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Deadline: 3rd January 2025
The Noorderlicht Biennale 2025, titled Machine Entanglements, focuses on the complex relationship between technology, ecology, and heritage. The project invites artists, photographers, and image-makers to submit work that explores these themes and reflects on the influence of technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), on society and our environment. The motivation for this project stems from Read More
Deadline: 15th December 2024
Critical Practice Reviews during FUTURES Meet Up in Dublin, 2024. Photography by Evanna Devine
PhotoIreland launches the 8th FUTURES Talent Call for artists, opening the opportunity for the first time to all UK practitioners. The 2025 call is now open and will close at 6pm Sunday 15th December 2024.
The submission to this opportunity organised by PhotoIreland as the Irish member of the FUTURES Photography Platform is open and free Read More
Deadline: 15th January 2025
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The Centre for British Photography is delighted to announce that the second year of its grants and mentorship programme is now open for submissions! These grants are designed to support photographers and artists working with photography across Britain to help realise a project.
During 2025 the Centre for British Photography will be awarding a total of Read More
Deadline: 8th January 2025
'Untitled' from the series 'As You Grow Older', photograph by Vân-Nhi Nguyễn, 2022. © Vân-Nhi Nguyễn
The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is an annual initiative dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative women artists working in the field of contemporary photography.
Launched in 2022, the Prize is conceived as part of the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography curatorial program, which seeks to foreground, sustain and support women’s Read More
Deadline: 31st December 2025
A 2 week Duo residency as part of CloverMill Artist Residency’s international residency programme in The Netherlands, 5-18th May 2025.
The Residency will conclude with an end of residency presentation in the CloverMill Gallery Space curated by CloverMill & Delphian Gallery.
Free to apply
This open call runs exclusively through Instagram. Please follow the guidelines outlined through Delphian Read More
Deadline: 12th December 2024
New Focus and Impressions Gallery are looking for two UK-based experienced photographers to create compelling new portraits of families in Bradford – by this, we mean families in the traditional and non-traditional sense, and in broad social definition, this could include community groups, workplaces, clubs and societies.
This is a free open call, and the work Read More
Deadline: 31st January 2025
"Far Away From Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery" by Hristina Tasheva - winner of the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award; and "Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China" by Jie Li - winner of 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award.
The annual Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards recognise individuals or groups of individuals who, in the opinion of the Judges, have made an outstanding original or lasting contribution to the art and practice of photography or the moving image through the medium of the book. Two winning titles are selected; one in the field of photography and Read More
Deadline: 6th January 2025
Abi Morocco Photos, Aina Street, Shogunle, Lagos [detail], 1979. Courtesy Lagos Studio Archives. © Abi Morocco Photos.
Autograph are looking for an emerging creative to produce an in-person event at their gallery in Hackney, London in March 2025. The event should not exceed more than 3 hours. The event will take place as part of the public programme for Autograph’s current exhibition, Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos. This vibrant exhibition explores themes Read More
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.
Entrants Read More
Deadline: 10th January 2025
Submissions are invited on the 2025 theme of inEquality from both UK and international photographers and collectives. Photo|Frome is seeking distinguished examples of photography on this theme, which may be a single photograph or a series of photographs that may have been created over time. There is no entry fee.
Winners and honourable mentions will be Read More
Deadline: 27th January 2025
Janina Gardzielewska awaiting the opening of the Nicolaus Copernicus House Museum, Toruń, June 1, 1960, a photograph from the family album of Janina and Zygfryd Gardzielewski, from the collection of the University Library in Toruń
Call For Papers
The sixth Fast Forward: Women in Photography conference
Beyond The Canon: exhibiting, curating and collecting photography by women
The conference will take place on October 10-12, 2025
at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń, Poland
The deadline for the submission: 27 January, 2025, 5pm (GMT)
Fast Forward: Women in Photography together withRead More
Deadline: 15th December 2024
At the initiative of the Alderwoman for Culture of the City of Brussels, the Germaine Van Parys Award returns for a second edition. By providing funding for women working in photography, this award aims to raise the profile of their work. The goal is to make up for the lack of diversity in the profession.
Heiress Read More
Deadline: 10th December 2024
Kristina Varaksina, Joanne with her Son.Joanne is an incredibly strong and wise young woman of Nigerian descent. Having albinism and a very poor vision has never stopped her from believing in herself and appreciating her own body. “The essence of beauty is being, being who you are. We live in a world that encourages us to constantly criticise our looks and make us feel like we are not enough as is.The truth is beauty cannot be restricted. Beauty is simply being you.” © Kristina Varaksina, Female in Focus 2022 Single Image Winner
Opening soon for its fifth edition, Female in Focus is a celebration of the remarkable talent and creativity of women photographers from around the globe.
The theme of this year’s edition is Renewal, delving into the transformative process of rejuvenation and rebirth. This theme captures the essence of starting anew, whether through personal growth, environmental restoration, Read More
Deadline: 20th December 2024
Emerging from the omnipresent culture of imagery, the new wave of photographic talent consists of true digital natives. They’ve grown up in a world where images reign supreme, and they play a pivotal role in capturing the essence of freedom, culture, human connection, and unity. This generation exemplifies the delicate balance between finding a genuine Read More
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
Deadline: 8th December 2024
Every year, UN-Water sets the theme for World Water Day. In 2025, the focus will be on glaciers, coinciding with the International Year of Glacier Preservation.
To celebrate this, Onewater, the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme and partners are convening the next international WALK OF WATER photostory contest. The contest invites photographers to shed light on Read More
The Doctoral School of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA) hosts a vibrant community of 32 practice-based researchers in the arts (fine art, design, and architecture) and 32 researchers in art history & theory. Established in 2010, the doctoral program in the arts aims to facilitate artistic research for artists, designers, architects, curators, art writers, Read More
Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorter is looking for an intern to work with her from mid-September to mid-November at her studio in Ghent, Belgium.
The intern will help with: archiving; communication; preparation for book publishing; assisting on shoots and workshops; computer work.
The applicant will need to have the following skills: Photoshop; InDesign; MailChimp; English. They should be Read More
In this short course, leading art historian and gallery owner James Hyman will introduce participants to collecting photography.
Collecting photographic images is an accessible way to build up an art collection, and photography is an art form that many of us will relate to in a very immediate an instinctive way.
With his many years of experience, Read More
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
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
