Photography Contest

Black and White Photo Awards 2024

Black and White Photo Awards 2024

Deadline |

CLOSED

Theme |

Black and White - Several categories

Territory |

Worldwide

Eligibility |

open to all

Entry Fees |

15 Euros

Prizes |

Cash Prize
Black 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.

Featured Photo Contest

AAP Magazine #52 / STREET

The 52nd printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing urban life. Send a cohesive body of work or portfolio - capturing the weird and wonderful moments unfolding around you!

Best Photography Contests in 2023

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 2023 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 08/31/25
If you're a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we invite you to share your photographic project with us.
ENDS 08/31/25
Exhibition Dates: Oct 18 - Nov 8, 2025
ENDS 09/01/25
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.
ENDS 09/01/25
The Ian Parry Scholarship is divided into two categories: The Sunday Times Award for Achievement and The Canon Award for Potential.
ENDS 09/01/25
The winner receives a €25,000 cash award to develop the project within ten months
ENDS 09/05/25
The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook's contribution to the evolving narrative of photography
ENDS 09/05/25
This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to prototypes, hand-made books to zines
ENDS 09/15/25
Exhibition Dates: Oct 18 - Nov 8, 2025
ENDS 09/15/25
Winners and finalists will be part of a group exhibition at Las Fotos Project in Los Angeles this October.
ENDS 09/16/25
We are excited to offer one (1) $20,000 grant and six (6) $5,000 grants to help bring these vital stories to life.
ENDS 09/23/25
Be Featured in our September 2025 Online Juried Solo Exhibition! Juror: Aline Smithson, Photographer, Founder of Lenscratch & Curator
ENDS 09/30/25
Send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio - capturing the weird and wonderful moments unfolding around you! The subject is completely up to you.
ENDS 10/01/25
The Center for Photographic Art (CPA) is excited to announce the 2025 International Juried Exhibition with $5,000 in awards!
ENDS 10/06/25
For 2025, the amount of the W. Eugene Smith Grant is $30,000 and two additional $10,000 Finalist Grants will be awarded.
ENDS 10/06/25
For 2025, the amount of the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant is $5,000. The grant provides two students with the opportunity to complete a photographic essay.
ENDS 10/07/25
Now in its 12th year, the International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards is allowing all landscape photographers to share a total of 12,500 USD in cash prizes.
ENDS 10/19/25
Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition.
ENDS 10/31/25
Selected by a jury composed of five professionals from the fields of photography and publishing, the winner of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published PhotoBook Award will receive a prize of €8,000.
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 01/13/26
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 05/17/26
MonoVisions Photography Awards are an international open call for photographers using black and white medium to express their visual language.