What work of yours has been forgotten? Makes you feel forgotten? or otherwise relates to the idea of "forgotten"? We want to see! | COLLAGE ARTISTS ONLY

Photosynthesis Magazine is interested in works that may have been declined from various opportunities (but do not have to be), feel forgotten, that you, yourself, forgot about, or that address the topic of feeling forgotten. 

Vocabulary.com says, "Something that's forgotten isn't remembered or considered." Keep this in mind when submitting your pieces.

Please note, we REQUIRE a description that explains how the piece relates to the theme of forgotten.

We can't always connect the dots without the description, and without it we will decline. 

Who has been forgotten? What has been forgotten? Is there a place that feels forgotten? We want to know!

Pieces can be political in nature. Please be aware that we are a leftist, pro-Palestine, pro-choice, anti-fascist publication, so if your work falls outside of that it's not likely to be published by us.

We are accepting physical or digital collage only (cut paper, zine aesthetics, Xerox distortion, archival disruption, assemblage scanned flat, etc.).

No paintings, no photography alone, no illustration alone — collage must be the primary method and conceptual anchor.

We especially encourage submissions from artists who are multiply marginalised, chronically ill, disabled, trans, intersex, undocumented, incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, low-income, and otherwise systemically excluded.

Feel free to note these intersectional identities in your descriptions if you like. You are welcome to use a pseudonym if you like.

Benefits:

• Artists will receive a digital copy of the published work
• Credit lines and description of the artwork will accompany images in the issue
• We will provide promotion via Photosynthesis Magazine's growing social media (350~) 

WHO ARE WE?

Collage is on the rise as an art form, and it is being explored in new and intriguing ways every day.

As a new and independent magazine, we are here to highlight talented and thought-provoking artists that are not afraid to push the boundaries of what is socially acceptable.

We are specifically keeping our eyes out for artists who cross lines that have been set by aristocratic elites and works that force us to ask again questions that we thought we had answered long ago. What is art? Who gets to decide what art is? Who is allowed to make it?

An important part of collage work is how it tells stories in a torn and fractured way that no other art form can quite touch.

It can be an artist's way of sorting thoughts and memories, a way of combining them, and a way of connecting them to new ideas and philosophies.

We look for art that is beautiful, painful, emotion-filled, gory, devastating, aesthetic, clever, and political.

Above all, it is crucial that the message behind the work is significant and purposeful.

This magazine has been on Hiatus as the curator completed graduate school, and is now back in action due to the alarming political choices being made around the world.

The curator believes that now, more than ever, collage artists' voices are crucial.