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Deadline: 24th May 2026
From the series: Women, Life, Freedom by Maryam Saeedpoor, Iran © the artist. Winner Global Peace Photo 2024
The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives. The award goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence.
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Deadline: 23rd April 2026
© Sport in Mind
Sport in Mind, the UK’s leading mental health sports charity, is inviting photographers to take part in a national exhibition exploring how movement can transform mental health.
Mental health doesn’t change through conversation alone, it changes when people move, try, show up, and take action.
For Mental Health Awareness Week 2026, Sport in Mind are showcasing portrait Read More
Deadline: 30th April 2026
Nordic Artist Centre Dale (NKD) is now accepting applications for its Artist-in-Residence programme for 2027.
Residencies are offered for periods of 2–4 months and are open to professional artists, designers, and architects. Students (full-time in 2027) are not eligible to apply.
Nordic Artist Centre Dale (NKD) is an Artist-in-Residence centre funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture Read More
Deadline: 30th June 2026
Calling all visual artists in India! If you are working on a printmaking project and looking for funding to bring your vision to life, India Printmaker House is inviting applications for the 2026 Manorama Print Award. Two artists will be selected for this award. No further restrictions — just looking for exciting proposals!
HOW TO APPLY: Read More
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: 30th April 2026
The one-month Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP) offers artists focusing on photography and lens-based media an opportunity to work and do research in the city of Graz. It is requested that the selected artist resides in the city between mid-September and mid-October 2026. Further, we highly appreciate if the artist shows an interest in Read More
Deadline: 15th April 2026
© 2026 De Pietri Artphilein Foundation
Before being an object to be narrated, adolescence is a demand for space — where those who inhabit it can express themselves without being translated. In that space, the adult gaze stops being a tool and becomes a filter: it explains, organizes, justifies, rearranges.
Yet adolescence is also what gets lost when we try to explain Read More
Deadline: 29th June 2026
Images: Negative Jacket from Liberty Photo Flash, using Kodak Advertisement, Bhuj (Kutch), India c. 1950s. Source: From the personal collection of Rajendra Kuverba. Courtesy: Eastman Kodak Company / Manobina Roy: Portrait of Daughter Aparajita, Bombay, c.1960. Courtesy: Aparajita Sinha
Inspired by Arlette Farge’s pathbreaking book, The Allure of the Archives (1989) the seventh Fast Forward conference titled The Lure of the Archive: Photographs of the Home and Heart examines the burgeoning narratives beyond institutionalised archives through vernacular photography, family and personal collections and online archival platforms. Geoffrey Batchen has described the vernacular as “what Read More
Deadline: 30th June 2026
WHAT’S YOUR STORY? SHOW US YOUR SIDE OF LIFE.
Side are inviting you to take part in MySide, their open call for photographs of everyday life. Every few months they set a new theme, and this time they want to see “Local Colour.”
Side are asking you to photograph the colour of the place where you live. Read More
Deadline: 30th April 2026
The Women’s Photo Festival Artist Residency Program provides dedicated time and space for artists and photographers to slow down, focus deeply on their practice, reflect, and develop their work within a supportive environment and uninterrupted creative time.
During this residency, the selected photographers are invited to develop new projects or continue existing work in a supportive Read More
Deadline: 30th April 2026
The Inge Morath Award is a grant given by members of Magnum Photos to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. The selected recipient will receive a grant of $7,500, and one finalist will also receive a $1,000 grant in support of their Read More
Deadline: 8th May 2026
© Picter/Hasselblad Foundation
In line with Victor Hasselblad’s strong interest in nature and environmental issues, the Hasselblad Foundation has awarded a Nature Photography Grant since 2008 to promote the development of nature photography as a genre in the Nordic region.
The grant supports innovative photographic explorations of nature, the environment, and landscapes in projects that also contribute to the 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: 20th April 2026
Tóchar Midlands Wetland Restoration in collaboration with Photo Museum Ireland are delighted to announce an exciting new photographic commission that will highlight the important work of women in nature restoration in Ireland today.
Ireland is undergoing a profound shift. Our ecosystems are under pressure and degrading rapidly. As we move toward a low-carbon future, we must 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
Deadline: 13th June 2026
The Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues provides a unique opportunity for a socially engaged photographer to produce a compelling and dynamic body of work that highlights human rights and social issues.
Columbia College Chicago, an institution with deep Chicago roots dating back more than 135 years, facilitates the fellowship, demonstrating a strong Read More
Deadline: 12th June 2026
The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study. The winner receives $3,000, and two honorable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to MoCP’s permanent collection.
Established by the generosity of Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, the Snider Prize forms a Read More
Deadline: 14th June 2026
The theme of the 2026 edition of Deloitte’s Photo Grant is Proximities, an invitation to tell and investigate the new forms of distance that characterize our era, a distance that is not only physical but arises from economic polarization, technological mediation, and social fragmentation. Photography can reveal these separations by observing how bodies inhabit spaces Read More
Deadline: 13th May 2026
BINOM (2025) Nata Drachinskaya. Design: Nata Drachinskaya. Winner Arles Dummy Book Award 2025.
For the 57th edition of the festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles and the LUMA Foundation are once again organizing the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award, a prize to help publish a book dummy. Initiated in 2015 and endowed with a production budget of €25,000, this award is open to professional photographers and artists using photography, upon Read More
Deadline: 30th June 2026
The Shutter Hub Environmental Impact Award for Photography celebrates and supports photographers who use their photography to promote environmental awareness, provoke action, and document critical ecological narratives. This award honours creativity that not only captures the natural world’s beauty, but also grapples with its fragility – echoing our urgent need for sustainable change.
Photography’s universal language Read More
Deadline: 23rd April 2026
An ongoing series of publications, Shutter Hub’s City Series sets out to explore the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, showcasing images that respond to a place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
The inaugural edition explores a city that has been home Read More
Deadline: 15th May 2026
Share your story through photography and make your voice heard at the 2026 Chester Photo Festival!
Chester Photo Festival seeks to celebrate the democratisation of photography as an art, enabling photographers at all levels of experience to innovate through networking and create with exhibition spaces in Chester.
Imagine a photography practice that empowers you to re-imagine your Read More
Deadline: 30th April 2026
Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual? Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or in spaces that feel like home to you? If so, then this project is for you! I wish to speak to people who have experience of one or multiple of the following as part of my PhD research:
• Have you Read More
Deadline: 30th April 2026
The Shutter Hub Editions Photobook Award celebrates bold, original storytelling in photobook form. It offers photographers the chance to showcase their strongest work through thoughtful curation and powerful narratives. Shutter Hub are looking for projects of all genres that communicate with clarity, emotion, and vision.
This opportunity is open to both emerging and established photographers, Shutter Read More
