The documentary photograph, photography that captures a moment of reality in order to convey a meaningful message about what is happening in the world – “documentary photography” typically focuses on an ongoing issue or story. Send us your candid, unstaged images with only basic processing.

Color or BW, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Our jurors for Documentary Photography are Romke Hoogwaerts and Grace Leigh. Mossless, an experimental photography publication started in 2009 by Hoogwaerts as a blog where a different photographer was interviewed every two days. In January of 2012, Mossless was transformed from blog to print with the release of Issue 1 at Printed Matter, and was later exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Millennium Magazines. Romke teamed up with Grace Leigh in 2012 for the creation of Issues 2 and 3 and a number of limited-edition handmade photobooks.