Discovery Awards 2023

Our first open call of the year is open for submissions between March 7 and April 23. Join us in making the future.

The Open Call for the Discovery Awards 2023, is open to all artists, professional or amateur, national or international over 18 years old. Artists may participate on an individual basis or as a collective;

All projects that are lens based are eligible (photography, vídeo, installation, mixed media).

The submitted projects should be related to this year's theme Essay for the Future.

Each project submitted will be considered a single application.

Each application has a registration fee of 35€.

Each artist can submit a maximum of 3 projects.

Artists take full responsibility for the authorship of the images/work presented in the contest.

The jury will select twelve to fourteen finalists that will be invited to exhibit their work in the 33rd edition of the festival from the 15th of September to the 28th of October 2023 in Braga, Portugal. From those finalists, there will be a selected winner that will be awarded a monetary prize.

Winner: 1000€ (one thousand euros)

In addition to the projects selected for exhibition, there will also be 15 to 20 projects selected to be part of a video projection that will be part of this edition of the festival.