Grants & Fellowship
Deadline: 21st October 2026
Tate welcomes applications for a Fellow to explore the British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington’s interest in theatre, performance and performativity. The Fellow will undertake foundational research: locating, analysing, and contextualising theatrical materials across archives, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and ephemera and situating these within Carrington’s transnational career. An international Fellow with knowledge of the Mexican social-political context, Read More
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Award & Prize, Open exhibition
UK
Deadline: 15th December 2026
Katie Peters from the series Embodied Fictions
The RPS International Photography Exhibition has been held almost every year since 1854 and is the longest running exhibition of its kind in the world.
In the early years, the exhibition included work from some of the world’s most eminent photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron.
Photographers and image-makers, of all ages, can submit their work to the Read More
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Submission
UK
Deadline: 7th December 2026
Laura Aguilar, Motion #50, 1999. © Laura Aguilar. Courtesy of The Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016. Collection of Light Work, Syracuse.
How does the body interact with its surroundings, to challenge power structures and inspire social imagination? How can the body act as a site of resistance and assert the power of self-definition?
This call for photographs is inspired by Autograph’s current exhibitions, offering multiple perspectives on the body in relation to queer, indigenous, diasporic and feminist Read More
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Job
UK
Deadline: 26th October 2026
The Royal Photographic Society is recruiting Distinctions Examiners to support the RPS Distinctions Programme from 2027.
RPS Distinctions recognise achievement and progression in photography through Licentiate (LRPS), Associate (ARPS) and Fellowship (FRPS). As part of the redevelopment of the programme, we are establishing a new pool of Examiners to assess submissions against the published standards and Read More
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Award & Prize
UK
Deadline: 30th November 2026
In 2026/2027, Onewater, UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Programme, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and other partners are turning their lens toward the hidden intersections of water, ecosystems, and human life.
This sixth edition’s theme, “Out of Sight,” spans the full breadth of water and health, how water shapes health, longevity and well-being, and shines its brightest Read More
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Job
UK
Deadline: 18th October 2026
Photo: Unknown Works © Migration Museum
Are you passionate about multidisciplinary storytelling with personal experiences at its heart? The Migration Museum are seeking an experienced, strategic, and self-driven Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis.
At this stage, you will support the development and delivery of a contemporary arts strategy for the museum, building key relationships with artists, Read More
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Job
UK
Deadline: 22nd October 2026
© Faye Hatton
Impressions Gallery are seeking a collaborative, astute and strategic leader to guide the gallery into its next chapter.
Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Director will provide strategic and creative leadership for the organisation, working closely with the experienced team and partners to deliver an ambitious programme, strengthen long-term sustainability and ensure excellence across Impressions’ Read More
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Estonia
Deadline: 1st November 2026
The Kumu Art Museum, the Estonian Academy of Arts and Rīga Stradiņš University invite you to participate in the interdisciplinary conference Entangled Motherhoods: Care, Politics and Intimacies, which brings together perspectives and experiences from Central and Eastern Europe and serves as a satellite event to the international exhibition Who’s Afraid of Motherhood?, held at the Read More
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Award & Prize, Open exhibition
Netherlands
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
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Grants & Fellowship
North Africa
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
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Open exhibition
France
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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Residency
UK
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
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Award & Prize
Italy
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
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Open exhibition
India
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
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Publication
UK
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
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Conference & Presentation Calls
UK
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
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Open exhibition
Sweden
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
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Open exhibition, Publication
France, Netherlands
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
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Award & Prize
UK
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
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Open exhibition, Submission
Ireland
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
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Grants & Fellowship, Open exhibition, Portfolio review, Publication
MENA
Deadline: 15th October 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
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Award & Prize
Worldwide
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
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