All Photography Contests

Whether you look for cash prizes, camera equipment, or having your work exhibited, photography contests are a great way to test your skills as a photographer. Most competitions publish early entries and finalist's photographs, aside of winner's galleries, so having your images posted on a photo contest website can give you valuable exposure whether you win or not. We've pulled together a selection of 150+ photography competitions in 2024, from free to paid photography awards, so you can decide what photo contest meets your needs.

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Capture and share the emotions that basketball inspires in you
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By fostering diversity in visual storytelling, the Xiaomi Imagery Awards encourages photographers to explore the world and share their distinctive perspectives.
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Become the Photographer of the Week and win Exposure on the Home Page & Social Media
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Panopticon Gallery is pleased to announce a call for art for “First Look 2025,” our annual juried portfolio showcase, where several portfolios will be selected for the exhibition on view from February through April 2025.
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We are excited to announce an open call for submissions for the upcoming issue of our art magazine.
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Exhibition date: April 23th to May 147th 2025.
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The 13th consecutive edition of the “Fodar” International Photo Festival Biennale is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the “Fodar” Foundation
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Every weekend, The Eye of Photography dedicates itself to the portfolios of its readers. By publishing the best portfolios, the magazine enables photographers around the world to show case their photographs.
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We encourage both professional and non-professional photographers to submit your work to the Social Documentary Network website.
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Open Show holds social screenings worldwide where the public can experience compelling visual stories and interact directly with their creators.
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Shoot The Frame is a suite of monthly international photography contests, designed to celebrate stunning photography and expose talented photographers.
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There is no particular theme, but we have an affinity for photos that display humorous, colorful, pattern oriented, and allegorical content.
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MVIBE Magazine is a magazine created by artists for artists solely for the purpose of advertising worldwide.
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Promote your work with Al-Tiba9 Interviews and engage with our diverse readership.
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The Pulitzer Center’s global reporting grants support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media, from global health to climate change.
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We hope the Gender Equality Grant can help our partner organizations advance their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and commitments.
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If you're a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we invite you to share your photographic project with us.
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The winner will receive a €500 cash prize and editorial coverage in a future issue of Anthology Magazine, plus a one-year subscription to Anthology
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Promote your work with Al-Tiba9 Interviews and engage with our diverse readership.
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We invite photographers, amateur and professional, to submit photographs that illustrate the various ways in which women can be iconic and create change for good in their communities and beyond.
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TERAVARNA announces their "6th COLOR" 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.
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EXHIBITION DATES - MARCH 7 - 28, 2025
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To discover the best pictures and have your work seen by leading publications and galleries, we encourage you to submit your best works.
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To identify the artists with the greatest growth potential.
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We're interested in urban explorations and the insights they can uncover: architecture and cityscapes, urban decay, street encounters, suburban stories... All genres welcome.
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At the Golden Shot, we believe that photography is not only an art but also a medium for storytelling, expressing emotions, and representing cultures
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Photometria International Photography Festival wishing to continue the promotion of modern photographic creation, announces the Parallel Voices 2024 portfolio contest.
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Mountain Travel Sobek guests are invited to submit digital photographs of their 2024 MT Sobek trip(s) for our annual photo contest.
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The National Press Photographers Foundation (NPPF) is pleased to provide a $15,000 annual fellowship to honor the memory of Michel du Cille, a dedicated photojournalist who died in 2014
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Each month the competition winners and finalists are rewarded with $2000 cash prizes and direct online exposure.
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Exhibition Dates: February 15, 2025 – March 8, 2025
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EXHIBITION DATES - APRIL 4 - 25, 2025
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A Macro Photography Exhibition
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The objective of PhotoSpiva is to “present an exhibition of excellence in photography, celebrating the scope and vigorous activity of today’s contemporary photographers.”
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Upstream Gallery Juried Photography Show 2025
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Decode Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming theme: Open
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Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 8th “Animals” Online Art Competition for the month of January 2025.
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Rewarding the best single images! Enter for free and you could win $5,000, top Sony digital imaging equipment plus more!
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Dedicated to young photographers under 19 years-old - first prize is top Sony digital imaging equipment plus benefit from global exposure
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The contest is open to all styles of underwater photography; pictures taken in flooded mines to swimming pools have been awarded previously.’
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The competition offers over €28,000 in total prizes, with €12,000 in cash awards.
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Filter Photo is pleased to announce Context 2024, our tenth annual spring open call for photography-based work.
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expressionism : impressionism, nonrepresentational, nonobjective, abstract, nonrealistic, symbolic …
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Minimalism or the absence of distractions from shadows, light and often a single subject, line or emotion is also the core of every photograph we take where instead of being subtle and undefined it becomes the dramatic force of the image.
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'Home is Where' - A new call for entry for a printed newspaper zine. Selected images will also be included in an online exhibition on Float’s website
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TERAVARNA gives artists $2,000 in financial grants two times each year.
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GET YOUR CAMERA READY AND MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION FOR THE SIPA 2025
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Decode Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming theme: square
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Since starting out in 2006, the London International Creative Competition has been recognising and rewarding the world's most fresh and progressive talents.
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Rewarding the best photo series worldwide! Enter for free and you could win $25,000, a range of Sony digital imaging equipment plus more!
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The annual photo contest rewards photographers for the best single exposure pictures contributing to the past year of visual journalism.
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We are glad to share the news that Anadolu Agency’s international news photography contest Istanbul Photo Awards to be held for 10th time.
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The Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition.
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Has photography ever really been disconnected from Science?
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STERN-Preis 2025 – Photo Story of the Year. Award for photojournalistic work published in German-language media in print and online in 2024.
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The Grand Prize winner will receive the Leica Q3 camera and a voucher worth 1,000 € for lens.
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Each exhibition will have 24 photographs selected by the juror for exhibiton at the gallery.
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Exhibition Dates: May 15 – August 31, 2025
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Passepartout Photo Prize provides cash awards, exhibition in a fine art gallery in Rome, publication in annual catalogue and various magazines, and more.
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Exhibition: March 7 - March 28, 2025
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We re excited to celebrate our 40th anniversary supporting the arts in the Yosemite area.
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Celebrating compelling imagery that captures stories of health, science and human experience since 1997.
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$3,500 in guaranteed cash prizes will be given out to 75-100 winning best abstract artists.**
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Issue #129 will have the theme 'Landscape photography'
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Accepted entries will be shown in an online exhibition from February 1 through March 31, and then archived on our website.
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SDN will award one photographer the ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography and a $2,500 honorarium
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Format: Online Exhibition - Exhibition: February 1st, 2025 - March 1st, 2025
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We’re calling on visionary photographers to share their work — whether it’s real-life environments or soul-searching portraits, fine art or fantasy, conceptual or straightforward, rough and raw, or poetic and beautiful.
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Award ceremony and opening of the 5. WORLD MASTERS of PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD will take Place in June 2025 in Vienna
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Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the third "Portrait" online art contest for the month of January 2025
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Portfolio Reviews at the Month of Photography Denver Festival bring 30 top gallery owners, curators, and publishers to meet 70 artists, March 14-15, 2025, at The Slate Hotel—don’t miss this professional opportunity!
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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 8th "Black & White" Online Art Competition for the month of January 2024.
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MonoVisions Photography Awards are an international open call for photographers using black and white medium to express their visual language.
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. April 2025
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Artworks will be printed (Epson giclée print) and framed by us and shown in the group exhibition
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Be Featured in our February 2025 Online Juried Solo Exhibition! Harvey Stein is the curator for the show.
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Each Seed Award recipient will receive an award of €5.000 to invest in developing their artistic and cultural practice on their own terms.
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The First Prize will receive €2,500 and a trophy. The runner-up will receive the Hotusa Group Prize, valued at €1,000, and a trophy.
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The mission of the AS International Film Photography Awards is to discover, showcase and promote photographers working across all genres of analog photography worldwide
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The winning artists will have the opportunity to exhibit their work at the 14th edition of MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas
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The winning image and three runners-up will be featured in CWA and at the CA Live! 2025 conference in London on 1 March. The overall winner will get two free tickets to the conference, and will also receive a Current World Archaeology trophy.
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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
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The biennial Belfast Photo Festival provided the perfect platform for gaining exposure to an international audience, with previous editions having welcome over 100,000 visitors from all over the world
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It's time to showcase your creativity and passion for nature. TERAVARNA is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated 11th Landscape International Juried Art Competition.
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The Mythography series draws from the Greco-Roman pantheon, encouraging photographers—amateur and professional alike—to offer fresh, contemporary interpretations of these timeless myths.
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Each season has its own character, shaping how we live, work, and play.
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Today we are announcing our call for applications to Woodstock AIR 2025, the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s artist-in-residency program.
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Fusion Art invites submissions for the 9th Annual Black & White Art Competition for an online exhibition during the month of February 2025.
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A Macro Photography Exhibition
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FEATURE DATES - APRIL - SEPTEMBER, 2025
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Our 10th edition of the All About Photo Awards invites photographers from around the world to submit their best work for consideration. Winners will receive $5,000 in cash awards, extensive press coverage and global recognition.
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Architecture, the art and science of designing structures and buildings.
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Formerly known as Food Photographer of the Year, the World Food Photography Awards is a unique photography competition celebrating the very best in food photography from around the world.
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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, color etc.).
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Win €1,000 Cash Prize and an exhibition at BBA Gallery
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The BBA Photography Prize is back and bigger than ever! Celebrate 10 years of BBA Prizes with us and enter to be part of our major anniversary exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin.
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Art is born out of passion. Fine Art photography is a perfect instrument, which allows a person to communicate with the world and share their vision. It results from the author's deep sensitivity, a need to express feelings through image.
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The eighth edition of Belgrade Photo Month Photography Festival will be organized in May 2024, with photography exhibitions, lectures, workshops, portfolio reviews, etc., taking place in various venues around Belgrade, Serbia.
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This year’s contest theme, "Inspire," seeks entries that provoke thought, elicit emotions, and inspire audiences to view the world from new angles.
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. May 2025
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We accept up to four entries per participant each quarterly, awarding ribbons, medals, and trophies to our coveted category and subcategory winners.
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The Koi Artist Award is our way of extending a hand to emerging and established artists, providing them with a platform to shine and thrive.
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The MUSE Photography Awards celebrates the creative ethos and underlying afternotes of what makes a photograph so influential.
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Premio Labora is an international network & independent art prize, aimed at enhancing contemporary art. The winners have the opportunity to exhibit their works in contemporary art fairs.
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The proceeds from the project will go towards the international co-financing grant “Water is Life 2024“.
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EXHIBITION DATES - MAY 4 - 30, 2025
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BigPicture is open to all photography enthusiasts and professionals alike worldwide to compete for a chance to win the $5,000 grand prize.
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We aim to celebrate the best imagery and storytelling that engages with and represents life on our planet including diverse habitats from forests, cities, deserts, rainforests, urban and managed lands...
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Street photography is characterized by its spontaneity and the emphasis on capturing the moment as it happens, without posing or staging the subjects.
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Show Dates: April 15- May 10, 2025
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Enter one of the most prestigious competitions for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition.
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Black and White Spider Awards is open to professional and amateur photographers shooting in all forms of black and white photography, using traditional or digital methods.
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This distinguished event invites photographers from around the world to capture the architectural splendor of Binghatti's renowned facades.
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The third edition of this photo exhibition will take place in the magnificent setting of the living and working area of Vincent van Gogh.
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Entries are open worldwide to photographers using an iPhone or iPad. Photos should not be published previously anywhere. The posts on personal accounts (Facebook, Instagram etc.) are eligible.
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Submit your best work to our photo competition for a chance to win up to $11,500 in cash prizes, be selected by our curators for the PX3 exhibition in Paris and inclusion in the Annual PX3 book.
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Applicants may request between US$20,000 (Level I) to US$100,000 (Level II) per grant.
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Choose your best work, upload photos and give yourself a chance to compete for prestige, fame and more than $ 7,500 in monetary award!
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Nikon’s Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. The Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in microscopy and photography.
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Unleash your creativity by submitting up to 100 of your breathtaking photos into the CEWE Photo Award 2025 and stand a chance to win amazing prizes.
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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
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The Open competition is open to all photographers. The EPSON International Pano Awards showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest competition for panoramic photography.
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$ 2,000 USD, twice a year (two cycles of contest: Spring & Fall) + publication on our website
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Seasons come and go, but each season can have its own distinct look and feel. From the greens of Spring to the blues and whites of Winter
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New York Photography Awards strives to honor, recognize, and promote outstanding photographers, as well as budding talents, worldwide.
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Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists
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Women photographers can participate with her female visual perspective in 23 thematic categories.
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We support artists from Maine and beyond, focusing on innovation and cross-disciplinary art. Denise Froehlich, our expert reviewer, brings museum leadership, curation, and contemporary art expertise.
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Top photography experts, including Gabriel Sanchez (NYT), Anna Goldwater Alexander (WIRED), Polly Irungu (VP’s Office, BWP Founder), and Caroline Hunter (The Guardian), offer portfolio reviews.
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Portfolio feedback is based on a theme or sets of images and covers: editing, organising and sequencing, which we will cover during 3 x 1.5 hour online Zoom sessions.
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Our education program connects you with top photography experts in live, private sessions to review projects, prep submissions, or get feedback. Tailored advice, no pre-recorded classes—just practical guidance!
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An exclusively professional portfolio review featuring premier photographers and contemporary art buyers, art producers, creative directors, photo editors and reps.
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The winner will receive £15,000, the second prize is £3,000, and the third prize is £2,000.
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Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival invites photographers to apply for its exhibition «Photofolios:25».
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We promote each online edition via email, web, and social media three times during the publication month.
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EXHIBITION DATES - FEBRUARY 7 - 28, 2025
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The New Wave of Photographic Talent
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Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 4th “Yellow” Online Art Competition for the month of December 2024.
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The Mobile Photography Awards were founded in 2011 to recognize and celebrate the talent and imagery of the mobile photo & art communities.
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Be Featured in our January 2025 Online Juried Solo Exhibition!
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Giovane Fotografia Italiana (Young Italian Photography) promotes the discovery and showcase of emerging photography talents in Italy who approach photography as artistic research.
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The Abstract Image highlights the transformative power of abstraction in photography, allowing us to break free from reality and explore the myriad possibilities within non-representational states.
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The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is an $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations located therein.
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PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for a group exhibition themed Upside down
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Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the fifth Abstract online art contest for month of January 2025.
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Become the Photographer of the Week and win Exposure on the Home Page & Social Media
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“The Art of Color” celebrates the vibrant world of color photography, where every hue tells a story.
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Through the visual representation of abandoned spaces, artifacts of history are at once fresh and new, ancient and decayed. The past continues to live in these forsaken, ruined, or empty spaces and we ask- Who were the people who lived and worked here?