Capture Photography Festival 2025 Announces Open Call for Photography and Lens-Based Art

Installation view of *Greg Girard: Snack Sakura* at Monte Clark Gallery. Courtesy of Greg Girard and Monte Clark, Vancouver. Part of Capture’s 2024 Selected Exhibitions Program. Photo by Roman Chernohor.

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Vancouver, BC | Capture Photography Festival is gearing up for its 2025 season with an open call for photography and lens-based art. Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival is now accepting submissions for its 2025 Selected Exhibitions Program, welcoming proposals from collectives and individuals alike planning to host an exhibition in April next year. Those interested are invited to complete an application online through the platform ArtCall until October 18, 2024.

Submissions will be evaluated by a jury of arts professionals who will be looking to showcase lens-based exhibitions in the Selected Exhibition Program that demonstrate artistic excellence across a diverse range of subject matter.

“We are thrilled to offer this opportunity to artists and curators to have their work considered by this esteemed jury,” says Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Capture Photography Festival. “The Selected Exhibition program unites the local art community – galleries, artist-run centres and arts institutions – to celebrate lens-based art and engage in a dialogue around the ways in which the medium represents and expands contemporary culture.”

In addition to Wall, the 2025 Capture Selected Exhibitions Jury includes: Richard William Hill, Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Artist and Assistant Professor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design; and Eve Schillo, Associate Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Capture’s vision is to connect Vancouver to the world through lens-based art. The Festival acts as a platform to expand visual literacy through lens-based art; strives to give voice to traditionally underrepresented communities and to present compelling, urgent lens-based art.

As part of the 2024 Selected Exhibitions Program, Capture Photography Festival highlighted works from Dani Gal, Maegan Hill-Carroll, and Greg Girard.

For more information, please visit www.capturephotofest.com.