We are pleased to announce the longlisted photographers of the Form Photo Award 2026. This year, the standard of work is exceptionally high, reflecting the remarkable talent and creativity of contemporary photographers from around the world. Each longlisted artist brings a unique perspective, a fresh aesthetic, and thought-provoking ideas that challenge and inspire.

The Form Photo Award, supported by photo basel, Picter, and Form Magazine, is dedicated to discovering emerging voices in photography. It aims to foster global dialogue, intellectual exchange, and cross-cultural solidarity within the art community. Every submission represents a new vision, a story waiting to be shared, and the longlist is a testament to the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary photography today.

This year’s longlist demonstrates just how dynamic the field of contemporary photography has become, and we are proud to highlight the vision, originality, and skill of all the artists included.

"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with them, and they with me." (Revelation 3:20)

In April 2022, I left Ukraine for France. As a refugee, I entered a culture foreign to me. Being welcomed required me to adapt, to speak a new language, to submit to rules: to lose parts of myself in order to be accepted. In this project, I explore my personal experience of hospitality, both given and received.

Hospitality, according to Jacques Derrida, has a dual aspect: ethical and political. It includes a power dynamic and an underlying violence. The host takes a risk: the guest, by their mere presence, imposes an otherness that can unsettle, or even transform, the host. To give one’s home is to risk no longer being at home. It is to allow oneself to be invaded, to be dispossessed. Show more