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SEEEU 2025 Photo Essay Award

Close on August 31, 2025
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SEEEU 2025 Photo Essay Award
Territory: Worldwide
Theme: 15–30 photographs forming a cohesive Photo Essay.
Eligibility: Open to all
Entry Fees: Free
Prize: Exhibition
We invite photographers to exhibit at the first European photography month in Tokyo: SEEEU 2025. The festival brings the diverse European talent to the cityscape of Tokyo, fosters new professional and creative opportunities for European and Japanese artists. Exhibitions are held in public spaces of Tokyo, exploring new forms of display. The exhibitions are followed by networking events, panel talks, Photojournalism Awards, art auction for Ukraine, photowalks and portfolio reviews.

Dates: The festival is set from October 23rd to November 23rd, 2025.

Spaces: Exhibitions are held in public spaces of Tokyo: construction site walls (which are squeaky-clean), public venues, cafés and galleries, limited-edition drink coasters, buildings under reconstruction, etc.

Event Week. Opening event will take place on October 23rd. Other events, including Photojournalism Awards, panel talks, Art Auction for Ukraine, networking meetings will be held from October 23rd to 29th.

We are launching the first SEEEU Photo Essay Award, dedicated to outstanding photographic storytelling that reflects on European realities today.

Three winners will be selected:
? 1st Place
€400 brutto cash prize (brutto).
Publication in a bilingual Zine (EN/JP) printed and distributed in Tokyo.
Publication on the official festival website.

?? 2nd and 3rd Place
€200 cash prize (brutto).
Publication on the official festival website.

Publicity. All three winners featured on www.seeeu.jp and promoted via SEEEU’s social media, publicity and digital platforms.
Travel and accommodation. Travel and accommodation is not covered by the organizer. However, organizers work closely with European embassies and cultural institutes in Japan. And after selection of the winners, organizer will approach Embassies and cultural institutes to seek support for photographer’s travel and accommodation.
Individual Effort. We encourage photographers to apply for mobility grants to national and international foundations individually. Organizer can issue a Letter of Invitation to selected photographers.
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