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LAST DAY: Solo Exhibition October — Juror Aline Smithson.
LAST DAY: Solo Exhibition October — Juror Aline Smithson.

World Press Photo 2025

From December 01, 2024 to January 11, 2025
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World Press Photo 2025
Territory: Worldwide
Theme: Visual Journalism
Eligibility: The photo contest is open to professional photographers and photojournalists, and entry coordinators.
Entry Fees: Free
Prize: Exhibition
The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year. Entering is free and prizes include up to €6,000, inclusion in our annual traveling exhibition, and more.

Entries for the 2025 World Press Photo Contest will open on 1 December 2024 and close on 10 January 2025. We are excited to welcome a multiplicity of stories and a diverse range of photographers from all over the world to enter the contest!

Why should you enter?

Entering the World Press Photo Contest is free and open to all professional photographers working in the field of photojournalism and/or documentary photography.

Contest winners

Every contest winner receives:
A monetary prize of €1,000
Inclusion in the annual World Press Photo year-long worldwide exhibition
Inclusion in the annual collectible yearbook, available in multiple languages with a worldwide distribution of more than 30,000 copies
Publication in the online collection and a personal profile on World Press Photo's website
Promotion on World Press Photo's platforms
Invitation to the Winners’ Program in Amsterdam
A physical award
In addition, winners are often featured in major publications and invited to speak at public events, exhibition openings, and lectures throughout the year.

World Press Photo of the Year
Out of the 42 winning entries, the global jury will choose the World Press Photo of the Year with two runners up. In addition to receiving their winning prize, the World Press Photo of the Year winner will also receive:
An additional monetary prize of €10,000
FUJIFILM GFX cameras and lenses that will be awarded to the Photo of the Year winner and two runners up
An additional physical award
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Contests Closing Soon

Deadline: September 23, 2025
AAP Solo Exhibition October 2025
Send your best project to Aline Smithson! 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 p
Deadline: September 25, 2025
Blue
Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 6th “Blue” Online Art Competition for the month of September 2025. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. The theme may include any work with interpretation of the color blue or shades of blue as as a prominent or secondary color. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installation art) exc
Deadline: September 25, 2025
Alternative Processes Competition
About the competition Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to announce the 21st International Alternative Processes Competition. Located in Manhattan's Chelsea Arts District, Soho Photo is New York City’s longest running co-operative photography gallery. All selected photographs will be exhibited at the Gallery as well as on our website November 12–30. The opening reception is Thursday, November 13th from 6 to 8 pm. What are Alternative Processes? Alternative processes incl
Deadline: September 25, 2025
The Contemporary Landscape
The landscape, whether grand or personal, has been a subject of photography since the beginning and played an important role in establishing photography as a fine art medium. Early on, both in history and most photographers experience, the landscape was one of most accessible and familiar subjects available. The SE Center is looking for images of the landscape, whether grand vistas or more personal, intimate treatments. We're looking for photographers who can make a statement with the
Deadline: September 25, 2025
Pharmacopoeia
Pharmacopeia: noun. What does this term bring to your mind's eye? Do you find yourself assembling an archive of substances, reflecting on memories of addiction, recovery, or relapse? Is your mind a panopticon of disorder, a chaotic realm of fear and loathing from which you yearn to break through? Did you habitually utilize recreational substances in your practice, or were you just intoxicated when you created something? Pharmacopoeia is an international open call for photographers age
Deadline: September 26, 2025
Portrait
Decode Gallery is thrilled to reveal our latest call for entry, Portrait. Often, portraits show aspects of the subject’s character that may not be immediately apparent. Portraits tell a story. The art of crafting a portrait has been around for centuries and continues to capture us today. We invite you to submit your most compelling portrait photography. At least 26 images will be selected by the juror for exhibition at Decode Gallery. The gallery handles all printing for accepte
Deadline: September 28, 2025
Photographer of the Week 41
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 sh
Deadline: September 28, 2025
Padova Art Prize
Ufofabrik Contemporary Art Gallery has announced an Art Award, with the competition format aimed at promoting Contemporary Art at trade fair events. The competition involves the selection of an artist and exhibition project, and the candidacy for the selection committee of the fair: ARTE PADOVA 14-17 November 2025 Fiera di Padova - Italy Criteria for Admission The competition is open to all professional and emerging artists. There are no sections,
Deadline: September 28, 2025
Bergger Analog Photography Prize 2025
The Bergger Analog Photography Prize is aimed at emerging photographers using black and white analog photography as a means of expression and aims to be a springboard for new photographic writing in black and white. What winners receive 5 500€ worth of exhibition production, Grand Prize Winner | Shortlisted artists receive a 100€ voucher on Bergger website. Grand Prize: A one year exhibition at the Pavillon des Lettres, a literary hotel in the heart of Par
Deadline: September 28, 2025
NATURE AND HUMANS Photo Contest 2025
Nature and Humans is an international photography contest that invites reflection on the relationship between people and nature. Organized by the DESEA Foundation, the 2025 edition offers more than €15,800 in prizes, including €8,800 in cash and the rest in professional photographic equipment and travel vouchers. The contest stands out as a unique platform where art, environmental awareness, and international exposure converge. Its main categories focus on conservation—with the most
Deadline: September 30, 2025
AAP Magazine#52: Street
Our 52nd printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "STREET". Capturing the essence of the urban lifestyle is now both a popular form of art and an important medium of communicating the heart and soul of a society and its people. Send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio - capturing the weird and wonderful moments unfolding around you! The subject is completely up to you. Any capture method or process, whether digital or anal
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Portrait
“A portrait! What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound.” – Charles Baudelaire A window into the soul as the cliché goes, and yet there ’s some truth in the power of a portrait – from the history of the studio sitting to the rise of the selfie, the best portraits give a glimpse into another life, a connection formed across distance, cultures and ages. Show us faces – individuals or groups, the iconic or the unknown – that celebrate divers
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