OVERSHOOT

DOTLOGIC launches Overshoot, DOTLOGIC launches Overshoot, its first international photography call dedicated to climate change.

Overshoot takes the theme to an international scale and is open to photographers worldwide interested in bringing their own account of climate change in its various forms, from changing landscapes to the people who adapt or resist.

The title refers to the crossing of the 1.5°C threshold of global average temperature rise above pre-industrial levels, the limit that the 2015 international climate agreement committed to pursuing. In 2024, for the first time, a full year passed that threshold. The Paris goal is measured as an average over decades, but that first year indicates that we have in all likelihood already entered the twenty-year period whose average will reach it: this is the beginning of what is known in scientific terms as an “overshoot”. Every fraction of a degree beyond that limit brings consequences that are more severe and less reversible for ecosystems and communities worldwide.

The open call seeks photographs of climate change: what happens to places, communities and habits when climatic balances break down. The theme can be approached through the changing landscape, coasts, plains, mountains, cities, but also through people: those who work, adapt or resist in the face of its effects, and the everyday gestures that the climate transforms.

Each photographer may approach the theme through the language they feel closest to: reportage, portrait, landscape, documentary photography, street photography or fine art. Only single photographs are admitted.