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Folio Fridays are The Photographers’ Gallery’s regular in-person portfolio review and networking sessions for photographers and artists working with photography. The next Folio Friday will take place on 4 September and bookings open from 12 August.
Please note:
* Presenting photographers should book one place only and agree to attend from 12pm – 5pm;
* Open to gallery Read More
Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion is PhotoVogue’s Global Open Call inviting photographers and video makers from around the world to submit work that engages with the present through original and compelling visual storytelling.
This open call does not ask for a theme to illustrate. It asks for a position. It asks for a position in Read More
Inland invites emerging photographers to apply for its third “Speed-dating”, a unique event with leading industry experts during the professional week of Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026.
On Tuesday, 7 July at the Inland x Hahnemühle House, participate in this special opportunity to connect with top editors, curators, gallerists, and other key figures in the visual world. Read More
MENA Panorama is PhotoVogue’s regional initiative to champion the plurality of voices from MENA, moving beyond monolithic narratives to showcase the region’s complexity, resilience, and diverse visual languages.
The Open Call invites photographers and video makers from Middle East and North Africa and their diaspora to bring forward their perspectives, celebrating image-making as a space of Read More
The Hamburg Portfolio Review (HPR) has become a key platform for emerging photographers and contemporary visual storytellers. Its mission is to connect the international photography community, foster collaborations, and spark dialogue around current photographic, social, and political issues. Each year, a jury selects 100 outstanding photographers to take part.
Selected photographers will have the opportunity to Read More
The 2026 Giga Photo Award edition, Urgency for Connectivity, invites photographers to show how digital connection endures through conflict, climate disasters, health emergencies, political instability, and displacement.
To find out more and apply please go to the direct link.
For the 2026 edition of the FORMAT Portfolio Review we are delighted to be offering 7 bursary places. Proudly supported by FORMAT and Shutter Hub. Bursaries are open to photographers and artists anywhere in the world.
Each bursary awardee will receive 3 reviews each.
To find out more and apply please go to the direct link.
The Hamburg Portfolio Review (HPR) has become a key platform for emerging photographers and contemporary visual storytellers. Its mission is to connect the international photography community, foster collaborations, and spark dialogue around current photographic, social, and political issues. Each year, a jury selects 100 outstanding photographers to take part.
Selected photographers will have the opportunity to Read More
Fotofestiwal’s portfolio review event ŁÓDŹ PHOTO-MATCH invites 20 photographers to meet 20 curators from all over Europe in an unusual formula of portfolio review, which emphasizes networking, equality and the widest possible presentation of works and photographic institutions. There review are free of charge.
To find out more and apple please go to the direct link.
This first-ever Giga Photo Contest celebrates photographers worldwide who document the essence of human connection and the transformative power of internet connectivity.
Launched in 2019, Giga, a partnership between the UNICEF and ITU aims to connect every school in the world to the Internet.
There are three categories:
Single Image: A photograph that increases our understanding of daily Read More
Building on the success of the 2023 edition of Photo|Frome, photographers and publishers are invited to submit photobooks and zines for exhibition at the festival and a chance to win the 2025 Open Photobook award.
Entries will be selected a distinguished panel of judges. Photobooks will be exhibited at Frome Library, and online, throughout the festival.
Entrants Read More
Folio Fridays are TPG’s regular in-person portfolio review and networking sessions for photographers and artists working with photography. The next Folio Friday will take place on 19 July.
These sessions are free for participating photographers and include two presentations by photography professionals, as well as time for a complimentary lunch and networking with participating photographers. As Read More
As part of research for future issues, Source will be organising in person and zoom meetings with photographers to look at new photographic work. Each meeting provides an opportunity to introduce directly new work to one of the editors. This is one way Source finds new work for publication in the Portfolio section of Read More
Get professional feedback on your work at this event offering support for underrepresented photographers.
During the 25 minute individual session, you will share your work with photographer Marc Wilson, and Impressions’ curator, Raquel Villar-Pérez, who will offer you constructive feedback in a supportive environment.
There are 5 places available. Booking essential. Suggested donation £5.
Saturday 27 January 2024, 10.30am to 1.10pm
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow and Stills, Edinburugh have teamed up once again to support Scottish Photographers to attend the FORMAT24 Portfolio Review. This year they are offering 10 bursaries to Photographers living in Scotland. Each selected bursary awardee will receive 5 review places each on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd March 2024.
For more information and 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
The FORMAT Portfolio Review is returning. It will take place on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th March. Due to the ongoing global pandemic, they will host the event online.
The Portfolio Review is aimed at committed photographers with a developed and serious approach to their work. Recent graduates are welcome. Please contact sebahc@derbyquad.co.uk for any queries. Read More
The award Emergentes 2021 – International Photography Award Encontros da Imagem is organised by Encontros da Imagem – International Photography and Visual Arts Festival aims to award the Best Portfolios in Contemporary Photography. This year because due to COVID-19 to keep compliant with the government guidelines – DGS and DGartes, and to make sure that Read More
Hosted by Charcoal Book Club.
The 2021 Chico Review is a two-week, online photobook masterclass and portfolio review with over twenty-five of the most influential and creative photographers, bookmakers, gallerists, museum curators, and photobook publishers in the industry. Sixty-four attending photographers receive formal portfolio reviews by speakers and reviewers and take part in artist lectures, panel Read More
Join online for one-to-one professional feedback on your photography from Impressions’ programming team. These sessions have been extended to 30 minutes.
During the session you will have the opportunity to share your work with Pippa Oldfield, Head of Programme, or Angela Sheard, Associate Curator, and receive constructive feedback. It is recommend that you prepare one or Read More
2020 coincides with the centenary of the first woman matriculating and graduating from the University of Oxford. What better time and place could there be for celebrating women and their diverse roles in international photography?
Photo Oxford Festival and associated Open Call is a celebration of women as photographers, critics, editors and photographic subjects.
While photography, like Read More
The concept of the Bird in Flight Prize is to support photographers who think outside the box of traditional artistic standards. Our contest is not about photoprojects that cater to the existing general demand. It’s about discovering new ways to tell a story using the means and tools of photography. We encourage artistic freedom and Read More
This all-inclusive retreat takes place over six nights at Chico Hot Springs Resort. Selected artists are invited to spend the week with the most respected and influential artists, bookmakers, gallerists, and curators in contemporary photography. At the conclusion of the event, one project is awarded the Charcoal Publishing Prize. The winning project is then published Read More
The Chico Review takes place over six nights at Chico Hot Springs Resort, near Livingston Montana. Fifty-eight applicants will be selected by our jury and invited to spend the week with twenty of the most influential and creative photographers, book makers, gallerists, museum curators, and photobook publishers in the industry. One full scholarship and five Read More
Sign up for a free portfolio review with Shutter Hub Creative Director Karen Harvey and Project Manager Jayne Lloyd at STREET / FORM in collaboration with POW! WOW! Rotterdam, Europe’s leading street art festival.
STREET / FORM investigates photography’s relationship with the urban landscape and street culture. The juxtaposition of shape and form, the encounters with Read More
The Imago Lisboa festival aims to fill a non-existent space in the capital. Lisbon has become a reference city in the fields of tourism, economic and cultural growth. The events take place in the most diverse areas and the city is the scene of an effervescent activity in the most diverse domains. In the visual arts there is Read More
The Shutter Hub OPEN 2018 will open on 4th October at The Old Truman Brewery in London. Join us from 6-9pm on Thursday 4th October for the private view and launch.
Part of Photomonth East London International Photography Festival, the OPEN brings together international photographers in a selected exhibition, celebrating the future of Read More
GRAIN is pleased to announce the next event in its programme of professional development activities. Our Portfolio Development Day will be delivered at and in partnership with Birmingham City University, on Saturday 13th October.
During the morning our guest expert reviewers will give short presentations followed by a Q&A session and in Read More
LagosPhoto and National Geographic invite documentary photographers from Africa and the diaspora to submit their work for this year’s portfolio review. Send your .pdf portfolio to LPReview@africanartists.org for a chance to present your portfolio to our panel of judges and potentially become and National Geographic Photographer.
The best portfolio wins $5000, Deadline is 14th October 2018, Read More
As a major part of Fotobiennalen, A new Danish biennial for contemporary photography and lens-based art, an international symposium will be held in Copenhagen followed by this year’s new addition – a month of online reviews organized by Portfolio Dialogue.
Date: September 1 – 30, 2018.
Feed: 59 EUR (excl. VAT)
Profiles of Reviewers: Curators, museum directors, publishers, magazine editors, Read More
Folio Friday – December 1
Each month 12 photographers can sign up to present their work to our audiences at these open portfolio afternoons in our Eranda Studio. Deliberately different from a portfolio review, these sessions are programmed with both photographers and the gallery’s wide variety of visitors in mind.
Folio Friday sessions begin with a social Read More
As in previous years, we invite photographers and visual artists to show their work to experts from around the globe, in order to receive useful feedback and opportunities for exhibitions and publications. The Portfolio Reviews are aimed at committed photographers with a developed and serious approach to their work, open to everyone from Read More
