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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: 15th July 2026
Book launch at Autograph, London. Photograph by Wilfred Carter.
Autograph is looking for a curious and confident person to to coordinate the delivery of their busy, vibrant annual public events programme.
Autograph is looking for someone who is curious, confident in communicating with many different people, has strong practical event management and production skills, and the capability to help set up and deliver events in Read More
Deadline: 16th August 2026
Image by Maria Gulina
The future exhibition at Open Eye Gallery, Is This A Garden? (26 June – 31 August), starts from the idea of “gardens” but looks beyond traditional views of them, exploring how they appear in unexpected ways, on the edges of things, and how they shape (or are shaped by) the people and environments around them.
Open Read More
Deadline: 19th July 2026
2024 competition runner-up Priyadarshini Ravichandran’s entry highlighted the disappearance of Indigenous (desi) cotton varieties in the village of Wardha, India. © Priyadarshini Ravichandran
The 2026 Textile Exchange Photography Competition, in partnership with Atmos, invites photographers and filmmakers to capture powerful, real-world stories of regeneration across the fashion, textile, and apparel industry.
From cotton farmers supporting the return of local biodiversity to recyclers transforming textile waste into something brand new, examples of alternative systems are unfolding across the globe. But Read More
Deadline: 15th July 2026
ERRAR — in Portuguese, the word has multiple meanings. On one hand, errar evokes wandering: an errant practice of photography that moves through territories, from the nineteenth-century figure of the flâneur described by Baudelaire—one who walks without destination, gathering§ impressions along the way—to the situationist dérive, and into contemporary forms of dispersed movement across digital Read More
Deadline: 5th July 2026
UCA is recruiting three post-doctoral Research Impact Associates to deliver innovative, ambitious, socially engaged and commercially targeted impact activities that translate the University’s research into change in the world beyond academia.
Are you a post-doctoral researcher with an understanding of impact arising from arts and humanities research? Do you have experience of working to connect research Read More
Deadline: 7th October 2026
Ruby Okoro, from the series Circular Heroes © the artist. The Akoka community’s transformation of waste into innovative products. Runner Up 2025 Earth Partner Prize.
Earth Partner Prize invites artists of all nationalities, races, genders, and faiths, aged 14 to 30, to submit work that comments on the ecological crisis.
Eight finalists will be awarded cash prizes of $10K, $5K or $2K. An additional 20 creatives will receive honourable mentions by a globally recognised panel of judges.
The 2026 Earth Partner Prize Read More
Deadline: 11th September 2026
Image: Kin Coedel
This open call does not ask for a theme to illustrate. It asks for a position. It asks for a position in relation to the world as it is. In relation to what one refuses. In relation to what one longs for, questions, resists, imagines, or defends.
There is no single answer. It may take the 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
Deadline: 31st July 2026
Rosalind Fox Solomon Contact sheet. Courtesy of MUUS Collection
MUUS Collection, which represents the archives of 20th-century American photographers including Rosalind Fox Solomon, Deborah Turbeville and more, is launching a new Research Fellowship, comprising a $20,000 grant awarded to a curator or academic.
The grant will allow the fellow to spend time in the MUUS Collection’s archives in New Jersey (USA) and use the new Read More
Deadline: 13th July 2026
Nhu Xuan Hua, Swan – Archive from the year 2000, 2017-2022. Courtesy of the artist and Anne-Laure Buffard, France.
Are you an unagented or emerging writer looking to publish new work? Autograph are inviting pitches for short writing or poetry that considers how stories are communicated – or withheld – across generations, and creatively reflect on issues of memory, language and migration in response to Autograph’s new exhibition Of Walking on Fire by Nhu Read More
Deadline: 31st August 2026
The beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) in the pond of the Ramsar Museum. In the past, the Caspian Sea was the world's most important source of sturgeon, but today many sturgeon species are listed as endangered. Due to overfishing, illegal caviar trade, pollution, and dam construction, their populations have drastically declined. Armina Ahmadinia, from the series My House is Covered in Clouds © the artist. 2025 Recipient of The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant - Commended
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 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: 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: 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
