Welcome to Black Flower’s Volume project. Here, once a year we release an open call for submissions to photographers, artists, and writers around a curated theme. Then, we select work from the submission pool based on a variety of factors, including adherence to the theme, how it interacts with other submitted work, and to what level it compels the Black Flower team during that time.

This coalesces in an elegant, printed group volume that combines photography, visual art forms, and writings (essays, poetry, short stories) from around the world. We hope this project can build community, expand multi-media publication, and curate a compelling body of work that would be otherwise impossible.