Opportunities

Publications, Submission UK

Call for Submissions: Journal for Artistic Research (JAR)

Deadline: 6th September 2018

JAR invites submissions from all fields and disciplines in which artistic research may be relevant, including areas that are not usually conceived of as artistic. We welcome submissions from practitioners with or without academic affiliations. JAR’s format for publishing artistic research, the exposition, invites authors to combine text, image, film, and audio material on expandable web pages, challenging Read More

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Awards & Prizes France

Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards.

Deadline: 14th September 2018

Initiated in November 2012 by Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo, the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalogue of the Year. The shortlisted books, accompanied by the jury’s comments, will be featured in the fall Read More

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Awards & Prizes Netherlands

Unseen Amsterdam Dummy Award 2018

Deadline: 10th August 2018

The call for the Unseen Dummy Award 2018 is now open!

Unseen and Lecturis continue their collaboration and join forces once again to showcase the work of exceptional photographers and designers from around the world to give them the chance to realise and publish their photobook dummy. An esteemed international jury will come together at Unseen Read More

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Job USA

Associate Director of Research at the Yale Center for British Art

Deadline: 31st July 2018

The Yale Center for British Art is seeking an Associate Director of Research to play a leading role in developing scholarly initiatives and programs.

Background
Research is at the heart of the mission of the Yale Center for British Art and underpins its identity as a scholarly institute and museum at Yale. Renowned for interdisciplinary scholarship, Read More

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Awards & Prizes, Scholarship & Courses UK

Ian Parry Scholarship 2018 now open

Deadline: 27th July 2018

The Ian Parry Scholarship is a free international photographic award for all full time documentary & visual photojournalism students on BA, MA, MFA courses. It is also open to freelance photographers of the age of 24 years and under.

Over the past 28 successful years the scholarship has played an important role in keeping the values and traditions of photojournalism alive Read More

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Conference & Presentation Calls UK

Call for Provocations: Writing  P h o t o g r a p h s

Deadline: 30th July 2018

Tate Modern, 13 October 2018, 11.00am-5.00pm

We are inviting experimental presentations, which consider how photography is expanded, altered and dissected through the use of text, voice and language in exhibition practices today. 

This event will bring together artists, writers, curators and researchers, to present and discuss photography as an interdisciplinary space. Building on London College Read More

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Awards & Prizes, Competitions

National Open Art – Call for entries

Deadline: 30th September 2018

National Open Art (NOA) is the UK’s leading independent art competition, open to artists in the UK and Ireland. NOA now attracts more than 4,000 entries per year and we offer both shortlisted and winning artists exposure and income opportunities through our exhibitions and online art sales platform.

By working hard to expand the scale and Read More

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Competitions

Sony World Photography Awards 2019 – Call for entries open

Deadline: 11th January 2019

The Sony World Photography Awards is one of the most celebrated and diverse photography competitions in the world. Now in its 12th year, our goal is to showcase the best contemporary photography worldwide.All images are judged by leading industry experts, who come together each year in London to decide the best images. A total prize Read More

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Job UK

Senior Lecturer/Course Coordinator BA (Hons) Photography

Deadline: 22nd July 2018

Falmouth University

Location:
Penryn

Salary:
£39,992 to £46,336 per annum, plus Course Coordinator allowance £2,500 per annum

Hours:
Full Time

Contract Type:
Permanent

Placed on:
20th June 2018

Closes:
22nd July 2018

Job Ref:
FAL0715

Falmouth University is changing the way Higher Education is delivered. Our “doing-it-for-real” ethos means that we are planning for the needs of the future economy, ensuring our students and staff have the skills they need Read More

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Competitions Worldwide

ILFORD PHOTO STUDENT COMPETITION 2018/19

Deadline: 31st January 2019

THE BRIEF

Words are important.

We all have a favourite book, poem, quote or line from a film or song. We’re asking you to be inspired by those words and to go out and shoot an image that you feel encapsulates them.

HOW TO ENTER

Photograph using ILFORD PHOTO or Kentmere black and white film and print the image Read More

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Submission South Asia

PIX – CALL FOR SUBMISSION

Deadline: 31st July 2018

With our recently launched online fora—Pix Posts— we have been sharing the perspectives of practicing photographers, curators and writers and thereby exploring varied aspects of photography in South Asiathrough an assortment of social, political and personal points of view. With this open call, we are happy to feature written articles, audio interviews, or even video submissions Read More

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Competitions Worldwide

OPEN CALL FOR PHOTOBOOKS

Deadline: 31st July 2018

The fast-growing interest in photobooks worldwide has paved a new way for showcasing and appreciating photography in Asia. The SIPF Open Call for Photobooks hopes to foster greater creative exchange and bring fresh inspiration to the local scene, by assembling a collection of the most creative photobooks from all over the world in one exhibition.

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Workshops France, Worldwide

Workshop: HUMAN NATURE WITH ANNA FOX AND ANNE MCNEILL

Deadline: 1st August 2018

This CAMP session concerns telling tales about the land, and our relationship to it. It’s about using photography and text to reveal stories about the local environment and community, and the relationship that we have to the landscape and the ecosystems within it; reflecting back onto ourselves, and considering the possibility of revealing something about Read More

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Workshops Georgia

A WORKSHOP ON PHOTO BOOK PUBLISHING by ANDRÉ FRÈRE

The objective of the original Masterclass with internationally renowned photo book publisher André Frère aims to help the professional photographers – confirmed and emerging – or affirmed amateurs of photography to find the ways of shaping already existing body of work/photo project/series of photos
in a book project.

Together, they will address:

• Editing a series and setting Read More

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Portfolio review UK

Photoforum: Open session with Paul Hill

Join us for an opportunity to share your work with fellow practitioners and celebrated photographer, author and teacher, Paul Hill MBE in this open session.

Gain valuable advice, support and direction in an informal, relaxed atmosphere.

Your work may provoke lively discussions about the issues the pictures raise. Who knows? But you will certainly have the opportunity Read More

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Residency Worldwide

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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Job UK

LECTURERS IN PHOTOGRAPHY UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER – 3 POSTS

One full time one part time and one temporary (maternity leave cover) jobs available

The Belfast School of Art is a large, interdisciplinary, practice-based environment with an outstanding research record. The School makes a significant contribution to the field of contemporary art and design both nationally and internationally.  Ulster University’s research was ranked in the top Read More

Scholarship & Courses UK

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY FOR LIGHTBOX

Would you like to like to work alongside other like-minded photographers and get advice from industry mentors who know what it takes to take your work to the next level? Have you always dreamed of showing your work at a major arts festival?

If you are telling yourself yes to all the above you best get Read More

Commissions Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine

Amazing opportunity for women photographers from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova & Ukraine!

The Service is looking to work with women photographers and film-makers based in or with links to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine over the next year or so.

The commissions would be on projects including gender issues, social impact projects, and cultural and employment/entrepreneurial initiatives.

If you are interested please send an email to Read More

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Job: Conservator, Photographs and Paper / V&A

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. We enrich people’s lives by promoting the practice of design and increasing knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the designed world. The Conservation Department has a worldwide reputation for the excellence of its practical work, for innovative ideas, for pioneering the scientific and ethical Read More