FOTOLIMO 2021

FotoLimo (landlimo means border in Esperanto) is a cross-border festival of photography and visual arts whose main driving force is the concept of borders, understood in its broadest sense.
With a background of five consecutive editions, the objective of the festival continues to be to promote artistic creation, education, and research around the multiple manifestations of the border, approached from fields as diverse as migration, gender, body, social fractures or landscape, always from a creative and transformative perspective.
In this context, FotoLimo presents itself with the particularity of being the only European-wide cross-border photography and visual arts festival to be held simultaneously at both sides of the French-Catalan border.

ANNOUNCEMENT

In order to create a diverse and high-quality program, FotoLimo launches this open call with the objective of selecting five photography that will be exhibited within the official section of the festival. The theme for this 2021 edition is "Internal Borders".

The selected projects will be added to the Fotolimo 2021 Festival program, which will take place from September 17th to September 26th, 2021, and will be exhibited in the cities of Cerbère, Portbou, and Colera.

In addition to the 5 proposals chosen to be exhibited, we offer the possibility of a screening during the opening weekend to certain projects. The screened projects will not receive any endowment.

PARTICIPATION

The festival is open to any photographer regardless of age, nationality, or condition. Collective projects are accepted. Only one file per person/group will be accepted. Each of the five chosen artists or groups of artists will receive an amount of 500 euros as royalties. All other expenses derived from the exhibition such as assembly, disassembly, and communication and dissemination actions of the exhibition will be taken on by the organization of the FotoLimo festival.
The selected works will be exhibited at the former customs office on the French-Catalan border, exhibition halls, or in the public space of Cerbère, Portbou and Colera, within the framework of the FotoLimo 2021 festival. The works will be exhibited throughout the festival period.
The award-winning authors should commit to:
• Submit your own produced works. For those authors who do not have their work produced, the festival provides a discounted professional printing service.
• Be present during the festival's opening weekend (from September 17th to 19th, 2021) which includes the opening day of the exhibitions on Saturday 18th and its associated events. Accommodation and transportation are the responsibility of the author, but the festival team will provide a list of low-cost accommodation options.
• Confirm that you are the sole author of the project and have all rights of reproduction and sale, and the work is free of rights to third parties.
• Accept the non-commercial use of their works by the festival, solely for cultural or advertising purposes, and always citing the name of the author.
• Accept the production of a catalog where the images of the selected authors are included.

JURY

The jury is made up of the curatorial team of the FotoLimo Festival. The winners will be selected for the quality of their artistic practice, the coherence of their work, and the adaptation of the project to the topic of this edition: "internal borders".
The organization of the festival has the right to select a smaller number of dossiers in case the projects submitted do not reach the desired quality.

TOPIC 2021: INTERNAL BORDERS

The border, a polysemic word par excellence, is the leitmotif of FotoLimo festival 2021. The way we approach it often reveals our conception of the world, its geopolitics, but also our humanity.
"I immediately had the intuition that, by fleeing from disability, we isolate ourselves. It is there, with us; it is necessary, therefore, that we welcome it as a fifth member, we must reach an agreement with it."
In Praise of Weakness - Alexandre Jollien

Alexandre Jollien tells about accepting ourselves in our own difference, but also about accepting others in their singularities. In a normative world, difference, a deviation from normality, quickly becomes an impediment, a limitation, a restriction of life in society. Faced with declarations of equal rights and opportunities, those who experience this difference quickly understand that the logic of disability is formed from the consequences of life in society, not from the causes. Borders are built, sometimes insidiously, with the foreigner, the other, the useless, the different, the deficient.
But without alterity we consume ourselves. We need others. The others need us.

The difference is usually the space of creation, the space of the sensible. "The wound is the place where the light enters" says the poet Djalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî. This border between normal and abnormal becomes the place of experience, this fluctuation of possibilities, this continuity of our humanity. A frontier to explore, another place to recognize.

RESOLUTION

The jury's selection will be made public on the festival’s website www.fotolimo.com in early April 2021.
The fact of participating in this call commits the author of the works to present them during the FotoLimo festival, to authorize their exhibition and publication, to authorize their distribution in online and offline media, both external and specific to the festival, as well as in the editions produced on the occasion of the event, only with promotional non-commercial purposes. Participation in this call implies the full acceptance of these rules.