
Float Photo Magazine / Deadline: 07/10/26
For our upcoming issue, Let's Get the F@!#k Outta Here, Float invites artists to consider humanity's growing fascination with looking beyond Earth. In recent years—and especially in recent months—conversations surrounding Mars, UFOs, space travel, and extraterrestrial life have moved from the realm of science fiction into everyday culture. As we look toward the sky searching for answers, meaning, possibility, or escape, we are left wondering: what does it mean to imagine a life beyond our own world?
While photographs of the sky, stars, planets, and astronomical phenomena are certainly welcome, we also encourage artists to think more broadly about space and our relationship to it. We are interested in photographic works that engage with the emotional, psychological, philosophical, and scientific ideas surrounding the unknown. What hopes, fears, fantasies, technologies, myths, and desires shape our understanding of what lies beyond Earth? Through photography and lens-based work, we invite artists to explore the space between wonder and uncertainty, science and belief, reality and imagination.
This is a call for lens-based works that thinks about space, the unknown, and what it means to leave Earth behind.
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Dana Stirling
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