Opportunities

Open Call: Hamburg Portfolio Review 2025

Deadline: 31st May 2025

The Hamburg Portfolio Review (HPR) has become a key platform for emerging photographers and contemporary visual storytellers. Its mission is to connect the international photography community, foster collaborations, and spark dialogue around current photographic, social, and political issues. Each year, a jury selects 100 outstanding photographers to take part.

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RPS Joan Wakelin Bursary

Deadline: 14th July 2025

2024 Recipient: Myah Asha Jeffers

The Joan Wakelin Bursary was first set up in 2005 to remember distinguished documentary photographer and Honorary Fellow of The Society, Joan Wakelin, who died in 2003.

The Bursary is administered by the Society in partnership with The Guardian and offers £2000 for the production of an overseas photographic essay on a social documentary issue.

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TPA/RPS ENVIRONMENTAL BURSARY

Deadline: 8th July 2025

from the series Save Our Sea by Tessa Bunney, recipient of TPA/RPS Environmental Bursary 2022/23

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.

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The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Iva Sidash, 2024 Recipient of IPPG © Iva Sidash

lan 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 Sunday Times picture editor) was determined to build something positive from such a tragic loss and along with lan’s family and friends created the lan Parry Read More

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Call for papers: After Post-Photography

Deadline: 25th May 2025

Hamlet’s observation that the world is out of joint has been quoted so often that it became a truism long ago. Although the phrase thus may appear to be hollowed out by overuse, it still holds a morsel worthy of reflection: a world out of joint is not a world in chaos. Its pieces – Read More

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Open Call: Eyes Wide Shut First Photobook Grants

Submission date passed

photo by: Khashayar Javanmardi

Eyes Wide Open launches the third edition of the 1st Photo Book Grants, aimed at photographers wishing to propose a 1st book project with the support of an independent French publisher.

3 grants worth €5,000 will be awarded to the winners and their publisher:

SAIF grant for a French photographer or a photographer living in France
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Open Call for Events: Intergenerational Perspectives at Autograph

Deadline: 26th May 2025

Eileen Perrier, from the series Twenty-Two, 2025. Commissioned by Autograph. Courtesy the artist and Autograph, London.

Calling all emerging creative practitioners! Submit your event proposal exploring themes of identity, change and belonging across generations for an opportunity to make it happen with Autograph’s support.

Autograph are looking for an emerging creative to produce an in-person event at their gallery in Hackney, London in summer/autumn 2025. The event will take place as part Read More

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Call for Photographs! Your Small Stories: Diasporic Experiences

Deadline: 14th July 2025

Eileen Perrier, from the series Red, Gold and Green [detail], 1997. © and courtesy the artist. Commissioned by Autograph, London.

Inspired by the notion of A Thousand Small Stories, the title of Eileen Perrier’s current exhibition at Autograph, we’re inviting you to join the storytelling process by sending us your image(s) and a short text caption that considers the diasporic experience. Your text could be a brief anecdote, a memory, a poem, or a reflection Read More

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Call for entries: Global Peace Photo Award 2025

Submission date passed

From the series Women, Life, Freedom by Maryam Saeedpoor. Winner of the Alfred Fried Peace Medal at Global Peace Photo Award 2024

The Global Peace Photo Award for the best photo of peace is not an award for escapism, wildflower meadows and sunsets or an award for the sweetest smile, nor does it criticize the informative reportage photography which by nature depicts the misery of our world. It is, however, an award which encourages professional photographers to Read More

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Fabrica In Between Gallery Open Call 2025

Deadline: 17th June 2025

Showing until spring 2025 is Sean Cham’s image, Studio (Palm), from his series, Eastern Promise

The In Between Gallery is a temporary exhibition platform for Fabrica’s picture window in central Brighton.

Fabrica is partnering with Spectrum Photographic, Photo Fringe and Jane & Jeremy to present excellent photographic work by UK-based artists who consider themselves to be early to mid-career.

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Call for applications: Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues

Deadline: 1st June 2025

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

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Call for Papers: WOMEN of PHOTOGRAPHY 24-Hour Conference-A-Thon

Deadline: 1st August 2025

In celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2026, and building on the success of our 2025 conference-a-thon, we invite scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts to submit abstracts for participation in a free, online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to Read More

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Women by Women: A Global Open Call by PhotoVogue

Deadline: 1st June 2025

The PhotoVogue Global Open Call 2025 invites all women artists and individuals who identify with womanhood to submit works that explore the diverse ways women represent themselves and one another through photography and video.

The illusion of linear progress—the belief that rights, visibility, and recognition are irrevocable—has been shattered by the current political climate. Around the Read More

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MoCP Snider Prize 2025

Deadline: 13th June 2025

Claire Warden, Lespirit De Lescalier, 2023. Snider Prize Winner – 2024.

The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists having recently completed their final semester of graduate study (Fall ’24 or Spring ’25). The winner receives $3,000, and two honorable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to the MoCP’s permanent collection. Sponsored by Lawrence K. and Maxine Read More

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Open Call: Queer Family Archive

Deadline: 1st September 2025

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

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