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April 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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2025 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award Featured Booooooomand Bookmobile are teaming up for this popular open call supporting artist publishing. Nine artists, illustrators, or photographers will be selected to create a book or zine featuring a cohesive body of work at no cost. Deadline: April 30, 2025. Deadline: April 22, 2025.

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Sergey Isakov’s illustrations create a “quiet tension” between clean constructivism and spontaneity

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My work often delves into themes of solitude, movement, time, and imagination”, the illustrator says, “I draw inspiration from printmaking artists and the structured aesthetics of Constructivist designers, as well as the beauty found in everyday life.”

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For Alec Figuracion the sequence, rhythm, and pacing of a film is akin to that of a book

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Words Ellis Tree — Date 13 August 2025 Work Film Publication Book Print Research Documentary Archive Process Alec Figuracion’s practice sits at the intersection of graphic design and film. Holding a designed book to me is like holding narrative time in your hands, and you can linger on a moment as long as you want,” he says.

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Sana Bansal’s introspective illustrations absorb you into her wistful world

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The illustrator has developed a particular love for print over her career for all of its mystery and imperfection, finding in it a rather complete way of communicating all the nostalgic nuances of her drawings in editions of self published books and illustrated comics such as her zine Aloo Kachaloo.

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“What surrounds a brand shapes how it speaks”: designer Laura Beulens on the delicate art of building a visual identity

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Across her research, writing and visual work she has a particular interest in printmaking, self-publishing and expanded approaches to photography. She joined as a junior writer in April 2024 after graduating from Kingston School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design.

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Photos as a living organism: Riya Panwar reinvents the photographic canvas

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But what London-based photographer and printmaker Riya Panwar does goes even further – she asks the question “can photography become a living organism?”. Drawn to processes that feel alive, Riya chooses canvases in the forms of apples, leaves and soil.

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Madeleine LeBrun’s uncanny clay illustrations are inspired by insects, folk art and 90s kids TV

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Across her research, writing and visual work she has a particular interest in printmaking, self-publishing and expanded approaches to photography. She joined as a junior writer in April 2024 after graduating from Kingston School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design.

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