Conference & Presentation Calls
Austria
Deadline: 15th November 2026
Upper Belvedere Northside
© Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
The ninth edition of our international conference series takes up Seb Chan’s plea for a critical and value-oriented examination of museum technologies. Under the guiding question “What is technology for?”, The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2027 invites you to re-determine the role of the art museum in a society shaped by AI. Read More
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Award & Prize, Open exhibition
Bulgaria
Deadline: 31st December 2026
Mallory Barry, from the series Rooms. Winner of Phodar Biennale A, 2025 Debut Prize
The 14th edition of the Phodar International Photo Festival Biennale is dedicated to the theme Traces Remain. The title is borrowed from the novel of the same name by Bulgarian writer Pavel Vezhinov. In the context of the Biennale, it draws attention to the traces that time, human presence and historical events leave on the Read More
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Submission
UK
Deadline: 16th November 2026
Installation image of I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies exhibition at Autograph, London, 2025. Photograph by Kate Elliott.
Autograph are looking for an emerging creative to produce an in-person event at Autograph’s gallery in Hackney, London in March 2027. The event should creatively respond to Autograph’s mission, exploring themes such as race and representation, identity, social justice, and human rights.
Digital technologies are transforming the way people communicate, organise and participate in society. They Read More
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Grants & Fellowship
UK
Deadline: 7th November 2026
Image credit: Installation view, Sukanya Ghosh, Distortion, British Council, New Delhi, 2026
The Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT), the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), and the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (AFA) are pleased to announce the third Visiting Curatorial Research Fellowship.
This 3–6 month residency at the V&A’s Photography Section, South Kensington, London, invites mid-career cultural producers in India aged 25–45—including artists, scholars, writers/editors, and curators, whether Read More
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Job
UK
Deadline: 4th November 2026
RCA Battersea Dyson Building © RCA
Royal College of Art are seeking an established computational researcher, creative technologist or artist with expertise in creative coding, machine learning and artificial intelligence to join the MA/MFA Artificial Intelligence and Digital Art (AiDA) programme as a Tutor (Research).
The role is an exciting opportunity to shape how the next generation of artists engage critically and Read More
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Award & Prize, Open exhibition
UK
Deadline: 3rd February 2027
Earth Photo 2025 exhibition at Alice Holt Forest
Earth Photo invites photographers and filmmakers from around the world to submit work that tells powerful stories about our planet… its landscapes and communities, its beauty and resilience, and the urgent challenges it faces.
Submissions are open to any genre of photography and film, including documentary, photojournalism, conceptual, fine art, and beyond.
Whether through a single image, Read More
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Open exhibition
Germany
Deadline: 20th November 2026
© Thero Makepe - "Under Surveillance", from the series "We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here" (2020 – ongoing)
FOTODOKS festival for contemporary documentary photography in Munich (Germany) is returning in October 2027. The thirteenth edition is rooted in an open call for projects that reflect on care and its connections to politics, emotions and intimate relationships at a time when ‘community’ and ‘belonging’ are buzzwords at the centre of discourses which often lack Read More
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Job
Belgium
Deadline: 4th January 2027
KU Leuven library © KU Leuven
Campus Genk, LUCA School of Arts is seeking a senior-lecturer in Photography and Visual Culture to work as part of the Art & Society expertise network and the Future Scenarios team. You will have a particular interest in image practices that question, shift, or expand dominant ways of seeing, representing, and producing meaning. You will Read More
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Award & Prize, Open exhibition
UK
Deadline: 15th December 2026
Katie Peters from the series Embodied Fictions © Katie Peters
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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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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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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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, 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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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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