Opportunities

Photographer at the British Museum

Deadline: 1st December 2025

The British Museum is looking for a Photographer to join the Photography and Imaging team.

You will work under the guidance of the Head of Photography and Imaging and Senior Photographers to produce high quality photographs of objects in the collection to meet client briefs and complete general photographic requests in support of the Museum.

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Senior Photographer at the British Museum

Deadline: 1st December 2025

The British Museum is looking for a Senior Photographer to join the Photography and Imaging team.

You will work to create high quality photographs of objects in the collection to meet client briefs and complete general photographic requests in support of the Museum.

Key areas of responsibility:

Produce professional quality photography and deliver assignments to deadline
Advanced operation of Read More

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Home Dark Rooms Call Out!

Deadline: 30th April 2026

Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual? Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or in spaces that feel like home to you?  If so, then this project is for you! I wish to speak to people who have experience of one or multiple of the following as part of my PhD research:

• Have you Read More

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Open Call: Photoworks New Year Commission 2026

Deadline: 1st December 2025

We are looking to commission a a photographer or a lens-based artist to create a new image to mark and celebrate the start of 2026.

This is a playful opportunity to experiment and create a non-conventional image that indicates the start of a new year. The final image will be shared across our social media platforms Read More

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SHUTTER HUB EDITIONS PHOTOBOOK AWARD

Deadline: 30th April 2026

The Shutter Hub Editions Photobook Award celebrates bold, original storytelling in photobook form. It offers photographers the chance to showcase their strongest work through thoughtful curation and powerful narratives. Shutter Hub are looking for projects of all genres that communicate with clarity, emotion, and vision.

This opportunity is open to both emerging and established photographers, Shutter Read More

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Open Call for Events: Methods of Making at Autograph, London

Deadline: 24th November 2025

Henna Nadeem, Fence from the series Between Trees, 1999-2000. Courtesy the artist.

Autograph are looking for an emerging creative to produce an in-person workshop at their gallery in Hackney, London between February and March 2026. The event will take place as part of the public programme for the major group exhibition I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies.

Reconfiguring photographs and archival structures through the idea of collage,  I Still Dream Read More

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Walk of Water Photostory Contest: Identities

Deadline: 7th December 2025

Onewater invite photographers of all levels, from experienced professionals to amateurs, to explore and unravel the rich tapestry of human experiences with water, with more than €10 000 in prizes up for grabs. From cultural and spiritual traditions to everyday moments, livelihoods, gender, and the environment, your photos can reveal how water connects us all Read More

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World Photography Organisation: European Student Award

Deadline: 28th November 2025

Micaela Valdivia Medina, Untitled, 2025 © Micaela Valdivia Medina, Peru, Student Photographer of the Year, Student Competition, Sony World Photography Awards 2025. Image description: Support between the spikes at San Miguel Women's Penitentiary Centre in Santiago.

Set up by Creo and Sony Europe, the European Student Award celebrates emerging talent and the unique perspectives of those undertaking a photography programme.

The winner and shortlist win a variety of prizes, including a showcase of their projects at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London’s Somerset House, a day of tailored workshops with Read More

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Call for Artists: Photomontage as Activist Practice at Autograph, London

Deadline: 12th January 2026

Reena Saini Kallat, Haiti from the series Pattern Recognition, commissioned by Autograph for Critical Times: Dialogues in Contemporary Photography (2022), supported by the Bagri Foundation.

Are you an artist working with collage and/or photomontage to question or disrupt dominant narratives? Autograph are inviting artists who have a series of work (10 or more pieces) to share your work with them. A panel of judges will select their favourite(s) and the successful applicants’ work will be featured in an online gallery Read More

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Open Call: RPS IPE 167

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

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Call for papers: 17th International Conference on The Image at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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

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Open Call: WEX PHOTO VIDEO HUMAN IMPACT AWARDS

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.

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