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All About Photo has selected the best photo contests, photography competitions and call for entries. This list of international photo competitions and photo contests is thoroughly curated to help photographers find their next creative breakthrough and keep up with all the current opportunities to gain exposure. Exhibition, cash prize, publication... find the photo contest that is right for you.
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Deadline: May 02, 2024
London Photography Awards 2024
The London Photography Awards program celebrates, honours, and recognises excellence in photography worldwide, advocating those who bring ideas to life, with different techniques and creative approaches, whilst demonstrating the millennia-long history of The Swinging City and its advancing beauty. This award recognises the diverse photographic styles that encapsulate the world, engendered from various industries throughout society, ranging from: publications to video, business ser
Deadline: May 02, 2024
Animals
Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 7th “Animals” Online Art Competition for the month of May 2024. Through this call artists and photographers are invited to present their best artworks related to the world of animals. A variety of interpretations of Animals theme can be submitted (representative, abstract, conceptional). All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installation art) except soun
Deadline: May 03, 2024
Abstract
Abstract art is like breaking the rules of traditional art—it doesn't try to show things as they are in real life. Instead, it uses colors, shapes, and lines in wild and creative ways to express feelings or ideas, often leaving interpretation open to the viewer. It's a celebration of artistic freedom and imagination. Show us /ˈabˌstrak(t)/ from your perspective. All accepted pieces will be displayed in our online gallery at www.art-fluent.com Best of Show: $750 Two Director’s Ch
Deadline: May 03, 2024
Unleashed: Think Beyond Themes
UNLEASHED is a call to every photographer who doesn’t believe in being constrained by a theme. As the first photography contest of the National Photographic Society, we want every photographer to capture what their hearts desire. Submit your favorite images with no bounds or limits to themes and interpretations, and let our viewers decide the winners through a fair and equitable process. This is your chance to get under the limelight, get guaranteed cash prizes of $500 and unparalleled promoti
Deadline: May 03, 2024
Red
Decode Gallery is excited to announce August’s exhibition, RED. The color of drama and passion. Red attracts attention and elicits strong emotions such as love and anger. This color is used universally to signify danger, strength, and power. Red is stimulating, vibrant and exciting. Red inspires desire. We’re excited to see your visions in red. JUROR: Holly Hart is a conceptual fine art photographer. She grew up in Southern Oregon. In 2011 she graduated with a
Deadline: May 03, 2024
2024 - 2025 Filter Photo Fellowship
There are just a few weeks left to submit your application for the 2024–2025 Filter Photo Fellowship! Open to emerging and early-career artists and arts administrators, this Fellowship offers a unique, experiential opportunity to work collaboratively with an established, non-profit arts organization. In addition to supporting the organizational capacity of the organization, the Fellow will work to support and create public programming for Filter Photo, with an emphasis on sustaining
Deadline: May 05, 2024
Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2024
Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award enables the winner to have have his/her or their book project published by Breadfield Press and Landskrona Foto during 2025. The prize includes all expenses for book production such as design, printing and distribution. The photographer will also receive a large number of books to dispose over and sell. The winner will be invited to Landskrona Foto Festival 2024 to receive the award.
Deadline: May 05, 2024
27th Solo Art Series
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 27th “Solo Art Series” Online Art Competition. This competition will result in an award of 4 monthly solo art exhibitions and 8 Artist Showcases. The gallery invites online submission of all 2D and 3D art (including photography and digital art) from artists around the world for possible selection for one the Gallery’s monthly solo art exhibitions or into the gallery’s Artist Showcase. There is No Theme for this Art
Deadline: May 05, 2024
Romano Cagnoni Photojournalism Award 2024
The theme proposed for the 2024 edition is Roots. At a time when the very roots of photojournalism are being challenged by new technologies, it is essential to enhance the photographic story as an authentic narrative on specific situations and events, it can illuminate circumstances and create awareness in public opinion on issues of fundamental importance. Selected by an international jury, the winner will receive a prize of € 5,000, a sculpture symbol of the RCA realized by the in
Deadline: May 05, 2024
Objective: Company Town
Objective: Company Town Join us to celebrate the historical and cultural events that led to the development and transformation of company towns around the world. The cultural association Exhibit Around APS invites all photographers worldwide to participate in this new unique open call! The project “Objective: Company Towns” is the new open call on local and international company towns: a reflection on how these realities are mirrors of social changes, of coexi
Deadline: May 05, 2024
Center Annual Exhibition
The Center Annual is Houston Center for Photography’s yearly group exhibition that seeks to highlight and provide insight into current themes, technologies, and practices in photography. The show features a diverse array of works from members of our global photography community and is selected by a leading curator, editor, or artist. This annual exhibition opens our galleries to photographers from anywhere in the world, whether emerging, mid-career, or established, and as such, aims to provide
Deadline: May 05, 2024
PCNW’s 26th Juried Exhibition, Being Present
Submit your work to OPEN THEME - BEING PRESENT! Send us your best work for a chance to exhibit in the PCNW gallery! Gail Gibson is our esteemed juror this year. She is an art dealer and owner of G. Gibson Projects in Seattle, Washington. Professional, mid-career, and emerging lens-based artists from all communities are encouraged to submit work on any theme; all levels of experience and backgrounds are welcome and considered. Those that are selected will have t

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PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant
Contest
Apr 23, 2024 | Source: PhMuseum
North American photographer Jaclyn Wright’s High Visibility (Blaze Orange) is the recipient of the PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant 1st Prize.
Sony World Photography Winners Revealed
Contest
Apr 19, 2024 | Source: Sony World Photography Awards
Congratulations to Juliette Pavy for being awarded this year’s Photographer of the Year title for her series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women. As well as winning a $25,000 (USD) cash prize, Pavy is given a range of Sony digital imaging equipment plus global online coverage. Pavy also wins a solo presentation at Somerset House of her work as part of next year’s Sony World Photography Awards exhibition. (...)
Announcing the 2024 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist
Contest
Apr 17, 2024 | Source: Aperture
Aperture’s support of emerging photographers and other lens-based artists is a vital part of our mission. The annual Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography—identifying contemporary trends in the field and highlighting artists whose work deserves greater recognition. (...)
Picto Fashion Photography Award 2024 : Finalist photographers
Contest
Apr 15, 2024 | Source: Picto Foundation
The call for applications for the 26th edition of the Picto Fashion Photography Award closed on March 17th. Picto Foundation is pleased to unveil the 24 finalists of this edition, with this year featuring 8 highlighted video submissions for the LGA Management / JANVIER endowment.
Discover the selected projects from nearly 200 international applications, in preparation for the jury deliberations, which will be chaired this year by Alexandre Mattiussi, Founder and Creative Director of AMI Paris.(...)
2024 Photo London x Hahnemühle Student Award
Contest
Mar 23, 2024 | Source: Photo London
We’re delighted to reveal the shortlisted artists for the 2024 Photo London x Hahnemühle Student Award. The award has seen phenomenal growth this year, with submissions from over 100 nominated students across 46 UK-based universities. Having reviewed and discussed in depth these entries, this year’s judging panel have shortlisted five students whose work will be showcased in a group presentation at Photo London (16 – 19 May 2024).(...)
 Ingrid Pollard 2024 Hasselblad Award Laureate
Contest
Mar 08, 2024 | Source: Hasselblad Foundation
The Hasselblad Foundation is delighted to announce that Ingrid Pollard is the 2024 Hasselblad Award laureate and receives a gold medal and the sum of SEK 2,000,000. The award also includes a Hasselblad camera by the Gothenburg-based company Hasselblad. The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on 11th of October 2024.(...)