Animal KIngdom

Close on November 02, 2025

Host: New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA)

Territory: Worldwide

Theme: Animal KIngdom

Eligibility: This Call for Entries is open worldwide to both amateur and professional photographers.

Entry Fees: $35 / 3 images

Prize: Exhibition

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.

ANIMAL KINGDOM:

Our world is filled with animals. Whether your first thoughts are about lions, and tigers and bears, elephants working in the Asian lumber industry, or two/four legged pets there are so many options. And don’t forget the fish tank and reptiles. So, if life takes you on an exotic African safari, traveling in Southeast Asia, visiting a local zoo or aquarium, or just looking around in your own home/neighborhood the animal kingdom offers huge photographic opportunities. Puppies that play joyfully, the migration in the Serengeti, your parakeet pecking at your glasses and dolphins gracefully jumping out of the ocean are just starting points. The finish line at a horse race, mice munching cheese, and a bee or butterfly collecting nectar from a flower – the possibilities go on and on.

As with all calls, all 2D photographic art is accepted.

EXHIBITION AND AWARDS: There will be 10 cash prizewinners, 20 Juror Selections and 20 Honorable Mentions

CASH PRIZES:
Grand Prize: One photographer will receive $1,100. The image will be featured on the home page NYC4PA.COM.
First Prize:3 photographers will each receive $400.
Second Prize:3 photographers will each receive $325.
Third Prize:3 photographers will each receive $250.

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