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.
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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 11/30/25
If you're a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we invite you to share your photographic project with us.
ENDS 12/01/25
The Rencontres d’Arles is pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 Discovery Award. Jury award of €15,000 and public award of €5,000
ENDS 12/01/25
Our Annual Photo Contest is now open for submissions, and we’re looking for the best of the best. Grand Prize: $2,500,
ENDS 12/04/25
Winners of the competition receive cash awards, certificates, a trophy (for the top award) and an invitation to the awards ceremony in London, have their work published in the competition’s portfolio book
ENDS 12/16/25
Be Featured in our January 2026 Online Juried Solo Exhibition!
ENDS 12/17/25
Winners will be exhibited in New York during The Photography Show + Cash Prizes
ENDS 01/06/26
First place receives Sony Digital Imaging equipment and inclusion in the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition and book
ENDS 01/06/26
Dedicated to young photographers under 19 years-old - first prize is top Sony digital imaging equipment plus benefit from global exposure
ENDS 01/06/26
Rewarding the best single images! Enter for free and you could win $5,000, top Sony digital imaging equipment plus more!
ENDS 01/08/26
All Finalists: All five finalists participate in a group exhibition organized by Aperture at AIPAD in New York in April 2026.
ENDS 01/09/26
First-place winners in each category will receive $3,000, while second and third places will get $1,500 and $1,000, respectively.
ENDS 01/13/26
Rewarding the best photo series worldwide! Enter for free and you could win $25,000, a range of Sony digital imaging equipment plus more!
ENDS 02/15/26
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 03/01/26
Full Tuition, a Leica camera system on loan for the academic year and an opportunity to present their work at the Leica Store in New York City’s Meatpacking District.
ENDS 03/02/26
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
ENDS 03/31/26
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.
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 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.