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Deadline: 31st October 2026
Pride Photo 2027 invites photographers worldwide to share stories that celebrate and explore the beauty, strength, and diversity of LGBTQIA+ lives. The contest is open to photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels, from established professionals to emerging voices.
Pride Photo welcomes all photographic formats and approaches, including documentary photography, portraiture, collage, photographic intervention, and Read More
Deadline: 15th October 2026
Magnum are partnering with Face à la Mer, to offer a scholarship to join Magnum’s first ever long-term course: Magnum Learn Lab for Storytellers.
The Learn Lab is a ten-month international mentorship program designed to support emerging photographers, supported by Magnum photographers Newsha Tavakolian, Antoine d’Agata and Rafał Milach, alongside artist Tania Bohórquez and designer Ania Read More
Deadline: 15th October 2026
Mesnographies is a free, open-air international photography festival in Les Mesnuls, France. For its 7th edition, the festival is launching its annual call for applications around the concept of happiness. What is happiness? Is it a goal, a state to be reached? Does it lie within us, or do we build it over time?
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Deadline: 30th September 2026
© 2024 Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography.
Applications are now being accepted for the Brian Tremain Bursary; a chance for photography students, recent graduates and early career professionals to receive a free ticket to attend the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography (AHFAP) Conference 2026 on 9th and 10th November plus one year’s association membership.
This is an exciting opportunity to explore a Read More
Deadline: 23rd October 2026
Figure 13. In Memoria hybrid chemical-digital eco-print 2019/2023,16 x 16 inches © Marjolaine Ryley.
The Sustainable Darkroom Futures Residency is a hybrid online programme culminating in an in-person exhibition and symposium in partnership with the Northern Centre of Photography and the Photography Research Group: Bridging Photographies, Cultures, Communities at the University of Sunderland. The Sustainable Darkroom are supported by Arts Council England, using public funding from the National Lottery, Read More
Deadline: 4th October 2026
The Dutch Talent Project Grant gives emerging photographers the opportunity to create new work exploring Rotterdam Photo Festival’s theme: Vibrance – The Pulse of a Living World. Selected artists will receive financial support, artistic mentorship, and a platform to showcase their projects during Rotterdam Photo 2027.
This open call category is open to applicants who are Read More
Deadline: 15th October 2026
Raccont’arti is a free international open call for photographers and visual artists, aimed at mapping the state of contemporary photography. The 2026 edition explores Beyond the visible: the image of absence.
The Prize invites artists to investigate absence not as subtraction, but as a stratification of space and time. Works should map what remains when action Read More
Deadline: 30th September 2026
Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography is calling for artists, academics, enthusiasts, and professionals, who have a passion and serious interest in vernacular photography and everyday imaging.
The Eidolon Grant is an international programme that is presented annually to artists, academics, professionals, researchers, collectors and vernacular photography enthusiasts whose past work and proposed project is centred around Read More
Deadline: 1st October 2026
Since 1971, the Camargo Foundation has awarded residencies to more than 1,500 individuals as part of its mission to support advanced research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities. Each year, the program gathers an esteemed panel of scholars and arts professionals annually to select fellowships from a large pool of applicants from Read More
Deadline: 30th September 2026
© Worthless Foundation Inc, 2026
The WORTHLESSSTUDIOS Photographer in Residence program is a unique 1-month-long analog photography residency taking place inside an Airstream trailer converted into a darkroom. PIR gives photographers and photography-based artists exclusive access to the Airstream darkroom to process film and make new work, plus a stipend, materials, and the possibility to host a public program.
Due to Read More
Deadline: 31st October 2026
Courtesy CPB Foundation
After two successful editions, the CPB International Open Call launches on 19 Aug 2026 on World Photography Day with its third edition in partnership with SIGMA India (Shetala Agencies Pvt Ltd).
Over the last two editions, the call has received upwards of 15,000 images being submitted from over 40 countries with 160+ photographers exhibited from across Read More
Deadline: 5th October 2026
©Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce the open call for artist books for inclusion in Dublin Art Book Fair 2026.
Each year, the artist book section at Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) features books made by contemporary artists, designers, art writers, and others, who experiment with the medium of the book and its Read More
Deadline: 12th November 2026
The City Series by Shutter Hub is an ongoing publishing project exploring the people, places, cultures, and contradictions that shape cities around the world. Rather than documenting a location as a fixed subject, the series invites photographers to respond to a city as an idea: something experienced, observed, imagined, and interpreted through the photographic eye.
For Read More
Deadline: 1st November 2026
© The Photographers Gallery 2026
Whose Archive is it Anyway? is the first in a three-part series of events exploring the future of archives and archiving at The Photograhers’ Gallery. This one-day event on Friday 16 April 2027 will kickstart the conversation with talks addressing:
what it means to make an archive today
who decides what an archive consists of
who creates an Read More
Deadline: 18th October 2026
In summer 2027, the Hasselblad Foundation will present Fotosalongen for the second time – Sweden’s largest photography salon.
Fotosalongen 2027 will bring together a wide range of photographic approaches and perspectives. The exhibition at Hasselblad Center will create unexpected encounters between established artists, emerging talents and photographers whose work has not previously been shown publicly.
The salon Read More
Deadline: 31st October 2026
Victoria Ruiz, from the series We Knew the World in Fragments of Color © Victoria Ruiz. Form Photo Award 2026 Winner.
Form Photo Award x UNSEEN 2027 is an annual contemporary photography award that seeks to support emerging voices, distinctive visual approaches, and critically engaged photographic practices. The initiative aims to encourage international exchange and sustained dialogue within the contemporary photography community.
In 2027, selected winners will receive free participation in UNSEEN 2027 during Art Rotterdam. Exhibiting Read More
Deadline: 31st January 2027
Every year, the Human Impact Awards celebrates photographers whose work tells powerful human stories. From global issues and community projects to deeply personal narratives, the Wex Photo Video Human Impact Awards, in partnership with Sony, invite photographers to submit a 5–10 image series exploring the theme of human impact.
The brief is intentionally open. Your work Read More
Deadline: 18th October 2026
© 2015-2026 HALFTONE
HALFTONE is an initiative by PhotoIreland, hosted every year at The Library Project. The print fair runs from from 28 November 2026 to 24 January 2027, the fair brings together a large selection of works by established and emerging artists, showcasing Ireland’s exciting art scene.
Applications are now invited from fine art printers, illustrators, designers, photographers, Read More
Deadline: 7th October 2026
Corinne Riviera, from the series Styles of the Anthropocene © the artist. Runner Up Earth Partner Prize 2023
The 2026 Earth Partner Prize is an open call that generates conversations around the urgent need for ecological justice. It is specifically designed for artists aged 14-30 to encourage youth engagement leading up to COP in November, and to ensure the voices of younger generations are heard.
Art Partner invites artists and creatives of all nationalities, Read More
Deadline: 1st October 2026
Amanda Hall, Untitled from A Day in Your Life Winners Gallery © the artist
A Day in Your Life is a photography competition and workshop program designed to nurture and celebrate emerging creative talent from underrepresented communities, including minority groups and individuals living with disabilities.
The project’s aim is to engage and inspire creativity, provide access to essential skills, and include participants who may face barriers such as marginalization, isolation, Read More
Deadline: 24th September 2026
Image: Ismail Zaidy
MENA Panorama is PhotoVogue’s regional initiative to champion the plurality of voices from MENA, moving beyond monolithic narratives to showcase the region’s complexity, resilience, and diverse visual languages.
The Open Call invites photographers and video makers from Middle East and North Africa and their diaspora to bring forward their perspectives, celebrating image-making as a space of Read More
Deadline: 31st January 2027
Beauty isn’t always obvious. Sometimes, it reveals itself in the most unexpected places.
ILFORD Photo are asking you to explore the idea that “ugly” is often just a matter of perspective. Under the right conditions, the overlooked can become extraordinary. A rough texture, an unusual face, a forgotten space, each holds the potential to be something Read More
