Photography Contest
2024 Sports Photography Grants
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Cash PrizeThe 2024 Sports Photography Grants, funded by the Doug Pensinger Photography Fund, are a beacon for emerging and early-career photographers specializing in sports. These grants are designed to spotlight and support the next wave of talent in sports photography, providing a unique opportunity for individuals to escalate their careers within this vibrant and challenging field. With a focus on both the kinetic energy of action shots and the nuanced storytelling of portraits, the grants celebrate the diverse and dynamic essence of sports through the lens of photography.
Accessibility and opportunity are at the heart of the 2024 Sports Photography Grants, which require no entry fee, ensuring that all talented photographers can apply regardless of their financial situation. This inclusive approach aims to attract a broad spectrum of applicants, enriching the competition with a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The objective is to uncover and nurture photographers who can convey powerful stories, capture fleeting moments of triumph, agony, and the human spirit inherent in sports.
Winners of these prestigious grants are awarded $5,000 each, dedicated to furthering their professional development. This could involve investing in advanced photographic equipment, embarking on new projects that push the boundaries of their creativity, or pursuing educational opportunities to refine their skills. The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund’s commitment to the advancement of sports photography not only elevates the winners but also enriches the field by encouraging innovation, diversity, and excellence. This initiative represents an essential stepping stone for photographers eager to deepen their impact and leave a lasting imprint on the world of sports photography.
Seven talented photographers will each be awarded a $5,000 grant by the Doug Pensinger Photography Fund.
Expenses-paid trip to the 2024 DPPF Sports Photography Gathering
In addition to the main grants program, the DPPF also awards Development Grants supporting sports photographers of great potential whose current portfolio quality may be affected by severe economic and/or geographic or cultural limitations. After the seven winners of the $5,000 grants are chosen, the panel will select deserving candidates from the remaining pool of applicants as recipients of Development Grants.
Accessibility and opportunity are at the heart of the 2024 Sports Photography Grants, which require no entry fee, ensuring that all talented photographers can apply regardless of their financial situation. This inclusive approach aims to attract a broad spectrum of applicants, enriching the competition with a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The objective is to uncover and nurture photographers who can convey powerful stories, capture fleeting moments of triumph, agony, and the human spirit inherent in sports.
Winners of these prestigious grants are awarded $5,000 each, dedicated to furthering their professional development. This could involve investing in advanced photographic equipment, embarking on new projects that push the boundaries of their creativity, or pursuing educational opportunities to refine their skills. The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund’s commitment to the advancement of sports photography not only elevates the winners but also enriches the field by encouraging innovation, diversity, and excellence. This initiative represents an essential stepping stone for photographers eager to deepen their impact and leave a lasting imprint on the world of sports photography.
Seven talented photographers will each be awarded a $5,000 grant by the Doug Pensinger Photography Fund.
Expenses-paid trip to the 2024 DPPF Sports Photography Gathering
In addition to the main grants program, the DPPF also awards Development Grants supporting sports photographers of great potential whose current portfolio quality may be affected by severe economic and/or geographic or cultural limitations. After the seven winners of the $5,000 grants are chosen, the panel will select deserving candidates from the remaining pool of applicants as recipients of Development Grants.
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© Manuela Federl, Solo Exhibition January 2024
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 05/07/24
Awarded every two years and now in its 7th edition, the Prix Virginia is the first photography prize exclusively reserved for a woman photographer, regardless of her age or nationality.
ENDS 05/07/24
The winner will receive £15,000, the second prize is £3,000, and the third prize is £2,000.
ENDS 05/09/24
Present your work to exhibit at the 4th edition of PhMuseum Days, our International Photo Festival happening between September and October 2024 in Bologna, Italy.
ENDS 05/10/24
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 05/14/24
The award will provide support and encouragement fora photojournalist committed to a long-term project.
ENDS 05/19/24
MonoVisions Photography Awards are an international open call for photographers using black and white medium to express their visual language.
ENDS 05/19/24
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.
ENDS 05/21/24
The Grant is given in order to allow the winnerto carry out the photo-reportage which has been presented for the Grant.
ENDS 05/21/24
The International Photography Exhibition the world’s longest-running contemporary photography exhibition.
ENDS 05/31/24
If you're a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we invite you to share your photographic project with us.
ENDS 05/31/24
The IPA recognizes photography’s leading talents who are creating, shaping and defining the world of photography today.
ENDS 05/31/24
The international photography contest URBAN Photo Awards is here: registrations will open on Monday 1st April and this 15th edition will be the largest and most important ever.
ENDS 05/31/24
Experience the challenge from a juror perspective: other than competing with your shots, you’ll get to vote your opponents ones!
ENDS 06/01/24
The Paula Riff Award was created by the Center of Photographic Art and Lenscratch in 2021 as a way to celebrate and continue the legacy of artist Paula Riff.
ENDS 06/06/24
Clarissa Ward, CNN’s award-winning chief international correspondent, has agreed to chair the jury for this 31 st edition.
ENDS 06/10/24
For this 8th edition, students are invited to submit their projects and a jury of professionals will select 20 finalists from over 200 European schools
ENDS 06/15/24
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.
ENDS 06/27/24
100 winning images will be exhibited on JCDecaux digital screens across the UK for one month
ENDS 06/30/24
Diversity has existed on earth since the beginning of time. It is one of the fundamentals of life that our ancestors have learnt and understood along with the wisdom behind it until it has become ingrained as intellect.
ENDS 07/16/24
The Head On Photo Awards represent a global selection of the best work from emerging and established photographers across three categories: Portrait, Landscape, Student
ENDS 08/01/24
The 2024 Global Contest promotes climate justice. We believe climate change is a human rights issue, so we are looking for images that show people impacted by the escalating climate crisis.
ENDS 08/31/24
We are receiving open call submissions from countries across all the world's continents. We are delighted to announce our Open Call for FORMAT23.
ENDS 09/15/24
This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to prototypes, hand-made books to zines