OPEN CALL - Ffocws 2025
Ffocws is part of Ffotogallery’s mission to support early-career visual artists in Wales, for those who have been through formal education, and those who have had other paths into photography. Ffocws is generously supported by the Ashley Family Foundation and The Grocer’s Charity.
About Us
Ffotogallery is Wales’s dedicated organisation for contemporary photography and socially engaged practice. We are a not-for-profit photography and lens-based media organisation committed to empowering compelling visual artists to develop new interpretations that add value to society through our exciting programme of exhibitions and events.
Benefits
As part of Ffocws, artists will receive an opportunity to share their work through a group exhibition in Ffotogallery Project Space March - May 2026. Alongside this presentation opportunity, we are offering critical support from artists, curators and arts workers in the field to help guide artists through the next stage. Artists included in this opportunity will be given £400 as an artist fee, up to 6 artists will be selected in total.
Who can enter?
Ffocws is open to artists and photographers based in Wales, working with photography or moving-image who have completed an undergraduate degree (BA) or postgraduate degree (MA or MFA) in any creative discipline such as Photography, Fine Art, Visual Communication, Filmmaking, etc, in the last 12 months.
Ffocws is also open to early-career artists working with photography or moving image based in Wales, who have not gone through formal education and are in the first three years as an artist working with photography or moving-image
Ffocws is not open to people currently in full-time education.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/BhZH6vWDC2ELzant7
Deadline: 23:59, 28 August 2025
