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Deadline: 6th September 2026
© The Photographers' Gallery 2026
Based at Wigwell Lodge, this two-month residency is for artists working with expanded photography and digital practices. This is an opportunity to research, experiment and expand thinking around photography, technology and innovative approaches to image making and visual culture.
Working in partnership with The Ampersand Foundation, you are encouraged to use the residency as an opportunity Read More
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
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
Deadline: 31st August 2026
The next issue of Photography+, titled Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams, will explore the fragile and shifting conditions shaping our lives, environments, and collective futures. We are interested in photographic work that responds to instability, uncertainty, and transformation across lands, bodies, communities, identities, histories, and memories.
Submissions may engage with displacement, ecological and social change, anxiety, resilience, Read More
Deadline: 18th October 2026
In summer 2027, the Hasselblad Foundation will present Fotosalongen for the second time – Sweden’s largest photography salon.
Fotosalongen 2027 will bring together a wide range of photographic approaches and perspectives. The exhibition at Hasselblad Center will create unexpected encounters between established artists, emerging talents and photographers whose work has not previously been shown publicly.
The salon Read More
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
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
Deadline: 18th October 2026
© 2015-2026 HALFTONE
HALFTONE is an initiative by PhotoIreland, hosted every year at The Library Project. The print fair runs from from 28 November 2026 to 24 January 2027, the fair brings together a large selection of works by established and emerging artists, showcasing Ireland’s exciting art scene.
Applications are now invited from fine art printers, illustrators, designers, photographers, Read More
Deadline: 31st August 2026
AWARE (Paris), City of Women (Ljubljana), and Kunsthaus Graz, are launching an open call for three research residencies as part of BRIDGE: Building, Revising, Inclusion – Diaspora and Gender Equality, a two-year Creative Europe project (2026–2028). The theme centers women and non-binary artists in exile or with migratory or diasporic backgrounds in Europe.
Rooted in the Read More
Deadline: 7th October 2026
Corinne Riviera, from the series Styles of the Anthropocene © the artist. Runner Up Earth Partner Prize 2023
The 2026 Earth Partner Prize is an open call that generates conversations around the urgent need for ecological justice. It is specifically designed for artists aged 14-30 to encourage youth engagement leading up to COP in November, and to ensure the voices of younger generations are heard.
Art Partner invites artists and creatives of all nationalities, Read More
Deadline: 19th September 2026
The annual theme for Changing Asia 2026 is “Moments of Connection: Smiles and Hands of the Asia-Pacific.” This theme aligns directly with the official 2026 APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting slogan, “Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together,” with a specific focus on cooperation, inclusivity, and sustainable growth. Regarding the creative focus, the exhibition will center Read More
Deadline: 11th September 2026
Emma Sarpaniemi, Ohjus (2025) © the artist
Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion is PhotoVogue’s Global Open Call inviting photographers and video makers from around the world to submit work that engages with the present through original and compelling visual storytelling.
This open call does not ask for a theme to illustrate. It asks for a position. It asks for a position in Read More
Deadline: 28th August 2026
Stereoscopic image of a tiger with tripod shadow, Colonel Eugene Impey, 1858-1865, albumen photographic print on paper © Ashmolean Museum
Join the Ashmolean Museum’s Digital Collections team and help shape the future of one of the world’s leading museum collections. You will lead the planning, coordination and delivery of digital collections projects that support the Museum’s digital transformation, ensuring work is delivered efficiently and in line with digital collections policies, standards and systems.
You will manage Read More
Deadline: 31st August 2026
Let Our Hearts Speak Open Call
When we love we can let our hearts speak – bell hooks
Inspired by hooks’ reflections on love, voice, and radical relationality, Let Our Hearts Speak is an open call by Rethinking Eastern Europe for a forthcoming collective publication.
We invite artists to submit work that engages with the idea of “Eastern Europe” as a Read More
Deadline: 1st October 2026
Amanda Hall, Untitled from A Day in Your Life Winners Gallery © the artist
A Day in Your Life is a photography competition and workshop program designed to nurture and celebrate emerging creative talent from underrepresented communities, including minority groups and individuals living with disabilities.
The project’s aim is to engage and inspire creativity, provide access to essential skills, and include participants who may face barriers such as marginalization, isolation, Read More
Deadline: 16th August 2026
Image by Maria Gulina
The future exhibition at Open Eye Gallery, Is This A Garden? (26 June – 31 August), starts from the idea of “gardens” but looks beyond traditional views of them, exploring how they appear in unexpected ways, on the edges of things, and how they shape (or are shaped by) the people and environments around them.
Open Read More
Deadline: 7th October 2026
Ruby Okoro, from the series Circular Heroes © the artist. The Akoka community’s transformation of waste into innovative products. Runner Up 2025 Earth Partner Prize.
Earth Partner Prize invites artists of all nationalities, races, genders, and faiths, aged 14 to 30, to submit work that comments on the ecological crisis.
Eight finalists will be awarded cash prizes of $10K, $5K or $2K. An additional 20 creatives will receive honourable mentions by a globally recognised panel of judges.
The 2026 Earth Partner Prize Read More
Deadline: 11th September 2026
Image: Kin Coedel
This open call does not ask for a theme to illustrate. It asks for a position. It asks for a position in relation to the world as it is. In relation to what one refuses. In relation to what one longs for, questions, resists, imagines, or defends.
There is no single answer. It may take the Read More
Deadline: 24th September 2026
Image: Ismail Zaidy
MENA Panorama is PhotoVogue’s regional initiative to champion the plurality of voices from MENA, moving beyond monolithic narratives to showcase the region’s complexity, resilience, and diverse visual languages.
The Open Call invites photographers and video makers from Middle East and North Africa and their diaspora to bring forward their perspectives, celebrating image-making as a space of 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 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
