‘Borders Calling’ photo competition – you don’t need to live in a border region to enter

European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies (B-SHAPES) are inviting students aged between 15-19 years to photograph a border or ‘borderlandscape’ in their everyday environment and explain it in 100 words.

Borders are everywhere – not just between countries, but in your neighbourhood, your city, even in the spaces you pass through every day. Some are visible, like walls or rivers. Others are invisible, like where different communities meet or where one culture transitions into another.

This competition invites you to explore the borders around you and discover the stories they tell. What divides your community? What brings it together? How do these boundaries shape who you are?

Find a border in your surroundings, capture it through your camera lens, and tell us its story.

The judges are looking for Borderlandscapes. A borderlandscape is an outdoor space where human-made elements (such as buildings, roads, fences, objects, and even ‘trash’) meet natural elements (rivers, fields, forests, mountains) to create some kind of division. These spaces have stories to tell about identity, history, and community.

You don’t need to live in a border region to participate.

Every place has borders worth exploring.

Read more about the competition here.