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Deadline: 30th June 2026
Elsie Haddad, 2025 Women Photography + Leica Project Grantee, from the series 'Not Yours To Make' © Elsie Haddad
Women Photograph + Leica Project Grants are three $10,000 grants to support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity.
Funding may be used to cover the hard costs of reporting, photographers’ creative fees, and any other expenses that support the production of new work. This grant is 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: 27th May 2026
London College of Communication © Ideal Insight
We are looking for an experienced academic to develop teaching and learning materials for a unit of a new fully online MA in Photography and Digital Practices.
The post is for 2 days per week over 8.5 months, beginning at the start of August 2026.
You will work in collaboration with the Course Leader to bring your Read More
Deadline: 27th May 2026
London College of Communication © Ideal Insight
Are you an experienced photographic practitioner with expertise in artists’ moving image, who would like to share your insights on practice, and pathways to success, with the next generation of creatives?
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Photography Programme at London College of Communication. Teaching on BA (Hons) Photography you will help to develop 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: 14th June 2026
Photographic Darkroom at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University
Robert Garth University BA (Hons) Photography course is employment-focused and supports students who wish to specialise in a broad range of specialisms such as Documentary/Photo-Journalism, Sports, and Fashion Photography. The course encourages hybrid practice and collaboration in the development of photographic practice that span our creative courses.
You will have experience of working in industry and, 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: 15th June 2026
The Art of Experimentation: A Symposium on Alternative Photography is dedicated to women, non-binary, and trans artists and researchers who push the boundaries of alternative photographic processes.
This symposium aims to connect artists, researchers, curators, and arts practitioners to reflect on the different ways in which alternative photographic processes can explore concepts that inspire women, non-binary, Read More
Deadline: 14th June 2026
Since its founding in 2020, the WOPHA Artist-in-Residence program has been a vital space for supporting lens-based women artists, providing a month-long opportunity to focus on creative development and connect with Miami’s dynamic cultural landscape. This program offers artists the opportunity to step away from daily demands and immerse themselves in an environment built for Read More
Deadline: 1st June 2026
The CCI + WOPHA Fellowship is open to emerging and mid-career women and nonbinary photographers from the Caribbean or its diaspora. During the fellowship period, the selected CCI + WOPHA Fellow will focus on the production of a new body of work or on expanding an ongoing project. Together, CCI + WOPHA will provide institutional Read More
Deadline: 16th June 2026
Baltic are on the hunt for local artists, whether you’re a self-taught hobbyist or have studied in the past, to be a part of a multi-media exhibition of 100 works.
Baltic’s Open Submission, now in its third iteration, seeks to give visibility to individuals and collectives with no formal training, qualifications, or exhibiting experience necessary. A Read More
Deadline: 1st July 2026
The purpose of the Emerging Photographer Grant is to provide a $10,000 grant to visual storytellers at the beginning of their careers, to develop impactful visual narratives. The program places particular emphasis on photographers from undeserved and diverse communities, expanding access to resources and opportunities to bring their stories to life.
The mission of the Stanley 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: 29th June 2026
Photoworks, in partnership with EASE (Entrepreneurship, Art & Science for Environmental Sustainability) and PicturingClimate.org, are inviting proposals from UK-based artists who are interested in working collaboratively with climate researchers, artists and entrepreneurs, publicly and across disciplines.
The labs will take place in a variety of locations from UNESCO geoparks and Minoan palaces to underground rivers, earthquake-lifted Read More
Deadline: 15th June 2026
Photoworks are excited to announce the launch of the open call for the Photography+ Emerging Talent Issue. They invite BA and MA graduates, as well as image-based artists, who are within the first five years of their practice and/or their graduation, to submit their work for the opportunity to be featured in the next issue Read More
Deadline: 12th June 2026
The Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues creates a space for a socially engaged photographer to produce a compelling and dynamic body of work highlighting human rights and social issues.
Fellows serve as a critical link between artistic practice, their chosen community partners, and Columbia College Chicago. The program seeks opportunities where the Read More
Deadline: 25th May 2026
© Holly Birtles
Photoworks and the Photography Research Group at the University of Brighton are co-organising a conference as part of the upcoming edition of Photoworks Festival. The theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams will explore geographical, psychological and metaphysical flows and connections of life, culture, and the environment.
This call for papers invites responses to the fragile and current Read More
Deadline: 26th May 2026
Nhu Xuan Hua, Madison at the Wedding 2, 2025 © the artist
Autograph are looking for an emerging creative to produce an in-person event at their gallery in Hackney, London in August 2026. The event will take place as part of the public programme for our exhibition Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire.
Hua reflects on the fragility of memory and the ways stories are communicated – Read More
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.
To find out more please 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: 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: 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
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
