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# Open Call: Cite the past, sight the stars

**Hosted by:** The Photographers' Gallery

**Type:** Residency | **Location:** Wigwell Lodge, Wirksworth, England, United Kingdom | **Deadline:** September 6, 2026

## About This Program

> "Photography's 200th anniversary; expanded photography and digital practices, celestial fictions and realities, computational culture, deep time, AI world models"

The Photographers' Gallery invites applications for a new residency in Derbyshire. Based at Wigwell Lodge, this two-month residency is for artists working with expanded photography and digital practices. This is an opportunity to research, experiment and expand thinking around photography, technology and innovative approaches to image making and visual culture.

Working in partnership with The Ampersand Foundation, you are encouraged to use the residency as an opportunity to test ideas, explore new methodologies and pursue speculative or research-led projects. The residency takes place in the context of photography's 200th anniversary, and your proposal may respond to one or several of the following themes, or use them simply as a point of departure: Image-making, celestial fictions and realities; Institutional archives: including The Photographers' Gallery and other archives; Photography's relationship to computational culture; Collective knowledge: human and nonhuman; Deep time; Ideas around civilisations or the universal; How Earth's knowledge can be distilled into 116 images; How photography travels and spreads through space, time and networks; Transmissions, long distance communication, radio satellite imagery; Cosmic / earthly debris; Digital twins and AI world models.

Starting points offered include Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas, NASA's Voyager Golden Record, Sue Davies' 1980 exhibition In and Out of Space, the Wirksworth StarDisk, Susan Buck-Morss's essay 'Seeing Global', and the Inverted World Labs speculative research project.

## Eligibility & Requirements

- **Disciplines:** photography, digital art
- **Age Requirements:** 18+ years old
- **Note:** Open to individual artists over 18 with the legal right to work in the UK. Visas cannot be sponsored. Only one application per artist. The residency is only open to individual artists to apply; however, the accommodation has two bedrooms and visitors/partners are welcome.

## Compensation & Benefits

£1000 stipend per month for two months, £1000 production budget, up to £500 towards travel, plus accommodation and studio space

**Includes:** Stipend, Materials budget, Travel grant

A £1000 stipend per month across the two-month residency, a £1000 production budget, and up to £500 towards travel.

## What's Provided

- **Housing:** Provided - Two months' accommodation at Wigwell Lodge, Derbyshire. The accommodation has two bedrooms and visitors/partners are welcome.
- **Travel Support:** Available - Up to £500 towards travel.
- **Materials Support:** Available - £1000 production budget.
- **Studio Access:** Provided - Studio space at Wigwell Lodge, Derbyshire.

## Timeline

- **Opens:** July 20, 2026
- **Deadline:** September 6, 2026
- **Program Start:** February 1, 2027
- **Program End:** March 31, 2027

## How to Apply

Apply at: https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/open-call-cite-past-sight-stars