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The Daring Magazine Open Call for Women & Non-binary Visual Storytellers
Spotlight is a regular Q&A series delivering the voices of storytellers in visual media. Every month, The Daring spotlights a different visual storyteller through an in-depth conversation about their creative process and most moving work. This is an opportunity for women and non-binary photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, and graphic designers to receive an invitation to be part of this series published on The Daring. We’re particularly interested in storytellers making visual content that reflects their communities or topics they have deep personal experience with. Our overall mission is to produce interviews and wisdom that illuminate the nuances of living an expressive life, as told by working artists — including writers, musicians, designers, visual artists, and others.
To participate, sign up for a free Visura profile.
To participate, sign up for a free Visura profile.
Deadline: May 31, 2022
Status: Closed
Deadline
May 31, 2022 (11:59 PM, EST)
Submit
Submissions are closed.
Brief & Application Procedure
Submission Guidelines
• Sign up for a Visura Basic/Free, Standard, Plus, Prime, or Guild membership account to submit for consideration.
• All submissions are made via a “Story” created from your Visura dashboard.
• Set Story to 'private' within the Visura system.
• Each submission must include a candidate bio and portrait, a written reflection as the project text, and 3 work samples made up of photographs and/or videos created in the past 2 years.
• One entry allowed per person.
• There is no entry fee during the application process.
• No purchase necessary. A purchase will not increase your chances of earning an invitation for publication.
• We’ll be reaching out to the storytellers we’re interested in collaborating with to coordinate.
Eligibility
• Professional photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, and graphic designers worldwide
• Identify as women or non-binary.
• Freelancers and those affiliated with brands and media organizations.
• One visual project in the past year that took more than 2 months to complete.
• Full working website.
• We’re particularly interested in storytellers making visual content that reflects their own communities or topics they have deep personal experience with.
For the bio and portrait
• One (1) portrait. Photograph size: 1600px on the longest dimension, 72dpi, jpeg format.
• A short professional bio written in the third person.
For the written reflection
800-1200 words in the first person, in English, answering the following prompts in Q&A format:
• How did you get into visual storytelling?
• What stories are you telling through visual media?
• Why are these stories important to you personally?
• Why are these stories valuable for the overall community they represent?
• Where do you feel creative freedom?
• How do you create space for reflection?
• Where do you go for inspiration?
• How do you like to experiment?
For work samples
• Should be already published work or work that can be spotlighted indefinitely without interfering with future opportunities for the candidate.
• Three (3) photographs and/or videos that best represent the scope and style of the candidate’s work made within the past two years.
• Videos not in English must contain English subtitles.
• Photograph size: 1600px on the longest dimension, 72dpi, jpeg format.
• No watermarks.
• Each photograph and video must be accompanied by a caption describing the date, place, and content.
• Sign up for a Visura Basic/Free, Standard, Plus, Prime, or Guild membership account to submit for consideration.
• All submissions are made via a “Story” created from your Visura dashboard.
• Set Story to 'private' within the Visura system.
• Each submission must include a candidate bio and portrait, a written reflection as the project text, and 3 work samples made up of photographs and/or videos created in the past 2 years.
• One entry allowed per person.
• There is no entry fee during the application process.
• No purchase necessary. A purchase will not increase your chances of earning an invitation for publication.
• We’ll be reaching out to the storytellers we’re interested in collaborating with to coordinate.
Eligibility
• Professional photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, and graphic designers worldwide
• Identify as women or non-binary.
• Freelancers and those affiliated with brands and media organizations.
• One visual project in the past year that took more than 2 months to complete.
• Full working website.
• We’re particularly interested in storytellers making visual content that reflects their own communities or topics they have deep personal experience with.
For the bio and portrait
• One (1) portrait. Photograph size: 1600px on the longest dimension, 72dpi, jpeg format.
• A short professional bio written in the third person.
For the written reflection
800-1200 words in the first person, in English, answering the following prompts in Q&A format:
• How did you get into visual storytelling?
• What stories are you telling through visual media?
• Why are these stories important to you personally?
• Why are these stories valuable for the overall community they represent?
• Where do you feel creative freedom?
• How do you create space for reflection?
• Where do you go for inspiration?
• How do you like to experiment?
For work samples
• Should be already published work or work that can be spotlighted indefinitely without interfering with future opportunities for the candidate.
• Three (3) photographs and/or videos that best represent the scope and style of the candidate’s work made within the past two years.
• Videos not in English must contain English subtitles.
• Photograph size: 1600px on the longest dimension, 72dpi, jpeg format.
• No watermarks.
• Each photograph and video must be accompanied by a caption describing the date, place, and content.