Jury Announcement Mena Panorama Regional Open Call
Meet the experts from the MENA region shaping this year’s selection.
Reported by Vogue.
PhotoVogue has assembled a jury for its MENA Panorama Regional Open Call — and the lineup makes clear this isn't a token gesture toward representation. According to Vogue, the panel brings together Condé Nast editors alongside heavyweight creatives from the Middle East and North Africa: photographers, curators, and visual artists united by a serious commitment to the region's image-making tradition.
The call itself is open to any artist 18 or older who is either based in MENA or part of its diaspora with a meaningful connection to the region — a definition broad enough to capture the full, complicated geography of identity that the Arab world actually encompasses. Submissions are free and run on Picter through September 24th at 11:59 PM CEST.
What's Actually at Stake
This isn't exposure-as-compensation. Selected artists will be featured across Condé Nast Middle East titles and PhotoVogue's own platforms, with standout work earning a slot at the PhotoVogue Festival — one of the few international venues where photography is treated with the seriousness it deserves. That's real editorial placement, real international visibility, not a mood board credit.
The initiative is framed as a platform for dialogue and exchange within a creative ecosystem that, frankly, global fashion media has historically underserved. MENA visual artists have been doing extraordinary work for decades; the question has always been infrastructure and access, not talent. A jury drawn from both inside and outside the region signals an attempt to close that gap rather than just gesture at it.
If your lens has ever turned toward this part of the world — or if you carry it in your blood — this one's worth your time.
Read the original at Vogue.
