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Deadline: 1st July 2026
The purpose of the Emerging Photographer Grant is to provide a $10,000 grant to visual storytellers at the beginning of their careers, to develop impactful visual narratives. The program places particular emphasis on photographers from undeserved and diverse communities, expanding access to resources and opportunities to bring their stories to life.
The mission of the Stanley Read More
Deadline: 15th May 2026
The Mrinalini Mukherjee Creative Arts Grant is an annual visual arts grant aimed at supporting the work of an indian artist/collective who has shown consistent engagement with shifting contexts within contemporary art, and is looking to experiment and push their practice beyond the familiar. The grant amount of rs. 10 lakhs, will enable them to Read More
Deadline: 3rd August 2026
Welterweight boxer Sylvester Mittee tapes his hands up before a training bout in Kings Cross, London, circa 1984. (Photo by Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images) © Estate of Eamonn McCabe
In recognition of the significant legacy and widely-held respect across photography for Eamonn McCabe, the RPS, in partnership with Eamonn McCabe’s family and The Guardian , has launched the Eamonn McCabe bursary.
This new International bursary launched in 2024 commemorates the life of photojournalist Eamonn McCabe (1948-2022). McCabe made his name as a sports photographer before Read More
Deadline: 31st July 2026
Submit your artwork for a chance to win prizes, and to be featured in Guildford Festival of the Arts 2026. Everyone’s first submission is free.
To find out more and submit please go to the direct link.
Deadline: 29th June 2026
Photoworks, in partnership with EASE (Entrepreneurship, Art & Science for Environmental Sustainability) and PicturingClimate.org, are inviting proposals from UK-based artists who are interested in working collaboratively with climate researchers, artists and entrepreneurs, publicly and across disciplines.
The labs will take place in a variety of locations from UNESCO geoparks and Minoan palaces to underground rivers, earthquake-lifted Read More
Deadline: 15th June 2026
Photoworks are excited to announce the launch of the open call for the Photography+ Emerging Talent Issue. They invite BA and MA graduates, as well as image-based artists, who are within the first five years of their practice and/or their graduation, to submit their work for the opportunity to be featured in the next issue Read More
Deadline: 17th May 2026
The role of Curator is at the centre of Lancaster Arts’ artistic programme. You will work closely with the Director to realise their potential as a combined arts National Portfolio Organisation, situated within a leading university which is committed to interdisciplinary practice and civic engagement. The contemporary arts programme integrates their presentational programme with commissions Read More
Deadline: 12th June 2026
The Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues creates a space for a socially engaged photographer to produce a compelling and dynamic body of work highlighting human rights and social issues.
Fellows serve as a critical link between artistic practice, their chosen community partners, and Columbia College Chicago. The program seeks opportunities where the Read More
Deadline: 12th June 2026
Claire Warden, Lespirit De Lescalier, 2023. Snider Prize Winner – 2024.
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 honorable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to MoCP’s permanent collection.
Established by the generosity of Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, the Snider Prize forms a Read More
Deadline: 25th May 2026
© Holly Birtles
Photoworks and the Photography Research Group at the University of Brighton are co-organising a conference as part of the upcoming edition of Photoworks Festival. The theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams will explore geographical, psychological and metaphysical flows and connections of life, culture, and the environment.
This call for papers invites responses to the fragile and current Read More
Deadline: 18th May 2026
© Rachel Poulton
Photoworks is looking for sixteen art-loving students for the role of Student Artist Facilitator to help deliver creative workshops for secondary school groups during the Photoworks Festival. In pairs you will plan a series of simple creative tasks such as discussion, photography and drawing, test these with each other ahead of working with your school Read More
Deadline: 26th May 2026
Nhu Xuan Hua, Madison at the Wedding 2, 2025 © the artist
Autograph are looking for an emerging creative to produce an in-person event at their gallery in Hackney, London in August 2026. The event will take place as part of the public programme for our exhibition Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire.
Hua reflects on the fragility of memory and the ways stories are communicated – Read More
Deadline: 16th May 2026
The Fellowship offers opportunities for playful experimentation and the space to re-imagine beyond conventional artistic and scientific boundaries. It is conceived as a transformative artistic fellowship, designed for artists to explore new approaches and ways of thinking through engaging with scientists and beyond, and motivated by such explorations, to experiment with and develop new artistic work-in-progress.
The opportunity Read More
Deadline: 24th May 2026
From the series: Women, Life, Freedom by Maryam Saeedpoor, Iran © the artist. Winner Global Peace Photo 2024
The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives. The award goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence.
To find out more please Read More
Deadline: 30th June 2026
Calling all visual artists in India! If you are working on a printmaking project and looking for funding to bring your vision to life, India Printmaker House is inviting applications for the 2026 Manorama Print Award. Two artists will be selected for this award. No further restrictions — just looking for exciting proposals!
HOW TO APPLY: Read More
Deadline: 1st August 2026
Source magazine cover Winter 2025/26 © Source
Source are always looking for new writers to contribute to their publication. If you’ve not written for Source before, you are invited to send Source an article. The winning entry will receive £500 / 570 Euro and will either be published in Source or you will be commissioned to write an article for them in Read More
Deadline: 29th June 2026
Images: Negative Jacket from Liberty Photo Flash, using Kodak Advertisement, Bhuj (Kutch), India c. 1950s. Source: From the personal collection of Rajendra Kuverba. Courtesy: Eastman Kodak Company / Manobina Roy: Portrait of Daughter Aparajita, Bombay, c.1960. Courtesy: Aparajita Sinha
Inspired by Arlette Farge’s pathbreaking book, The Allure of the Archives (1989) the seventh Fast Forward conference titled The Lure of the Archive: Photographs of the Home and Heart examines the burgeoning narratives beyond institutionalised archives through vernacular photography, family and personal collections and online archival platforms. Geoffrey Batchen has described the vernacular as “what Read More
Deadline: 30th June 2026
WHAT’S YOUR STORY? SHOW US YOUR SIDE OF LIFE.
Side are inviting you to take part in MySide, their open call for photographs of everyday life. Every few months they set a new theme, and this time they want to see “Local Colour.”
Side are asking you to photograph the colour of the place where you live. Read More
Deadline: 7th August 2026
A new prize for emerging photographers, the inaugural Future Photobook Award invites submissions for review by a panel of judges with the winner re-imagining their work as an exhibition.
The award is open to anyone over 18 who is currently studying, or has recently graduated from, a Higher Education institution.
All subjects and all photographic interactions with Read More
Deadline: 6th July 2026
Recipient of Joan Wakelin Bursary 2024: Myah Asha Jeffers
Administered by The RPS in partnership with The Guardian. The Joan Wakelin Bursary offers £2000 for the production of a photographic essay on an overseas 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 funds new projects only. We do Read More
Deadline: 13th June 2026
The Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues provides a unique opportunity for a socially engaged photographer to produce a compelling and dynamic body of work that highlights human rights and social issues.
Columbia College Chicago, an institution with deep Chicago roots dating back more than 135 years, facilitates the fellowship, demonstrating a strong Read More
Deadline: 12th June 2026
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 honorable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to MoCP’s permanent collection.
Established by the generosity of Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, the Snider Prize forms a Read More
Deadline: 14th June 2026
The theme of the 2026 edition of Deloitte’s Photo Grant is Proximities, an invitation to tell and investigate the new forms of distance that characterize our era, a distance that is not only physical but arises from economic polarization, technological mediation, and social fragmentation. Photography can reveal these separations by observing how bodies inhabit spaces Read More
Deadline: 13th May 2026
BINOM (2025) Nata Drachinskaya. Design: Nata Drachinskaya. Winner Arles Dummy Book Award 2025.
For the 57th edition of the festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles and the LUMA Foundation are once again organizing the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award, a prize to help publish a book dummy. Initiated in 2015 and endowed with a production budget of €25,000, this award is open to professional photographers and artists using photography, upon Read More
Deadline: 30th June 2026
The Shutter Hub Environmental Impact Award for Photography celebrates and supports photographers who use their photography to promote environmental awareness, provoke action, and document critical ecological narratives. This award honours creativity that not only captures the natural world’s beauty, but also grapples with its fragility – echoing our urgent need for sustainable change.
Photography’s universal language Read More
Deadline: 15th May 2026
Share your story through photography and make your voice heard at the 2026 Chester Photo Festival!
Chester Photo Festival seeks to celebrate the democratisation of photography as an art, enabling photographers at all levels of experience to innovate through networking and create with exhibition spaces in Chester.
Imagine a photography practice that empowers you to re-imagine your Read More
