Photography Contest
Pride Photo Award 2025
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Pride Photo AwardWe strive to expand our horizons, and those of our audiences, through a rich, multi-faceted and diverse collection of stories from, and representational of, the global LGBTQIA+ community. The Pride Photo 2025 Contest is open to photographers of all ages, backgrounds and calibers, from professional to amateur.
We invite you all to apply, and hope to see this openness reflected in the submissions for the 2025 Pride Photo Contest. Whether through documentary photography that highlights news events, and the realities of daily life, or whether through artistic expression using portraiture, collage, photographic intervention, or AI. The Pride Photo Contest is open to all formats of photography and image-based storytelling that work to express the varied and multifaceted lives and lived experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community from around the world.
Apply to the Pride Photo 2025 contest and be a part of the impact, and help us with our mission to expand empathy and understanding to all!
The winner(s) will receive and benefit from:
€500 for all entrants whose work(s) are included in the Pride Photo Exhibition 2025.
Being seen by a substantial number of visual arts professionals, photography lovers, thousands of visitors and in the media when the awarded photos are prominently displayed in the Pride Photo Exhibition 2025, stating the award line, photographers name, title and description.
Being seen by a substantial number of visual arts professionals, photography lovers, when the awarded photos are (repeatedly) displayed on the website and social media platforms of Pride Photo, in which the photographer will be mentioned and where possible tagged.
Submissions can come from all photographic disciplines and from people from all walks of life, regardless of gender, sexual preference, race, political beliefs, religion or nationality, as long as the photos represent sexual and gender diversity.
Pride Photo, which is based in Amsterdam, is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 and that is unique in its kind.
We invite you all to apply, and hope to see this openness reflected in the submissions for the 2025 Pride Photo Contest. Whether through documentary photography that highlights news events, and the realities of daily life, or whether through artistic expression using portraiture, collage, photographic intervention, or AI. The Pride Photo Contest is open to all formats of photography and image-based storytelling that work to express the varied and multifaceted lives and lived experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community from around the world.
Apply to the Pride Photo 2025 contest and be a part of the impact, and help us with our mission to expand empathy and understanding to all!
The winner(s) will receive and benefit from:
€500 for all entrants whose work(s) are included in the Pride Photo Exhibition 2025.
Being seen by a substantial number of visual arts professionals, photography lovers, thousands of visitors and in the media when the awarded photos are prominently displayed in the Pride Photo Exhibition 2025, stating the award line, photographers name, title and description.
Being seen by a substantial number of visual arts professionals, photography lovers, when the awarded photos are (repeatedly) displayed on the website and social media platforms of Pride Photo, in which the photographer will be mentioned and where possible tagged.
Submissions can come from all photographic disciplines and from people from all walks of life, regardless of gender, sexual preference, race, political beliefs, religion or nationality, as long as the photos represent sexual and gender diversity.
Pride Photo, which is based in Amsterdam, is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 and that is unique in its kind.
Featured Photo Contest
© Chris Yan, Solo Exhibition October 2024
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ENDS 01/10/25
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ENDS 01/19/25
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ENDS 01/21/25
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ENDS 01/31/25
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ENDS 02/04/25
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ENDS 02/16/25
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ENDS 02/17/25
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ENDS 02/28/25
The proceeds from the project will go towards the international co-financing grant “Water is Life 2024“.
ENDS 03/03/25
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ENDS 03/31/25
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 04/15/25
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ENDS 04/30/25
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ENDS 12/15/25
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ENDS 02/08/26
The winner will receive £15,000, the second prize is £3,000, and the third prize is £2,000.