SUBMITTING WORK TO SOURCE
Source Photographic Review – Call for new work
Submission Deadline 4pm 28th March 2025.
Meetings will take place on the 23rd, 24th and 25th April 2025 by Zoom.
As part of research for future issues, Source will be organising zoom meetings with photographers to look at new photographic work. Each meeting provides an opportunity to introduce directly new work to one of the editors. This is one way Source finds new work for publication in the Portfolio section of the magazine.
Who can submit?
You must either be a subscriber (print or digital) or have bought a copy of Source within the last 12 months to submit. (Subscriptions and single copies are available via our online shop ▸). For proof needed see below. This opportunity is open to photographers from or living in Ireland or the UK.
How to submit
Using the subject heading ‘Research Meetings 2025’, email research@source.ie with:
A PDF or Powerpoint no larger than 30MB.
The PDF can include up to 15 images.
Up to three paragraphs of text that give a background to your new work.
Your name, contact phone number and web address.
Proof of your subscription or recent purchase (such as a photograph of your copy or screenshot of your order receipt).
50 words (approx.) telling us about something you enjoyed in a recent issue of Source and why.
Please specify whether you are from Northern Ireland or elsewhere in Ireland or the UK, and/or where you are currently based.
The deadline for submissions is 4.00pm 28th March 2025.
What we’re looking for
New, previously unpublished bodies of photographic work by photographers living in or from Ireland or the UK. Unpublished work can include artists’ books in editions of less than 200, or projects from which a few images have been published elsewhere.
What will happen next
We will acknowledge all submissions by email and you will be sent an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion monitoring form to fill in. The editors will look closely at all submissions. We will shortlist submissions and then let everyone know our decisions by email. We will meet 8 people each day for 30 minutes to discuss new projects.
Exhibition and Book Reviews:
If you have a forthcoming exhibition in the UK or Ireland or a book that you would like us to consider for review please email an initial press release to: richard@source.ie
Writing Prize:
We are always looking for new writers to contribute to Source. If you've not written for Source before we invite you to send us an article. If we like it we will either publish it or commission you to write articles for us in the future. As an incentive we will give £500 to the person whose article we like the best.
Most of the writing in Source takes a specific form: book reviews, exhibition reviews or texts introducing sets of pictures, so these would be good models to follow. But we are also interested in others forms of writing so if you want to submit something in a different form then please do. Our interest in photography is not only about the photographs that appear in books and exhibitions, it touches most aspects of life and we like to read about those encounters too. This could be an article about a particular photograph of historical, aesthetic or biographical interest to you. It could be about some cultural or philosophical aspect of photography. It could be something we've not thought about.
We enjoy writing that is thoughtful, funny, well researched and surprising. It could be personal or dispassionate. It could be fun, or deadly serious. It might shed new light on something we thought we knew or introduce us to something we've never heard of before.
The rules:
1. You should not have written for Source before.
2. The article must be no more than 700 words.
3. The article should not have been published previously.
4. It should include your name and contact email.
5. It should be submitted by 5.30pm (GMT) on the 1st August 2023.
What will happen next:
Everything submitted will be read by Source editor Richard West. The articles he likes will also be read by the other members of the Source staff. The Source staff will collectively choose the winner. We will aim to reply to everyone who has submitted an article by the 20th September (depending on how many submissions there are and how busy we are). We may ask you about your article but we probably won't be able to enter into correspondence about it.
To enter please complete the two online forms listed below. Instructions on how to submit your article can be found at the top of the (optional) Equality and Diversity Monitoring Questionnaire.
