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.
The magazine will be created in dialog with images from the NASA public domain archive.
Submit 1-10 photos of yours that you feel are a strong representation of your work on this theme.
Submission fee: $9
The submission fee for this call helps cover the cost of zine production. Your support ensures that this opportunity and collaboration is as meaningful and accessible as possible.
Deadline for entries: July 10th, 2026
How to submit?
1. Add to cart and pay submission fee
2. Fill this form with your info and upload your images
https://forms.gle/nU4bScnw9b6nTNKXA
(If you are not able to fill out the form please reach out to us we will be able to help!!)
For submission guidelines and info please look at our FAQ page HERE
All submitted files must adhere to the specifications below. Files that are not correctly sized or labelled may not be accepted.
FEES & ENTRY
Entry fee is $9. Click the button below to “add item to cart” and pay. You will see the shopping cart on the top right corner of the screen (Desktop) or bottom right corner (Phone).
Please note: The submission fee is $9 for 1-10 images, not $9 per image. :-))
*The Fee goes toward curating, designing, printing and publishing this project, and supporting our platform and website.
If you need help with the submission fee please reach out - we’re here for you!
Please submit 1-10 images - JPEG format only
Submit your images and information via this google form: https://forms.gle/nU4bScnw9b6nTNKXA
* if you have a problem submitting via the form, please reach out to us.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR WORK
All submitted files must be named with photographer's name and sequence number e.g. FirstName_LastName_01.jpg
Files must be 1200px on the longest side, jpeg digital files.
Selected artists will get a free copy of the publication, We only ask that you pay for shipping [please see FAQ page HERE for approx. price] . Any additional copies will be sold on our website and/or at book fairs.
Photographers retain copyright and ownership, as always.
