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 2023, from free to paid photography awards, so you can decide what photo contest meets your needs.

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Be Featured in our April 2023 Online Juried Solo Exhibition!
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Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00.
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The La Muta Prize is an international photography award that aims to reward 4 authors and allow them to develop an analogue photography project or an essay on an aspect of the history of photography.
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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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A photographic diptych is a work of art that consists of two photographs that are arranged side by side.
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Our Judges will select 43 APA Award Winners this year for 14 categories and one Best of Show.
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Four winners will be selected. Each winner will have a solo show in the gallery, as well as online.
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The competition is worth EUR 5,000. We are looking for photo reports about people or groups who live climate justice.
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Join the new Exhibit Around photographic - editorial project dedicated to women, featuring guest star SUSAN MEISELAS!
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SMACH, now in its 6th edition, is a public art project born in 2012. It is a biennial open air exhibition that represents the combination of “art and nature”
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This year’s Photo Review International Photography Competition will be juried by Deborah Willis, University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University,
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The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international online art competition that is geared towards emerging artists from all over the world. Our goal is to use our platform to promote talented artists across the globe.
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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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Las Laguna Art Gallery invites artists creating artworks where wildlife is the central theme to apply.
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This Open Call will feature 50 photographers that will be displayed in an online exhibition along with a variety of prizes.
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As one of the highlights of Hong Kong Photobook Festival, Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award aims to support emerging artists and provide the opportunities to showcase their works in the international festivals.
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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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All selected artists will be promoted on our website, social media, and newsletters.
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Each participant may submit a maximum of 3 photos related to the sport activities (non-motorized) that take place in the mountains (for example alpinism, climbing, ski, trekking, speleology, paragliding).
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Nature photographers watch out: In the 29th year EuroNatur has organised this international nature photo competition in conjunction with the magazine "natur"
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Black and White, everything started with black and white and today taking a great photo in B&W is an art.
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Fisheye, we are launching a call for entries. Now’s your chance to win an exhibition at the Fisheye Gallery during the Rencontres d’Arles, a publication in the pages of the magazine
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Urban street scenes, portraits, travel adventures, landscapes, editorial, conceptual, still life... Color our lives.
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Participate to the 4th photo contest by Fotocontest.it and judged by professional jurors.
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Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that explores the formal, conceptual, and metaphoric implications of the shadow.
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The purpose of these awards is identifying talented professionals, students and even dilettantes and their individual inclinations. Do not hesitate in taking part in the annual street photographers foundation street photography.
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Whether the subject is your own city or as you explore other territories and cultures: this month we want to discover the streets through YOUR lens!
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Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video.
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This call is looking for adventurous, fearless artists to present photographs that emanate from the deepest parts of their unconscious minds.
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Gomma invites you to take part in this new adventure. Show us the limitless nuances of our world in monochrome.
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Reflections is the theme for this month's competition. Win $10,000 in our Reflections Competition!
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We invite everyone to upload photos in each of the categories People and Nature.
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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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Handbali Magazine's organization will select from among all the proposals received, giving priority to quality works with development closer to publication.
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The top entries will be exhibited at FMoPA from June 5th - July 31st, 2021
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The third edition of the festival will take place on May 13th and 14th 2023 at Yann Arthus Bertrand’s Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris.
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Win an online exhibition.
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Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that explore the development of visual narratives through a poetic lens.
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Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. July 2023
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The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process
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MUSEC will present the finalist's works to the public, exhibiting them from 15 December 2023 to 18 February 2024 in Lugano at its Villa Malpensata venue (Switzerland).
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This is an open call to celebrate Pride Moth and the LGBTQIA+ life and experience as seen through the eyes of the LGBTQIA+ photographers worldwide.
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common objects – everyday item, familiar thing, everyday gadget, normal, commonplace
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This is a call for all genres of landscape: natural, urban, industrial, and abstract. Show us how you see the world, while embracing the quiet and minimal.
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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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PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to submit proposals to participate in the 11th International Photography Festival’s central exhibition and special projects, which will take place in Tel Aviv in November 2023.
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There are no limitations as to the subject matter. Share your favorite photographic shots of older adults!
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The awards program has included 9 international categories, as well as a London-specific main category for worldwide participation<
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Best in Show will receive a digital reward certificate and be the featured artist during the exhibition date. All award winning artists will receive a digital award certificate.
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Each publication is unique, pairing 6 artists and 6 writers together at different stages in their career to build a collaborative experience.
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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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The main prize winner receives 100,000 USD split between a 60,000 USD cash prize and a 40,000 USD investment in their practice.
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The HCB Award is presented once every two years and grants the indivisible amount of 35 000 euros. The winner's artwork project will be exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and published as a book, in the spring 2023.
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Now in its 15th year, it seeks fresh and innovative photography from new, emerging and established photographers from around the world.
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Photographers are invited to seek out small, beautiful things around them. “There’s nothing quite like this” refers to those moments that are unique to each of us and that, in a crowded and fast paced environment, bring happiness and calm.
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Our mission is to add value and help spread the art of photography in order to raise awareness and protect nature.
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4 winners will received £1000 cash award + publication + exposure + global exhibitions.
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This month we're interested in ideas of the home – as a place and as a feeling.
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The FRESH Annual Summer Photo Show, now in its 12th year, is produced and presented by the Klompching Gallery.
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Each winning photograph will receive CAD $1,000 and be featured on the Allard Prize website, with a brief description and the photographer’s name, for six months.
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Successful applicants will be invited to become a "Nominee Member", a category of membership, which presents an opportunity for Magnum and the individual to get to know each other.
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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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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
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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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The Viviane Esders Endowment Fund is pleased to announce the opening of the call for applications for the second edition of the Prix Viviane Esders.
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Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) is an international art competition giving artists the opportunity to exhibit their work in Wells Cathedral and receive a wide range of prizes.
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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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PhotoVogue’s Global Open Call 2023 invites artists from around the world to submit work that challenges the traditional notions of beauty
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The winner receives $3,000, and two honorable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to the MoCP's permanent collection.
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Issue 119 will not have a theme, it is open to all fine art and documentary photography.
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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.
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. September 2023
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The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives.
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All art is eligible as long as it engages with technology in some form.
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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 CEWE Photo Award unites photo enthusiasts - and celebrates the beauty of our world.
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We’ve all experienced the power of a strong image, telling a story without words. And that is the purpose of IPA’s Deeper Perspective Photography Award – to highlight photographic essays.
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The IPA recognizes photography’s leading talents who are creating, shaping and defining the world of photography today.
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OnePlus and the IPA will co-judge the contest to explore the infinite new possibilities unlocked by mobile phone photography.
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Black & White Photo Awards is a contest created with the intention of recognizing and rewarding talent in this discipline, with 5 Thematic category to show your creativity as a photographer:
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Creative Photo Awards is a project of Siena Awards, dedicated to rewarding originality, experimentation, and imagination by encouraging the creative use of the medium of photography in all its forms, including abstract and conceptual ideas.
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. October 2023
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Nature Photographer of the Year not only gives you the opportunity to win great prizes and earn some cachet, it’s also a chance to support nature conservation.
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The mission of the World Nature Photography Awards is to celebrate the world’s best nature photographers whilst showcasing nature’s beauty to a wider audience.
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Monochrome Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers.
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Winning photographers will receive cash prizes and will be named in a news release that is widely distributed, including to their local media when known.
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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.
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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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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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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. November 2023
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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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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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Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world.
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. December 2023
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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
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Join us in celebrating and honoring exceptional color photography with the Color Photography Contest by reFocus. Winners will receive $4,000 in cash prizes, an immersive, dedicated digital gallery to share their works in a global Artist Directory...
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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.
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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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We promote each online edition via email, web, and social media three times during the publication month.
ENDS 12/31/23
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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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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Artists are welcome to submit their works. All techniques are welcome.
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The total photo safari prize fund for 2022 is over $60,000!
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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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The Photo Drone Awards is one of the world's leading photo competitions focused on drone photography.
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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
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Reveal the essence of a member of the animal kingdom: its intrinsic nature, its motion, its vulnerability, its power, or the way it relates to humans. All capture methods and processes are welcome
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Picto Foundation is pleased to launch the 24th call for submissions for the Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode.
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Head On Photo Festival is a great opportunity to gain valuable experience in the process of preparing and exhibiting your work, meeting other artists and creative professionals, and being part of an internationally recognized event.
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The grant includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the work's final stages.
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Review Santa Fe: Tuition & Presentation, Lenscratch publication, and Online Exhibition at visitcenter.org
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Provides financial support to a complete or nearly completed, documentary project or fine art series.
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CENTER is pleased to offer the me&EVE Grant providing $5,000 in financial support to a female-identified, non-binary, transgender, and/or gender non-conforming photographer, 40 years of age and over
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Enter one of the most prestigious competitions for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition.
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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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Issue #118 will feature street photography.
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The grant amount going to the winner this year will be of INR 12,00,000 rupees (approximately 15,000 euros) and will support lens-based practitioners from South Asian countries
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We are accepting lens-based project proposals allowing photographers to seek grants and tax-deductible donations.
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The 20th edition of KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO AWARD, the biggest and the most prestigious photo contest in Georgia, is ready for you.
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Our 16th printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "Shadows".
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Group Exhibition in Rome city, Italy. June 2023
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Whalebone 4th Annual Photo Contest $40,000 in Cash Prizes
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New call is for the Annual Women Street Photographers exhibition In New York City
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Looking ahead at a new year – which I always welcome – I have to say I feel a twinge of regret announcing that the application cycle for our traditional post-conflict grant is now open.
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Each exhibition will have 24 photographs selected by the juror for exhibiton at the gallery.
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BigPicture encourages photographers from around the world to contribute their work to this competition that will both celebrate and illustrate the rich diversity of life on Earth and inspire action to protect and conserve it through the power of imagery.
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Applications are open for the NOOR Visualising Climate Crisis: Advanced Mentoring Programme in Vietnam taking place between April and September 2023.
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black/white: charcoal/snowy, onyx/ivory, pitch/clear, ebony/alabaster, coal/pearly
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BLOW UP PRESS invites you to the 4th edition of BUP Book Award and is waiting for your photography-based submissions!
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The world is definitely in color, yet for photographers the decision to photograph in color is not always black and white.
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The competition showcases the world's best space photography, from spectacular skyscapes to mindblowing images of distant planets and galaxies.
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The competition showcases the world's best space photography, from spectacular skyscapes to mindblowing images of distant planets and galaxies.
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$20,000 award for women in photojournalism
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The Photo Drone Awards is one of the world's leading photo competitions focused on drone photography.
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Fusion Art invites submissions for the 7th Annual Black & White art competition for an online exhibition during the month of March 2023.
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The winner will be Awarded and will receive a free Booth in the next Tokyo Tower Art Fair 2024, Worldwide Promotion, a Trophy and a Certificate of Achievement.
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Awarded for the best visual arts response to the theme of the Alpine Fellowship 2023 - Flourishing
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Architecture, the art and science of designing structures and buildings.
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Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that investigates the genre of the Still Life.
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The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo contest was established on December 22, 2014. The contest is run by Rossiya Segodnya under the auspices of the Russian Federation Commission for UNESCO
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From studio portraiture to fine art, and commercial editorial or personal projects, this month, we want to discover creative and inspiring work that captures the unique visual language of fashion photography.⁠
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Wildlife, studio, documentary, storytelling, conceptual, candid or staged… All genres welcome.