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Project Groundswell invites photographers and lens-based artists to submit projects on the theme of climate action.
Project Groundswell is an opportunity to deepen understanding, amplify hope and inspire further action by making visible what is being done to address climate change.
We invite artists/photographers to submit work that engages with any of the wide range of climate Read More
The Noorderlicht Biennale 2025, titled Machine Entanglements, focuses on the complex relationship between technology, ecology, and heritage. The project invites artists, photographers, and image-makers to submit work that explores these themes and reflects on the influence of technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), on society and our environment. The motivation for this project stems from Read More
PhotoIreland launches the 8th FUTURES Talent Call for artists, opening the opportunity for the first time to all UK practitioners. The 2025 call is now open and will close at 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024.
The submission to this opportunity organised by PhotoIreland as the Irish member of the FUTURES Photography Platform is open and free Read More
The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is an annual initiative dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative women artists working in the field of contemporary photography.
Launched in 2022, the Prize is conceived as part of the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography curatorial program, which seeks to foreground, sustain and support women’s Read More
In the summer of 2025, the Hasselblad Foundation will launch Sweden’s largest photo salon – Fotosalongen 2025. We welcome amateurs and professional photographers across all genres to apply through an open call. The application period is open from September 2nd – November 30th. The selection will be made by a prestigious jury consisting of Pauline Read More
The In Between Gallery is a temporary exhibition platform for Fabrica’s picture window in central Brighton. This exciting initiative is now in its seventh year.
Fabrica is partnering with Spectrum Photographic, Photo Fringe and Jane & Jeremy to present excellent photographic work by UK-based artists who consider themselves to be early to mid-career.
The window Read More
Submissions are invited on the 2025 theme of inEquality from both UK and international photographers and collectives. Photo|Frome is seeking distinguished examples of photography on this theme, which may be a single photograph or a series of photographs that may have been created over time. There is no entry fee.
Winners and honourable mentions will be Read More
Our 2024/25 Open Open Call invites photographers from all over the world to share their projects for inclusion in our 20th Edition’s festival programme!
There are no restrictions on theme or genre. We seek work which reveals, informs, or evokes; giving us a deeper understanding of our individual and collective existence. We accept both stills and video work (under 5 Read More
We are excited to announce the launch of our Open Call! We seek projects in expanded documentary practices that broadly explore the multiple implications of Feedback (working title) under debate today. For this, FOTODOKS invites photographers and lens-based artists to submit work that resonates with the thought-provoking focus of its forthcoming festival edition in 2025.
To Read More
Opening soon for its fifth edition, Female in Focus is a celebration of the remarkable talent and creativity of women photographers from around the globe.
The theme of this year’s edition is Renewal, delving into the transformative process of rejuvenation and rebirth. This theme captures the essence of starting anew, whether through personal growth, environmental restoration, Read More
Emerging from the omnipresent culture of imagery, the new wave of photographic talent consists of true digital natives. They’ve grown up in a world where images reign supreme, and they play a pivotal role in capturing the essence of freedom, culture, human connection, and unity. This generation exemplifies the delicate balance between finding a genuine Read More
Photo North Festival announces free national student photography competition. The theme is HOPE and winners will get to exhibit their work at Photo North Festival in April 2025.
Through our daily lives, news channels and social media feeds, HOPE can too easily be consumed by negativity, anxiety and alienation.
HOPE can raise the spirits, generate Read More
Every year, UN-Water sets the theme for World Water Day. In 2025, the focus will be on glaciers, coinciding with the International Year of Glacier Preservation.
To celebrate this, Onewater, the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme and partners are convening the next international WALK OF WATER photostory contest. The contest invites photographers to shed light on Read More
Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the 28th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best images that singularly demonstrate social inequities, injustices, and/or human rights abuses, or the situations that either foster or fight them.
By giving this competition the name of the photographer and international aid worker Luis Valtueña, we pay Read More
BOPFOLIO is an open call for photobook dummies to be showcased at BOP 24. This opportunity is for early-career stage photographers based in Britain and Ireland. Selected applicants will have their work displayed in the Paintworks Event Space across the BOP 24 festival weekend, in front of 3,000+ visitors and industry experts. BOP – Books Read More
The Indian Photo Festival Open Call invites photographers from all over the world to submit their works for the 2024 exhibitions.
Bringing the best of photography to Hyderabad each year, the IPF 2024 will take place from November 21 to January 5 in Hyderabad. The festival showcases a wide range of photography Read More
Utopia: a perfect place or no place?
The third edition of the Artphilein Photobook Contest is open. The award grants the winner with the production of a photobook to be published by Artphilein Editions, a residency and an exhibition at the Artphilein Library space in Lugano/Paradiso.
Every utopian vision shares the belief in a possible change, in Read More
Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the 28th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best images that singularly demonstrate social inequities, injustices, and/or human rights abuses, or the situations that either foster or fight them.
By giving this competition the name of the photographer and international aid worker Luis Valtueña, we Read More
The Daniele Tamagni Grant brings together material and intellectual resources to address the creation of a long-term value programme focused on photography, photojournalism and education. The Grant is addressed to emerging photographers whose work engages with the African continent or its diaspora, without restrictions in terms of the applicant’s nationality.
The winner of the open call Read More
The Photocopy Club is back!
2024 sees The Photocopy Club hit the road! Bringing a series of new exhibitions and workshops to rural and small town communities across the UK and Europe.
Our new open call and collective study project is now open for submissions and the theme is COAST: Exploring the edge of the land. Selected Read More
Are you a photographer looking to share your work with new audiences? We’re inviting artists who have a series of work (by which we mean 10 or more images) which engages with issues of disability and representation to share your work with us.
Autograph is committed to sharing the work of creatives who use their practice Read More
For the upcoming book ‘Roaming Britain: Gypsy, Traveller, and nomadic communities in the British built environment’, RIBA will be commissioning a photo essay from a photographer of Gypsy, Roma, or Traveller heritage. The photographs should reflect the subject of the book, but this is left open for interpretation.
The photographs will also be acquired into the Read More
For this year’s Oslo Negativ, we want to see photographic projects that shed light on ruptures with the past and the values we may have taken for granted. We want stories about minds closing and doors opening, about undercurrents setting the agenda, about solidarity and skepticism, about subcultures and popular movements, about injustice and rebellion, Read More
Individual photos and/or photo reports on the topic “ What does peace look like?” can be submitted online on the Global Peace Photo Awards website until May 19, 2024.
To find out more and to apply please go to the direct link.
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 group exhibition at The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol, UK, and other nationwide venues, alongside a prize fund to support Read More
This year’s PhotoVogue Global Open Call is an ode to the awe-inspiring beauty of our natural world and the myriad creatures that populate it. Whether it’s wildlife documentary photographs, eco-conscious fashion shoots in the forest, or videos exploring symbiotic relationships within ecosystems, we welcome all genres. We’re looking for submissions that inspire change and foster Read More
Hypha are partnering with MPB on their 70:15:40 Project UK, which aims to help redress barriers and challenges faced by UK women, trans & non-binary people in photography & videography.
The open call is for female identifying photographers who want to submit a photo series on the subject of ‘Change’.
The Project’s name reflects the fact that Read More
The UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest is promoted by the Fondazione culture e musei of Lugano (FCM) with MUSEC-Lugano; organised in collaboration with the 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS Gallery in Milan and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Venice and it is in partnership with the Fondazione Ada Ceschin e Rosanna Pilone in Zurich.
Applicants Read More
Festival del Ciclo Mestruale is a non-profit event created to change the narrative on the menstrual cycle, and recognize it as a fundamental issue for health and gender equality.
For the 3rd edition of Festival the Photography Open Call theme, is “Corpo a Corpo”. It is open to all photographers (professional and amateur) over 18 years Read More
Photography stands as the one universal language transcending borders, cultures, and linguistic barriers. Its power lies in the ability to capture moments, emotions, and narratives with visual eloquence that resonates universally. A photograph communicates stories, evokes feelings, and shares experiences without the need for translation. Whether capturing the vibrant tapestry of daily life, the beauty Read More
The 11th annual LensCulture Portrait Awards aim to discover and reward more than 35 photographers around the globe who are making exceptional photographic portraits today.
It is free to enter a single image. For more images and projects there is an entry fee.
To find out more and to enter please go to the direct link.
Queer Festival Heidelberg 2024 is seeking project submissions on the theme of Queer Heroes in Focus for an open exhibition at the festival taking place in May 2024.
In the vast tapestry of history writing and the abundance of stories, myths, and legends, a remarkable and diverse body of queer heroes has been relegated to the Read More
To celebrate Shutter Hub’s 10th year, we’re inviting photographers to be a part of our online exhibition exploring the theme of ‘TEN’.
Hold your breath and count to ten… or don’t. We’re open to your interpretations, literal, metaphorical or nostalgic.
You might share something from your archive – what’s happened for you in the past 10 years? Moments Read More
The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year, selected by an international independent jury. Entering is free and prizes include up to €6,000, inclusion in the annual traveling exhibition, and more.
Entries for the 2024 World Press Photo Contest are now open until Thursday Read More
BredaPhoto exhibits visual stories that inspire, move, confront, raise new questions, and demonstrate that photography is the artistic medium at the heart of society. The BredaPhoto Festival is a biennial where you get the chance to view the work of national and international top photographers and visual artists at unique indoor and outdoor locations in Read More
Pride Photo is a platform for inspiring stories about sexual and gender diversity. Through the medium of Photography, we strive to show images and portray the stories behind them, in order to create a safe place for dialogue and intriguing presentations for the LGBTQIA+ Community.
The artistic ambition of Pride Photo results in the annual international Read More
Palm Photo Prize is a biennial submission based exhibition for a new generation of photographers. Its aim is to support, elevate and showcase the best of the new wave of image-makers. The prize continues to support photographers both emerging and established and to encourage conversations on human engagement, artistic development, community and their representation through Read More
Getxophoto’s Open Call provides an opportunity for visual artists and photographers from all over the world to exhibit their work at the next edition of Getxophoto, to be hed in June 2024. The theme to be addressed in the 18th edition is Play.
The jury, made up of Arianna Rinaldo, Ana Casas Broda, Irene de Read More
Impressions Gallery annual Photobook Fair, now in its 10th year, returns with a spotlight on environmentally conscious approaches to photobook publishing.
A big part the Photobook Fair is supporting independent, non-mainstream, grassroots and self-published photobooks and zines by photographers and artists.
Impressions are looking for self-published and/or handmade photobooks, and photography zines to sell at our dedicated self-publisher stall Read More
CALL FOR ENTRIES
An exciting opportunity for students aged 14 – 21 to exhibit their work online and at the Centre for British Photography. IT’S FREE TO SUBMIT!
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
21 July – 10 September 2023
THEME
What does community mean to you?
It could be family, friends, school, a youth group or Read More
Registration is now open for PCNW’s 2023 Chase The Light! Join participants across the globe in 48 hours of image-making worldwide. Make photographs with any type of camera, between Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11. Every single participant who submits will have one photograph selected for inclusion in an in-person pop-up exhibition and print Read More
The Photographers’ Gallery has launched its free open call to find and develop emerging
new photography talent.
TPG New Talent 23 (TNT 23) is a unique platform to showcase new talent and support the
most exciting and relevant UK-based emerging artists working in photography today.
Now in its third edition, TNT 23 offers each finalist a bursary of £1,500, Read More
PhotoVogue is thrilled to announce its second Global Open Call. This year, PhotoVogue invites artists from around the world to submit work that challenges the traditional notions of beauty.
As all corners of the world experience cultural shifts, so too must the idea of beauty evolve. We are no longer constrained by gender, perfection, and homogeny: Read More
The Representing Pride workshop is for emerging and early-career photographers from or based in the Mediterranean basin and will focus on developing participants’ practice through the creation of a new body of work around the subject ‘Representing Pride’, as well as expanding their professional skills and network. Throughout the programme, the participating photographers will further Read More
The C/O Berlin Talent Award is the only prize of its kind in Europe. It recognizes out- standing work in both photographic practice and theory. It is awarded annually in the disciplines of artistic photography (Artist) and photo-theoretical writing (Theorist) and is endowed with prize money of totally €10,000 (to be shared between both po- Read More
Would you like to show your work at the Centre for British Photography?
The Centre for British Photography is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for photographers to exhibit their work in this high profile central London location.
The Opportunity
The Centre for British Photography is giving six photographers an opportunity to show their Read More
Gender inequality marks one of the most pervasive and persistent patterns in the distribution of power. We see evidence of this, nearly invisible and overt, everywhere. Billions of women still lack the same legal rights and equal economic opportunities as men. The COVID-19 pandemic has widened inequalities, including by decreasing male life expectancy and negatively Read More
Now more than ever, photography has the power to draw attention to the challenges facing the natural world and our planet.
Established in 2018, Earth Photo is a world leading international programme dedicated to engaging with still and moving image makers, working across all genres, on the prescient issues affecting our planet in order to stimulate Read More
As part of this year’s festival there will be a free to enter exhibition of photobooks, zines and printed publications. Submissions can be commercially published, unpublished, zines, dummies, or artists books – there are no restrictions in terms of format as long as they fit broadly within the idea of a photobook or a photo-zine.
Photo|Frome Read More
BODILY AUTONOMIES
Queer Photography from Concrete to Abstract
While the portrait has become one of the dominating means of expressing queerness in photography, many artists have chosen more abstract routes to investigate issues of identity in their work. Especially when imaging the non-binary, abstraction opens up new possibilities for permanently gendered bodies. No matter how concrete the Read More
The PhMuseum Photography Grant is an annual initiative that recognises the importance of photography and visual storytelling.
Over the years it has grown into a leading photography prize, with previous editions having awarded work by photographers like Max Pinckers, Poulomi Basu, Jacob Aue Sobol, Diana Markosian, and Tomas van Houtryve, among many others. Now in its Read More
Deadline: January 16, 2023
The Aspen Institute’s Weave: The Social Fabric Project addresses the crisis of broken social trust that has left Americans divided, isolated and unable to address our common needs. Yet in every community, some people are showing up for neighbors, building trust, and recognizing they share more than they differ. We call them Read More
WOPHA is now accepting applications from women and non-binary photographers, collectives, and sister organizations to showcase their photobooks at Tropic Bound Book Fair from February 16-19, 2023.
You will need to provide the following information for each book submitted:
Email, name, author(s) name (if different from applicant’s name), phone number, address
Short biography, description, or mission of Read More
For this AIS Open, we’re looking for applications from UK and International women photographers, at all stages of their careers, of any background and of any age.
The exhibition theme is “Place & Space” and we want you to be creative, experimental and exploratory with your responses, interpreting the theme in whatever way you like.
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The UN General Assembly declared February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science to inspire progress toward gender equality in science and technology. To celebrate and support this initiative, the RPS Women in Photography group is launching our first annual Woman Science Photographer of the Year competition.
Our culture Read More
Pride Pooh are excited to announce that our 2023 edition is open! This year’s theme, The Process of Change, focuses the Do It Yourself culture within the queer community – a group that celebrates individuality and forges its own way forward, with self-sufficiency. Time and time again, using our fighting spirit, our resilience, and our love of celebration, we Read More
(Re)Production: Parenthood and the Art World are looking for photographic images that represent what parenthood has meant for you as an artist. Selected works will be exhibition in the Digital Window gallery at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
To submit please send:
One high resolution .jpg image suitable for display at larger sizes with the filename ‘FirstnameLastname.jpg’
Photo title, Read More
PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to submit proposals for the central exhibition of the 10th International Photography Festival, which will take place in November 2022
The International Photography Festival is the biggest photography event in Israel and will mark its tenth anniversary in November. The festival is an anticipated fixture in the country’s annual cultural calendar and Read More
Calling for artists/mothers at all stages of their careers.
How much is reproductive work valued in our world? Nurturing, feeding, bearing, and caring work is crucial to the survival of humans everywhere, yet the world rarely perceives it as work.
This Is Essential Work is an online open-access intersectional feminist exhibition initiated by academic mothers and creators, Read More
II Contest of New Creation and Photographic Exhibition
Expositivos 22: an annual call for contemporary artistic creation that was born out of the determination to promote and encourage the talent of artists who use the photographic language as their main means of expression.
A jury made up of professionals of recognised prestige in the world of photography Read More
Towner Eastbourne is inviting artists to submit works for consideration to Brewers Towner International through an online Open Call process which is now open.
Brewers Towner International is an exhibition that will take place at Towner Eastbourne in 2022, featuring both British and International artists. Additionally, the Brewers Towner Award of £10,000, sponsored by Brewers Decorator Centres, will Read More
Only one out of every four photographers employed by photography agencies is a woman. In 2015, women photographers made 29 percent less than men photographers on average. In the previous decade, just 22% of photographers exhibiting their work in museums or galleries were women.
The goal is to establish a forum for female photographers to expose Read More
Over the last 18 years, readers have submitted more than 470,000 images to Smithsonian’s annual photo contest. These photos have transported viewers to the far corners of Earth, captured spectacular, split-second moments and introduced them to fascinating people and unique landscapes. The Grand Prize, Readers’ Choice prize, Natural World, Travel, People, The American Experience, Altered Read More
Carbon-Borders-Voices is a project connected to The Critical Fish. They are inviting responses – written, visual, creative, critical and scientific to the theme from different discipline perspectives.
Hull has been characterised as being ‘at the end of the line’ and many artists and writers explore experience and circumstances ‘on the edge’ where water meets land, coastlines Read More
Open call for the 13th Rencontres de Bamako/African Biennale of Photography
The central theme of this year’s Bamako Encounters zeroes in on questions of multiplicity, processuality, transition, becoming, heritage, and difference. In arguing that present discussions of singularity tend to ossify notions of identity, culture, and politics, the curatorial team launches a powerful affirmation of that Read More
Open Call for Participation in the 9th International Photography Festival
PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to submit proposals for participation in the central exhibition at the 9th International Photography Festival, taking place in Tel Aviv in November 2021.
A jury of leading experts spanning a wide range of artistic genres will review the open call submissions and Read More
The world-wide crisis offers a unique opportunity to discuss our understanding of wellbeing – of both humans and all other species on our planet. At The Social Art Award 2021 they believe that humanity can solve complex global problems faced today with openness, inclusiveness, and interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve living in the “New Greening“ world.
The Read More
Celebrating their 10 year anniversary – Photoville will once again combine online gatherings, and dispersed outdoor exhibitions. Working with parks and city officials, they plan to safely install exhibition banners throughout parks and public spaces in NYC that will remain on view for several months so that communities can enjoy them while using these open Read More
Women photographers, filmmakers and visual artists who use film or photography, are invited to submit work for Objectifs’ 6th Women in Film & Photography Showcase. Selected work will be part of the print exhibition, slideshow/video installation, artist talks or screenings at Objectifs (Singapore) from Nov to Dec 2021.
The Women in Film & Photography Showcase at Read More
The Makeable Mind
“I’m not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.”
(Cheshire Cat internet meme)
The Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021 will take place from 7 August till 3 October 2021 at various locations in the Dutch provinces of Groningen and Friesland. Departing from photography, the festival focuses on the entire spectrum of the image, both Read More
2021 OPEN SUBMISSION
WHAT DO YOU WIN?
All submitting photographers will benefit from:
Submission review by Photo Industry Professionals
Opportunities for Immediate Exposure
Between 20 and 40 photographers / artists will benefit from:
awards and cash prizes (See Awards listed below)
exhibition exposure at the Festival’s main city centre gallery
exhibition exposure at the 2022 Read More
Festival Photo Is:rael invites photographers, designers, artists and creators from all fields which use the language of photography as their tool, to engage in a creative and inspiring 24-hour exploration of various aspects of the “Chaos” theme.
“Chaos” represents opportunity, a way of contending with the uncertainty and ambiguity of a time and a Read More
The worldwide open-call is now open for the 163rd edition of the International Photography Exhibition. Photographers and image-makers, of all ages, are invited to submit work for exhibition. Submissions are encouraged from new, emerging and established photographers.
This is an unique opportunity to exhibit in a group exhibition at The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol, UK, Read More
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The exhibition project Les Balkannes in Paris aims to promote artistic expressions on women portrayals and representations in the Balkans through photography. Carried out by a team of students from La Sorbonne University in Paris, Les Balkannes can be seen as a true springboard for contemporary creation in the Balkanic peninsula. The main purpose of Read More
“You are not wonderful just because you are a mother.”
Seeking artwork of all mediums that speaks to unconventional thoughts around mothers and motherhood. This open call for art is based upon a statement expressed by Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako (see link to watch her YouTube interview) when talking about her book, Mother’s, in which she photographed her deceased mother’s belongings.
As Read More
Throughout August, Glynn Vivian Gallery would like to invite you to send a postcard to the Gallery. This could be a drawing, a poem, written postcard, a painting, a collage or you could attach a photograph.
This project will focus on the future; for example, what are your dreams? What changes do you imagine taking place? Read More
Does your work belong next to great photographers such as Martin Parr, Steve Mccurry and Sarah Maple? Submit your photos for our Open Call! 2020 is a year with a lot of events, a year that new history is written. The theme of the festival this year is “transitions”, we showcase the changes in the Read More
Are you a graduate? Self-taught? Graduated a really long time ago? Are you under 30? Over 30? Emerging? Emerged? Not sure what emerging means..?
If you’re a photographer looking for a way to get more eyes on your work, Shutter Hub would like to introduce you to YEARBOOK.
A group show, promoted to people working within the Read More
Open call for an exciting initiative organised by LagosPhoto20. You don’t need to have a professional camera, you may use whatever device you have – a smartphone is fine.
The idea is to “shine your eyes” on our homes as if they were museums. We invite you to take part in building this new virtual Home Read More
Sasha Saben Callaghan and Harry Josephine Giles invite submissions as part of their project Not Going Back To Normal. Read on to find out more.
We want your radical art and ideas for remaking the art world by and for disabled people. We’re making a website and a book, and we’re paying for contributions.
How many times have you Read More
Not everyone is used to working from home. Many photographers are freelancers and it’s their everyday norm – but what does that look like?
Shutterhub are putting together a feature on WORKING FROM HOME and they’d love your input. Please share your photographs of home-working, and your tips on how to approach it. Let’s share an Read More
The 11th edition of Organ Vida focuses on the materiality of the image. Organ Vida are interested in images that are political primarily in terms of how rather than what they represent. Images that offer a specific form of the intersection of facts and fiction, that are simultaneously explicitly “fake”, “unreal”, “falsified” and “authentic”, but Read More
Helsinki Photo Festival is pleased to announce their third open call! Everyone from all over the world is invited to submit their work(s) in the festival theme of 2020: Trust.
Helsinki Photo Festival challenge photographers and artists of all ages to share the connections you see with the theme, in imaginative, creative expressive interpretation. Artists will Read More
The FIF – International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte has launched the open call for artists from all over the world, aiming to select works to the Festival’s International Exhibition. The submissions are divided into two forms, one for printed photographic works and the other for moving image works that will be projected.The submissions Read More
PhotoIreland Festival invites national and international photographers and artists, emerging and established, to propose works to be part of the main exhibition of PhotoIreland Festival. This 11th edition will take place in Dublin, 8-19 July 2020, with exhibitions running throughout the month of July.
Projects from lens-based artists working within mixed media, moving image, technology-based, and Read More
The Lightbox Gallery and Museum are excited to announce that the Victoria Square Art Project: Open Call is now open.
This new Woking-wide art competition is an opportunity for professional artists, schools, amateurs and enthusiasts alike to see their work exhibited publicly, win one of ten “Best in Show” cash prizes and contribute towards the town’s Read More
GETXOPHOTO invites visual artists from all over the world to share their vision about the theme proposed for the fourteenth edition: To The Streets!
About Open Call 2020
The street has taken on a fundamental role in the contemporary global society. The public space -both physical and online- lives in constant resistance to its privatization and homogenization Read More
Central to the 2020 Noorderlicht International Photography Festival is the mind-set and energy of Generation Z, the youngest generation of world citizens. The way they interact with their dystopian future perspective is a source of varied emotions. A simultaneous cesspool and wishing well, with grand and compelling activism, and simmering developments that often remain under Read More
Towner International is a major new biennial exhibition of contemporary art that will take place at Towner in 2020, featuring British and International artists. The Brewers Prize of £10,000, sponsored by Brewers Decorator Centres, will be awarded to one of the exhibiting artists.
Towner are inviting artists to submit works for consideration to Towner International through Read More
Fotofestiwal Open Call 2020 gives you an opportunity to present your works to the audience of the International Festival of Photography held on 4-21 June 2020 in Lodz (Poland). Fotofestiwal are looking for artists with exceptional personalities and projects which present bold visions. The call for entries is open – with no thematic or age Read More
The Center of Contemporary Artists are thrilled to kick off the COCA20 | 2 EDITION.
The search for the best international contemporary artists has begun!
The aim is to produce artistic projects, to stimulate the education of professional careers and to establish connections between artists and private collectors.
The mission is to discover new talents, for this reason Read More
Shutter Hub have teamed up with Free Space Project to bring you EVERYDAY DELIGHT – an exhibition all about looking for the joy in the small things, finding the magic in what might at first appear mundane, and discovering the beauty in the everyday.
It’s there, but you might not always be able to see it.
EVERYDAY Read More
Photofusion is very excited to announce that Dr. Lucy Soutter will be the Salon/19 selector. Lucy is an artist, art historian and critic. She writes for publications including Source, 1000 Words and Aperture and is the author of “Why Art Photography” (Routledge, 2nd ed 2018). She is also the Course Leader of the Photography Arts Read More
Are you are a photographer who wishes to have their work exhibited at the next edition of the Circulation(s) festival?
The festival will take place from March to May 2020 at the Centquatre-Paris.
The call for applications is open to all European photographers or photographers living in Europe, without any age limit.
The application costs 25€.
The closing date Read More
Shutter Hub are teaming up with the beautiful Gallery at Home in Monmouthshire, Wales to create an exhibition of photography called HOME, in support of homelessness charities across the UK. Shutter Hub are asking photographers to donate images that can be printed and sold to raise money for the charities, and help more people get Read More
Demographic changes affect global and local politics, economies, urban affairs and day to day life.
For some of those who were lucky to be born in a stable, strong, democratic country, it is hard to accept those changes. It creates fear of job loss and the changing of familiar local culture. Immigrants or refugees face changes Read More
NIDA International Photography Symposium 2019 is pleased to launch an open call for lens based works for a curated evening of projections in Nida, Lithuania.
The theme of this open call is Futures / Intersections, tying in with the overall themes of this year’s programme.
Artists and photographers of any age, nationality and geographic location are invited Read More
DAK’ART – Biennial of Contemporary African Art will be held from 28 May to 28 June 2020 in Dakar, under the high patronage of the President of the Republic of Senegal. This fourteenth edition, which marks the biennial’s 30th anniversary, will have the general theme Ĩ’Ndaffa / Out of the fire.
Ĩ’Ndaffa, in Serer Read More
OPEN CALL OPPORTUNITY for photographers!
Topic: Eco-Logic
Deadline for submissions JULY 10
The 5 shortlisted projects will be offered the opportunity to be screened as part of the program of the Night of Photography 2019 that will be held on September 14th.
In addition:
– two international winners will be offered a trip to Tbilisi with 2-nights accommodation during the opening week of Read More
For its 10th edition Tbilisi Photo Festival launches an international Open Call for participation in the official program of Night of Photography – an open air nights screenings – a highlight of the Festival with up to 10,000 people coming each year to see some of the best images from across the globe.
In 2019 the Read More
Shutter Hub are teaming up with the beautiful Gallery at Home in Monmouthshire, Wales to create an exhibition of photography called HOME, in support of homelessness charities across the UK.
Shutter Hub are asking photographers to donate images that we can print and sell to raise money for the charities, and help more people get the Read More
Shutterhub are delighted to be given the opportunity to create the main exhibition for Festival Pil’Ours 4th Edition and help deliver events that will form the basis for the Festival’s progression and inspiration.
It’s not only time to think about the festival, it’s direction, and what is needed, but also an opportunity for us to think Read More
Imagine the artistic practice of photographic stream of consciousness as ‘thinking in images’. The art piece (the photograph, photographs), as an expression of an interior monologue, the artist’s sensory reactions to external events.
The image as a capture of streams of consciousness having the possibility of revealing the worlds of thoughts and circumstances, the universe of Read More
PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to submit proposals for participation in the thematic exhibition as well as special projects at the 7th International Photography Festival, taking place in Tel Aviv in November 2019.
The International Photography Festival is Israel’s largest photography event and will be taking place in November 2019 for the seventh time. The festival has Read More
FORM Fringe will coincide with FORMAT International Photography Festival 2019 – A world renowned festival which reaches both a global and local audience from it’s base in Derby.
FORMAT Fringe will consist of a series of exhibitions, events and a photobook stall – alongside other festival exhibitions and in association with FORMAT.
The Open Call invites artists Read More
After Yaounde, London and Tokyo, Yaounde Photo Network (YPN), Cameroon’s platform for photography and lens-based media will be hosting its next Digital Africascreening in Casablanca, Morocco.
The Digital Africa programme stems from a digital media (sound and video art) showcase first curated by Christine Eyene as part of the Africa Utopia Festival (2014) at Southbank Centre, London. It was then expanded as part of YPN’s Read More
SHUTTER HUB EXHIBITION AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 2019
Shutter Hub has been invited back to Cambridge University in April 2019 to curate an exhibition in partnership with Art at the ARB, and we want to take as many photographers with us as possible!
Our theme is Everything I Ever Learnt, it’s open to your interpretation and we’re inviting Read More
PhotoIreland Foundation invites individuals and organisations to come forward with proposals for the PhotoIreland Festival 2019.
The year 2019 will see the 10th edition of the PhotoIreland Festival bringing to Dublin an ambitious programme running from May to July. May will see the opening of the main exhibitions, while June will be dedicated to an extended Read More
Emerging Talents is a photo festival devoted to young artists. It will be held at MATTATOIO Museum in Rome from December 7th 2018 to January 6th 2019. A selection of unpublished works will be displayed, with meetings, talks and workshops.
For the 2018 edition, Emerging Talents is launching an Open Call inviting all photographers to present Read More
East Meets West is a collaborative project devised by FORMAT International Photography Festival/QUAD and GRAIN Projects. This opportunity is aimed at photographers wishing to broaden their perspectives and push the boundaries of their personal development. We welcome diverse and innovative submissions from photographers that are based in the East and West Read More
We are excited to announce the call for entries for our fifth annual Shutter Hub OPEN exhibition. The exhibition will be part of London Photomonth, launching at the beginning of the two month long event, and run alongside Photo Book London and Moniker Art Fair at the Old Truman Brewery.
The deadline for applications is Monday 10thSeptember 2018. Entry is Read More
We are calling on you to enlighten us with your interpretation of Out of the Ordinary. Can our perception of the unusual be challenged? Do we need to be reminded that something society has normalised is in fact extraordinary? Or should we simply marvel at something beautifully unusual?
Something that is Out of the Ordinary is unexpected or Read More
DEADLINE: MONDAY 16 JULY 2018
[see Spanish translation below / versión Española abajo]
CUNTemporary is now accepting proposals for a new episode of ‘Deep Trash’, the unique multi-disciplinary exhibition and performance club night. We accept performances, videos, photographs, installations and written contributions to be shown at ‘DEEP TRASH Escoria’ on Saturday 22 September 2018 at Bethnal Green Read More
The BBZ BLK BK: Alternative Graduation Show.
A group show of recently graduated artists from practice based degrees who identify as queer womxn, trans & non-binary people of Black Ancestry.
Our submissions are open until June 15th and you can check out this amazing article by KUCHENGA on i-D which gives you an in-depth overview.
Below is a Read More
Don’t miss your chance to exhibit with Shutter Hub in France!
Opportunity to exhibit at Festival Pil’ours, Festival international de la photographie pour les femmes photographes professionnels, in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France.
Festival Pil’ours is an annual international festival of photography showcasing the work of female-identifying photographers from around the world. This year, a first for the Read More
At Festival Pil’ours – International Festival of Photography for Female Professional Photographers
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been invited to exhibit at Festival Pil’ours, Festival international de la photographie pour les femmes photographes professionnels, in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France.
Festival Pil’ours is an annual international festival of photography showcasing the work of ten female-identifying photographers from Read More
For its 9th edition that will be held in Tbilisi in September 2018, Tbilisi Photo Festival announces for the first time an open call for artists who want to be part of this year’s TBILISI NIGHT OF PHOTOGRAPHY screenings.
Open Call is launched to select 10 best photo projects that will be featured in Read More
The submissions for the 2nd Photosphere are open!
Photosphere is an International Open Air Photography Festival, which will be held in Paros and Patmos, two beautiful islands of Greece, on July and August of 2018, at the peak of the tourist season.
Take part – Visit it!
More information at: www.photosphere.gr
A new project is seeking 208 female photographers to create 208 portraits of female members of parliament, to mark the centenary of women achieving the vote in 1918. The project will conclude with an exhibition of all the images in the Palace of Westminster in December 2018.
Initiated and curated by photographer Hilary Wood, the project Read More
This call aim is to select 8 new curators working with photography/new media/visual media that will be participating in the PARALLEL Platform 2nd Cycle, which occurs between June 2018 and September 2019. If selected, you’ll be taking part in one of the most innovative creative processes going from scratch to the exhibition, alongside with 37 Read More
This call aim is to select 30 new artists working with photography that will be participating in the PARALLEL Platform 2nd Cycle, which occurs between June 2018 and September 2019. If selected, you’ll be taking part in one of the most innovative creative processes going from scratch to the exhibition, alongside with 37 other artists Read More
5TH BIENNIAL OF FINE ART & DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY, BARCELONA, OCTOBER 2018
Following the success of the 4th edition held at the Palazzo Italia in Berlin on October 2016, we’re now organising the 5th edition and are calling professional and amateur photographers from all over the world to submit their work for consideration of the Biennial Curators’ Read More
KAUNAS PHOTO is the largest annual photographic festival in the Baltic States, based in Kaunas, Lithuania, since 2004. Maintaining its strong international character, KAUNAS PHOTO is a platform of priemieres of emerging talents. “Photo World” magazine (China) described KAUNAS PHOTO festival as a spot of the Europe’s Crossroads of photography. In the recent years, KAUNAS Read More
A call for submissions from the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology in collaboration with The Multispecies Salon
We live in an era of extinction. Capital flows, industrial infrastructures, molecules, affects, technoscientific enterprises, and pharmacopornographic desires are engendering human life, while unraveling ecological communities and multispecies worlds. Against this backdrop, we seek artistic interventions that resist and Read More
Installation & Opening Night:
Wednesday 7th March 2018
“To deploy the vagina as an overarching symbol for womanhood marginalises trans women and Gender Non Conforming femmes.”
– Meredith Talusan, them, 21/01/18
Who says the female experience is body bound?
Is it time to move past the p**sy?
What does it mean to be a feminist?
Where does inclusivity fit into your feminism?
Calling Read More
IN VIVO, the 25th Noorderlicht International Photofestival, is about our ambiguous relationship with nature. Museum Bélvédère in Heerenveen becomes the setting for photographic art possessing a confrontational beauty, images inspired by our rich tradition of experiencing nature. IN VIVO will be a modern, threedimensional nature scrapbook with a twist, about how our loving way of Read More
Nasty Women Liverpool Charity Art Exhibition. This is linked to the Nasty Women art movement which started early 2017 in the US in reaction to President Trump. Submissions now open to female/female identifying artists to DONATE a piece of work to be sold for charity. The organisation we are supporting is a Wirral based Read More
Riga Photomonth announces an open call for entries under the title of the upcoming festival New Chic. Photographers from all over the world are welcome to submit their photo series that are based on critical interest in the new and ever-changing conditions of photography as a medium in contemporary visual culture. Approximately 35 photo series Read More
The call for entries to the International Photography Exhibition (IPE) has now been announced – welcoming entries from all genres, styles and approaches by photographers worldwide, at all levels of practice.
Now in its 161st edition, the IPE is a celebration of photography today and continues to offer insight into current trends and subjects whilst providing Read More
The 8th biennial edition of BredaPhoto International Photo Festival invites professional photographers from all over the world to share their vision on the 2018 theme TO INFINITY AND BEYOND. We invite you to share your (audio)visual interpretation of the possibilities and impact of the ongoing progress in technology and science. Will it bring nothing but Read More
ONLY 1 WEEK TO APPLY FOR THE 8th EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL !
To be one of the photographers of the 8th edition,
Apply now !
DEADLINE : September 24th, 2017 at midnight
COST : 25 euros
The 2018 Circulation(s) Festival will take place from March 17th to May 6th 2018 at the Read More
