Photosynthesis Magazine re-emerges, more on fire than ever. We are ENRAGED.

There is a particular kind of rage that gathers. It festers. It swells beneath the skin like pressure before a storm.

This call is a collage-only series of publications of Photosynthesis Magazine dedicated to that slow, collective boil against fascism, capitalism, colonial violence, carceral systems, medical neglect, ecological collapse, and the many architectures of domination that shape our lives.

This series of issues is explicitly political.

We are seeking work rooted in leftist, anarchist, abolitionist, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, decolonial, queer, trans, disabled, and collective liberation frameworks.

We want work that tears, reassembles, interrupts, and refuses. Show us the fracture lines. Show us propaganda dismantled and reconfigured.

Show us grief metabolised into action.

Show us what happens when rage becomes infrastructure instead of implosion.

Collage is inherently subversive.

It rejects purity, originality myths, and singular authorship. It steals from the master’s archive and makes something unruly from its ruins.

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. 

Rage is often policed most heavily in our bodies.

This publication is not interested in respectability. It is interested in rupture.

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

Multiple issues will be assembled throughout 2026, with the final number expected to be once every other month or quarterly, depending on submissions.

Each issue will have its own title reflecting the specific curation of works that will be in the issue. 

This is not a space for neutrality. This is a space for swelling rage. 

Selected artists will be included in one of the 4-6 issues of the magazine for 2026

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 that 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.