Photography Open Salon

Photography Open Salon is an artist led initiative founded and curated by Vanja Karas. It was designed with the aim to share, promote and exhibit photographic stories and expressions, and to allow new photographic work to be seen, communicated, commissioned and published by creating new audiences, dialogues, followers and collectors. The aim is to create a global platform for great photographic art and the discourse that surrounds it, as well as for its creators: in space, in print and on screen. Based on a different theme each year, Photography Open Salon invites submissions from both emerging and established cutting-edge contemporary photographers from around the world. So far, since its inception in 2011, Photography Open Salon has exhibited over 200 photographers from 45 countries on two continents, in Arles, alongside Les Rencontres d'Arles at Galerie Huit and in South East Asia in China House, Malaysia. The exhibitions are renowned for the originality of their hangings and installations in unique spaces. The exhibited works have been published in two books: Transience and An Eye for an Ear. Next exhibitions: Photography Open Salon // London, Autumn 2013 and then in 2014 Photography Open Salon // South East Asia in Malaysia. To register your interest to submit for the next exhibition please go to To submit work to our magazine email magazine@photographyopensalon.com