center, as the partner of the FUTURES platform, calls for entries for its open competition FUTURES Hungarian Talents 2025, under which five artists will be selected to participate in the European photography platform this year.

The aim of the FUTURES platform started in 2017 is to bring attention to the talented, emerging photographers of Europe. Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission, the project provides an opportunity for creating art, as well as for exposure and mobility for hundreds of artists selected by the leading art institutions of Europe, year by year. The project is realized with the cooperation of 21 institutions; besides the Capa Center, partner institutions include CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), Der Greif (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf Magazine (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), and Centre de la photographie Genève (CH), Tblisi Photo Festival (GE), Odessa Photo Days (UA) and a research member, Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT). More information about the Futures platform can be found on the relevant page of the Capa Center’s website and directly on the website of the Futures platform.

Every year, the talents selected for the FUTURES platform meet in the second semester at a European photography event, which offers a diverse professional program and an opportunity to introduce themselves; in addition, the Capa Center presents a project showcasing the works of FUTURES talents at a prestigious art venue in Budapest.

The application is free and open to all Hungarian or Hungary-based photographers, including Hungarian authors working abroad and foreign artists working in Hungary. The FUTURES platform is aimed at bringing together emerging talents at the beginning of their professional career and not yet known in the international scene; that is, artists who have not yet had a solo exhibition abroad, and have not been awarded by a prestigious international photography competition. Communication level knowledge of English is required. We recommend getting acquainted with the work of artists selected in previous years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

Deadline for submitting entries for the FUTURES competition: Monday midnight, January 27, 2025. All applicants will be informed of the decision by the 1st of February. 

You can apply by uploading/submitting the following documents:

-Basic information in the application email: name, phone number, e-mail address, website/Instagram page, etc. address (in PDF format)
-professional CV in Hungarian and English, including a brief summary worded in third person (in PDF format)
-a portfolio of approximately 20-25 images in Hungarian and English language, in which the latest and currently running project gets the greater focus (for previous works, URLs will be also accepted) (PDF format, maximum 5 MB)

The applications will be evaluated by a panel of five professionals:

– Gabriella Csizek, curator of the permanent Robert Capa exhibition
– Katalin Kopin, curator of the Capa Center
– Emese Mucsi, curator of the Capa Center
– István Virágyvölgyi, artistic director of the Capa Center
– Dodi Vékony, photgrapher, FUTURES talent 2024

You can apply at the following link:

FUTURES, Európai Fotográfiai Platform pályázat 2025 – jelentkezés

For further information please contact: Emese Bíborka Szakács biborka.szakacs@capacenter.hu.