2021

The 6th edition of Blurring the Lines will be launched next spring.

2020

The 2020 edition of Blurring the lines was curated by Steve Bisson, Lisanne van Happen & John Fleetwood. For this edition, and among the 151 very high-quality projects coming from 38 participating photography schools worldwide, curators selected 3 winners and 33 finalists.
The theme for the 5th edition of the call is “Commitment” as the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc., or an engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action. The question of photography’s commitment to real-world issues and its relationship provides significant directives for promoting a social engagement from photographers, which is changing the photographic tool.

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2019

The 2019 edition of Blurring the lines was curated by Steve Bisson & Lisanne van Happen.
For this edition, and among the 66 very high-quality projects coming from 19 participating photography schools worldwide, curators selected 3 winners and 22 finalists.
The 2019 edition of the Blurring the Lines does not betray expectations. The number of participating schools and works submitted is increasing, accordingly with the quality of the entire cultural proposal. The mission of this initiative, growing exponentially since its first edition in 2016, is to establish an area of observation, dialogue, and discussion on the subject of image-making. The diversity of schools reflects a variety of approaches to the visual medium, in a kaleidoscope of intentions and creative enthusiasm.

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2018

The 2018 edition of Blurring the lines was curated by Steve Bisson & Lisanne van Happen.
The exhibition includes 22 projects coming from graduates connected to 17 art academies in 3 different continents of the world.
The third edition stood out through participation in the FotoFever fair during the ParisPhoto opening week. Also, the European Cultural Center step in as a new partner and hosted an installation of Blurring the Lines at Palazzo Mora during the Venice Biennale.
Finally, in collaboration with Urbanautica Institute, a catalog was published for the first time.

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2017

The 2017 edition of Blurring the lines was curated by Steve Bisson & Rodrigo Orrantia.
17 projects from 9 schools have been selected to be showcased at Paris College of Art.
The call aimed to select and exhibited images that best communicate the expansion of modes of representation through photography. A change that indeed refers to the digitization and the frontiers of post-production, the contamination between different visual languages, the relationship between the availability of technology and new forms of expression. This explosion of the medium combined with an endemic proliferation of pervasive social media encourages us to reflect on the ethical consequences of image-making.

finalists

Taís de Aquino
Eline Benjaminsen
Obi Blanche
Marina Caneve
Gaby Deimeke
Milena Edelstein
Sterre Fenna van der Waals
Berglaug Petra Garðarsóttir
Bernardo Jardim Ribeiro
Díana Júlíusdóttir
Gustavo Junqueira
Jaime Huidobro
Anna Kieblesz
Carlos Krithinas
Gilleam Trapenberg
Yang Yueying

2016

The first edition of Blurring the lines was curated by Steve Bisson & François Ronsiaux.
The program involved 3 universities and led to the creation of the first exhibition at Espace F15 of Paris College of Art, which combined the projects of 3 French artists (Dominique Clerc, Pierre Folk and Patrick Rimond) with a selection of 10 graduates' works. The exhibition focused on the expansion of the photographic language as a phenomenon affecting the ways in which we understand pictures, we discuss them and share their content. The splitting border between photography and images generate alternative spaces and new modes of interaction.