Altered Climate is an international open call exploring the environmental realities of a warming planet and the ways they are experienced, witnessed, and interpreted through photography.

Rising temperatures are reshaping landscapes, ecosystems, communities, and the environments we inhabit. Forest fires, drought, extreme weather, damaged habitats, and other acute disasters increasingly affect our relationship with the natural world. Some changes unfold gradually; others arrive suddenly and leave visible traces of destruction and loss. Human activity is deeply entangled with many of these transformations.

For Altered Climate, Artdoc Photography Magazine invites photographers and visual artists to submit work responding to global warming, ecological disruption, environmental loss, forest fires, heatwaves, and natural disasters intensified or caused by human activity.

The open call welcomes a broad range of photographic approaches, from documentary and art photography to altered images, abstraction, experimental practices, and constructed work. Submissions may address environmental change directly through landscapes, communities, ecosystems, or sites of disaster, or approach the subject from a personal and subjective perspective.

We particularly encourage work that moves beyond literal representation. Altered and experimental images can translate the physical and psychological experience of environmental change through colour, distortion, fragmentation, layering, abstraction, or other forms of photographic intervention. A heatwave, for example, can be documented as an event, but it can also be approached through the sensation of oppressive heat, physical exhaustion, climate anxiety, or changes in the surrounding environment.

Altered Climate approaches photography as a means of observing environmental change while registering its effects on personal experience. The open call brings together direct evidence and subjective responses, creating a wider visual account of what it means to live on a planet undergoing rapid transformation.