Call for Entries
Meeting the Moment
ZEKE Magazine is seeking documentary projects exploring the changed political, economic, and cultural landscape since a new administration took over in Washington in January 2025.
Congressman Jamie Raskin at May Day Protest at the Supreme Court. Photo by Robin Fader
In 1935, during the height of the Great Depression, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Resettlement Administration, and two years later, the Farm Security Administration (FSA), to provide aid to rural Americans suffering from effects of acute unemployment. The task of the Historical Division was to document the hardship across rural America caused by the Great Depression. Some of the most renowned photographers of the 20th century— including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks-- established their careers with U.S. government support to work on one of the greatest documentary efforts ever created. While the remit of the FSA was far larger than photo documentation, today the photography program within the Historical Division is collectively known as the FSA.
Today, 90 years after the founding the FSA, ZEKE Magazine is seeking documentary photography projects exploring the changed political, economic, and cultural landscape since a new administration took over in Washington in January 2025. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
• ICE deportation raids
• Families and individual effected by ICE raids and deportations
• Rallies for and against the new administration and their policies
• Effects on recipients of U.S. foreign aid
• Effects on U.S. manufacturing and agriculture/farmers
• Effects on workers in above industries
• Effects of the LGBTQ+ communities, and specifically the trans community
• Laid off federal workers
• Effects on free speech in media and education
• Defunding public media
• Attacks on freedom of speech/press
• Dismantling of clean energy initiatives and effects of climate change
• Wholesale assault on DEI
The first phase of this effort is seeking work for the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of ZEKE Magazine with a deadline of September 12 for submissions, although SDN and ZEKE will continue with this effort throughout the coming years. There is no fee to submit work to this call.
How to enter
There is no entry fee and, if approved, the project will be live for one year on the SDN website at no cost. After a year, photographers can pay to renew their exhibits. Greater than 90% of all exhibits submitted to SDN are approved. The most common reason for not approving an exhibit is because it is not documentary. See our guideliness for more information including use of AI.
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Or you can submit to this call for entries directly from your SDN account
Deadline for submissions: September 12, 2025
ZEKE editors will select from the submitted projects to publish in the fall 2025 issue of ZEKE Magazine.
To learn how to submit a project to SDN, view this link.
Note: SDN/ZEKE will be launching the 2026 ZEKE Awards later in the fall for publication in the Spring 2026 issue of ZEKE. Any work submitted to this current call for Meeting the Moment can be easily converted to a submission to the ZEKE Award Call for Entries. The ZEKE Awards offers two awards of $2,500 each and there is a submission fee.
Meeting This Moment With Photography
An Eight-Week Collaborative Workshop with Ruddy Roye and Mary Beth Meehan
Ruddy Roye and Mary Beth Meehan are offering an eight-week workshop on this theme starting September 30th.
Click here for more information.
