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 who you are, your work or that you just love.

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 [Midnight EST Time]

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/dWwmyrZn4SoJZNwr6
(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 click HERE

Got any questions? Email us at floatzine@gmail.com