Photography Contest
Black and White Photo Awards 2024
Deadline |
CLOSEDTheme |
Black and White - Several categoriesTerritory |
WorldwideEligibility |
open to allEntry Fees |
15 EurosPrizes |
Cash PrizeBlack and White Photo Awards 2024 brings you the chance to win one of the almost 30 prizes, including the €1,000 for the absolute winner of our photo contest. More than €2500 in prizes for the best photographs and 15 honorable mentions thought to be grateful for the talent, the effort and the hard work done by monochrome photographers from all the world’s countries.
Looking for reward your amazing and creative pictures, we have a special award for creativity and 5 prizes for the best photograph in each contest category. If all this is not enough for you, this year we have added 5 more prizes for the second place winners in each category.
In addition, SanDisk Professional has teamed up with us to make this contest an even greater experience. This year's Special Award for Creativity will be sponsored by SanDisk Professional and will include their fastest portable SSD of the moment: SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 SSD (2TB).
This contest is open for professional and amateur photographers from all the worldwide, winning photos will have international recognition and they will be able to show our Black and White Photo Awards hallmark on it.
Some of the best professionals in black&white photography have joined us to form our jury. They’re putting up their knowledge, experience and professionality at the service of this contest, just looking for the best images and finding our photo awards winners. With them, professionals from the team of NCJ Media Solutions, are working to find the right winner for each one of the categories at our black and white international photography contest.
Our jury is composed of high-level photographers such as Julia Anna Gospodarou, Charles Paul Azzopardi, Joel Tjintjelaar, Kazutoshi Kawakami and the new member of this edition: Néstor Rodan.
Looking for reward your amazing and creative pictures, we have a special award for creativity and 5 prizes for the best photograph in each contest category. If all this is not enough for you, this year we have added 5 more prizes for the second place winners in each category.
In addition, SanDisk Professional has teamed up with us to make this contest an even greater experience. This year's Special Award for Creativity will be sponsored by SanDisk Professional and will include their fastest portable SSD of the moment: SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 SSD (2TB).
This contest is open for professional and amateur photographers from all the worldwide, winning photos will have international recognition and they will be able to show our Black and White Photo Awards hallmark on it.
Some of the best professionals in black&white photography have joined us to form our jury. They’re putting up their knowledge, experience and professionality at the service of this contest, just looking for the best images and finding our photo awards winners. With them, professionals from the team of NCJ Media Solutions, are working to find the right winner for each one of the categories at our black and white international photography contest.
Our jury is composed of high-level photographers such as Julia Anna Gospodarou, Charles Paul Azzopardi, Joel Tjintjelaar, Kazutoshi Kawakami and the new member of this edition: Néstor Rodan.
Featured Photo Contest
AAP Magazine #57/Portrait
$1,000 cash prizes | Winning image(s) published in AAP Magazine #57 | Extensive press coverage and global recognition
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Best Photography Contests in 2024
Each year, there are hundreds of photography competitions all over the world, so we've decided to select for you the best of the best! Our selection of the best photo contests in 2024 is thoroughly curated to help you, whether you are a professional photographer or an amateur, to help find your next creative breakthrough. These all-star competitions offer the greatest opportunities for international exposure and/or incredible financial benefits. Some of them are closing soon, so get your photo submissions in!
ENDS 04/12/26
The winner will receive a grant of $14,000 for a solo exhibition
ENDS 04/16/26
Present your work to exhibit at PhMuseum Days 2026, our International Photography Festival taking place on 1–4 October in Bologna, Italy.
ENDS 04/16/26
Emerging Photographers (under 30 year old ) 2 X $ 5000 grants.
ENDS 04/16/26
The main grant is open to professional photographers worldwide, one $30,000. grant
ENDS 04/17/26
Our 57th printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "Portrait".
ENDS 04/21/26
Be Featured in our April 2026 Online Juried Solo Exhibition!
ENDS 04/21/26
The first prize winner will receive £15,000, the second prize winner £3,000, and the third prize winner £2,000.
ENDS 04/30/26
If you're a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we invite you to share your photographic project with us.
ENDS 04/30/26
The IPA recognizes photography’s leading talents who are creating, shaping and defining the world of photography today.
ENDS 04/30/26
Tthe Inge Morath Award, a $7,500 grant given to a woman photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project.
ENDS 05/04/26
For the tenth year running, the Société des Auteurs des Arts Visuels et de l’Image Fixe (SAIF) is funding the €8,000 prize to encourage the work of a photojournalist committed to long-term projects.
ENDS 05/07/26
The 2026 Virginia Prize, worth €10,000, will be awarded to its winner in November 2026.
ENDS 05/11/26
The Bibliothèque nationale de France will present the work of the Bourse du Talent winners alongside other prestigious photography awards as part of the exhibition La Photographie à tout Prix in December
ENDS 05/13/26
This prize, with a production budget of €25,000, is open to any new photographer or artist using photography, submitting a previously unpublished dummy book.
ENDS 05/17/26
MonoVisions Photography Awards are an international open call for photographers using black and white medium to express their visual language.
ENDS 05/19/26
The Grant is given in order to allow the winnerto carry out the photo-reportage which has been presented for the Grant.
ENDS 05/31/26
This season will feature five main categories, with ‘Family’ serving as the primary theme.
ENDS 06/01/26
The Lenscratch Student Prize has opened up a whole new line of connections, opportunities and exposure.
ENDS 06/03/26
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.
ENDS 06/15/26
Submit your best photographs now and get your chance to be one of the winners awarded in Siena!
ENDS 07/22/26
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.