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Deadline: June 15, 2025
Black and White Photo Awards 2025
Black & White Photo Awards 2025 continues its mission to recognize and reward outstanding talent in monochrome photography. With five thematic categories —Architecture, Street, Fauna and Flora, Portrait, and Landscape— photographers from around the world can showcase their creativity and vision. This year, the contest reaches new heights with an expanded prize pool valued at €8,500. The Absolute Winner will receive €1,000, courtesy of SanDisk Professional, along with a ThyPoch Simera
Deadline: June 15, 2025
TERAVARNA International Artist Grant
TERAVARNA is a place where creative ideas may become a reality. We are happy to announce that we can allow foreign artists to apply for artist grants to help fund their work. We're committed to helping creative people alike succeed by giving out $2,000 in grants on four separate occasions a year. Here at TERAVARNA, we support the idea of giving creators a chance. Please submit as many pieces as you like; we won't turn anybody away for sending in more than five. To submit more than one entry,
Deadline: June 15, 2025
URBAN 2025 Photo Awards
The URBAN Photo Awards is an international photography competition celebrating its 16th edition in 2025. The contest features seven photographic categories, offering participants multiple opportunities to showcase their work and compete for the prestigious title of Photographer of the Year 2025.​ Competition Timeline: April 1 – May 31, 2025: Submissions open for Single Photos, Projects & Portfolios, Books, Zines, and the Young section.​ By the end of June 2025: Selecte
Deadline: June 15, 2025
The Abandoned Landscape
Rural or urban, desert or jungle, ancient to recent. The SE Center is looking for photographers who appreciate the ravages of time and create compelling images reflecting those effects around us. Color or BW, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome. Entering Your Images You can enter your images online at www.SmarterEntry.com For best results, make sure your image is 1200 pixels @72 dpi on the longest side, Images should be in JPEG f
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Apparel
The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, black and white, etc.). Winners will receive $4,000 in cash awards, be featured in the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the winners catalog. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page. ​ APPAREL - WHAT YOU WEAR:​ A part of everyone’s day includes the decision about what to
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Beauty in Decay
Beauty is subjective in the eye of the viewer. Societal conventions pressure us to conform to like-mindedness, yet the most ethereal craft often originates from divergent work that transgresses tradition. True innovation and creative brilliance often occur when individuals question or break away from established norms. How does your work depict or challenge the concept of beauty? Beauty in Decay is an international open call for photographers ages 18 and older. ​​​​​​​All forms
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Rise
"Rise" refers to moving upward, increasing height, level, or quantity, or becoming more prominent or successful. It is used in various contexts, from physical movement to abstract concepts like growth, improvement, or awakening. It’s a versatile term that conveys movement, development, and progress across physical, emotional, and metaphorical dimensions. Common synonyms include ascend, climb, increase, advance, grow, emerge, and rebel. Show us how your interpretation of rise ignites your cr
Deadline: June 15, 2025
L.A. Photo Curator: The Mindful Landscape
"We want to create a show that highlights the range of our go-to and inventive coping mechanisms for the current moment. Artists after all are also humans, and it must be all but impossible to silo what happens in the world from what happens in the studio. Do you garden, cook, or meditate, protest and organize, doom-scroll or re-read classic books, obsess over true crime podcasts and gallows humor, take up witchcraft or cycling, sink into nostalgia or self-medicating... news junkie or news bl
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Hariban Award 2025
Presented by Benrido, the Hariban Award combines a 170-year-old analogue technique with contemporary photography. Glass plates have been used as the base for collotype printing plates which still continues today. The award is called “Hariban” as “Hari” means glass plate, and “ban” means printing plate in Japanese. This Award invites professionals and amateurs alike to submit black and white photographs for a chance to win. Submissions are judged by an international group of Jurors, a
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Water - Sky
Water, sky, and the liminal space between them are, by definition, poetic and symbolic. There exist infinite iterations of the qualities of water and sky: water may be fluid, frozen, rippling, reflective, tranquil, turbulent, crystal-clear, submerged, or flowing. The sky may be celestial, atmospheric, airy, cloud-covered, ethereal, canopied, or infinite. The colors of water and sky span the spectrum from warm to cool; reflective silver, dark indigo, cerulean, cyan, azure, to crimson and blazing
Deadline: June 15, 2025
ArtFund.ME Quarterly Grant
Applications are now open for the ArtFund.ME Quarterly Grant, offering $1,000 in unrestricted funding to visual artists and photographers worldwide. Artists must be 18+ years old. Don't miss this opportunity for funding and global exposure! No lengthy applications, project proposals, or recommendations needed. Just submit your work, and let our expert panel do the rest!
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Photographer of the Week 26
Showcase Your Talent: Become Our Photographer of the Week! Each week, from Monday morning to Sunday evening, you can submit up to 10 of your best shots! If your photo is chosen by our jury, you'll have your image featured across the All About Photo website and social media for an entire week. Don’t miss your chance to shine it's free! Showcase Your Talent: Become Our Photographer of the Week! For the entire week: Your winning photo will be showcased on the All About Photo webs
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Drone Awards 2025
The Drone Photo Awards stands as a premier competition for professional, amateur, and student drone photographers globally. Our international judging panel, comprised of distinguished photographers, editors, and industry experts, evaluates submissions with an eye for innovation and creativity. Winners in the primary categories receive an exclusive invitation to the AWARDS CEREMONY and GALA, competing for the coveted title of "Photographer of the Year." The overall winner, along with category
Deadline: June 16, 2025
TRAVEL: People, Places, Things
Travel expands our sense of the world—and ourselves. It introduces us to new faces, unfamiliar landscapes, and the small details that define a place. Travel: People, Places, Things invites photographers to share images that reflect the essence of movement, exploration, and cultural curiosity. From sweeping vistas to quiet portraits, from market stalls to roadside relics, we are looking for photographs that convey the spirit of travel in all its forms. Whether taken across the globe or close
Deadline: June 16, 2025
100th Annual International Competition
The Print Center is thrilled to announce its 100th ANNUAL International Competition, to be juried by by Anders Bergstrom, Joshua Chuang and Lesley Martin. The ANNUAL is one of the oldest and most prestigious competitions in the United States, and 2025 marks two exciting anniversaries – the 100th ANNUAL and The Print Center’s 110th; we welcome you to be a part of it! The ANNUAL is open to local, national and international artists, and The Print Center is particularly interested in highl
Deadline: June 16, 2025
Lisbon Street Photo Fest: Open Call 2025
Lisbon Street Photo Fest invites street photographers from around the world to submit their work to the 2025 Open Call. With two categories – Singles and Series – finalists will have their work exhibited during the festival in Lisbon, and winners will receive cash prizes, media exposure, and FORMAT subscriptions to build their own professional website. Launching for the first time this year, the festival will take place in the heart of the Portuguese capital – a city known for its light
Deadline: June 17, 2025
AAP Solo Exhibition July 2025
We want to showcase incredible work. Photography that awakens our imagination, transforms our way of thinking, or simply resonates with who we are. The Solo Exhibition enables you to reach a wider audience through our independent magazine that has become one of the most vibrant portals of photography on the web. The Solo Exhibition competition is open to any category of photography or subject matter. Photojournalism, street photography, artistic photography, portrait, nudes, landscapes,
Deadline: June 19, 2025
Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year
Now in its tenth year, Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year showcases the world's most striking weather and climate photographs and provides an international platform to raise awareness about the environmental issues threatening our planet. This annual competition is open to photographers of all ages and skill levels and is free to enter. The 2025 competition opens in April, so watch this space and follow us on Instagram @rmets_, for the accouncement. Climate change is one of t
Deadline: June 19, 2025
Colors
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 8th "Colors" Online Art Competition for the month of June 2025. International Art Competition "Colors" Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 8th "Colors" Online Art Competition for the month of June 2025. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. In this open subject competition the Colors theme is with a concentration of color. Art
Deadline: June 20, 2025
Black and White Spider Awards 2025
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Black & White Spider Awards is now open and accepting entries. With over 235 title awards, international press and exposure to the biggest names in photography - it’s your chance to be recognized as the best in the industry as we celebrate 20 years of outstanding photography. Get exposure and put your work in front of the world's leading galleries, art directors, curators, editors and publishers and be recognized by the industry at the premier international awar
Deadline: June 20, 2025
Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech + Off des Rencontres d’Arles 2025
In a world shaped by paths taken and boundaries reimagined, Crossings invites artists and photographers to explore the visible and invisible lines we traverse – across land, identity, and time. From personal journeys to collective memories, from physical landscapes to emotional geographies, this theme welcomes projects that speak to transformation, migration, transmission, and presence. Inspired by the symbolic spirit of the Green March, but open to all interpretations, Crossings becomes a
Deadline: June 21, 2025
Underneath the Floorboards
Underneath the Floorboards is based in London's buzzing artistic area of Hackney. For our 14th Edition we will be continue our online event, which will be screened for a two weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide to maximises our international exposure. We got over ten thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more. Our showcase is open to artists and filmmakers from all around the world whose work has an experimental, no
Deadline: June 22, 2025
Diversity
Diversity is defined as differences in how one sees the world, how one thinks about the world, how one represents the world; photographically - the analogies, the metaphors and all the tools available to an artist, a photographer. Looking beyond straight documentation, how might photography and its participants respond to the concept of diversity? Photography, from whatever stylistic approach - documentary, conceptual, fine art, abstract, collage, etc., is an immensely powerful storytelling t
Deadline: June 23, 2025
2025 Color Photography Contest
Join us in celebrating and honoring exceptional color photography with the Color Photography Contest by reFocus. Winners will receive $4,000 in cash prizes, an immersive, dedicated digital gallery to share their works in a global Artist Directory, and way more. Company Description: Beyond awards and prizes, the reFocus Awards offers annual competitions and a novel, artist-first online gallery designed to not only share the unique power of photography but to encourage the discovery of artists
Deadline: June 23, 2025
Landscapes
land – scape : scenery, countryside, topography, land, terrain, environment, outlook, vista, panorama, view ….. “Everyone knew him as “Bud the Landscaper.” He was a big man, about six five, maybe two seventy, or more, almost all muscle, except for a prodigious beer belly, which he worked on daily. He would drink eight or more beers when he got off work, and then two or three more with dinner. I only saw him noticeably drunk once. A group of frat boys challenged him to a pitcher
Deadline: June 24, 2025
AAP Magazine 49: Black and White
Black and white photography evokes poetry, nostalgia. The timelessness of black and white images focuses on its subjects, highlights contrasts, lines and enhances the power of light. The contest is open to any B&W photography interpretation, from photojournalism, street photography, artistic photography, portrait, nude, landscapes, nature, wildlife, urban, architecture, fashion, fine art or documentary photography. Winners will receive $1,000 in cash awards, their winning image(s) or fu
Deadline: June 25, 2025
The Constructed Image
LENSCRATCH is creating exposure opportunities for photographers with group online exhibitions. Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition. Open Call: THE CONSTRUCTED IMAGE While photography often celebrates the candid and the unplanned, this open call turns its gaze toward the obsessively intentional. We seek still-life and tableau photographs that delve into photographic processes reliant on intensive manual labor, construction, staging, and most importantly, visual authorship.
Deadline: June 26, 2025
Faces
Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the sixth Faces online art contest for month of July 2025. Contest is open to all artists worldwide over 18 years of age. Only the face of a person or animal should be visible (single person, a group, or self-portrait). All visual art mediums (except video and sound) are allowed. Winning artists (Merit Award & Honorable Mention) will receive a digital award certificate. The application fee is $20 for the 2 images of artwork, $30 for the 4 images, $42 for the 6
Deadline: June 26, 2025
PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award
Through this 1st edition, in partnership with Europe's top camera reseller MPB, we will select one project to be published as a fully-funded photobook curated by PhMuseum. From today you can apply to the PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award, our first grant dedicated to visual publishing. The biennial open call will support the creation, production and distribution of original publications, with no thematic or geographical restrictions, aiming to become a recurring initiative to discover, support an
Deadline: June 26, 2025
2025 APA Awards: Call for Entries
Here are the details: Our annual competition is open to all photographers at every level, worldwide -- everyone from emerging photographers to established professionals. Our Judges will select 46 APA Award Winners this year from 15 categories and one Best of Show. APA members save on each entry. APA Professional and Leader level members save 50% on each image. All winning photographs are featured in our annual awards publication. The new "Series" is a flat rate for 2-
Deadline: June 26, 2025
Innovate Grant: Spring 2025
Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (6) honorable mentions (3 in art and 3 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant's commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. For more information and to apply visit https://innovateartistgrants.org Innovate Grant supports ar
Deadline: June 27, 2025
15th Annual "Animals" Online Art Competition
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 15th Annual "Animals" Online Art Competition, July 1-31, 2025. Cash prize for Overall Top Winning Artist. Extensive online promotion for winning artists. Jurors: Chris & Valerie Hoffman. The gallery invites both 2D and 3D artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to submit their best representational or abstract art. The "Animals" theme will be the artist's interpretation and depiction of animal art: living
Deadline: June 27, 2025
The Denis Roussel Award
The Denis Roussel Award was started in 2018 to help continue the legacy and celebrate the life of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. Every year we are pleased and humbled to see the portfolios of work that come in from across the country and Internationally. This year we are honored to have author and educator Christopher James return as our juro
Deadline: June 27, 2025
Minimalism
Minimalism – Less is more. Capture the essence of simplicity, clean lines, negative space, and restrained beauty. Whether through stark landscapes, abstract compositions, or quiet moments, we seek images that evoke clarity, balance, and intentional reduction 26 images will be selected by the juror for exhibition at Decode Gallery. The gallery handles all printing for accepted photographers for free, we print professionally on an Epson printer with Epson Ultra Premium Luster paper. We will o
Deadline: June 29, 2025
Past Perfect - Present Tense
The Past Perfect / Present Tense Open Call and resulting exhibition will explore the dynamic interplay between representations of culture in the past and the present as portrayed through a contemporary lens. Theme Description: For this open call, we invite you to submit art that shows how the past continues to inform, energize, and challenge the present, artwork that draws on and reinterprets the rich legacies of past art movements, masters, and genres, and creates a dialogue between what
Deadline: June 29, 2025
SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest 2025
The SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest celebrates the ways we bring nature closer, even in everyday urban settings. We want to see wild places through your lens and your creativity. “Rewilding attitudes and ways we connect to Nature.” The wild places you experience may be close to home or far away, in town or in a more remote locale. We love the notion of nature kindling the wild side of human nature too. We welcome all types of photography, whether you are documenting the natural world a
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Shoot the Frame
Shoot The Frame is a suite of monthly international photography contests, designed to celebrate stunning photography and expose talented photographers. We are a community that is completely in love with all things photography. If you are a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we would love to see your imagery. You can submit your photos into our contests below. We have three categories every month. Shoot the Face, Shoot the Land and Shoot the Wild. All finalists and winners will h
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Photographer of the Month
"For Photographers Only" is a platform dedicated to selecting and sharing the finest international opportunities exclusively tailored for photographers. We are excited to introduce our monthly photo contest, an exclusive privilege for our members. The winner will receive an online exhibition, and their work will be prominently featured on our homepage and shared across our social media platforms throughout the entire month. If you're a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we invit
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Türkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2025
Türkiye Mobile Photography Awards is an international contest designed to promote mobile photography and encourage photographers. Courtesy of Türk Telekom's main sponsorship TMPA is open to photographers of all ages, nationalities, and locations, whether they are new or established, who create valuable works using mobile devices. Our aim is to create an opportunity to showcase valuable works produced with mobile devices to a global audience, appreciate emerging talents, and inspire smartphone
Deadline: June 30, 2025
2025 OnePlus Photography Awards
The OnePlus Photography Awards 2025 is a global photography competition that celebrates creativity, innovation, and storytelling through mobile photography. Organized by OnePlus, a leading smartphone brand renowned for its cutting-edge camera technology, this annual contest provides a platform for photography enthusiasts to showcase their talent. The 2025 edition of the awards is themed "Make the Moment," encouraging participants to capture stunning visuals that reflect powerful narratives and a
Deadline: June 30, 2025
World Nature Photography Awards 2026
When great science and great art combine, amazing things can be achieved. That’s the philosophy behind the World Nature Photography Awards, a global nature and wildlife photography contest for planet Earth. We believe in the power of photography to put a spotlight on the majesty and wonder of the natural world around us, reminding us to take action now to secure a better tomorrow for us all. Now celebrating our sixth year, the mission of the World Nature Photography Awards is to celebra
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Macadam Awards 2025
Street Macadam is presenting the 2nd edition of the “Macadam Awards”, a street & documentary photography contest. This competition will be organized from Thursday 1st of May to Monday 30th of June -Midnight (UTC +1) The results of the competition will be communicated on Monday 8th of July 2025. This is open to amateur and professional photographers from around the world who are at least 18 years old at the time of the registration. The theme of this contest: «Street Photography
Deadline: June 30, 2025
11th PORTRAIT
TERAVARNA announces their "11th PORTRAIT" International Juried Art Competition. All visual artists from around the world are invited to submit their best artworks on the theme for inclusion in the exhibition. All types of art styles may be submitted, including both 2D and 3D works, painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, photography, graphic, mixed media, as well as experimental and installation works. CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION This is an esteemed portrait art contest tha
Deadline: June 30, 2025
OPEN CALL
With photography a new language has been created” – Ernst Haas This time there’s no explicit theme… We’re giving you the freedom to inspire us with your photography, no matter the style, subject matter or genre. Landscapes, portraits, reportage, conceptual, personal documentary, travel… From spontaneous street moments to meticulous studio set-ups, new images or from your archive – show us your technique, vision and creativity. Open to all types of photographer with any type o
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Deloitte Photo Grant 2025
The Open Call for the third edition of the Deloitte's Photo Grant is open until June 30, 2025. Promoted by Deloitte and Fondazione Deloitte, the grant is aimed at photographers under 35 and offers the opportunity to develop an original photographic project on the theme Contrast. In line with the values of the initiative, Trieste Photo Days is pleased to support this project, which offers young talents valuable opportunities for growth and visibility. Contrast: the theme of the Deloitt
Deadline: June 30, 2025
The 2025 Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography
The Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography, a collaboration between PHOTO IS:RAEL and the Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Fund, will be awarded for the ninth time this year for a body of work that demonstrates excellence in the field of photography. A professional independent jury of leading international professionals will review all shortlisted candidates anonymously and will select a photographer who demonstrates thought, quality, originality, and excellence in photography, as well as the
Deadline: June 30, 2025
CONTRASTS Art Contest
“Contrasts” is a fascinating exploration of tensions and harmonies present in contemporary art. The contest aims to highlight the dualities that characterize our existence: light and shadow, warmth and coolness, movement and stillness. It seeks to bring together works by emerging and established artists, both invited to explore contrast through their unique visual language 12 artworks will be selected for the final collective exhibition. Collective exhibition Location: Cannaregio
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Encontros da Imagem - Photobook Award 2025
As part of its 35th edition, Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, is promoting the Open Call - Photobook Award EI2025. Aware of the fundamental role the photobook has played in recent years in the presentation of photographic narratives, the development of creative processes, construction and experimentation with materials and techniques, Encontros da Imagem has sought to promote, since 2014, independent authors and projects through a competition aimed at
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Submission for Al-Tiba9 Magazine ISSUE 19
Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine is a global hub of creativity, showcasing cutting-edge contemporary art in various forms including Digital Arts, photography, painting, architecture, sculpture & installations, Film & Video Art, fashion design, interior design, and performance. We pride ourselves on providing a platform for avant-garde artists who push boundaries and redefine artistic expression. In each edition of Al-Tiba9 magazine, we curate a selection of visionary artists, architects, and designers w
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Excire anniversary photo competition
To celebrate 10 years of Excire software, we’re hosting a free-to-enter international photography competition judged entirely by AI. The People in Focus contest invites photographers to submit compelling, people-centric images for a chance to win $7000 in cash prizes. Our in-house AI model, trained on aesthetic principles by professional photographers, scores each photo instantly. A live leaderboard displays the current top 20 images, making this a uniquely dynamic, engaging competition! 1s
Deadline: July 01, 2025
By The Sea
The Open Call, titled By the Sea, invites a dive into the sea as a source of endless fascination and meaning. From the stillness of calm waters and the energy of bustling harbours to stories of human connection, adventure, and environmental change, each perspective reveals a new layer of its significance. This is a call to capture the sea’s presence in all its emotion. Let the sea’s vastness, beauty, and depth inspire images that resonate far beyond the shoreline. Exhibition Details and p
Deadline: July 01, 2025
On the Street: with Harvey Stein
Street Photography takes many forms and this call looks to provide an updated look at this exciting and often challenging form of photography. This is a chance to explore our world today, to present a largely unscripted reaction to what you see, what you experience and what captures your attention. We want to see the world from your perspective, from what’s outside your front door to what’s happening Downtown and everything in-between. We are looking to celebrate the chance encounters, the
Deadline: July 01, 2025
Embracing our differences: 2026 Exhibit
Artists possess a powerful tool to evoke social change. Without uttering a single word, they can enlighten, educate and affect change around the world. Embracing Our Differences invites you to participate in creating a society where inclusion is embraced and individuality is celebrated. Become a part of this change by submitting your original art to Embracing Our Differences and its annual international outdoor juried art exhibit. Featuring 50 billboard-size images measuring 16 feet (4.88m)
Deadline: July 01, 2025
Critical Mass 2025
Critical Mass is an annual online program designed to foster meaningful connections within the photography world. Open to photographers at all levels and from anywhere across the globe, participants submit a portfolio of 10 images. After an initial pre-screening process, 200 finalists are selected to have their work reviewed and voted on by more than 150 distinguished international photography professionals. From this group, the TOP 50 are chosen, and a range of prestigious awards is presented.
Deadline: July 01, 2025
The Shadow Aspect
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that explores the formal, conceptual, and metaphoric implications of the shadow. Some photographs focus on the shadow as pure visual form expressed through the creation of line, shape, pattern, and texture, while others may examine the cultural and psychological implications of the shadow -
Deadline: July 01, 2025
The Analog Forever Exhibit 2025
At the dawn of photography our hopes and sights were set on finding the science that would allow us to produce an image with light and to display the latent image. It was the inquisitive scientific mind, the human hand and creative ideas that furthered the Art of Photography. In the world today current photographic technology and past process discoveries are merging and we see creative photographic works that use both modern resources and the touch of the human hand with historical photographic
Deadline: July 02, 2025
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, a $10,000 grant, supports visual artists who are Black trans women. This grant is made possible entirely through support provided by visual artist Mariette Pathy Allen, whose body of photographic work over the last forty years has been squarely focused on expanding cultural consciousness around gender and transformation. The development of this grant was stewarded by consultant and writer Aaryn Lang, working in collaboration with Mari
Deadline: July 02, 2025
Magic of Light
It’s all about the light! Light and shadow have been the foundation of photography since the beginning. While illumination is important, darkness is an equally compelling component and, together, the elements of a successful photograph. Entering Your Images You can enter your images online at www.SmarterEntry.com For best results, make sure your image is 1200 pixels @72 dpi on the longest side, Images should be in JPEG format, sRGB color space. Please name your files: Aband.Last Name.Firs
Deadline: July 04, 2025
Resonance of Self
FREE ENTRY Photographers, visual designers and video artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme. The expression and the external reception of the "self" is always manifested in the same measure that one comes into contact with their environment or with others, through the transmission and the "resonances" of their own perceptions and emotions. In the exhibition "Resonance of Self" photography, video and digital art will make this idea theirs, elaborating new visions t
Deadline: July 07, 2025
Portrait 2025
Faces and silhouettes of passers by, or beautifully executed, controlled studio shots, The Portrait has always been at the core of the Art of Photography. Since its creation, we have found that the camera in our hands favors the faces and spirit of all people of all ages. ​Share with us your best frames and moments showing your Portrait visions! Works will be selected based on creativity, quality of execution and uniqueness of vision. The work can be expressed from
Deadline: July 08, 2025
TPA/RPS Environmental Bursary
The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle is offering a 1-year bursary to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness. Applications are invited from anyone living or studying in the United Kingdom with a talent for taking photographs and an interest in the environmental concerns that we face today. The bursary will provide £4000 to assist with travel expenses, photographic equipment and other project-related costs. We are looking
Deadline: July 10, 2025
Timeless Beauty
Numéro+ Switzerland is pleased to announce its third photography contest, a celebration where imagination and talent shape timeless beauty. This year's theme is "Timeless Beauty". We invite photographers and visual artists from around the world to capture what they deem eternal, showcasing their unique visions and perspectives. All forms of image creation are welcome, including photography, illustration, 3D generation, AI-generated works, and more. Whether your focus is fashion, portraitu
Deadline: July 13, 2025
Close-up Photographer of the Year
Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) returns for its seventh edition! Celebrating the art of macro, micro and close-up photography, photographers are invited to reveal the hidden wonder of the world through their pictures. An expert jury will judge 11 categories and award £2,500 to the overall winner. There are 11 categories to choose from: Animals Insects Invertebrate Portrait Butterflies & Dragonflies Arachnids Underwater Plants Fungi & Slime Moulds Intimate Landscape Stud
Deadline: July 14, 2025
EPSON International Pano Awards 2025
The 15th Epson International Pano Awards is dedicated to the craft and art of panoramic photography, and is the world’s largest competition devoted to the genre. Each year the top performing photographers are showcased in hundreds of publications worldwide – and once again this year the prize pool value is a whopping US$40,000 – including $14,000 cash! Now also features a printed Awards Book of the top 50 galleries in each category!
Deadline: July 14, 2025
Gomma Photobook Publishing Contest
Gomma Get Published is the international competition that gives you the chance to turn your unpublished photobook dummy into a successful book publication, presented by Gomma Publishing Ltd. We guarantee success: with Gomma’s extraordinary appeal and out-of-the-box approach, your photobook has the potential to sell out within just six months of release. BOOK LAUNCH Production of a limited edition photobook (100–200 pages), designed by Gomma’s in-house team and crafted with hig
Deadline: July 14, 2025
Textile Transformations 2025
Textile Transformations Clothing and textiles connect us intrinsically to our planet and its many ecosystems, cultures, and communities. The materials used to make them come from farms, forests, or even oil from the earth. They have often passed through many pairs of hands, transformed each time before they become the final product that we buy. This transition starts with the plants, animals, or processes that give us materials like cotton, viscose, wool, or polyester. These fibers become
Deadline: July 14, 2025
Women street photographers: Artist Residency Call
Maximum 10 photos in one entry/series (same theme or style) made by ANY camera. You can enter up to 3 series. Use a new submission form for each series. ** If you live outside of NY, NJ, CT and can not afford the fee or can’t pay because of USA sanctions email hello@womenstreetphotographers.com to request a free entry form. Include your country and a reason for a free entry. One free entry per person WHAT IS INCLUDED: – Two-week Artist Residency at the El Barrio’s Artspace P
Deadline: July 15, 2025
TOTO BANANA Grant Open Call
At TOTO BANANA, we encourage Erotic Photography with a grant of $ 2,000 USD biannually, with an easy application process on our website. Erotic photography, to us, is one of the most important category of photography. This is why we set out to create this grant. We want to know what is erotic for YOU! We believe a good photo is one that transcends mere visual arousal, is one that pacifies, that makes one delve into a sense of almost inexplicable beauty, gaze and charm. Doesn’t have to be
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Golden Shot Photography Awards
The Golden Shot International Awards are established globally with the aim of promoting and recognizing outstanding talents in the world of photography. These awards provide a unique opportunity for professional and amateur photographers from anywhere in the world to showcase and share their works. At the Golden Shot, we believe that photography is not only an art but also a medium for storytelling, expressing emotions, and representing cultures. Therefore, we seek to identify and honor photo
Deadline: July 15, 2025
F-Stop Magazine - Into the Night
Issue #132 will have the theme "into the night" we are looking for the stories that emerge when darkness falls. We are looking for work that captures the photographer's connection to their space, whether it's the outside world or the details within one's own four walls. How does the space you inhabit shape your life? How do you interact with it? Please include titles to help convey this meaning. ssue #132 will have an expected publication date of August 1, 2025.
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Corridor Éléphant Magazine No. 06
The Revue de l’Éléphant publishes portfolios, texts, drawings, and comic strips submitted and selected by the editorial team. TWO THEMES ARE PROPOSED: "Faire le portrait" (To make a portrait) "Passage" (Access, path, channel, pass, corridor, gorge, narrow passage, outlet, opening, crossing, gap, route) Want to be featured in the next issue? Send us your submission. For photographers and visual artists: Send us via wetransfer.com or Smash a portfolio of 20 to 30 v
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Portrait of Britain 2025
Get exhibited nationwide The UK’s biggest annual photography exhibition, will see winning portraits from the past year exhibited up and down the country in a month-long digital screen display in partnership with JCDecaux UK Get published 200 shortlisted portraits taken in the past year will be published in the dedicated Portrait of Britain book Get judged by industry leaders Judges last year included photographer Nadav Kander, Russ O’Connell, Picture Editor at The Sunday Ti
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Grid: Open Theme 2025
Open Theme 2025 at Grid Photo Gallery invites photographers of all styles and backgrounds to participate in our inaugural exhibition. From landscape and portrait to architectural and experimental photography, this open-call has no thematic limits—any photographer worldwide can submit. Entry opens on June 6, 2025, and submissions close on July 15, 2025. Selected photographs will be featured in an online exhibition beginning August 1, 2025, accessible to audiences around the globe. The top three
Deadline: July 17, 2025
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 8th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It includes all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow. The Prize seeks to inspire creatives from around the world to pursue a life and career in the arts, and to help careers grow through funding
Deadline: July 20, 2025
Submit to Dek Unu
Unlike anthology or gallery-style magazines, Dek Unu publishes only one artist per issue. We are highly artist-centric; each edition is themed and curated by the artist, not the editorial staff. Along with 11 images, Dek Unu emphasizes each artist's words – each issue includes an artist's commentary for each image and an in-depth interview. Additional images from the artist are included in the interview section to add context, depth, and texture to readers' understanding of the artist and the
Deadline: July 20, 2025
Chromatic Photography Awards 2025
Chromatic Awards is an international competition of color photography open to both professionals and amateurs. Participation in the Chromatic Awards offers not only prestige, but also the opportunity to win extra money for the development of passion. As such, every professional and amateur photographer from every corner of the world is invited and urged to participate in the third edition of this international prestigious photographic competition dedicated to color photography where 20 catego
Deadline: July 20, 2025
Abandon/Abandoned
The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, black and white, etc.). Winners will receive $4,000 in cash awards, be featured in the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the winners catalog. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page. ​ ABANDON/ABANDONED​: What comes to mind when you hear these two words? Though they have th
Deadline: July 22, 2025
PX3 The State of the World 2025
“The State of the World” is a special contest of PX3 (Paris Photo Prize), to share important global stories, eyewitness accounts as told through the lens of the photographer; stories both happy and sad, inspiring and shocking, gentle and brutal; stories to focus your eyes and mind on issues that are current and crucial in our world. We live in an era where we have faster access to information than any previous generation and limitless amounts of knowledge at our fingertips, and yet it is
Deadline: July 25, 2025
The Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards
The Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards is inviting the professional, amateur, and student analog enthusiasts worldwide to submit the best photographs captured by an analog process. Colour or black and white film, instant film, collodion and other alternative techniques are accepted. The mission of the AS International Film Photography Awards is to discover, showcase and promote photographers working across all genres of analog photography worldwide. The philosophy of the c
Deadline: July 30, 2025
Exposure One Awards - 2025 Photographer of the Year Contest
Crowning the Photographers of the Year behind the most distinctive black and white photography To those exploring photography’s past or defining its future, we want your work to get the global exposure it deserves Honoring the Black & White Photographers of the Year, a selected group of the most exceptional creators Celebrating the timeless, eternal nature of the monochrome palette, where the medium of photography comes to life Winners of the Exposure One Awards enjoy more than prizes; hon
Deadline: July 31, 2025
TDM Awards 2025
TDM Awards 2025 shines a light on the boldest voices in contemporary street photography — offering a global platform for photographers who push the boundaries of visual storytelling in public spaces. This year’s competition invites emerging and established talents to share their most compelling street moments with an international audience. A distinguished panel of four world-class judges — Siegfried Hansen, Melissa O’Shaughnessy, Kiran Karnani, and Mark Makela — will review all sub
Deadline: July 31, 2025
20th Arte Laguna Prize
Arte Laguna Prize is the Venice-based International Contemporary Art Competition that welcomes and exhibits emerging artists of all ages, countries, genders and artistic backgrounds. The competition is free-themed and it embraces 10 different artistic disciplines, including photographic art, video art and digital graphic art. With two decades of experience, the competition offers numerous opportunities for participants to expand their contacts, gain global visibility and access crucial resources
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Spotlight Awards 2025
The Spotlight Awards highlights world-class commercial photographers who are creating the most outstanding imagery within advertising. Winners are rewarded with an amazing prize pool worth over $55,000.00 across all the categories and invaluable international exposure. The contest is open globally to all professional photographers. Grand prize winner $1000 cash prize Portfolio Review event ticket, worth $1500 2-year VSCO Pro Membership, feature on VSCO, training by a VSCO
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Planet Earth
From icy polar snowscapes to vast and arid deserts; from sweeping agricultural plains to dense tropical rainforest; the earth has always provided an awe-inspiring backdrop to our short stay. This month we want you to capture the beauty of our shared planet – nature’s landscapes and man’s influence on them. The land, our cultures, and the myriad of species with which we inhabit planet Earth. Let’s step out into our world and capture its majesty! Landscapes, conceptual, aerial, document
Deadline: August 01, 2025
Tokyo International Foto Award (TIFA) 2025
Tokyo International Foto Awards acknowledges, commands and exposes outstanding photography from all corners of the globe. TIFA connects photographers with the creative community in Tokyo, Japan, to provide them with an excellent platform to present their work to a new market. We encourage all photographers to participate in the TIFA photo competition. Share your unique talents with the world and win prizes, awards, and recognition. If you would like to have your work exposed to the Russian cr
Deadline: August 01, 2025
Annual Americana Photo Awards
We are delighted to announce the first annual Americana Photo Awards, a global photography show that transcends borders to celebrate the rich tapestry of America's spirit. From stunning landscapes, architectural wonders to cultural moments and the vibrant people who shape the American identity. The awards international jury encourages you to express your unique perspective and capture the essence of this extraordinary nation. Visit Americana Photo Awards today and submit your best images to b
Deadline: August 01, 2025
Inner Landscapes
Inner Landscapes Not all landscapes are visible. Some unfold behind closed eyes, shaped not by geography but by memory, emotion, and thought. These inner terrains—subtle, elusive, deeply personal—form a vast and ever-shifting world that reflects how we see, feel, and remember. Inner Landscapes invites artists to chart the topographies of their inner world: emotional geographies, psychological contours, dreamlike spaces, and abstract states of being. How does grief become a color field? Ho
Deadline: August 05, 2025
Photography 4 Humanity 2025
The 2025 Global Contest promotes climate justice. We believe climate change is a human rights issue, so we are looking for images that show people impacted by the escalating climate crisis. They include climate refuges, the very young, the very old, the disabled and injured, the poor, indigenous and island people, and women. Images of climate champions advocating for change, and those helping to mitigate and reverse climate change are welcome. 2025 GLOBAL PRIZE COMPETITION The 2025
Deadline: August 05, 2025
Metropolitan Melodies
Cities hum with stories. From towering skylines to the hush of late-night streets, every block holds a rhythm, every shadow a story. Metropolitan Melodies is your chance to turn the pulse of the city into powerful, career-elevating art. Whether you work in paint, pixels, photos, or found objects, this competition is open to your expression. Let the streets speak through your work. Share what city life means to you. Whether it’s bustling energy or quiet corners, your vision could be the o
Deadline: August 07, 2025
2025 Photographer of the Year Contest
Over $4,000 in cash prizes, global exposure, artist profile, winner's gallery feature, custom press release, interview, and more. Welcoming both series and individual entries that remind viewers of the indisputable power of photography Awarding the most exceptional creators with our highest possible global honor Image: Wayne Sorensen
Deadline: August 07, 2025
Plastic Visions
FREE ENTRY Photographers, visual designers and video artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme. Statues, sculptures, monuments and more generally all kinds of plastic productions will be the subject of analysis, documentation and interpretation of the next exhibition curated by LoosenArt. Photographic works, videos, 3D graphics, and other digital productions will present the “plastic object” as a determinant of form, through which new meanings, concepts, and vis
Deadline: August 08, 2025
(s)Light of Hand, 2025
A photograph is a (s)Light of Hand, a magic trick of sorts, conjured into being. Light is summoned and chemistry is concocted, making visible both the intangible and the corporeal. It is heart and mind, imagination and craft, melding together into an experience of life-altering alchemy. We here at our Collective and Gallery have a deep respect and affection for historic processes. In this call for entries, we wish to celebrate this love for hand-made, photo-based processes and invite you to
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Eidolon Grant 2025
eidolon is delighted to announce that the eidolon Grant 2025, eidolon’s international grant programme for projects which explore, promote and conserve vernacular photography is open. The deadline for submission is August 31, and applications can be made under two categories, with a total of 25.000 EUR to be distributed. The eidolon Grant is an international programme that is presented annually to artists, academics, professionals, researchers, collectors and vernacular photography enthusiast
Deadline: September 01, 2025
NATURE AND HUMANS Photo Contest 2025
NATURE AND HUMANS PHOTO is a nature photography competition with different categories. The three most important categories are "CoNSERVATION - thematic series", "CONSERVATION - single image", and "CONSERVATION - Spain". These three categories are looking for images that investigate the relationship between the natural environment and us humans. Images can be challenging, uplifting, provocative or revealing, and should illustrate how our attitudes, decisions and actions impact the natural environ
Deadline: September 10, 2025
Wildness
FREE ENTRY Photographers, visual designers and video artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme. Men can learn to know themselves through their relationship with nature; awakening in them feelings, curiosity, fears etc., thus bringing out the most authentic side of one’s own being. Re-discovering the connections that bring men closer to everything in nature, one perceives and elaborates an organic cohesion with the world that influences his own emotions, thoughts an
Deadline: September 15, 2025
The Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants
Vital Impacts is dedicated to supporting visual storytellers who capture compelling, solutions-focused environmental stories at the local level. We are excited to offer one (1) $20,000 grant and six (6) $5,000 grants to help bring these vital stories to life. Grant recipients will have twelve months to develop their projects, with support from Vital Impacts to publish and showcase their work. Additionally, ten (10) emerging photographers will be chosen to participate in an intensive mento
Deadline: September 16, 2025
SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest 2025
The 2025 contest is open! This year’s theme is “The Power of Light,” which aims to showcase the transformative and awe-inspiring impact of light on our lives, communities, and planet. Two technology-specific divisions, “Technology-Made Images” and a “Technology Around the Globe,” are also available for entry. Examples of content include, but are not exclusive to, artistic images that depict: Various properties of light and how it interacts with the atmosphere, nature, and
Deadline: September 21, 2025
ND Awards 2025
ND Awards aims to promote photography and photographers. Our idea is to create new opportunities to present valuable work to audiences all over the world. We aim to build a place where photographers can show different points of view and thrive through competition. The winners of the Professional and Non-Professional sections will receive the titles: ND Photographer of the Year and ND Discovery of the Year and cash prizes. Our judging panel will comprise highly acclaimed industry professionals, i
Deadline: September 30, 2025
IMACRES Awards – The European Photography Competition
Open to all photographers in Europe, the competition, which allows entries to be submitted either in black and white or in colour, presents the opportunity for participants to showcase their work to an international audience. Split into 4 categories of wildlife, landscape, people, and architecture, the winning entries for each category will be awarded gold, silver and bronze badges in the Gallery of Winners, on Social Media and also featured in the IMACRES Awards Annual book. The first-pl
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Inta International Travel Photo Awards 2025
The INTA Travel Photo Awards 2025 invite photographers worldwide to showcase their best travel and holiday moments across five categories: Smartphone Photos, Sea and Ocean, Mountains and Nature, Portrait and People, and Street and Celebration. Participants can submit up to four photos per category for a fee of €12 per theme. Winners will be featured in the international FOTOCULT Magazine, have their work exhibited in Málaga, and compete for prizes including an exclusive holiday stay in Spain
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