Opportunities

Mass Mentorship 2025/26

Deadline: 28th February 2025

© Luke O'Donovan

The Mass Mentorship is an initiative established by Mass Collective to champion new voices in architectural photography.

Open to young people aged 20–30 in London and from underrepresented backgrounds in the creative industries, the Mass Mentorship aims to create a cultural shift in architectural photography, where the authorship of the images we use to understand our Read More

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Submissions open for sixth Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award

Deadline: 31st March 2025

Image by Jamie Sinclair – winner, 2022, for ‘Hjem’

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

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Prix Viviane Esders

Deadline: 13th April 2025

Nancy Wilson-Pajic, COVERING MY FACE (series MY GRANDMOTHER’S GESTURES, 1972). Finalist Prix Vivian Esders, 2023

After more than 40 years devoted to photography as a gallery owner, expert and collector, Viviane Esders decided to deepen her commitment to photography, particularly to artists whose careers have not received the recognition they deserve.

Fuelled by her enduring passion for the medium, she created the Prix Viviane Esders and an endowment fund. While the Read More

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Cortona On The Move / BarTur Grant for Emerging Photographers

Deadline: 17th April 2025

Cortona On The Move and the BarTur Photo Award are proud to announce their partnership to present the Cortona On The Move | BarTur Grant. Supported by the Visual Storytellers Fund, this initiative aims to support photographers worldwide by providing grants and resources to create compelling documentary photo essays. The Grant focuses on projects that Read More

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Photoworks Writers in Residence 2025

Deadline: 17th February 2025

Photoworks would like to appoint two Writers in Residence for 2025 to each contribute to two issues of Photography+. This role includes working closely with Photoworks’ Assistant Curator and Co-Editor, Amin Yousefi, to meet deadlines and deliver two articles of approximately 1000 words.

Photography+ is our quarterly online magazine. Read by international audiences, the digital publication Read More

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Photobook Awards : Photo|Frome

Deadline: 17th February 2025

Building on the success of the 2023 edition of Photo|Frome, photographers and publishers are invited to submit photobooks and zines for exhibition at the festival and a chance to win the 2025 Open Photobook award.

Entries will be selected a distinguished panel of judges. Photobooks will be exhibited at Frome Library, and online, throughout the festival.

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Photo North Festival Student Photography Competition

Deadline: 13th March 2025

Photo North Festival announces free national student photography competition.  The theme is HOPE and winners will get to exhibit their work at Photo North Festival in April 2025.

Through our daily lives, news channels and social media feeds, HOPE can too easily be consumed by negativity, anxiety and alienation.

HOPE can raise the spirits, generate Read More

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Open Call: Queer Family Archive

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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An Artist Residency in Motherhood (no deadline)

A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers.

You don’t have to apply. It doesn’t cost anything, it’s fully customisable, and you can be in residence for as long as you choose. You don’t even have to travel, the residency takes place entirely inside your own home and everyday life. An Artist Residency in Motherhood is Read More

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