CALL FOR WORKS: Photography, artistic and practice-based research projects.

In Portuguese, the word ERRAR has multiple meanings. On one hand, errar evokes wandering: an errant practice of photography that moves through territories. On the other hand, errar means to err—to misstep, to hesitate, to search through uncertainty. Here, the error is not a failure but a generative condition.

This conference invites photographers and other practitioners working with photographic images to submit visual essays, photobooks, and other photographic sequences that respond to these twin meanings of errar: works that wander, drift, or deviate; works that embrace experimentation, doubt, and the productive potential of mistakes. We welcome submissions presenting academic, artistic, or hybrid research that explores the photographic as a practice of movement—through landscapes, archives, platforms, and ideas—and as a form of thinking that unfolds through approximation rather than resolution. We encourage practice-based proposals from individuals and collectives.

We welcome submissions presenting Photography, artistic, and practice-based research projects that engage with the following themes, although proposals are not limited to these topics:

• Photography, wandering, and the exploration of place: drifting through landscapes, and other forms of errant movement through territory;
• The photographic essay as a form of thinking: narrative sequences and montage in photobooks and visual essays;
• Error as method: experimentation, misstep, and productive failure in photographic practice;
• Photography between analogue and digital: movement across devices, surfaces, formats, materials/materialities, archives, and networked spaces;
• Deviations from photographic conventions: iconoclastic, anti-canonical practices and alternative image-making;
• Walking as photographic practice: movement, perception, printing and image-making;

Proposals for short presentations are limited to 20 minutes; and long presentations/workshops are limited to two hours (minimum 40 minutes).

Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2026

https://fotografia.ulusofona.pt/errar-conference

For more information, please contact:

contact: errar.conference@ulusofona.pt