The open call will get place from April 28th to June 30th of 2025.
ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 25 YEARS OF VM FOTO: “In community”
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of VM FOTO’s creation, we’re holding an analog photo contest under the theme “In community”. This year we wanted to pay tribute to our laboratory and its long history with a contest that will take place in 2025. The theme “In community” has been decided based on conveying an open idea to the contestants; the ideas of a group, a family, spaces, people, animals, neighbors, friends, centers, houses, etc. Creative freedom will be implicit in the participation of each contestant and imagination will always be welcomed.
The open call will get place from April 28th to June 30th of 2025. During this period, all projects that meet the requirements specified in the participation rules may be submitted.
We’re excited to see your images and share a bit of our daily life with you. We encourage you to participate to exchange perspectives, points of view and experiences about analog photography, our most trusted method of expression.
ANALOG PHOTO CONTEST “IN COMMUNITY” JUDGES
Maral Fard
Maral Fard
Maral evolved her passion for photography from a childhood hobby to a profound artistic pursuit. She draws true inspiration from people, with a particular focus on women. Her subjects are depicted as powerful and provocative, often captured with dramatic lighting, unique poses and expressive faces that convey deep emotion and strength.
Drawing inspiration from iconic photographers such as Helmot Newton, Richard Avedon and Herb Ritts, she’s able to create a combination between modern aesthetics and classic technique that gives her work a timeless quality, making her photos stand out in the contemporary art scene. The unfiltered, candid nature of street photography is evident in her portraits, adding layers of authenticity and depth.
Fard explores the dynamic interplay of motion and stillness, creating images that pulsate with life. Her work not only freezes moments in time but also tells compelling stories, revealing the beauty and complexity of human experience through her lens.
Paola de Grenet
Paola de Grenet
https://www.paoladegrenet.com/bio/
Paola is a Barcelona-based photographer driven by a deep curiosity about people and their stories. Her work is based on capturing those authentic moments and emotional connections – whether perfectly posed or totally spontaneous- that offer a glimpse into who people are at their core.
She looks for bold concepts and big ideas, but knows that often it is the smallest detail or the least obvious element that can make a difference. On every shoot, she’d like to provoke a feeling, an experience, or a memory that resonates long past the time and place of when the photo is taken.
Her background includes editorial, lifestyle, brand, and reportage, and her work has appeared in many global publications and won several awards. She also teaches meaningful portraiture to second-year students at IEFC Barcelona.
2025 is all about projects that make a difference, work that truly resonates. Alongside her photography, she’s been drawing all her life and is currently exploring ways to bring her drawing skills into her creative practice.
Denisse Pérez
Denisse Ariana Pérez
https://denissearianaperez.com/
Denisse Ariana Pérez is a creative director, copywriter, and photographer/film director. Her work focuses on people, nature, culture, and words and how they all interact with one another. It finds itself between the intersection of fantasy and reality, art and social commentary.
Denisse’s works have been featured in publications such as Dazed, It’s Nice That, i-D, VOGUE Italia, The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, Atmos, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Marie Claire, El Pais, Elephant Magazine, VICE, Paper Journal, Another Magazine, Hunger, and Ignant. And exhibited at Fotografiska New York/Stockholm/Berlin/Tallin, Fotografia Europea, Photo London, PhotoSCHWEIZ and Photo Australia. She has worked with brands such as H&M, OpenAI, Asket, Zalando, Louis Vuitton, and Varier.
Her first monograph “Agua” was published in March 2021.
Pep Mínguez
Pep Mínguez
Pep Mínguez is a photographer, graphic designer and passionate about alternative photographic processes. He began in photography ay a young age, exploring analogue techniques and preserving processes from the 19th century. After a career in advertising photography and design, in 2013 he promoted Revela’t, the first international festival dedicated exclusively to analog photography, consolidating itself as a benchmark in this field.
Currently, he’s president of Asociació Espaifoto and director of Revela’t, from where he continues to promote the passion for analog photography on an international scale.
Miguel A. Cruz
Miguel A. Cruz
Co-director of the VM Foto laboratory and organizer of the Contest, Miguel has 25 years of professional experience in the photographic sector, first as an assistant to a photographic studio and then as a technician and laboratory manager.
Expert in analog photography and in printing photographs for exhibitions, the rolls and commissions of the most prestigious photographers in this country have passed through his hands.
“IN COMMUNITY” CONTEST PRIZES
FIRST PRIZE
- Right of direct participation in the REVELA’T 2026 FESTIVAL.
- Printing and assembly of the works and a small exhibition with inauguration in MARAL FARD STUDIO.
- VOUCHER of 1 YEAR OF FREE DEVELOPMENTS in our laboratory VM FOTO (color film development + scans in standard quality).
- Intensive weekend course Analog Development in Black & White offered by INSTITUT D’ESTUDIS FOTOGRÀFICS DE CATALUNYA (IEFC).
- PACK OF 5 rolls of KODAK PORTRA 400 135 or 120.
- HARMAN photographic rolls offered by DUGOPA (1 Harman RED 125, 1 Harman PHOENIX 200 and an Ilford HP5 135).
- 1 Swiss+Go Novocolor camera, reusable analog aamera 35mm + melt + strap offered by AP PHOTO.
- Customized VM FOTO products (key ring, Tote-bag and disposable film camera).
SECOND PRICE
- PACK of 5 rolls of KODAK PORTRA 400 135 or 120.
- 200€ voucher to be spent on VM FOTO laboratory services.
- HARMAN photographic rolls offered by DUGOPA (1 Harman RED 125, 1 Harman PHOENIX 200).
- 1 Swiss+Go Novocolor camera, reusable analog camera 35mm + melt + strap offered by AP PHOTO.
- Stenopeic solarigraphy camera offered by NOSTÀLGIC PHOTO STORE.
- Customized VM FOTO products (key ring, Tote-bag, disposable chamber).
THIRD PRICE
- PACK of 3 KODAK ULTRAMAX 400 135 rolls.
- 100€ voucher to be spent on VM FOTO laboratory services.
- Stenopeic solarigraphy camera offered by NOSTÀLGIC PHOTO STORE.
- 1 HARMAN RED photographic roll 125 offered by DUGOPA.
- 1 Swiss+Go Novocolor camera, reusable analog camera 35mm + melt + strap offered by AP PHOTO.
- Customized VM FOTO products (key ring, Tote-bag, disposable chamber).
* Every participant cannot obtain more than one prize.
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