CALORIE: Through Your Eyes
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About:
A calorie is a measure of energy. It flickers in the heat of a kitchen, moves through the hands that knead and stir, in the sweat of labour across fields. It hums through the rhythm of cooking, the glow of a ripe fruit and the satisfaction of a shared meal—the everyday moments when energy becomes memory. You can sense it in the smell of your grandmother’s curry winding through your home, in the clang of vessels, the murmur of a market, the gleam of oil catching light in a hot pan—all traces of energy, held and released.
At its simplest, a calorie is nourishment. It represents the energy our bodies need to grow, move and think. Behind every ingredient and every meal lies a story of nutrition; of how food sustains us and how access, culture and choice shape what we eat.
CALORIE: Through Your Eyes invites young photographers (between the age of 18-30) from around the world to tell the story of food through their lens—the way it grows, moves through hands and kitchens, fills plates and sometimes goes to waste. Selected participants will be mentored by an established photographer and their works will be featured in our upcoming food festival, Namma Oota.
Prompts:
Burn
Crunch
Ferment
Hunger
Meal
Rotten
Timeline:
Call goes live: 17 October 2025
Call closes: 16 November 2025
Mentorship session: 22 November 2025
Showcase: 06-07 December 2025
Participant Guidelines:
- Submit your response by 11.59 pm IST on 16 November 2025.
- You can submit upto five responses per person.
- Your submission must be photographs.
- The minimum resolution of the photographs should be 300 dpi.
- The photo has to be made by the person making the submission.
- Your submission should not have won or placed in other competitions, or have been published in an official capacity in other magazines, exhibitions, etc.
- Your submission must have a text-based description/caption of between 50-150 words in English. If you’re submitting in any other language apart from English, please add a translation in English. Photographs without supporting texts will not be selected.
- Your submission must have a brief bio of yourself between 50-150 words in any language along with a translation in English.
- Any copyright violations or issues with permission will disqualify your entry.
- By submitting photos/clips of children, you expressly agree that you have secured permission from the child’s parent or guardian.
- Any conflicts/ issues/violations arising out of the sharing of the photo will be the liability of the photographer and the subject. The organisers are not liable for any dispute arising out of the submission.
- Photos must not contain any nudity or any derogatory, racist commentary or visuals. Such entries will not be considered.
- You retain all the rights to your work. By submitting your work, you will grant Science Gallery Bengaluru the right to use it during CALORIE. Your submission will be archived on the Science Gallery Bengaluru’s website.