This is a global call to all artists, cultural producers and activists to contribute photographs for an image blog. ou are called upon to use various types of digital cameras (e.g. mobile phone cams, webcams, photo and video cameras) to document signs of containment and exclusion, of discrimination by the migration and border authorities. Please send new or existing image files via e-mail to images@borderblog.net.

The image blog focuses on the subtle signs embedded in urban textures: texts and signs that have been manipulated to create new/different meanings, random semantic interactions with street activities, and/or pictures and billboards that derive additional meanings from their surroundings. The objective is to reinterpret, reframe and subvert the societal and cultural superficialities we experience every day.

From the submitted images, I will construct a subjective collage of critically reconfigured meanings. The goal of the image blog is a constantly updated, global view into the issue of migration. In addition, the photographic image as a selective representation of reality is intended not only to document what is, but also – enhanced by the grouping and recombination of individual images – to show, in its semantic capacity, what is hidden behind the surface.