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Deadline: 6th November 2025
©Victoria Ruiz – Female in Focus x Nikon 2024 Single Image winner
Now open for its sixth edition, Female in Focus is a celebration of the remarkable talent and creativity of women photographers from around the globe.
For this edition of the award, we are inviting photographers to respond to the theme of ‘On the Cusp’. This theme looks at both personal and international turning points, whether that Read More
Deadline: 3rd November 2025
The next issue of Photoworks’s Photography+, titled The People’s Pictures, will explore vernacular photography, the ordinary, the personal, and the overlooked moments of daily life. From family albums and tourist photos to amateur portraits, street snapshots, and even the casual scroll of a phone’s camera roll, these images capture the rich, textured life of photography Read More
Deadline: 26th October 2025
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center invites proposals for our 36th annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference (TG26).
This year’s conference theme, “Feminist and Queer Ecologies,” explores how ecologies and environments are shaped, understood, and struggled for in relation to sex, gender, and sexuality. It simultaneously considers how scholarly and other Read More
Deadline: 5th November 2025
Fred Bremner, Nawab Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (1858-1930), 1920.
Fast Forward is looking to commission an experienced writer/researcher to work on researching and drafting a policy for collecting and archiving photography with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) priorities at its heart. The policy will be for use within public sector institutions, and it will include reference to the potential uses of new technologies such Read More
Deadline: 3rd November 2025
Bury After Reading: The Afterlife of Images
Collected Writings on Photography in the Ecological Crisis
Alternative photography has the potential to radically reshape the photographic landscape into the future. It is within the alternative that transformative ideas emerge like weeds from the cracked pavement. It is in this space, apart from the mainstream, and its relentless focus Read More
Deadline: 2nd December 2025
© Austn Fischer, Jesters Gender Game, James
The International Photography Exhibition is the world’s longest-running contemporary photography exhibition. Photographers and image-makers, of all ages, can submit their work to the RPS International Photography Exhibition. Submissions are encouraged from new, emerging and established photographers worldwide.
The IPE presents a unique opportunity to exhibit in a Royal Photographic Society group touring exhibition around nationwide venues, Read More
Deadline: 1st December 2025
Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and Read More
Deadline: 15th October 2025
Rotterdam Photo, in collaboration with Amarte Fonds, presents the Dutch Talent Project Grants 2026. This initiative offers emerging photographers the opportunity to develop new work around the festival theme “Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist’s Soul.“ Selected artists will receive financial support, curatorial guidance, and a platform to exhibit their projects during Rotterdam Read More
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Image: Romare Bearden, The Street 1964. © Estate of Romare Bearden / DACS 2025.
Museums have a responsibility to tell culturally inclusive stories of art, facing both internal and external pressures in the process. How might interpretation practice address the complex expectations placed on museums today?
We are seeking contributions exploring the role of art museum interpretation in serving audiences, artists and institutions. Possible areas of focus include:
Examining the current Read More
Deadline: 30th January 2026
This year’s Human Impact Awards and Student Awards, in collaboration with Sony, invite submissions that explore what human impact means today. The brief is intentionally open to interpretation. Whether you choose to highlight environmental damage or social inequality, community resilience or urban decay, local activism or everyday humanity, we want to see your perspective.
To find Read More
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This symposium seeks to engage photographers, curators, archivists, and researchers in a critical discussion about the ethical dimensions of photography.
Photography ethics is a topic which has gained momentum in recent years. From questions of consent, representation, and manipulation to the impacts of social media, artificial intelligence, and fake news, image-makers and image-users are facing complex Read More
