Talent Latent ends 12 April 2026

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Deadline: 12 April 2026. SCAN, the international photography festival organised by the Tarragona City Council, has opened the call for entries for Talent Latent, aimed at creators from all over the world who use photography as an essential and preferred means of expression. Projects and artists selected in this year’s call for entries will take part in the Talent Latent exhibition to be held at Tinglado 2 at the Port of Tarragona from 16 October to 29 November 2026.

Deadline for submission: 11.59 pm, 12 April 2026
Who can take part?: Artists over 18 of any nationality
Theme of projects: Metamorphosis
What kind of project can be presented?: Primarily photographic projects. Projects or series in which photography is hybridised with other creative languages are also accepted.

Published in 1915 in the midst of a profound crisis, “Kafka’s The Metamorphosis” has become a lasting metaphor for reflecting on the transformations that shape our contemporary world. Metamorphosis is not a mere change in appearance but a profound process through which one reality becomes another.
Today, in a world marked by alienation, dehumanisation and a crisis of values, structures that once seemed solid become liquid, mutable, or on the verge of disappearing. Identities, territories, forms of work, personal relationships and ecosystems are constantly being redefined, giving rise to new ways of inhabiting the world.
In this context, photography has also undergone its own metamorphosis: from an imprint of light linked to capturing a single moment, to a hybridised, digital, and algorithmic construct open to multiple forms and meanings.
The exhibition invites emerging photographers to explore the metamorphic condition of the present, addressing transformations affecting individuals, communities, and environments through analogue, digital, and expanded practices, and proposing new perspectives to help us understand the times we live in.

Prizes:

Payment for participating artists: For each photographic series exhibited at Talent Latent, the author or individual responsible for joint projects will receive a one-time payment of €500, including taxes, for copyright and exhibition fees.
Benefits and obligations of selected artists SCAN will invite the artists participating to attend the festival’s opening.
The invitation will include:
– 1 night’s accommodation in the festival hotel (16 Oct.)
– Breakfast (17 Oct.)
– Admission for the catered opening event (16 Oct.)
– Admission to Full Contact professional meeting (17 Oct.)
– Lunch at the Full Contact premises (17 Oct.)
– Three catalogues of the exhibition Latent Talent

Photo Contest Website: https://scan.cat/en/