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Water
Water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom. Few molecules are smaller. Yet we are two-thirds water and require it to live — life as we know it could not evolve without water. This open call gathers photo essays, poetry, film and visual work exploring water as memory, ritual, survival, identity and force.
Submissions are closed. The call stays on the site until January 2027.
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Eau à Eau
A visual project inspired by the Haitian Vodou spirit LaSirenn, to explore water as a metaphor for identity, transformation and feminine strength.
Written by Sophie Ackroyd
Oceanic Birthright
Mira Gupta explores water as a space of memory, politics and healing, tracing the intersections of marine ecology, colonialism and surf culture through Black and Indigenous histories.
Written by Mira Gupta
Omi L’eko
This photo essay explores water as a living force that shapes identity, survival, and memory in Lagos.
Written by Ayodeji Ayodele
Tukur Ridwan’s Poems
A series of poems by Tukur Ridwan exploring water through spirituality, ritual and marine imagery, tracing the sea as a site of rebirth, longing and transformation.
Written by Tukur Ridwan
Omi Ni Polish
A poem by Abdulrazaq Balogun exploring water as a force of creation, healing and destruction, reflecting on its role within memory, ritual and human violence.
Written by Abdulrazaq Balogun
Tainted Waters
A photo series by Prince El-sha Martey documenting life along Ghana’s polluted rivers, lagoons and coastlines.
Written by Prince El-sha Martey
The Coast And Divine Water
A collection of poems by Mira Hagiwara Gupta exploring water as a space of intimacy, spirituality and emotional transformation across love, memory and ritual.
Written by Mira Gupta
Where the water used to fall
Deana Kotiga reflects on her Croatian homeland through her accompanying photographic project, tracing how environmental change unsettles memory, place and belonging.
Written by Deana Kotiga
Aerochrome Coastlines
Using rare Kodak Aerochrome film, Mil Donila captures Philippine coastlines in striking infrared tones, reimagining a medium designed to reveal what lies hidden.
Written by Mil Donila
Beach Epiphany
Rodrigo Koraicho is a photographer and visual artist based in São Paulo.
Written by Jai Toor
Logistics and Leviathan
Freddie Smith explores how both films reveal the hidden violence and scale of global industry, reshaping how we perceive time, labour and the exploitation of the sea.
Written by Freddie Smith
The Round Lake
Laila Ghaffar traces how The Round Lake collapses dystopian fiction into present reality, exposing the colonial and political structures driving water scarcity in Pakistan.
Written by Laila Ghaffar
Steve’s Collages
A visual commentary by collage artist Steve Timms, pairing surreal water-inspired collages with reflections on swimming, escapism and emotional renewal.
Written by Steve Timms
The Flood is Coming
Exploring how climate change, political inaction and global power are bound together in producing mass displacement and environmental injustice.
Written by Lina Idrees
The Undesirables
In the mid-1940s, hundreds of Chinese seamen were secretly deported from Liverpool.
Written by Jai Toor