For this year's FUTURES, Copenhagen Photo Festival offered its annual open talent call exclusively for lens-based artists and photographers in the Nordic region who were born in or after 1984. They also had to have been educated within the field of photography and art, or have a CV which presented continual professional experience in the field within the last 3 years. The festival’s committee – comprising: Patricia Breinholm Bertram, Curator and Head of Communications at Martin Asbæk Gallery; Stinus Duch, publisher and founder of Disko Bay Books; Søren Pagter, Head of Photojournalism at Danish School of Media and Journalism/DMJX,; and Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, Managing Director of Copenhagen Photo Festival – prioritized a well-balanced selection, spanning a wide variety of lens-based practice from documentary or anthropological approaches to conceptual and performance-based art.