Prendersi Cura
In a historical moment in which words like safety and protection are increasingly reduced to control, surveillance, and separation, we feel the urgency to open a different space. A visual, collective, and political space where care can return to being what it has always been: a relational practice, a radical gesture, a form of resistance.
SAMBRE is launching a new open call, in dialogue with the previous one, Essere-con, dedicated to living together, and now to taking care, understood in its broadest and most layered sense.
Moving away from the idea that, today, care seems to refer exclusively to therapy or repair, this call is an invitation to focus on attention, presence, and responsibility. Care as an act that arises from observation and translates into involvement—a central aspect as much in life as in photography. A movement that leads us outside of ourselves to encounter the other, acknowledge their vulnerability, and share their destiny.
Today, more than ever, taking care also means opposing a logic that fragments, isolates, and creates hierarchies. It means building bonds where barriers are erected, imagining communities where solitude is produced, and restoring value to that which is rendered invisible.
We are seeking images that can capture all of this.
Images that traverse care in and of bodies and minds, in spaces and relationships, in daily gestures and collective practices. Images that explore care as listening, as conflict, and as possibility.
Images that go beyond individualism and render the complexity of taking care: the fatigue, the responsibility, the fragility, but also the transformative power that this practice carries with it.
We are interested in works that reflect on care as the construction of the future, as a political gesture capable of countering inequalities and generating new imaginaries. As that which, even in the most difficult contexts, continues to make life possible.
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Deadline 27.06.2026