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AN INTERNATIONAL CALL EXPLORING PORTRAITURE, IDENTITY AND THE GAZE
The Portrait Awards return in 2026 for their fourth edition, reaffirming a commitment to portrait photography as a space of presence, responsibility, and authorship. In a visual landscape saturated with immediacy and repetition, this call insists on the portrait as a deliberate act, one that requires time, attention, and a clear position from the photographer.
Portraiture, in this context, is not treated as a stylistic category or a formal exercise. It is understood as a relationship. A negotiation between the photographer and the subject, between visibility and intimacy, between intention and consequence. The Portrait Awards 2026 seek works that embrace this complexity and resist simplification, projects that understand the portrait not as representation but as encounter. This fourth edition is open to photographers of all backgrounds, disciplines, and levels of experience. Selection is not based on career trajectory or recognition, but on the strength, coherence, and clarity of the work itself.
We are interested in projects that sustain a voice over time, that build meaning through proximity, continuity, and commitment to the subject. Portraits that exist beyond the moment of capture and remain anchored in context. The selected works will be reviewed by an international jury composed of professionals from photography, publishing, and curatorial fields. Finalist projects will be presented within Dodho Magazine’s editorial and curatorial framework, reinforcing the role of the Portrait Awards as more than a competition: a platform for visibility grounded in discourse, care, and long-term relevance.
The Portrait Awards operate as part of a broader editorial ecosystem, one that values continuity over immediacy and reflection over spectacle. To take part in this call is to enter an ongoing conversation about what it means to portray another person today, and from which ethical, emotional, and visual position that act is performed.
