The Rebecca Vassie Trust announces the sixth Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers, which includes a cash bursary of £2,000.
The award, which funds an early-career photographer in the UK to undertake a new narrative photography project, also includes mentorship and support towards industry and public exposure. In addition, up to twelve longlisted applicants will Read More
The annual Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards recognise individuals or groups of individuals who, in the opinion of the Judges, have made an outstanding original or lasting contribution to the art and practice of photography or the moving image through the medium of the book. Two winning titles are selected; one in the field of photography and Read More
Queer Family Archive
Challenging the conventional and heteronormative visualisation and construction of family. An archive to share our stories of our families.
Facilitated by Quetzal Maucci
This is an open call for participants in these structures to email me a photograph and a written memory of their family for the archive. I am also looking for writers or Read More
Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture are pleased to launch the 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund—an initiative providing financial support to encourage artists at formative moments in their careers. Started in 2021, this third season of the Creator Labs Photo Fund will provide grants to thirty artists for new work created in the past three years.
Submissions Read More
Engaging Communities in City-making: West Yorkshire-based socially engaged arts practice
In preparation of a book proposal for an edited volume that takes a critical look at engaging community groups in the West Yorkshire area, with a focus on its cities, the editors are holding a one day symposium. This call is aimed at practice-focused researchers who Read More
MACK have announced their submissions windows for 2024. Visual arts books submission window is open now until the end of June.
MACK welcome submissions from artists, curators, and researchers for books on visual arts. This includes practitioners working with photography, film, painting, sculpture, drawing, and performance, as well as intersectional practices spanning multiple forms.
They are especially Read More
Magnum Photos is a cooperative agency, owned and operated by its Member photographers. The agency is self-selecting. Only around 100 photographers have ever become full Members since the founding in 1947.
To become a full Member of Magnum Photos, photographers partake in a minimum four-year process and must be voted to the next level three times. Read More
An open call to all photographers under the age of 35. Participants will submit an unpublished project idea related to the award theme Possibilities. Project content and cost are to be specified. The project may also be an ongoing one for which financial support is needed to be completed or further developed.
To find out more Read More
What would life be like in a Speculative Future? Is your vision like a science fiction movie, or is it about a new planetary future? Will your work reveal a blissful utopia, dystopian apocalypse, or something else? Your digital art can serve as a reflection of your unique vision of the future, whether it’s a 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
For this open call of Art Worlds we are seeking expressions of interest from artists that did not attend higher education.
90.4% of artists surveyed by Artquest attended higher education (HE). While attending HE is considered to be an excellent point of access to the art sector for visual artists, compared to other labour sectors it’s Read More
Are you an emerging writer looking to publish new work? We’re inviting pitches for texts that critically engage with the ways in which photography can speak to issues of environmentalism, colonialism and climate justice. This call is part of Autograph’s new exhibitions Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos and Mónica Alcázar-Duarte: Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain.
We will Read More
Are you seeking new input for professional development and international exposure for your photographic work? Do you crave inspiration and an opportunity to connect with peers from around the world? ISSP invites artists working within the medium of photography to apply to become a part of FUTURES, the prestigious European-based photography platform dedicated Read More
The editors of Hapax Magazine seek submissions of interest from artists and curators who would like to apply for a commission to create a new photographic project or curated selection for publication in this biannual magazine.
Twice per year, Hapax Magazine will seek to commission several artists and curators (£500 each) to produce new Read More
Are you a creative practitioner or collective looking to take up space, share and inspire conversation, or build creativity and connection? We’re inviting artists, producers, performers, musicians, curators to suggest, shape and host a public programme event to take place either in our gallery in Hackney or via our online platforms.
This year is Autograph’s 35th Read More
JAR is an internationally recognised Open Access journal that publishes artistic research from all arts disciplines including (but not limited to) the visual arts, architecture, dance, design, film, literature, music, painting, performance, photography, poetry, sculpture, theatre, video art, urban planning, etc. The journal seeks submissions of artists and theorists focusing on artistic research, Read More
Self-portraiture can encompass many forms (Borzello 2016; Battista 2019), from embodied and participatory practices (Luciano & Chen 2015; Hogue 2016; Zivkovic 2022) to disembodied, abstract data (Johnstone & Imber 2020; Piper-Wright 2022). It keeps raising questions concerning the politics of representation and representationalism (Barad 2007).
For example, Susan Morris’ self-tracking self-portraits Medication and Mood Swings (2006) present the Read More
The NIGHT MOODS exhibition, curated by Shutter Hub member Justin Carey (as part of our Curate for the Community project) was received with such overwhelming positivity that we’ve invited Justin to collaborate with us on the production of a Shutter Hub Editions publication – NIGHT MOODS, the photobook!
We’re looking for 100 images of the night. Whether you’re Read More
Trans Asia Photography Journal
Call for Papers “Orphaned Images: Found or Inherited”, guest edited by Sabeena Gadihoke
This call focuses on the image whose origins are uncertain and history unknown. Photographs have usually been linked to the idea of the evidentiary. Even as the digital turn opens up possibilities of endless transmutation of the image, the `photograph’ still retains its evidentiary status Read More
Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals to be included in a forthcoming scholarly volume on the critical analysis of animism in the arts with a focus on the boundary practices of going feral. Edited by Paula Chambers and Dawn Woolley.
For The Milk of Dreams (Venice Biennale 2022), curator Cecilia Alemani posed a series of questions 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
The International Research Conference by Atlas Skilltech University collaborating with University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is co-hosting the International Conference on Gender and Patriarchy Studies. It is dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program.
This platform provides an interdisciplinary platform in bringing researchers, Read More
We’ve never talked more about it, yet data is showing us that more and more people are having issues with their mental health (Mind, 2022). Exactly how are we critiquing the systems in which issues of care and mental health have arisen? We predominantly live in a neoliberal system, which arguably, has reduced ‘wellbeing by 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
In 2023 Photomonitor is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Photography Department and bookRoom at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, where a team of academic creatives are now ‘in residence’ at Photomonitor. As part of this residency, we will be commissioning new online features in addition to offering opportunities to emerging Read More
In partnership with Peckham 24
The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is an exciting new annual initiative dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative women artists working in the field of contemporary photography.
Successful photographers will be selected by an independent selection panel consisting of global industry professionals and inspiring international artists. 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.
Read More
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
To be held at Edinburgh Napier University School of Arts and Creative Industries in collaboration with the City Art Centre Edinburgh and The Glasgow School of Art The symposium will take place in Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2023, with an optional cultural programme on 4th February 2023
The Read More
Following on from their successful ‘Pause for Thought’ Exhibition back in May, Original Magazine are collaborating with Open Eye Gallery based in Liverpool, for their latest exhibition: ‘I Used to Think…Then I Thought’.
Mental health and wellbeing impact us all in many different ways and for this reason, Open Eye Gallery and Orginal Magazine want to 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
DISCOVERY AWARDS 2022 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS UNTIL MAY 1ST!The open call for Discovery Awards 2022 is open until the 1st of May 2022. Photographers and visual artists from all corners of the world can submit their proposals around “common places”, in photography, video, installation, digital art and other visual mediums. The finalists of the awards will 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
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
Creative Capital provides grants to support the creation of groundbreaking art by innovative and adventurous artists across the US through their national, open call process. Grants are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens, permanent residents, and O-1 visa holders of the United States. Candidates must apply to Creative Capital in order to be 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
Athens Photo Festival 2022 is accepting submissions from artists and photographers for its exhibition program. The selected works will be on view from June 6 to July 24, at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, one of the most prestigious museums in Greece. The Festival invites proposals from the entire spectrum of the photographic medium, Read More
Palm* Photo Prize is an annual 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.
They feature submissions from brilliant photographers from across the world with images in a multitude of styles and disciplines.
It’s free to submit and from all Read More
A £2000 prize to showcase positive solutions to global issues through documentary photography is to be awarded to a womxn photographer. The international prize will be granted through an award founded in honour of renowned photographer Marilyn Stafford. The international award is free to enter and applicants can be working anywhere across the globe. The Read More
Aftermath is defined as ‘the consequences or after-effects of a significant unpleasant event’. We are in a period of Aftermath. The Aftermath of a global pandemic such as COVID-19 which constituted a worldwide lockdown. The Aftermath of climate change and the possibility of humanity becoming extinct if we don’t act now. The Aftermath of civil Read More
The fifth Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers is open for applications, with a submission deadline of Friday, 8 April 2022.
The award, which funds an early-career photographer in the UK to undertake a narrative photography project, includes a cash bursary of £2,000, one-to-one mentorship plus £500 print credit from the wonderful Metro Imaging and Read More
For the next issue of Photography+, Photoworks are looking for community submissions of photographs related to the themes of hope, the future, and better worlds to come. You don’t have to be a professional photographer to submit and they welcome submissions from young people and people new to photography.
If you have an image that tells a Read More
A prize that rewards the career of a professional European photographer over 60 years old, who is independent and still active. As a major player in the world of photography, Viviane Esders is continuing her commitment by creating the eponymous prize.
On January 15th, 2022, she launches the first edition of the Viviane Esders Prize. The Read More
The following call for applications towards AFA’s annual Photobook Grant, invites works from South Asia. They are looking for exceptionally manifested photo-narratives from across South Asia. It aims to present a project that takes the form of an engaged visual narrative, spanning the autobiographical and the inspired.
The Alkazi Foundation invites book projects which explore how Read More
The new edition of the Organ Vida International Festival is dedicated to feelings, a topic that they wish to approach by observing the various manifestations of feeling in contemporary society.
The time we live in is marked by increasing uncertainty and insecurity, and consequently by collective oscillations between affective extremes – despair and ecstasy, deep anxiety Read More
Loose Joints Publishing and the Mahler & LeWitt Studios are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for artists who work with performance and photography, supported by Webber Gallery.
Publishing Performance is an opportunity to develop an artist’s practice through a residency and publishing award. The opportunity includes a month in residence from June–July 2022 at the Read More
The West Midlands Open exhibition is an opportunity to celebrate the quality and diversity of the visual arts in the region and will take place at The New Art Gallery Walsall, in their spacious Floor 3 galleries from 20 May – 25 September 2022.
The ambition of the Open is to exhibit artists from across the Read More
Awareness around gender inequality in the industry may be growing. But the numbers aren’t changing fast enough. Globally, 70-80% of photography students are women — yet they account for only 13-15% of professional photographers.
20 images and two bodies of work will be exhibited in a group show. Previous venues include Artspace in New York City Read More
The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study. The winner receives $3,000, and two honourable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to the MoCP’s permanent collection. Sponsored by Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, the Snider Prize forms a part Read More
The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2022 are open for submissions! This year marks the 20th anniversary of Europe’s most prestigious Awards in the heritage field.
Europe’s most inspiring architects, craftsmen, cultural heritage experts, professionals, volunteers, public and private institutions, and local communities now have a new chance to be recognised for their achievements!
The Read More
Awarded every two years since 2012, The Prix Virginia is the first photography prize exclusively reserved for a woman photographer, regardless of her age or nationality. The work submitted must never have yet been exhibited in France and must not be the result of an editorial assignment or advertisement commission. The Sylvia S. Association will Read More
This fellowship program supports formerly incarcerated artists in the creation of original works. Six artists will be awarded a grant of $20,000 each to support a project aimed at reforming our criminal justice system. Right of Return Co-Chairs Jesse Krimes and Russell Craig and The Soze Agency are proud to announce the fourth year of 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
Propositions: Expanded Practices is the second set of long-term series of educational programming where practitioners present their ongoing enquiries in the form of intensive and experimental workshops. Functioning as an opening out of the practitioner’s research methodologies, working materials, and conceptual methods, the programmes facilitate dialogue and critique through involved and participatory models. Existing across Read More
Contemporary Ideas on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography will be the most comprehensive book to date in this field of enquiry. As it will bring together practitioners who are theorists and theorists who are practitioners this will be the first book that will look at autobiographical memory and photography from these multiple perspectives.
It Read More
The Institute’s research and creation support program aims to develop and combine various approaches around photography – history of photography, anthropology of images, visual studies, digital humanities, human and social sciences, sciences, plastic arts research…
The call for applications is open to doctoral students, university or independent researchers, curators and artists, with availability throughout the year. Read More
Aspect Magazine are always interested in receiving submissions from creatives, writers, photographers, artists, illustrators and poets.
If submitting photography:
– Please submit a maximum of 10 photos.
– Include a short description of your concept and why you think it would fit with aspect magazine.
– Include clear credits of who was involved and a description of how you Read More
PhotoIreland calls all photographers and artists critically engaged in image making, specifically those based in Ireland and those Irish artists developing their practice abroad, regardless of age and career stage, to submit their recent and ongoing projects to the fourth edition of New Irish Works.
New Irish Works is a unique artist support programme run since Read More
The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography.
About Aperture
Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online.
Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground Read More
Flux Rotherham is a Creative People and Places Programme funded by Arts Council. Creative People and Places (CPP) is about more people choosing, creating, and taking part in brilliant art experiences in the places where they live. There are 33 independent CPP projects based in areas where there are fewer opportunities to get involved with Read More
An new project that focuses on conversations surrounding the relationships between creatives and the climate crisis.
Submit to this (open call) and be part of an online archive that focuses on conversations and projects surrounding the relationships between (creatives and the climate crisis). Looking at and exploring a wide range of practitioners whose work focus and examine the wider conversations Read More
The Capricious Award provides one photographer with the resources and editorial support to bring a body of work to fruition. Each year the award is juried by photographers, critics and curators, with the intent to select a photographer whose work is both distinct in point of view and boldly relevant to the unfolding issues of Read More
Propositions: Expanded Practices is the second set of our long-term series of educational programming where practitioners present their ongoing enquiries in the form of intensive and experimental workshops. Functioning as an opening out of the practitioner’s research methodologies, working materials, and conceptual methods, the programmes facilitate dialogue and critique through involved and participatory models. Existing Read More
Open Eye Gallery are working in partnership with Community Integrated Care to establish a photographer in residence programme within the Extra Care setting of the Watch Factory building and its surrounding neighbourhood community.
A photographer/s will be commissioned to work on a year long project with local tenants, both living within the Watch Factory and its 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
The Emerging Photographer Fund is designed to support continuation of a photographer’s personal project, or emerging career. This body of work may be of either journalistic mission or purely personal artistic imperatives. There is no age limit 18 or above. Projects submitted may be ongoing, or finished. They are looking to discover new work, and 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
Open Call for Submissions
People who identify as women & non-binary folks.
Aghh! Zine are looking for testimonies, artwork, photography, illustrations, playlists, songs, performances, videos, gifs, etc… on the theme of celebrating body hair for the first issue of Aghh! Zine.
Their aim is to celebrate body hair whilst deconstructing their own experiences as well as societies expectations. Read More
FORMAT is delighted to announce an open call for an artist collective to be in residence at QUAD.
The residency will take place between November 2021 and March 2022 including an exhibition in the QUAD Extra Gallery Spaces during our FORMAT off year.
This is an opportunity for a UK based artist collective working in digital, lens-based Read More
Following on from the inaugural AIS Open last year which had the theme Freedom, AIS are exploring the freedom of movement. The theme for AIS Open: Women Behind the Lens, is Migration.
Artists are invited to submit work exploring the theme of Migration and what it means to have or not have freedom of movement in Read More
Photoworks are looking for submissions of photographs related to the environment for the November issue of Photography+. The images can be about climate change, society’s impact on the natural world, environmental racism, climate activism and justice, and the photographer’s role in documenting and confronting the climate crisis.
You don’t have to be a professional photographer to Read More
Want to receive international exposure and connect with the photography industry in the Nordics? This is an open call for visual artists and photographers interested in a solo exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2022. They are looking for interesting projects concerning one of the three pillars of the festival programme: Framing Identity, Framing Society and Read More
The Rencontres d’Arles associates the Louis Roederer Discovery Award with galleries, art centers, artist run spaces, independent venues and institutions. Through their pioneering work, these structures are indeed often the first to support emerging artists. They can propose an exhibition project by an artist they support and whose work has been recently discovered or deserves 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
Expressions of Interest: Pecha Kucha
Open to LGBTQIA+ Artists and Curators living and working in proximity to the coast.
a-n Assembly is seeking expressions of interest from across the UK to form a PechaKucha. The event will take place on Wednesday 29th September, 2pm – 3pm.
PechaKucha? (Japenese for ‘chit-chat’) is an experimental and playful way to meet Read More
To celebrate this year’s Black History Month in October, Canary Wharf Arts + Events and the AOP are holding a special month-long exhibition at the Crossrail Place Roof Garden in Canary Wharf. They will be celebrating black culture both through images and the stories of the photographers who have taken them.
The theme is open to Read More
Sonic Acts is proud to announce the continuation of the OVEREXPOSED residency programme. With this renewed open call, we invite applications from artists and researchers working across the fields of environmental humanities with a special focus on pollution and experimental art and media.
OVEREXPOSED is part of a four-year research programme from Sonic Acts on the Read More
Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) and Amazon Photos have partnered to present Photography as an Agent for Change, a year-long workshop series exploring concepts of photography as a tool for advancement in areas such as racial equity, social justice, environmental justice, visual literacy, creative practice, storytelling, and cross cultural communications. PCNW seeks proposals of curriculum that Read More
SaveArtSpace has partnered with Take Heart You Are Not Alone and curator David F. Martin to assemble a visual framework that will draw awareness to the issue of domestic violence. Their goal is to use artwork to capture the attention of the public in order to provide them with contact information for much needed community Read More
At least 12 photographers will be selected to be published in 8 to 12 pages portfolios. Three of them will be featured on the cover, in different issues of the magazine.
Submit one or more series of 6 images each. Open Theme.
Announcement of results: 30 days after the final deadline
Winners will be published in consecutive issues Read More
What do we mean by conflict and what is its relationship to artistic practice? What is the role of artistic practice in transforming individuals and societies in contexts of conflict?
The University for the Creative Arts will be exploring these areas at the Conflict & the Creative Arts Conference 2021, a one-day online and in-person conference Read More
Ellen José (1951-2017) was a pioneer in Australia’s urban Indigenous art movement and a radical activist and social justice campaigner.
The Ellen José Memorial Foundation is providing a $15,000 non-acquisitive award to a female visual artist aged 18-35 years working in any medium. Managed by Bayside Gallery, the Ellen José Art Award is a partnership between Read More
If you’re due to graduate from a Photography Degree or Masters Course in 2021, now is the time to start getting organised by booking a place for your course in next year’s Graduate Photography Online.
With Source’s 25-year track record of publishing, their established readership of industry professionals includes curators, picture editors and publishers. Create a Read More
CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS ON THE THEME OF SOLIDARITY
The 2021 festival will be curated on the theme of SOLIDARITY in response to the waves of public protest the world witnessed whilst under lockdown in 2020. Peckham 24’s programme will showcase work by contemporary artists in synergy with the narratives of global movements such as Black Read More
After the great success of last year’s edition, Photo Week Aarhus are again looking for self-published photobooks or dummies to be exhibited at their Open Book Market at Photobook Week Aarhus 2021!
The theme is free, but they will especially consider projects that are innovative and relate to this year’s theme “Movement and Transition”.
Taking these keywords Read More
The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle is offering a 1-year bursary to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness. Applications are invited from anyone living or studying in the United Kingdom with a talent for taking photographs and an interest in the environmental concerns that we face today.
The bursary Read More
Photoworks, Photography+ The Graduate Issue is designed for final year BA students and final year MA students graduating from photography courses in 2021. The selected works will be featured in Photoworks’ online magazine Photography+. In addition to this, selected photographers will receive a year-long Photoworks membership and bespoke mentoring from the Photoworks team. The printing Read More
African Artists’ Foundation has always been committed to the development and growth of contemporary African artists and organizations, lending their minds and voices to tell their stories. To facilitate this growth, AAF are excited to announce their collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) to create the Artist Solidarity Fund. Artist Solidarity Read More
It has been a long time since we’ve seen undistorted portraits of working women in print media. Since the start of the era of consumerism and social media, what we are exposed to is either airbrushed celebrities or the poverty on the other side of the social ladder.
We should move back to showing respect for Read More
Get noticed. Get shown. Get supported.
TNT’21 supports emerging and under-recognised photographers in the UK.
This year, 6 finalists will be selected by esteemed Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó from an open call.
Now in its second iteration, TNT’21 will offer each finalist an online exhibition, a bursary of £1,500, a year-long mentorship with a photographer or industry professional, Read More
Who is telling the story?
This seemingly obvious question has been the basis and the foundation of all the work done with the Photo Vogue Festival: from celebrating the female gaze in fashion photography, to highlighting diversity behind and in front of the camera, to rethinking masculinity, PVF has always tried to challenge the danger of Read More
Administered by The Society in partnership with The Guardian. The Joan Wakelin Bursary offers £2000 for the production of a photographic essay on a social documentary issue.
The Bursary was established in 2005 in memory of distinguished documentary photographer and Honorary Fellow of The Society, Joan Wakelin. The Bursary is administered by The Society in partnership Read More
The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle is offering a 1-year bursary to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness. Applications are invited from anyone living or studying in the United Kingdom with a talent for taking photographs and an interest in the environmental concerns that we face today.
The bursary 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
Not long left to get your work noticed by an industry-leading panel of judges with Female in Focus 2021 — including Joanna Milter, Director of Photography for The New Yorker, Aldeide Delgado, Founder and Director of WOPHA, and Anna Fox Director of Fast Forward and many more! Enter now at @bjp1854. Deadline 17 June 23:59 Read More
Tbilisi Photo Festival, in partnership with Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, announces the open call for women photographers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Iran, Nepal,Thailand.
The grant is funded by Prince Claus Fund within the Partnership Network Grant program 2021.
Five women photographers from the above-mentioned countries will be offered an opportunity to benefit from the grant Read More
Matters of Touch
Through touch, we perceive the world, the surface of things. Touching guides us and helps us connect with other human beings and the surrounding elements. Gestures such as caressing, holding hands and hugging generate mutual well-being and make our bodies interact with each other.
Over the past year, the social distances imposed by the Read More
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards is a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-career artists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice. They particularly seek to encourage artists exploring new approaches to photography.
Now in their fourth edition, the Awards are for UK-based artists who are between one and ten years into their practice to Read More
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award, facilitated by FotoDocument and supported generously by Nikon UK, is granted annually to a professional woman photographer towards the completion of a compelling and cohesive documentary photo essay, which addresses an important social, environmental, economic or cultural issue, whether local or global.
The overall winner is awarded a grant of £2,000 Read More
Founded in 2017, the Documentary Family Awards (DFA) provides a platform that celebrates the very best documentary family photography from around the world, while also supporting photographers through open online educational events. With one of the most transparent judging processes in the industry, the DFA streams online its entire final round of judging for anyone Read More
Mission —
To create an environment conducive to creativity, productivity and community for emerging Black Trans visual artists via one-month funded residencies in Palm Springs, California. To help foster an ethos of accessibility and support for Black Trans folks in Palm Springs, a place with a rich LGBTQ+ history and culture.
The Specifics —
The residency is open Read More
The BFOTO Festival organizes in its XNUMXth edition the EMERGENTES exhibition program to support artists and disseminate their projects. Within the set of activities of this festival, the program provides a vision of the current photographic panorama through the exhibition of the work of the selected authors.
PARTICIPANTS
Any interested artist, in their own name or that Read More
The Kranj Foto Fest invites photographers from all over the world to submit their original and impactful series and photo stories on the theme of ISOLATION | FREEDOM to be presented in Kranj from August 25th to September 30th 2021, in solo and group exhibitions.
Submit your work and get the chance to exhibit it at Read More
Paris Photo, Picto Foundation and SNCF Gares & Connexions are proud to announce the third edition of the Carte Blanche Students, a platform of the discovery and promotion of emerging talent in master and bachelor programmes in photography and visual arts schools throughout Europe.
On the occasion of Paris Photo 2021, which will be held from Read More
The Photoville Educator Fund, in partnership with PhotoWings, provides funding, resources and consultation for educators in their community to connect their students to photographic opportunities.
For 2021, there are two opportunities for educators:
The Exhibition Fund
Open to NYC-based middle and high school educators only.
The Exhibition Fund supports educators to create an outdoor photo exhibition of their students’ Read More
FMoPA has put out a call for photographers to participate in a photography competition. Winners are selected by a jury knowledgeable of art and photography. Winning submissions will be notified by June 5th. The top entries will be exhibited at FMoPA from June 5th – July 31st.
Winners will be selected by a panel of judges. Read More
The vfg Young Talent Award for Photography is an annual competition honouring ten projects to be presented in a catalogue and shown at several exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad during the year. The winner receives a cash prize of CHF 5000 sponsored by Keystone SDA, two runners-up receive non-cash prizes. The award is organized by Read More
Since 2015, the Rencontres d’Arles has offered an award supporting the publication of a dummy book. 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. Special attention is paid to experimental and innovative forms of publishing. THE APPLICATION DEADLINE Read More
One top prize winner will receive a $1000 cash prize and the creation of a digital feature. Juror picks will be promoted via internal and external marketing campaigns and have the opportunity to collaborate with Daylight on the creation of a monograph of their work.
For more details please follow the direct link.
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
These $5,000 grants will support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity.
Five grants are available, at least one of which will be earmarked for a nonbinary or transgender photographer.
Applicants are encouraged to submit a story, rather than singles, as part of the grant application. The images Read More
Despite the current circumstances, ISSP are determined to organise the fifth SELF PUBLISH RIGA edition this year, as part of Riga Photomonth 2021, whatever form the event might take, and they are waiting for your book dummies till May 17th 2021. They still expect the physical dummy as they hope to be allowed to open Read More
The Noorderlicht International Photo Festival is putting out an Open Student Call for the second time. The 2020 edition was a great success – 144 students from 37 countries exhibited on the grounds behind Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen. The theme of the 28th edition of the festival in the summer of 2021 is ‘The Makeable Read More
The MoCP is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography. As an international hub, they generate ideas and provoke dialogue among students, artists and diverse communities through groundbreaking exhibitions and programming. Their mission is to cultivate a deeper understanding of the artistic, cultural and political roles of photography in our world today. Founded Read More
The Luupe is hosting an open call for photography celebrating the complexities of motherhood.
Mother’s Day has taken on new meaning in the past year amidst quarantine, global movements for racial equity, and beyond. To celebrate and honor its nuances, The Luupe is hosting an open call for photography celebrating motherhood, which we’ll highlight on The Read More
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award of £2,000, facilitated by FotoDocument and generously supported by Nikon UK, is granted annually to a professional woman photographer towards the completion of a compelling and cohesive documentary photo essay, which addresses an important social, environmental, economic or cultural issue, whether local or global that has a focus on positive 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 Pupil Sphere annual Graduate Showcase is now open for 2021 submissions. From the 1st of April to midnight on 31st May, this years graduates from UK and international BA and MA photography courses are eligible to submit their final year projects for free.
Each year the Graduate Showcase highlights some of the best work produced Read More
Opportunity for Socially Engaged Photographers
Photoworks are excited to launch the first four Open Calls for Picturing England’s High Streets, a major commission with Historic England that will see artists undertaking residencies at high street locations across England. The Open Calls for the photographer-in-residence programmes are linked to specific High Streets Heritage Action Zones, working with Read More
Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He was just 24 years of age. Aidan Sullivan, then picture editor, and Ian’s friends and family created the Ian Parry Scholarship in order to build something positive from such a tragic death. Each year 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
Art Residency Accompanied by a Long-term Mentorship Program & a Production Grant for South Caucasian Women Photographers.
Tbilisi Photo Festival (TPF) in partnership with Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum (TPMM) launches an open call inviting women photographers and visual artists from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to apply for an Art Residency Accompanied by a Long-term Mentorship Read More
Fully paid exhibition in Barcelona. $5,000 in cash prizes. $28,000 in exhibition costs. Publication in FotoNostrum Magazine. FotoNostrum believe that an Award is as significant as the quality of its judging team. This is why they have invited a group of seven jurors that have in common to be master portrait photographers. Selected images in 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
Back for its third edition, Female in Focus champions the work of world-class women and non-binary photographers across the world. Awareness around gender inequality in the industry may be growing. But the numbers aren’t changing fast enough. Globally, 70-80% of photography students are women — yet they account for only 13-15% of professional photographers.
Female in Read More
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards is a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-career artists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice. They particularly seek to encourage artists exploring new approaches to photography.
Now in their fourth edition, the Awards are for UK-based artists who are between one and ten years into their practice to realise Read More
We are all different, but we are all the same.
2020, a year where our world shared an experience of fear, isolation and despair. Empty streets, people hiding at home, loss of community involvement and time with family and friends.
But it was also during this period that we rediscovered love, strength, and most of all, the Read More
Since 2005 the Ballarat International Foto Biennale has been a force in the promotion of Australian and international photography. A two month-long festival event that immerses the historic town of Ballarat in photographic art, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale presents exhibitions of important contemporary photographers selected by leading curators in a rich artistic program.
For the Read More
Istanbul Photo Awards is an international news photography contest organized by Anadolu Agency, celebrates 100th year as a global news agency . The contest aims to contribute to the sphere of news photography and offers a perspective shaped by the region’s unique position at the center of diverse cultures. The awards reward endeavors of courageous Read More
YICCA is an international call for artists, open to professionals and not only from any country in the world. All kinds of contemporary artworks are allowed in the art contest: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media, video, installations and performances. The competition’s aim is to promote the enrolled artist, giving them chance to join Read More
Imago Lisboa – photo festival is pleased to announce an Open Call for photographers from all over the world. Imago Lisboa challenge you to submit your project if it fits the theme: The Family in Transition.
With the growth of democracies, the affirmation of new types of family have been witnessed, which it is important to Read More
Hidden Garden announces its third open call.
In this new project Hidden Garden Games, the artists themselves will interact with space. This can be done in any form – the “game” has only a few rules:
You choose the space with which (or where) you want to work, and it must contain some natural aspect – plants, 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
Handbali Magazine calls for artists and collectives to present a documentary project (10-15 photographs), which highlights natural or urban spaces, as well as the interaction between nature and human beings, to form the second publication of this new emerging photography magazine.
Handbali Magazine will present the work of five selected artists in the second edition of Read More
CALLING ALL FEMALE PRACTITIONERS!
Let’s talk about the representation of the female body in popular media including, fashion advertisement.
I want to hear your thoughts on how women are represented in media. I want to delve deeper into your practice and how you represent women. The Look Book project is a photo book detailing accounts of women in 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
Women X 2021 submissions open on December 1st 2020 via FilmFreeway and the final deadline is June 15th 2021. This year they will have a variety of different submission deadlines at different prices, so there’s something to accommodate everyone. As a FilmFreeway Gold festival, they can offer a 20% discount on submission fees to other Read More
Object
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
UNESCO is inviting professional photographers from all over the world to send a sample of their best photographs depicting female journalists in situations which threaten their safety.
UNESCO is looking for images that depict or illustrate female journalists working in a variety of situations, for example:
Female journalists reporting from a conflict zone;
Female journalists covering protests or Read More
PhotoIreland Festival invites national and international artists and practitioners, including writers, researchers, curators, emerging and established, to propose works to be part of PhotoIreland Festival 2021, joining invited practitioners. The 12th edition will take place in Dublin in July 2021, with exhibitions and events running throughout the month.
Submissions and proposals are invited on the general Read More
Noorderlicht is an international platform for artists who use photography and adjoining media in all its forms to portray their engagement with society. ‘The Makeable Mind’ will be the 28th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival which will take place from 26 June to 12 September 2021 at various locations in the Dutch provinces Read More
OPEN CALL for an online workshop
Deadline for application: 30th December 2020
Centered on various deviant histories, failed utopias, and renegade worlds on the run, the workshop will drift through recent instances in contemporary art that have extracted new articulations of the ‘planetary’ condition.
They will begin with a revision of the famous 1968 image of the blue Read More
Now Tell Me is a platform Holly Houlton is currently developing, dedicated to giving freelance writers on photography the freedom to write self-directed content. No brief or theme, just you and your ideas.
“The call out is to seek wonderful creatives who share this strong passion, to feature in a zine.
This is a perfect opportunity Read More
The 2021 LensCulture Art Photography Awards aim to recognize and reward talented and visionary artists using photographic processes and images to make remarkable work. Awards include an exhibition during Paris Photo, cash prizes, projection at international photo festivals, industry exposure and more.
LensCulture are proud to once again offer free entry on single-image entries, part 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
CALL FOR PAPERS
for a special issue on photography and resistance of the journal MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
Special issue editor: Kylie Thomas
Authors with expertise in visual and cultural studies and related disciplines are invited to contribute to a special issue on photography and resistance of the journal, MAI: Feminism & Read More
Open call: “On the Question of Exhibition”—deadline November 30, 2020
The PARSE summer 2021 issue “On the Question of Exhibition,” edited by Mick Wilson, Jyoti Mistry, Kjell Caminha, and Nick Aikens, will take as its broad agenda an exploration of the nature, role and tendency of exhibition. We are interested in works that seek to apprehend Read More
Postcards from Europe is a call for response and collaboration, triggered by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and reflecting on Postcards from Great Britain, Shutterhubs most ambitious project to date, which started because they wanted to reach out and connect, and has since become much more.
Postcards from Europe will be exhibited from November – Read More
FORMAT21 is delighted to announce the festival theme CONTROL and welcomes diverse and imaginative proposals from international photographers, curators, artists and collectives. The eminent panel of international experts and the FORMAT Curators will view the submissions and select up to 35 projects to be exhibited at FORMAT21 in March 2021.
For more details please follow the Read More
Since 2015, the Rencontres d’Arles has offered an award supporting the publication of a dummy book.
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.
Special attention is paid to experimental and innovative forms of publishing.
The application deadline is September 26, 2020.
An Read More
– Papers: essays by any individuals or collaborators engaged in critical and cultural inquiry that address key issues around Photography and Visual Culture, including those deriving from other disciplines and interests.
– Articles or Interviews: whether at proposal stage or completed, by individuals or collaborators including journalists, writers, researchers, artists, curators, and other professionals such as 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
Courage to freedom?
Freedom has fallen into disrepute. Functionally obstructed, hijacked and dumped – not only within the programmatic chains of exploitation of political parties. Do we need new everyday life myths, new patterns for our spiritual existence, a new order of reality? Does freedom enable new visions? A different art, a different politics, a different Read More
CATALYST is a 7 month mentorship program produced by IC Visual Lab in collaboration with Bristol Photo Festival for those who wish to further their personal career and, importantly, to expand their approach and ways of photographing and exhibiting. The program is open to local based, national and international practitioners who are at the beginning Read More
Aesthetica is looking for artists redefining the parameters of contemporary art. The Prize is open to multiple genres including photography, sculpture, installation, digital media, video, painting and more.
The Aesthetica Art Prize was launched in 2007, five years after the launch of Aesthetica Magazine, as a way to support the next generation of talent across new 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
OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation in collaboration with the Diffusion Festival-Wales with the support of the British Council and Wales Arts International announces the Open Call for a grant for resident photographers and lens based artists from India and Wales to submit proposals on the theme – IMAGINING THE Read More
Hundred Heroines and Ellen Carey, global experimental photo-artist, are proud to announce a call out for women photographic artists, who work experimentally in photography and/or lens based art.
The Hundred Heroines programme for Kensington and Chelsea Art Week is still under wraps, but the main exhibition will feature the work of renowned experimental artist Ellen Carey. 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
Photoworks are launching an open call for final year BA students and final year MA students graduating from photography courses in 2020. Selected work will be featured this summer in their online magazine Photography+ which reaches 20,000 people every issue.
In addition to this selected photographers will receive a year-long Photoworks membership and a bespoke mentoring from 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
Many of us are lucky enough to have pets and these furry friends who share our homes can make excellent photographic subjects. Sony’s award-winning Real-time Eye AF technology now works with animals as well as humans* and makes it easy to capture incredible pet portraits.
Take part in this contest by sharing your pet or animal 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
Tbilisi Photo Festival, in partnership with Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, announces the open call for women photographers from Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Five women photographers from the above-mentioned countries will be offered an opportunity to benefit from the grant Read More
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 flagship development.
A public exhibition, selected by a panel of judges, will celebrate the best work from those who live, 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
Unprecedented times call for new ways of thinking and the new Critics’ Choice 2020 aims to give more photographers more opportunities to be recognized than ever before! What’s different? Critics’ Choice 2020 assembled the largest ever jury, with over 20 international experts eager to discover new photographers. Every critic will select three photographers with outstanding 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
Paris Photo, Picto Foundation and SNCF Gares & Connexions are proud to announce the third edition of the Carte Blanche Students, a platform of the discovery and promotion of emerging talent in master and bachelor programmes in photography and visual arts schools throughout Europe.
On the occasion of Paris Photo 2020, which will be held from Read More
The following call for applications towards a Photobook Grant, invites work from South Asia. It aims to present a project that takes the form of an engaged visual narrative, spanning the autobiographical and the inspired.
The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts is looking for an exceptional manifested photo narrative from South Asia. They invite book projects Read More
Mobile devices are often the main vehicle through which we document our everyday life. Considering the current crisis, with this open call the PHmuseum are aiming to understand how this unprecedented situation is redefining the relationship with our home, family and community. Which are our own personal and collective feelings and expectations? Which are the Read More
Street photography today can vary greatly in how it looks and how it was made, but there are common elements that thread the work of all the greats: a love for the unexpected and candid moments of life, an ability to find visual order within the chaos of the world, and an unparalleled creative vision.
Many Read More
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award of £2,000, facilitated by FotoDocument and supported by Nikon, will be granted to a professional woman photographer towards the completion of a compelling and cohesive documentary photo essay, which addresses an important social, environmental, economic or cultural issue, whether local or global.
The work should, in part, showcase positive solutions to Read More
Visual storytellers need support now more than ever, and that’s why, we’re moving forward as scheduled with accepting proposals for the Inge Morath Award, a $5,000 grant given to a woman photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project.
One Awardee and up to two finalists are Read More
The Festival of Ethical Photography is pleased to present the tenth edition of the World.Report Award.
The maturity and experience gained over ten years of an international competition, alongside dozens of judges from all over the world represent an incredible heritage as well as a challenge to continually improve.
Every year the contest creates a fresco that 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
Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Iniva, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire invite applications from artists for Syllabus VI; a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme in its sixth year that will support ten artists across ten months. Syllabus offers time to come together with artists from across the UK to discuss ideas, work, life and approaches Read More
Self Publish Riga are happy to announce the fourth edition of the SELF PUBLISH RIGA photobook dummy contest! Exciting news – the author of the winning dummy will be awarded an exhibition at the ISSP Gallery as part of the next SELF PUBLISH RIGA edition in 2022. Additionally, they have teamed up with a top Read More
BLOW UP PRESS announces the first edition of BUP Book Award – a competition for all photographers around the world, regardless their age, gender or nationality – which goal is to promote photo book as a way of expression.
Blow Up Press are looking for unique photo/visual art projects (not book dummies!) which are intended to Read More
Landskrona Foto Dummy Award enables the winner to have his or her book project published by Breadfield Press and Landskrona Foto during 2021. The prize includes all expenses for book production such as design, printing and distribution. The photographer will also receive a large number of books to dispose over and sell. The winner will 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
Tbilisi Photography&Multimedia Museum announces the 3rd open call for South Caucasian women photographers within the project “South Caucasus Photography Hub for Education and Innovation”, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Seven emerging women photographers born in Georgia, Armenia or Azerbaijan will be offered an opportunity to benefit from the Multimedia Production Lab 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
Genesis are delighted to announce that the Genesis Postgraduate Award is back for the third year. The 2020 award is open to all students currently on a postgraduate course in the United Kingdom.
The award is a way of encouraging the next generation of arts practitioners, who have taken a leap to complete a postgraduate degree 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
IAPT are happy to share with you the open call for the 6th International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT2020) titled In/Visible Landscapes: Photography and the politics of land and data-use. The conference will take place between the 27th and 29th of November 2020 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Already in its sixth edition, this year’s conference will Read More
Over 85% of wetlands have been lost. Roughly half of the world’s coral is gone. At least 75 million acres of primary or recovering forest areas have been destroyed in the last ten years. Rising sea levels, superstorms, melting polar ice, disappearing islands, wildfires… the list goes on. It is undeniable that the earth is Read More
Colours are an invention of the brain. There are no purples, reds or blues, just wavelengths of light, electromagnetic radiation. The brain converts those different wavelengths into the colours we perceive. The rules are then created by a collective consciousness of understanding between us all. If we can agree that this colour is ‘red’ and Read More
Female in Focus is a photography award from 1854 Media. Having launched in 2019, the award aims to highlight and give a platform to the exceptional work of women photographers around the world.
Female in Focus was conceived to address gender inequality in the photography industry. 80% of photography graduates are women — yet women make 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
Recognizing outstanding bodies of work
Free to enter and open to anyone submitting a series of five to ten images per category
Ten diverse categories to enter
Awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place artists, plus up to ten shortlisted photographers per category
One overall winner selected as the Photographer of the Year and recipient of the $25,000 (USD) Read More
The Rebecca Vassie Trust today announces the fourth annual Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers, which includes a cash bursary of £2,000. The award, which funds an early-career photographer in the UK to undertake a narrative photography project, also includes more than £1,000-worth of premier printing at Metro Imaging plus support towards industry and Read More
The August Sander Award – Prize for Portrait Photography, sponsored by Ulla Bartenbach and Prof. Dr. Kurt Bartenbach in collaboration with Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne will be awarded for the second time in 2020.
The prize is designed to promote young artists working in the field of documentary and conceptual photography. In honor of Read More
In an effort to provide international opportunities for visual artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, the Conseil des arts de Montréal and Centre CLARK have joined forces to launch the Mission Dakar Biennale 2020, with artist Moridja Kitenge Banza as guest curator.
This pilot project will allow selected artists to travel to Senegal to attend the Dakar Read More
In 2020, The Arctic Circle program embarks on two high Arctic expeditions aboard an
ice-class expedition sailing vessel. International artists of all disciplines, architects,
scientists and educators are invited to apply.
The Arctic Circle 2020 programming takes place in the international territory of Svalbard,
a mountainous Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees from the North Pole. Each expedition
provides the opportunity Read More
The International Women in Photo Aassociation Open Call 2020 is open to all women photographers from all over the world.
The Open Call starts January 7th until February 29th 2020 at midnight French time.
A specially selected international jury comprising of eminent figures from the art and photography community will shortlist 5 candidates whose work will be Read More
It is delighted to announce that the fourth annual Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers is now open for applications, with a submission deadline of Friday, 27 March 2020.
Our award, which funds an early-career photographer in the UK to undertake a narrative photography project, includes a cash bursary of £2,000 and more than £1,000-worth of premier 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
ITSLIQUID GROUP is proud to present ITSLIQUID Christmas Photography Contest 2019 open to artists, photographers, architects and designers from all over the world, without any limit of age and nationality. The contest is open to photography category. Each participant can take part with unlimited works. The submission is completely free.
ITSLIQUID Christmas Photography Contest 2019 will 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
The Wellcome Photography Prize celebrates compelling imagery that captures stories of health, medicine and science. This competition rewards pictures that show the importance of health in society, and the impact health issues have on people and communities worldwide.
If you’re an image maker, find out how to enter to start conversations about the health challenges humanity 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 call for entries to the CAP Prize 2020 is open from 7 November 2019 until 7 February 2020. Prepare your work that engages with the African continent or its diaspora now and win a series of large scale outdoor exhibitions around the globe. A panel of international curators, publishers, editors and artists will review Read More
The Visual Art Open competition is a not-for-profit event open to both amateur and professional artists based in the UK and internationally. The aim is to give artists the ultimate platform to develop their passion and career in the arts sector. Finalists will benefit from exhibiting, selling and showcasing their work to art critics and Read More
The Guernsey Photography Festival and Raven Property Group are proud to present a major international photography competition designed to recognise the work of emerging and established contemporary photographers. The winning photographer will receive a prize of £5000 and have the opportunity to gain valuable exposure through an exhibition at the next Guernsey Photography Festival, to Read More
The MACK First Book Award is a publishing prize open to artists who have not previously had a book published. The award was established in 2012 to support emerging artists and bodies of work that find a voice through the book form.
Each year, the jury creates a shortlist of the ten best submissions. The winner 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
Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the internationally acclaimed Sony World Photography Awards are one of the most important fixtures in the global photographic calendar.
The Awards are a global voice for photography and provide a vital insight into contemporary photography today. For both established and emerging artists, the Awards offer world-class opportunities for exposure of Read More
Lens Culture is seeking the best new photography from around the world for the LensCulture Exposure Awards 2020. Since 2008, this award has offered significant exposure to more than 300 emerging and established photographers. Via a global callout, Lens Culture is eager to discover more diverse and talented image-makers to add to this impressive cohort. Read More
The BPA run an open, responsible competition aimed at celebrating photographic talent from all British and British-based photographers. The BPA work with a range of UK charities to operate a non-profit competition cashflow and keep this completely ring-fenced from the rest of the business finance. This is integral to the model. Together we can use 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
LensCulture is thrilled to announce the return of our Black & White Photography Awards!
LensCulture are seeking remarkable photographic work that plays with the dynamic relationship between light, dark and all the tones in between. Texture, shape, line and form are often hailed as the heroes of black and white photography. Show how you’re interpreting these 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
The International Photography Awards 2019 is now open!
New Year – New Benefits, the category winners will receive an IPA Trophy, a traveling allowance of $500 to join the International Photography Awards “Best of Show” exhibition & Lucie Awards in New York City, guarantee to have their winning photography part of the IPA “Best of Show” 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
The Taurus Prize For Visual Arts is awarded every two years to a contemporary artist by a selection committee of professionals from within or outside the art world. Dedicated to a geographical area instead of a theme, the prize rejects the imposition of exterior narratives onto territories and promotes relevance and accuracy.
THE AREA
Every two years, Read More
Fiebre Photobook are launching the 4th edition of the Fiebre Dummy Award to publish a photobook, sponsored by Artes Gráficas Palermo and organised in partnership with Art Photo Bcn. The winning proposal will be co-edited with Dalpine, while La Troupe will be in charge of the prepress process.
Fully aware of the technical and economic difficulties 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
Singapore Conference
16 -17 January (Thursday & Friday) 2020
Editorial Information
David Bate- University of Westminster, UK
Liz Wells-Plymouth University, UK
Photographies is excited to announce its second conference hosted in Singapore in January 2020. The two-day international event will bring together scholars, photographers, artists and critics to consider the rapid growth of photography in Asia and its impact in a 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
Where do we come from and what do we consider familial? How do we perform or embody certain formations of identity, and question notions of displacement, alienation and self-imaging?
In the traditional sense, families are permanent or fixed units, and yet, through growing associations, we find that they are also evolving – riddled with secrets, new 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
For the first time, the Rencontres d’Arles and the French Ministry of Culture are launching a professional matinée open to all curators.
The curators’ meeting is intended for institutions and curators wishing to present a new exhibition project involving the image and/or photography to a professional public. The event aims to encourage the production or coproduction Read More
The Haitian Revolution, possibly one of the most important and overlooked, revolutions of the world appears to have been written out of Western history.
The Gheeto Biennale welcome projects that both memorialise, and challenge the memorialization of, the Haitian Revolution. The aim is to look for alternate narratives to the Slaves Revolt. Complex readings of the Read More
Are you an artist, activist, educator, musician in the Helsinki area or beyond (Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Baltic Countries, Russia, etc.)? The Suoja/Shelter festival invites participants to propose projects the 2019 Shelter Festival: Cosmopolitics, Comradeship, and the Commons, a three-day convening for all those working at the intersection of deep ecology, climate resilience, environmental philosophy, ecofeminism, Read More
Migration, the flows of materials, and gentrification are pressing areas of interest to artists and filmmakers working with participatory practices in a globalised, neoliberal context. Common to these practices is a concern with spatiality, acknowledged as a key register of politics and social inequality. This one-day symposium aims to bring practitioners together to open a 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
The deadline for the application is pushed until the 28th of February 2019. The main theme for the exhibitions is “UTOPIA”. The curator group is looking forward to review your project or series of photography, which we trust to be related to the theme in one way or the other. Applying to open call is Read More
This call aims to select 30 new artists and 6 new curators working with photography who will participate in the PARALLEL Platform 3rd Cycle, occurring between September 2019 and November 2020.
Those selected will be taking part in an innovative creative process, from the very beginning to the moment of the exhibition, together with Read More
The Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH) and the International Association for Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) are offering an exchange program for staff at member institutions, with the aim of fostering collaboration and the sharing of expertise. Staff members of ARIAH institutes may apply to visit RIHA institutes, and 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
Proposals by artists and curators based in Europe are invited for projects which address the core themes of A Woman’s Work, a 24 month collaborative programme in which cultural partners in the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Ireland, France and Finland will work together in pursuit of the following objectives: to enable artists and cultural professionals from across Europe Read More
In 1918, after years of campaigning, women were granted the right to vote. Their voices were finally heard, now it’s your turn! Send us your selfie or photos of the women and girls* in your life you wish to celebrate. Be part of a giant photo mosaic at Birmingham New Street Station. These can be Read More
We invite artist using the photographic medium to submit a photographic answer to the theme “A Hunger Artist”, taken from the homonymous Franz Kafka’s short story.
Please follow the direct link for more information and to download the pdf with submission instructions.
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
Impressions Gallery is looking for self-published and / or handmade photobooks and photography zines to sell at our annual Photobook Fair this October.
Last year we promoted many unique, self-published titles to more than 400 visitors at our Photobook Fair. Due to the great feedback from both our visitors and self-publishers we are once again calling for books Read More
JAR invites submissions from all fields and disciplines in which artistic research may be relevant, including areas that are not usually conceived of as artistic. We welcome submissions from practitioners with or without academic affiliations. JAR’s format for publishing artistic research, the exposition, invites authors to combine text, image, film, and audio material on expandable web pages, challenging 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
If you were to google the definition of Health, the first result quotes “the state of being free from illness or injury.”
What kind of relationship do you have with health? What does health mean to you? What does your health narrative look like?
According to the definition, health is considered to be a positive word with a Read More
Open Call for Artists – 2018 International Photography Festival
PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to send proposals for the thematic exhibition and special projects at the 6th Photography Festival, which will take place in November 2018 in Tel Aviv.
The theme this year is: Relations
The Oxford Dictionary defines “relation” as “the way in which two or more people 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
With our recently launched online fora—Pix Posts— we have been sharing the perspectives of practicing photographers, curators and writers and thereby exploring varied aspects of photography in South Asiathrough an assortment of social, political and personal points of view. With this open call, we are happy to feature written articles, audio interviews, or even video submissions 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
ORGAN VIDA International Photography Organization based in Croatia invites artists from all over the world who work in the medium of photography as such or in an expanded form, video and sound, installation, collage to apply to this open call and respond to the given topic: Engaged, Active, Aware — Women’s Perspectives Now.
The selected artists Read More
Digital media has provoked one of the largest revolutions of our time. As a socio-cultural documentary practice, the dawn of participation-driven, citizen media has hence given birth to another persona in our midst – at once vigilant and critical. In a world where every act and event – from an emergency situation to a celebration Read More
Take this opportunity to be discovered by international publishers and experts, to be exhibited at international festivals and to win a complete book publishing! Registrations are open until 3 April!
One attraction of the FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL KASSEL is the dummy competition for the best unpublished photobook mock-up. Together with our cooperation partner VERLAG KETTLER, the festival invites all Read More
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project is soliciting submissions for a new joint exhibition and fellowship opportunity focused on the topic of migration. Selected projects will be featured in the next installment of our ongoing Moving Walls exhibition series, opening in September 2018 at the Open Society Foundations—New York. Selected artists will also receive a Read More
Fem Tour Truck is an international and itinerant Feminist video-art festival that begins in February 2016 and continues until today, having become a biennial proposal, but with a constant journey, year after year. An initiative to recover the public space, the squares of the cities and towns, where performances, workshops and videos are screened in 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
6th Singapore International Photography Festival Open Call – Curatorial Project
The Curatorial Project started in 2014 with the aim to encourage curatorial practice in the medium of photography in Asia. It reaches out to emerging and independent curators committed to develop their professional practice in Southeast Asia.
The last edition of the Open Call featured a project 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
Location: Lungs Project
North East of England
Lungs Project is a non-profit curatorial collective and publication founded in 2016. The Lungs Project are now accepting submissions from artists, illustrators, designers, filmmakers, photographers, poets and writers of colour in early stages of their career.
Based in the North East of England, the project focuses on facilitating artistic development 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
Sexual Politics and Digital Media Infrastructures: Challenges for Diversity
Call for papers for a special issue of DiGeSt (JOURNAL OF DIVERSITY AND GENDER STUDIES)
Editors: Sander De Ridder and Frederik Dhaenens
Deadline abstracts (500 words): 15 May 2018
The breadth of what it means to study sexuality in the context of media has changed significantly in recent years because 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
WE ARE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE SECOND EDITION OF THE MARIBOR PHOTOBOOK AWARD WILL TAKE PLACE IN MARIBOR IN MARCH 2018. APPLY NOW!
We would kindly like to invite you to the second edition of the Maribor photobook award. The award will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected photobooks from the call and will 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
Show OFF Krakow Photomonth
Our tenth anniversary programme offers yet another exciting opportunity to highlight photographers for whom an exhibition within ShowOFF Section has the potential to similarly kickstart a vibrant career.
ShowOFF is the section of Kraków Photomonth devoted to up-and-coming photographers and multimedia artists, allowing them to present their debut projects to the diverse, international Read More
Our Instagram @womeninphoto
Deadline extended until 22 September!
Open call for young and promising artists in the field of contemporary art photography organized by Photon Gallery – Centre for Contemporary Photography from Ljubljana. The first prize is € 1,000 for the production and solo exhibition at Photon Gallery. The selected ten artists will present their work at Read More
EXHIBITION, LIVE ART EVENT & SYMPOSIUM:
Symposium: Drama Department, Queen Mary University, London (Thursday 19 October, 2017)
Live Art Event: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London (Saturday 21 October 2017)
CUNTemporary is now accepting proposals for a new episode of ‘Deep Trash’, the unique multi-disciplinary exhibition and performance club night in London.
Calling for performances, videos and artworks to be shown on Read More
1 OPEN CALL | 2 ARTISTS SELECTED
1 EXHIBITION | 1 RESIDENCY IN ROME
Latent is the result of the meeting and collaboration between D.O.O.R and MATÈRIA, two Rome based institutions specialised in photography. Latent (an anagram for Talent) is an open call aimed at the discovery and the promotion of photographic research and production characterised by originality Read More
The next issue of Photoworks Annual, will explore how photography and visual culture can be used to foreground LGBTQ+ rights.
The Editors are currently looking for fully-resolved projects responding to photography’s role within LGBTQ+ communities and invite UK and international artists at any stage of their career to submit suitable new or previously Read More
Nucleus, imagining science
NUCLEUS is the title of the Noorderlicht International Photography Festival 2017. This 24th edition is about science and the representation of it by photographers and artists. The exhibitions revolve around the human urge to want to understand and control the world around us. NUCLEUS (‘the core’) is a bout discovery and Read More
ENTRY NOW OPEN
Open submission calling for engaging, visually striking and inspiring work across all genres. Selected work will be exhibited in a nationwide touring exhibition opening in London in October. The International Photography Exhibition 160 is supported by theprintspace.
Submission details:
– Worldwide open submission
– Open to members and non-members
– Online entry of up to 4 Read More
Recognizing the amazing quality of work being produced by woman photographers in Asia”
2017 ASIAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE
FIFTH EDITION
Slideshow Projection curated by Yumi Goto (Reminders Photography Stronghold) and Emmeline Yong (Objectifs). In collaboration with Objectifs’ Women in Film & Photography Showcase
Asian women photographers are invited to submit work for inclusion in a slideshow curated by Yumi Read More
THEME: Anatomy of the Soul
The scale of the topic ranges from a motif of a body as a concept of nudity and aestheticization of the physical, as well as a symbol of naturalness, essence of existence or mortality and ephemerality. As an opposing pole, there stands soul as a representation of a human inner, faith, desires, thoughts and belief Read More
International Association of Photography and Theory [IAPT]
OPEN CALL
Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of photography and archaeology
This Call invites artists who particularly work with photography to respond to the theme of the International Association of Photography and Theory’s first collaborative project entitled Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of photography and archaeology. The project will run from May to Read More
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award – in association with FotoDocument – will be granted annually to a professional woman photographer towards the initiation or completion of a compelling and cohesive documentary photo essay which addresses an important social, environmental, economic or cultural issue, whether local or global.
The work should, in part, showcase positive solutions to Read More
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Estonian Photographic Art Fair is the first and only contemporary art fair in Estonia. It takes place since 2010, every other year it is part of Tallinn Photomonth biennial. The fair aims to introduce recent works of contemporary Estonian photographic artists and to offer information on strategies of Read More
CALL for APPLICATIONS Arles 2017 Voies-Off’s projection
CIRCULATION(S) FESTIVAL invited to Voies-Off Arles
Call for applications on the subject of the Feminine (provisional title)
As part of Voies off – Arles 2017, the Circulation(s) festival will show a projection dedicated to women and to their fight.
In a current choatic context, it seems to us that it is urgent to showcase women Read More
THE STUDENT ISSUE
In the last decade, South Asia has witnessed a deluge in exploratory works being produced by students who have been mentored within newly formed photo/visual arts departments. The scope of student work – in image-making and writing – has also been exponentially broadened through festivals, workshops and training programmes, as well as a 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 can be made exclusively through the site, by completing and sending the materials requested in the form below. For applying, please download Read More
Call for entries – Facts and clarifications
Riga Photomonth announces an open call for entries under the title of the upcoming festival Facts and Clarifications. Photographers from all over the world are welcome to submit their photo series that pay attention to complicated, paradoxical, tragic, as well as humorous cultural situations and their interpretation in our Read More
Open call for artists to participate in the International Photography Festival Organ Vida 2017.
You can submit your work by filling out the application form below. Open Call fee is 30 €.
Please, read the Open Call essay written by artist Katrin Koenning before submitting your work!
The International Photography Festival Organ Vida is inviting all local and international photographers Read More
First International Moscow Art Book Fair of independent publishing houses, artists’ books, zines, monographs and periodicals.
Registration is open to everyone who runs an independent publication, works as an independent publisher, etc.
Deadline for applying is March 20th, 23:59 h. Moscow time. MSK (UTC+3)
Publishers must be present in the fair which will take place from April 14st Read More
Being selected as a Foam Talent puts you in the spotlight of the international photography world. It marks you as an emerging artist with great promise and gives you the means to jumpstart your career.
Foam Talent Call is limited to participants between the ages of 18 and 35.
SUBMIT
To be considered for a feature on Don’t Smile, please send 15-20 images of a developed body of work, an artist statement, and a short bio written in the third person in a .zip file to submission@dont-smile.com. The images must be 1280px on the long side, 160ppi, and cannot exceed 20 MB.
REQUIREMENTS
Photographers of all ages Read More
EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS IN SCOTLAND AND INDIA
Fòcas are inviting emerging photographers based in Scotland and India to submit their work on the theme ‘Document’.
From street to long-term documentary, from personal to political, and from conceptual to mobile, Fòcas are looking for photography from all genres that makes visible compelling narratives, perspectives and experiences of the Read More
We are very excited to announce submissions are now open for our upcoming photobook show in Russia.
We invite people to submit photobooks at any stage of production and distribution, from handmade prototypes and dummies, to one off, published and self published photobooks. Check out our shows page to see previous editions.
I Book Read More
DIFFUSION 2017 OPEN SUBMISSION
SUBMISSIONS: £25 (including VAT)
THEME: ZEITGEIST
Brexit, Trumpism, globalisation, climate change, poverty, religious intolerance, the migrant and refugee crisis, diversity, nationalism, border control, hate crime, gentrification and community division. For all the technological socio-economic progress made, we live in a world blighted by inequality, war and political upheaval, particularly for those living under oppressive Read More
OPEN CALL 4 for a new series of #FFconversation on our @womeninphoto Instagram
If you would like to be part of our ongoing series of FFconversations between artists from all over the world, please apply to it by sending three things only:
1. One link on your portfolio
2. Your bio (MAX 50 words)
3. Your Instagram username
to our Read More
4–5 February 2017
The Portfolio Review is an annual event, taking place since 2013. It offers emerging artists from all over the world the opportunity to get selected and present their work to an international panel of curators, critics and editors who work in the fields of art and photography.
Conceived as a forum to discuss and Read More
Fòcas Scotland offers emerging photographers a professional platform for international exchange, exhibition and training. We support and share exciting work that inspires new dialogues about place, identity and culture.
If you are an emerging photographer based in Scotland or India share your experiences and your stories with us. From street to archive, narrative, mobile and conceptual Read More
UPF OPEN
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Are you passionate about urban and street photography?
UrbanPhotoFest invite you to submit your urban and street photography images to the inaugural UPF Open photography competition. “Re-thinking the street” is this year’s theme and we are looking for entries,which show creative interpretations of street and urban photography. This inaugural competition is open to Read More
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
EMERGENTES dst 2016
Applications until July 24 at www.encontrosdaimagem.com
The International Photography award EMERGENTES dst is an initiative by Domingos da Silva Teixeira group, organised by the Festival ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM, with a prize money of 7500€ that will be granted to the best 2016 Contemporary Photography Portfolio. The Prize will be awarded after the Portfolio Review (September 21 / 22) which Read More
CALL FOR ENTRIES
GUEST-ROOM: THE PHOTOCAPTIONIST
Submit up to 4 photographs for »Guest-Room: The Photocaptionist«!
Federica Chiocchetti is the founding director of the photo-literary platform Photocaptionist. Based between London and Tuscany, she is a writer, photography critic, curator, and editor. Currently working on her Ph.D. in photography and fictions at the University of Westminster, she explores the intersections Read More
Latent is the result of the meeting and collaboration betweenD.O.O.R and MATÈRIA, two Rome based institutions specialised in photography. Latent (an anagram for Talent) is an open call aimed at the discovery and the promotion of photographic research and production characterised by originality and innovation within the field of contemporary photography.
How to SUBMIT
With no age, Read More
OPEN CALL for submissions for Backlight Photo Festival 2017, under the theme Independence.
OPEN CALL for photographers and artists working with lens-based media to submit their works in the Backlight Photo Festival 2017, under the theme Independence.
We can only accept applications submitted via this online form.
Deadline: June 5th 2016 12:00 pm CET.
Participation: The submission is open to all Read More
ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM International Photography Festival is pleased to announce that is now open for submissions to the 26th edition. The festival will take place in Braga, Portugal on the 20th september 2016, and will provide opportunities for emerging photographers from around the world to submit their work and create the opportunity to explore and interrogate Read More
Angkor Photography Festival invite you to submit your work for selection of the Festival Programme of the 12th Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, to be held this year from3rd – 10th December 2016 in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
The longest-running photography event in Southeast Asia, the annual Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops is a free international platform and Read More
4th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2016)
PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EVERYDAY December 2-4, 2016
at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation [NiMAC] Nicosia, Cyprus International Association of Photography & Theory (IAPT) www.photographyandtheory.com
Keynote Speakers: Martha Langford John Stezaker
Research in historical, artistic and vernacular photography has been rapidly expanding in the past few years. Read More
SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY ONLINE @ www.photomonth.org
Photomonth welcomes shows by emerging and established photographers. Exhibitions may take place in all kinds of galleries and venues across East London. If you are planning to participate and would like to be included in the printedphotomonth brochure and on the website please submit your listings at http://2016.photomonth.org/events/new
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Pample-mousse is calling for submissions to be part of our first magazine issue.
Originally an online platform, we are now heading to print. The magazine will be a creative conversation between photo and print.
We are looking for:
Documentary project
Please send up to 10 images and a supporting statement for the series of 100-150 words. Include the word ‘documentary’ in Read More
Photoworks Annual Issue 23: The politics of fashion and style photography
Launching Autumn 2016, the next issue of our annual photography and visual culture journal will be themed on the politics of fashion and style photography.
Every day we’re surrounded by fashion images and the ubiquity of our chosen theme will allow us to publish folios addressing a wide Read More
Imaging the Past, Collecting the Future:
Archive, Photography, Cinema, Museums
First International “LYNX Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Images” Conference
Lucca, Italy – June, 22-25 2016
Deadline for proposals: April 18, 2016. Please submit proposals to: internationallynxconference@gmail.com
Notifications about the status of the proposal will be sent in late April/early May.
Any questions about the process should also be sent Read More
Dear Researcher,
The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) announces that, the 2nd World Conference on Women’s Studies commences (www.womenstudies.co) to expect the dawning of the new era that crowns the women in humanity.Theme – Empowering Future Generation of Women and Girls – Empowering Humanity
Academic Partner – Centre of Excellence for Women’s Studies – Read More
Ljubljana, May 26 – 27, 2016
>Deadline: Mar 20, 2016
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>³One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,² and there were those,
>who became a woman long before the famous quote of Simone de Beauvoir
>was said out loud in 1949 and who left their footprint, seen or hidden,
>praised or still unrecognized. Last couple of decades have seen Read More
Athens Photo festival has opened for the 2016 edition, to be held in June – July 2016
There are three categories for submission
Exhibitions, Screenings and the Photobook Show
At the core of the Athens Photo Festival is an open submission process which welcomes artists/photographers, collectives, curators, galleries and organisations from all over the world to submit their Read More
East Sussex Open brings together the best artists and makers from across the East Sussex region – from Rye to Eastbourne to Brighton & Hove. Last year saw a record number of entries, from the traditional to the interactive and experimental. Entries in all mediums are welcome and all works are for sale.
Entry fee £20
Deadline for entry Sunday 20 March Read More
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, September 7 – 08, 2016
Museums and Galleries History Group Biennial Conference
Gendering Museum Histories
This conference addresses the relationship between museums, galleries
and gender during the last 400 years. Museums can be understood as
buildings, institutions, collections, displays, interpretations and
groups of people; each of these aspects has both reflected and shaped
ideas about gender and its construction Read More
The photography projects selected will be exhibited at the PSPF 2016, to be held in Perugia 11 – 28 March.
The winners will be awarded with a Fuji X-T10 (XC16-50 mm)
PSPF BLINDSPOT Concept
We often talk about “blindness” as the inability of seeing through the eyes, yet the act of seeing cannot be reduced exclusively to a simple Read More
July 4–6, 2016
I: project space
BeiXinQiao-BanQiao Hutong #10
Beijing
China 100007
“Overwhelming Imagination: Achieving and Undermining Contradictions” invites art researchers to Beijing. Running from July 4–6, 2016, this three-day conference is accepting proposals from now until January 16.
Many have argued that the world under global capitalism, particularly urban centers, has become homogeneous. Cities worldwide share similar urban aesthetics, operations, and work Read More
MaHKU
Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan 50
3582 VA Utrecht
The Netherlands
HKU launches a new peer-reviewed journal that specifically targets the significance of research and knowledge production in contemporary Fine Art practice. MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research is published by Ubiquity Press, London and has an international editorial board.
Editor: Henk Slager (Utrecht)
Editorial advisory board: Chus Martinez (Basel), Hongjohn Lin (Taipei), Inci Read More
Starting the New Year 2016 with a dynamic programme of contemporary art exhibitions we are looking for some of the finest artists based in UK, to participate and exhibit their idiosyncratic practices in a prime gallery in the heart of Shoreditch in East London. All artists must response to the Exhibition Theme BETA: ‘In The Read More