[Open Call] Roots & Worlds 2025: Elsewhere, Within
Calling applications for Roots & Worlds 2025, an alternative photography school offering financial and artistic support to 6 Vietnamese photographers to develop their own work.
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Announcing Recipients of Matca Creation Grant 2025
Introducing two selected projects in the Exhibition and Writing categories, each receiving 10,000,000 VND along with mentorship from Matca and guest advisors.
[Open Call] Matca Creation Grant 2025
The second round of the Matca Creation Grant supports one photography exhibition and one series of texts with professional fees, mentorship, and exposure.
[Invitation] The W. Eugene Smith Grant 2024
The W. Eugene Smith Foundation opens for applications with grants up to $30,000 supporting photojournalism and documentary photography projects.
Roots & Worlds – Exhibition in HCMC
Presenting six photographic series produced by emerging Vietnamese photographers in the alternative school for photography co-led by Matca and IC Visual Lab.
Roots & Worlds – Open Studio
See the works produced within Roots & Worlds and meet the photographers and mentoring team.
Roots & Worlds – Announcing Participants
Get to know 6 emerging Vietnamese photographers and their projects on ecological encounters.
Roots & Worlds – In a World That Watches, in a Forest of Eyes
Robert Zhao Renhui shares his long-term observations into a single secondary forest in Singapore.
Roots & Worlds – Altered Landscapes: Earth, Man & Machine
Sarker Protick introduces his practice of image-making that often morphs into the physicality of time.
Roots & Worlds – In between Sound, Image, and Space: A Mycological Moving Image Practice
An online talk covering mix-media art projects with particular regards to landscape, sound and listening by filmmaker Nguyễn Trinh Thi.
Roots & Worlds – The Hidden Face of Vietnam: The Fall and Rise of Photographer Khánh Ký (1885-1946)
Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn shed light on the understudied life and work of photographer Khánh Ký.
Mentoring “On Seeing: Producing a Photographic Series 2023”
Introducing the 2-month mentorship instructed by Jamie Maxtone-Graham and taking place at Matca Space for Photography.
