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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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. October 2024
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Be Featured in our August 2024 Online Juried Solo Exhibition!
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Decode Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming theme: square
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 14th Annual “Landscapes” Online Art Competition. 2D and 3D artists from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for possible inclusion into the Gallery’s August 2024
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For the EVOLVE open call, we invite you to submit artwork that reflects your exploration of a concept and the resultant process and visual form that evolution takes.
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The SE Center for Photography is looking for images on the theme Alternative Processes Juror: Diana Bloomfield, Juror
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An annual prize devoted to discovering and nurturing the next generation of photographic artists.
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The ProfiFoto New Talent Awards are powered by Canon, the jury of experts will select up to five projects, that will receive cash prizes totalling € 3,000
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Celebrate artistic innovation with 'Art SQUARE at Times SQUARE,' an open-topic exhibition hosted by Art Square Gallery.
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CollexArt invites artists to submit original 2D works on paper whether traditional or experimental. Eligible submissions include, but are not limited to: drawings, paintings, printmaking, photographs, and collages.
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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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Entering an image not only offers you the chance to win fantastic prize money, it also plants a tree somewhere in the world.
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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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For 14 days, from October 7th to 21st, 2024, Mind The Art Exhibition transforms the bustling London Underground into a contemporary gallery space, covering the period of the prestigious Frieze Art Fair.
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The free competition, open to wildlife photography novices, amateurs and professionals, celebrates the hilarity of our natural world and highlights what we need to do to protect
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A competition for world class commercial photographers, judged by a prestigious panel of experts from renowned advertising agencies, magazines & brands.
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SlowArt Productions presents the group exhibition, A Show of Heads . The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from October 10 – November 2, 2024
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Win The Title For Photographer Of The Year And Receive Up To $7,400 Cash Prizes
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The Best in Show award comes with a $150 cash prize, a solo exhibition to showcase your winning artwork, and extensive promotion to elevate your profile in the art world.
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M&C Saatchi Group & Saatchi Gallery launch Art Prize to drive meaningful change for emerging artists worldwide.
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$24,000 Awarded Annually
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The Arte Laguna Prize is an international free-themed art competition aimed at enhancing Contemporary Art. The contest stands out in the global art scene for the growing variety of its partnerships and opportunities offered to artists and photographers,
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The exhibition will be held in one of the most artistic area in Barcelona.
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The open call addresses artistic works in the medium of photography whose content focuses on historical or contemporary political and/or social issues and tendencies related to Namibia.
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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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Selected artists will have their work featured in the exhibition and online.
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The 2024 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.
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Fusion Art invites submissions for the 9th Annual Waterscapes art competition for an online exhibition during the month of August 2024.
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We are looking to give one $200 EMERGE Fellowship Award and exhibition opportunities to emerging photographers.
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FEATURE DATES - NOVEMBER, 2024 - APRIL, 2025
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Filter Photo announces an open call for a photo book exhibition
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The Competition is endowed with more than €13,000 (thirteen thousand euros) in prizes; of which more than €9,000 (nine thousand euros) will be in cash.
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Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that explores the genre of street photography from all angles, including people, urban structure, and documentary subject matter.
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Our international photography competition for up-and-coming image makers is back!
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The photographs must accurately reflect the theme, "Reveal the Silk Roads", through representations of Gastronomy and Food Production, Music and Dance, and Traditional Sports and Games.
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Works will be selected based on creativity, quality of execution and uniqueness of vision. The work can be expressed from realism to abstraction.
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Graphis is committed to presenting and promoting the work of exceptional talent in Graphic Design, Advertising, Photography and Art/Illustration.
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Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the fourth Yellow online art contest for the month of August 2024.
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The Atlanta Photography Group (APG) introduces an new call for entry: Aline Smithson Selects 2024
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We will be looking for a range of how shadow and light are interpreted by contemporary photographers. Exhibition Dates: September 1-25, 2024
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Decode Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming theme: square
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Curators: with jurors Debra Achen and Diana H. Bloomfield
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The winner of the open call will receive a one year scholarship to attend the Photojournalism & Documentary Photography Programme (PDP) at The Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg (ZA)
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Virtual Art Exhibition
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BUDAPEST INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS is an international platform for photographers from all levels and genres to share their best images with the creative community in Hungary and Eastern Europe.
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Enter your photography folio and the empathy-driven story you want to capture for your chance to earn a Polaroid I-2 camera, 12 packs of Polaroid Film to capture your story and participate in online critique with three Magnum photographers.
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Artist Space Gallery announces their 2nd Abstract online Art Competition for the month of August
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Minimalism is a genre of photographic art that highlights simplicity, focusing on the basic features of our surroundings
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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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Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our online exhibit, minimal.
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The CLIMATE CREATIVES CHALLENGE is a global initiative serving as a catalyst for innovation in climate communication.
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The Head On Photo Awards represent a global selection of the best work from emerging and established photographers across three categories: Portrait, Landscape, Student
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Finalists’ Exhibition + In-Person Portfolio Reviews
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We are looking for the best in contemporary photography and photo-based work. This is an open theme emphasizing creativity, content, and mastery.
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The 15th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to Southeast Asia and the violations of human and environmental rights caused by illegal fishing and overfishing.
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The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44x60 inches on museum quality paper (approximately a $2,500-$3,000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in our main gallery.
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A curated international photography exhibition October 19 – November 12, 2024
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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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Over $5,000 in cash prizes, global exposure, artist profile, winner's gallery feature, custom press release, interview, and more.
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The Estée Lauder Pink Ribbon Photo Award brings together a wide public in an artistic way within the context of the national campaign against breast cancer
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Exhibition Run Dates: November 14th, 2024 – May 11th, 2025 (Virtual)
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For this call the focus is on images where a curve or curves is an important element of the composition.
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Winning artists shall get cash prizes of up to $500, promotions on social media, and email blasts to 50,000+ galleries.
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. November 2024
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Eidolon centre for Everyday Photography is calling artists, academics, enthusiasts, and professionals, who have a passion and serious interest in vernacular photography and everyday imaging.
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The contest starts on June 1, 2024 and ends on August 31, 2024, with the aim of challenging the creativity of the participants in capturing images that they believe have to do with: SPORTS.
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The TEN X TEN show is an annual small works exhibition that celebrates the wide range of creative expression within the square photographic format. Open to all photographers internationally. Open to all types of image capture; digital, film, iphone, etc.
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We are receiving open call submissions from countries across all the world's continents. We are delighted to announce our Open Call for FORMAT23.
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The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer four cash grants to support the work of emerging and established photographers.
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Fusion Art invites submissions for the 10th Annual Figures & Faces art competition for an online exhibition during the month of September 2024.
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On the occasion of the annual FESTIVAL RAISE YOUR ZINE! 2024 THE DOCKS launches its third call! THE DOCKS supports the development of editorial projects by talented photographers from around the world.
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The Ian Parry Scholarship is divided into two categories: The Sunday Times Award for Achievement and The Canon Award for Potential.
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Our 42nd printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "Shapes".
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Open-theme | unmoored : liberated, unbound, sprung, emancipated, uncaged, unfettered, expressed, unleashed, released …
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You are invited to enter your best photos and videos made close to home or in a backyard, a local public or private garden, park, or preserve.
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This award is judged as a portfolio of seven images.
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The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook's contribution to the evolving narrative of photography
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The 3 winners will be exhibited at the " LIVORNO PHOTO MEETING " festival on 15-16-17 November 2024
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#FindTheOrange AI [Photo] Contest is a competition for images reprocessed with Artificial Intelligence organised by #FindTheOrange and Osborne Clarke Studio Legale
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Do you want to receive international exposure and connect with the photography industry in the Nordics? This is an open call for visual artists and photographers interested in a solo exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2025.
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The 212 Photography Competition is a fully independent body, run by 212 Photography Istanbul and showcasing the best up-and-coming talents of the year from the country, region and around the world.
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The exhibition ‘Joy’, hosted at Arc Gallery and Studios in San Francisco and curated by Priscilla Otani and Karen M. Gutfreund seeks art that reflects joy from a source that sparks pure delight.
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The International Jeju Photo Contest celebrates its 16th anniversary with participants from over 30 countries around the world including Korea.
ENDS 09/11/24
Winning artists shall get cash prizes of up to $500, promotions on social media, and email blasts to 50,000+ galleries.
ENDS 09/12/24
Present Your Award-Winning Images for up to $10,000 of Cash Prizes!
ENDS 09/15/24
Artadia Awards are open to all visual artists living and working throughout one of Artadia's Award Cities. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all visual media and at any stage in their career are strongly encouraged to apply.
ENDS 09/15/24
This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to prototypes, hand-made books to zines
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Nomination to the Awards: Your artwork will be considered for the Van Gogh Tribute Art Prize.
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A FREE to enter International Photography & Film Awards with great prizes across several genres. Photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience are eligible to enter the Xposure International Awards.
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We are thrilled to announce the Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants. The two $20,000 grants will support the development of a documentary project on the work of an environmental story over the course of twelve months
ENDS 09/15/24
For issue #127 we are looking for minimalist photography.
ENDS 09/15/24
Memento Mori is a profound and evocative theme in photography, focusing on the transient nature of life and the inevitability of death.
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We are looking for photographs that encapsulate the diversity, complexity, and beauty of urban settings. This could include street photography, architectural shots, cityscapes, and candid moments that tell the story of life in the city.
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The award grants the winner with the production of a photobook to be published by Artphilein Editions, a residency and an exhibition at the Artphilein Library space in Lugano/Paradiso.
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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.
ENDS 09/15/24
Since 2007, Dear Dave, magazine has been supporting the publication of photographers and writers, and the fellowship fosters the continued conversation about the medium through idiosyncratic, and underrepresented work.
ENDS 09/16/24
The SPIE Annual International Day of Light Photo Contest is being held to raise awareness about International Day of Light and the vital role that light and light-based technologies play in daily life.
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The Center for Photographic Art (CPA) is excited to announce the 2024 International Juried Exhibition with $5,000 in awards!
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Art Fluent offers opportunities to artists worldwide through juried exhibitions throughout the year.
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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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Do you have favorite photos & videos of wildlife, landscapes, and outdoor adventures made in any of the 62 designated U.S. National Parks? Calling all photographers at all levels of expertise!
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Based in TORONTO, Canada, Part Crowd Art Gallery is ONLINE ONLY, so no need to ship your work(s) to us. Exhibition Dates: October 1 - 31, 2024
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International Color Awards is open to professional and amateur photographers shooting in all forms of color photography using traditional or digital methods.
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. December 2024
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The Aesthetica Art Prize celebrates contemporary art in all its forms, offering opportunities for exhibition at a major public gallery alongside online publication and £10,000 prize money.
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TIFA connects photographers from around the world with the creative community in Tokyo, Japan, providing them with an excellent platform to present their work to a new market.
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Winner Receives $100 Dollar Cash Prize
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$3,500 in guaranteed cash prizes will be given out to 75-100 winning best abstract artists.**
ENDS 10/01/24
Artadia Awards are open to all visual artists living and working throughout one of Artadia's Award Cities. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all visual media and at any stage in their career are strongly encouraged to apply.
ENDS 10/04/24
Once again, this year, Médicos del Mundo presents the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award to denounce the situation of millions of people in the World.
ENDS 10/07/24
Passepartout Photo Prize provides cash awards, exhibition in a fine art gallery in Rome, publication in annual catalogue and various magazines, and more.
ENDS 10/09/24
Winning artists shall get cash prizes of up to $500, promotions on social media, and email blasts to 50,000+ galleries.
ENDS 10/09/24
Submit your best shots for a chance to win exciting cash prizes and have your work featured in our special publication with Docu-Magazine.
ENDS 10/10/24
The winning project will be published by Yogurt Editions in a 500-copy edition.
ENDS 10/13/24
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.
ENDS 10/15/24
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.
ENDS 10/18/24
Ufofabrik Contemporary Art Gallery has announced an art prize, with the formula of the competition for artists, with the aim of promoting Contemporary Art in fairs and in new digital markets.
ENDS 10/18/24
WINNER will receive £1000. All finalists photos will be displayed in the LIF exhibition.
ENDS 10/21/24
A curated international photography exhibition December 9–19, 2024, PH21@Barcelona
ENDS 10/27/24
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.
ENDS 10/31/24
The winner of the Anthology Cover Art Award will receive a €500 cash prize and publication on the cover of – and editorial coverage in – a future Issue of Anthology. The winner will also receive a one-year subscription to Anthology
ENDS 11/12/24
This year's CIPC rewards selected artists with an exhibition in Chelsea, New York, along with other numerous PR opportunities. The event also provides invaluable exposure to the community while promoting career growth and recognition.
ENDS 11/17/24
Monochrome Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers.
ENDS 11/22/24
Since starting out in 2006, the London International Creative Competition has been recognising and rewarding the world's most fresh and progressive talents.
ENDS 11/29/24
Provides a platform for photography students worldwide - first prize is top Sony digital imaging equipment plus benefit from global exposure
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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
ENDS 12/01/24
Promote your work with Al-Tiba9 Interviews and engage with our diverse readership.
ENDS 12/10/24
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
ENDS 12/15/24
$ 2,000 USD, twice a year (two cycles of contest: Spring & Fall) + publication on our website
ENDS 12/31/24
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.
ENDS 12/31/24
We encourage both professional and non-professional photographers to submit your work to the Social Documentary Network website.
ENDS 12/31/24
Open Show holds social screenings worldwide where the public can experience compelling visual stories and interact directly with their creators.
ENDS 12/31/24
There is no particular theme, but we have an affinity for photos that display humorous, colorful, pattern oriented, and allegorical content.
ENDS 12/31/24
MVIBE Magazine is a magazine created by artists for artists solely for the purpose of advertising worldwide.
ENDS 12/31/24
Promote your work with Al-Tiba9 Interviews and engage with our diverse readership.
ENDS 12/31/24
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.
ENDS 12/31/24
We hope the Gender Equality Grant can help our partner organizations advance their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and commitments.
ENDS 12/31/24
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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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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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 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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Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the fifth "Waters" online art contest for the month of August 2024.
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Awards include a chance to display artwork on the digital monitor of AGI Fine Art's "New York I Love You" October exhibition with Social Media Exposure.
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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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We are pleased to announce our 1st Still Life online Art Competition for the month of July 2024.
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This is a great opportunity for the artists, who can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks in Italy and much more.
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portraits : vignette, profile, figure, depiction, silhouette, image, portrayal, representation, likeness …
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Universal values of martial arts, such as inclusiveness, fairness, resilience, sportsmanship, etc., that could be shared by everyone around the globe
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A curated international photography exhibition September 21 – October 15, 2024