2022 Best Photo Contests, Photography Contests, Competitions & Awards

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Deadline: October 04, 2022

Life is a stream of colors. Red, blue, yellow, and all the possible combinations in between these primary colors without forgetting black and white surround us everywhere. Send us your images - preferably a cohesive body of work or portfolio - both where colors may not just influence the pictures, but where it may also be the subject solely. The contest is open to any color photography interpretation, from photojournalism, street photography, artistic photography, portrait, nude, lands

Deadline: October 04, 2022

AAP Magazine #27: Colors

Deadline: October 05, 2022

PhotoBrussels Festival 07: Self Portrait

PhotoBrussels Festival is the annual event dedicated to photography in Brussels. Exhibitions, meetings, workshops, and conferences constitute a global program that covers the whole city and brings up places that showcase photography: the Festival Tour. During the Festival, Hangar proposes a thematic exhibition, and in the framework of the 7th edition, launches a Call for photographers on the theme: Self-portrait. This call is open for original and unpublished projects tha

Deadline: October 05, 2022

Embracing our differences: 2023 Exhibit

Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size images created by local, national and international artists. The display reflects the artists' interpretations of the theme "enriching lives through diversity." The exhibit will be on display January 18 through May 29, 2023, in three locations through Sarasota and Manatee counties in Florida. The winning artworks combine a deep understanding of both medium and message. Awards:

Deadline: October 07, 2022

Migrations and the Shift of Borders

The current events that provoke mass migration, as shown by the war in Ukraine, or those involving millions of people driven by hunger or, as is also happening in more developed countries, driven by the search for working opportunities, well testify such a human behavior inherent in its own nature, a behavior that explicits the need and urgency of a universal recognition of a right which is still too often opposed today by a widespread cultural xenophobia. Mobility, transition and structural co

Deadline: October 07, 2022

APOY Amateur Photographer of the Year 2022 - 9th round

Amateur Photographer magazine invites amateur photographers from around the world to enter its annual competition for the chance to win monthly prizes, exposure in the magazine, and the title of ‘Amateur Photographer of the Year 2022’, which for the second year is brought to you in partnership with our sponsor, MPB. The competition has 10 rounds, each with a different theme: 1. Low Light Opens 8th February | Closes 4th March 2022 2. Black and White Opens 4th March | Cl

Deadline: October 07, 2022

APOY Amateur Photographer of the Year 2022 - 9th round

Deadline: October 07, 2022

Symmetry 2022

Symmetry is the theme for this months competition Symmetry, the similarity or exact correspondence between different things capture the eye of photographers every minute of every day. These wonderful matching patterns made by nature or humans always seem to offer a soothing sense of balance and harmony. Show us your best Symmetry images! Works will be selected based on creativity, quality of execution and uniqueness of vision. The work can be expressed from realism to abstrac

Deadline: October 09, 2022

Primary Colors

The New York Center for Photographic Arts (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 on the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the PRIMAY COLORS catalog. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page. There will be 10 cash prizewinners, 20 Juror Selections and 20 Honorable Mentions

Deadline: October 09, 2022

Fine Art Photography Awards 2022-2023

Fine Art Photography Awards is one of the largest award giving bodies for a community of artists ushering an era of new trends in the world of photography. Created in 2014, this competition is a melting pot for people where passion, interest, sense of beauty and openness to diversity in photography collide in intergalactic proportions. At Fine Art Photography, we seek to find artists and unique souls who breathe and live for creativity—where we provide a platform of promotion and support in th

Deadline: October 11, 2022

BBA Photography Prize 2022

The BBA Photography Prize is open to all international photographers above 18 years of age. You can submit up to 15 images, all themes are welcome, and submissions are open until 2 August. The call offers a 1st prize of € 1500 and a solo show at BBA Gallery artsy profile; a 2nd prize of € 1000 plus an Artsy profile; and a 3rd prize of € 700. Moreover, the One-Shot Award offers a cash prize of € 500, and the People’s Choice Award grants € 500 and an artsy profile. Furtherm

Deadline: October 12, 2022

Camera Work: Trees and Water

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on Trees and Water. This exhibition will look to feature both subjects in a dynamic and diverse exhibition on contemporary photography. Trees and Water are both powerful and important subjects. Water can be an ocean, a river, a pool, a fountain, rain or mist or fog, lakes, snow and waves. And Trees can be great subjects of composition, giving the picture a strong foundation to play with the visual elements of space and time. This

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Lisa Elmaleh Won the 2022 Arnold Newman Prize with 'Promised Land'

Promised Land is a series of portraits of those whose lives have been affected by American policies implemented during the construction of the border wall. In an attempt to shed light on the lives that are impacted, I am photographing along the US/Mexico border from Boca Chica in the Gulf of Mexico to the border of Tijuana on the west coast. I am working with a large format 8×10 camera to create these portraits. Utilizing its slowness as an asset, I am able to spend time with each person who sits in front of my lens, hearing their stories.

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Carmignac Photojournalism Award 12th edition, Venezuela Awarded to Fabiola Ferrero

The 12th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to Venezuela and its hardships at the individual, social and ecological levels. It is chaired by Quentin Bajac, director of the Jeu de Paume. The Award was awarded to Fabiola Ferrero.

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PX3 State of the World Winners

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (P×3) photo competition has now announced the winners of the 2022 edition. Brilliant photographers from around the globe, both professional and amateur, shared their unique perspectives and competed for international recognition as the next “PX3 Photographer of the Year”, cash prizes, publication in the PX3 Annual Book, and inclusion in an exhibition to be shown in Paris as well as in galleries around the world

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The Incredible Winning Images of AAP Magazine #25 B&W

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #25: B&W". These amazing photographers come from 11 different countries, their work reflect the large variety black and white photography can offer. Documentary, portrait, travel, street, wildlife, abstract and fine art are all represented in the winning portfolios.

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National Portrait Gallery Announces Shortlist for Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022

We are delighted to announce that Haneem Christian, Clémentine Schneidermann and Alexander Komenda have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2022.

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Arles 2022 Louis Roederer Discovery Award: Rahim Fortune

Since its creation, the Rencontres d'Arles has promoted photography and all its stakeholders, from photographers to artists, curators and publishers. With this in mind, the Rencontres d'Arles associates the Louis Roederer Discovery Award with all exhibition spaces: through their trailblazing work, galleries, art centers, non-profits, independent venues and institutions are often the first to support emerging artists.

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The Beautiful Winning Images of AAP Magazine #24 Portrait

Describe, reveal, embellish, question, disturb... a portrait can inspire many different reactions. But if there are indeed a thousand faces to a photograph, we could only showcase some of them, and this new edition of AAP Magazine focuses on the vision of 25 photographers from 14 different countries and 4 continents!.

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The Spectacular Winning Images of All About Photo Awards 2022

All About Photo is delighted to announce this year’s winners of All About Photo Awards 2022, recognizing the best single images from photographers around the world.

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Overall Winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022

The World Photography Organisation is delighted to announce the overall winners in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2022. The acclaimed photographer Adam Ferguson (Australia) has won the Photographer of the Year title and accompanying $25,000 (USD) cash prize and a range of Sony digital imaging kit. Also announced are the ten category winners alongside 2nd and 3rd place of the Professional competition as well as overall winners of the Open, Student and Youth competitions.

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AAP Magazine #27: Colors

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Shades of Gray

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