photo & photo essay submissions
Umoja Magazine photo and photo essay submissions are the opportunity for our photographic storytellers stories to be included in our cultural narrative. Umoja Magazine was founded in 1968 as a communication vehicle and bi-product of the 1968 Black Power Conference. Umoja Magazine is your opportunity to be professionally published in an historic publication.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We are now accepting submissions for the historical next generation print and digital issue of Umoja Magazine, FOCUS ON THE FUTURE!!!. Submissions are now being accepted.
We want your real view, honest pictures. We’re looking for authentic stories that start conversations. We want original images you have taken that foster community kinship that spans from the 18th Annual Philadelphia Million Fathers March. With the theme FOCUS ON THE FUTURE, here’s some additional inspiration: In the Next Five Years: Our Family, Our Community, Our World; Reading Is Resistance: We Will Read, We Will Seek Understanding, and We Will Share the Good News; Daddy and Me; Climate Change: How Do We Do Better; Race Relations: Navigating Our Color Coded World; FUTURE PEACE; Health & Wellness.
Photo essays: Four (4) to ten (10) photos
Singles. Stand alone images.
Requirements:
NEED HELP? Here's a great resource: article from Masterclass about creating photo essays https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-create-a-photo-essay#4-photo-essay-examples
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We are now accepting submissions for the historical next generation print and digital issue of Umoja Magazine, FOCUS ON THE FUTURE!!!. Submissions are now being accepted.
We want your real view, honest pictures. We’re looking for authentic stories that start conversations. We want original images you have taken that foster community kinship that spans from the 18th Annual Philadelphia Million Fathers March. With the theme FOCUS ON THE FUTURE, here’s some additional inspiration: In the Next Five Years: Our Family, Our Community, Our World; Reading Is Resistance: We Will Read, We Will Seek Understanding, and We Will Share the Good News; Daddy and Me; Climate Change: How Do We Do Better; Race Relations: Navigating Our Color Coded World; FUTURE PEACE; Health & Wellness.
Photo essays: Four (4) to ten (10) photos
Singles. Stand alone images.
Requirements:
- Copyright. You must completely own your copyright to submit work to us. Please don’t submit your photos unless you own 100% of your copyright.
- Unpublished. We are only interested in work that has not been widely published. We will ask you to list where the work has been published and will decide on a case by case basis. Publishing the work on a personal website or social media is okay.
- Timely. Singles should be no more than one year old. Photo essays should have at least some images made in the last two years, even if the bulk of the essay is long-term.
- Ethics. Standard photojournalistic best practices should be followed. NOTE: As this special issue is a requiem on how you perceive your future, it is okay if there is some manipulation in telling your story. Though, falsely reporting of others situations is not ethical and will not be supported.
- High resolution photos, 300 dpi or higher, preferably via a link provided in the submission form below. You can give us a link to your personal website, or a service like WeTransfer, Dropbox or Google Drive. You may also upload up to 10 photos as a zip file in the submission form.
- Captions, even if they are rough captions. You can embed the captions in the metadata of the photos or provide them in a separate document and upload in the submission form or include the caption document in your zip file.
- A synopsis or summary of the work of no more than 200 words. It’s okay if it is a rough draft. Complete in submission form.
NEED HELP? Here's a great resource: article from Masterclass about creating photo essays https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-create-a-photo-essay#4-photo-essay-examples