An open call by Panchaikam
Karnali, Khas — through your eyes.
We're inviting photographers, artists, researchers and storytellers to look at Khas and Karnali not as a distant place, but as a living civilisation — its people, land, rituals, memory and everyday life.
Submit your photographs →
ABOUT
Join a growing visual archive of Khas and Karnali life.
See your work exhibited at the festival.
Meet photographers, artists and researchers working on similar ground.
Help record places, traditions and everyday life before they change.
Be considered for future Panchaikam publications, exhibitions and archives.
KHAS PHOTO FESTIVAL
Bhumi
The land, mountains, rivers, forests, villages and natural landscape.
Manchhe
People, portraits, families, elders, youth and communities.
Jeevan
Everyday life, customs, clothing, food, celebrations and community.
Deuta
Masto, kul-devata, temples, rituals, beliefs and sacred practices.
Sip
Traditional skills, crafts, farming, tools, music and handmade creations.
Ghar
Traditional houses, villages, temples, forts, architecture and settlements.
Samjhana
Memory, ancestors, disappearing traditions, migration, old photographs and change.
Khas Today
Contemporary Khas life, youth, cities, technology, migration and the evolving identity.
01 / SUBMISSION
Open to professional and emerging photographers, students, photojournalists, artists, researchers and enthusiasts — anyone with a meaningful visual story connected to Khas and Karnali. Based in the region, elsewhere in Nepal, or abroad: if the work belongs to this story, it belongs here.
Submissions close November 2, 2026.
02 / CONTEXT & AUTHORSHIP
Don't just tell us what's in the frame. In 100–200 words, tell us what we should know: where it was taken, who or what is in it, what was happening, why the moment matters to you, and what it tells us about Khas or Karnali. This is what turns a photograph into an archive.
You keep full copyright of your photographs, always. By submitting, you give Panchaikam and KHAS Photo Festival non-exclusive permission to show, reproduce and promote your work — credited to you — across the exhibition, catalogue, website, social media, press and archive.
Submitting confirms: the work is yours, or you have permission to submit it, and you accept these terms.
Oct 4, 2026
Submissions open.
Nov 2, 2026
Final day to submit.
To be announced
Review and shortlist.
Nov 21–22, 2026
Festival exhibition and awards.
To be announced
Festival workshops.
For questions, contact contact.panchaikam@gmail.com.