All Photography Contests

Whether you look for cash prizes, camera equipment, or having your work exhibited, photography contests are a great way to test your skills as a photographer. Most competitions publish early entries and finalist's photographs, aside of winner's galleries, so having your images posted on a photo contest website can give you valuable exposure whether you win or not. We've pulled together a selection of 150+ photography competitions in 2022, from free to paid photography awards, so you can decide what photo contest meets your needs.

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Women photographers can participate with her female visual perspective in 23 thematic categories.
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Innovate Grant awards two $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Photographer and one Visual Artist. We’ve made grants simple, so you can focus on making your innovative work!
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This is a great opportunity for the artists, who can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks in Italy and much more.
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Decode Gallery is pleased to announce April's exhibition! The theme is: Storyteller.
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The Forgotten, people, places and belongings that once mattered, now unremembered, out of mind, left behind.
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Win an online exhibition.
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Shoot The Frame is a suite of monthly international photography contests, designed to celebrate stunning photography and expose talented photographers.
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Entries are open worldwide to photographers using an iPhone or iPad. Photos should not be published previously anywhere. The posts on personal accounts (Facebook, Instagram etc.) are eligible.
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We're always looking for interesting work to be published. If you want to submit to our magazine or our interviews, please obey the following instructions
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The Lucie Foundation is proud to announce Notions of Home, an Open Call supporting the Lucie Witness Program: Visions from the Youth of America
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Rugby Photographer of the Year with Keith Prowse is a competition that celebrates the very best of rugby photography, both amateur and professional from across the globe, culminating in an exhibition at the World Rugby Museum at Twickenham.
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he winner will receive a grant of 8,000 (eight thousand) euros from CéTàVOIR, ETPA and Mediapart, to be able to complete their project.
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he winner will receive a grant of 8,000 (eight thousand) euros from CéTàVOIR, ETPA and Mediapart, to be able to complete their project.
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Entering an image not only offers you the chance to win fantastic prize money, it also plants a tree somewhere in the world.
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Nature photographers watch out: In the 29th year EuroNatur has organised this international nature photo competition in conjunction with the magazine "natur"
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Cip festival will be held in the old town of Chania which is visited by thousands of people every summer
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The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation welcomes entries from around the world in all artistic media for the Wildlife Artist of the Year Competition.
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Urban street scenes, portraits, travel adventures, landscapes, editorial, conceptual, still life... Color our lives.
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Guest Curator: Dallas Crow
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The wonderful view of the natural ecosystems of the entire planet condensed in the best pictures of professional photographers and advanced photo amateurs .
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Fine art, landscape, street, documentary, portrait, fashion, or conceptual: there are no specific boundaries or limitations, allowing you the space and freedom to fully showcase your skill, creativity, and talent!
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Counter Histories is an initiative supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with questions of the present and future.
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Join the new Exhibit Around photographic - editorial project dedicated to women, featuring guest star SUSAN MEISELAS!
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You have a photo or video project idea that you believe in, and this grant will help you bring it to life. Roling application until April 2022
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Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. July 2022
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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
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The Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award is now accepting submissions for the 2017-18 award cycle.
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The first 3 winners get cash prizes - 800 Euro for the first prize, 500 Euro for the second prize and 300 Euro for the third prize sponsored by Kelag.
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For the inaugural Yannis Behrakis Photojournalism Grants program, Reuters Pictures reuters.com/pictures is offering ten grants of $8,000 USD for photojournalists and students to produce a photo project and develop their visual storytelling skills.
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An Online Photography Competition Organized by IMA magazine
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New York Art Competitions are pleased to announce the opening of the Latin American Contemporary Fine Art Competition.
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Open Show holds social screenings worldwide where the public can experience compelling visual stories and interact directly with their creators.
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Creative Photo Awards is a project of Siena Awards, dedicated to rewarding originality, experimentation, and imagination by encouraging the creative use of the medium of photography in all its forms, including abstract and conceptual ideas.
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Now in its eighth edition, the Moscow International Foto Awards is a hotly anticipated annual event that spotlights some of the most brilliant and insightful photography.
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Aims to reward the career of a European photographer over 60 years old.
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Guest Curator: Praxis Directors
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The first edition of the festival will take place on May 14th and 15th 2022 at Yann Arthus Bertrand's Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris.
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We invite everyone to upload photos in each of the categories People and Nature.
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This is a call for all genres of landscape: natural, urban, industrial, and abstract. Show us how you see the world, while embracing the quiet and minimal.
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Be Featured in our May 2022 Online Juried Solo Exhibition!
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Choose your best work, upload photos and give yourself a chance to compete for prestige, fame and more than $ 7,500 in monetary award!
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Winners will receive $4,000 in cash awards, be featured in the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the winners catalog.
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Il Varco invites you to join the fourth edition of the Passepartout Photography Prize, a photography contest born to promote and widen the exposure of emerging photographers.
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The awards program has included 9 international categories, as well as a London-specific main category for worldwide participation<
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Black and White Spider Awards is open to professional and amateur photographers shooting in all forms of black and white photography, using traditional or digital methods.
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Successful applicants will be invited to become a "Nominee Member", a category of membership, which presents an opportunity for Magnum and the individual to get to know each other.
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All the winning photographs will be selected by the judging committee and will be exposed at one of the most beautiful museums in Greece.
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Nikon’s Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. The Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in microscopy and photography.
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Visura is delighted to announce that we are relaunching our grant program.
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This month we're interested in ideas of the home – as a place and as a feeling.
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US$10,000 cash prize pool, plus copies of the awards book and trophies
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Our juror for Botanicals is Wendi Schneider. Wendi is a visual artist working in photography and precious metals to illuminate vanishing beauty in our vulnerable natural world.
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Each winning photograph will receive CAD $1,000 and be featured on the Allard Prize website, with a brief description and the photographer’s name, for six months.
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The Earth Photo exhibition will be open at the Royal Geographical Society, London between 17 June and 26 August 2022 and within the forests of Forestry England.
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It is the calling together of photographers from all over the world, to celebrate their personal wonder and relishing of the landscape, but not just any landscape, the landscape of the United Kingdom.
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It is the calling together of photographers from all over the world, to celebrate their personal wonder and relishing of the landscape, but not just any landscape, the landscape of the United Kingdom.
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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
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Awarded every two years and now in its 5th edition, the Prix Virginia is the first photography prize exclusively reserved for a woman photographer, regardless of her age or nationality.
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Group Exhibition in Rome, Italy. August 2022
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MonoVisions Photography Awards are an international open call for photographers using black and white medium to express their visual language.
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The 30 photographers selected by Mr Hossein Farmani to join the curated State of the World exhibition 2020 will receive a cash prize of $200 each
ENDS 05/15/22
These $5,000 grants will support photography projects - either new or in-progress - from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity.
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Issue 101 will not have a theme, it is open to all fine art and documentary photography.
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Do you believe the world could be a kinder place? It can, through your photography! The 2022 Our World Is Kind global photography contest is now accepting submissions.
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The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis totaling $22,000.00 USD.
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The award will provide support and encouragement fora photojournalist committed to a long-term project.
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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
ENDS 05/31/22
The IPA recognizes photography’s leading talents who are creating, shaping and defining the world of photography today.
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URBAN Photo Awards: the contest that becomes the heart of Trieste Photo Days festival. € 15,000 in prize value and exhibitions at Trieste Photo Days 2022
ENDS 05/31/22
9 projects will be selected and each one will have an individual exhibition.
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Now in its eleventh year, The American Landscape is Outdoor Photographer's premier annual photo contest celebrating our country's wild places.
ENDS 06/01/22
Winner will receive: $1,000 from the National Railway Historical Society
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The Paula Riff Award was created by the Center of Photographic Art and Lenscratch in 2021 as a way to celebrate and continue the legacy of artist Paula Riff.
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All art is eligible as long as it engages with technology in some form.
ENDS 06/12/22
Send us your interpretations of Rural Impressions, Suburban Scenes and Urban Landscapes. Lots to see, lots to photograph.
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Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video.
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Black & White Photo Awards is a contest created with the intention of recognizing and rewarding talent in this discipline, with 5 Thematic category to show your creativity as a photographer:
ENDS 06/24/22
Photographer of the Year (18 and over) will receive 1,000 GBP. Young Photographer of the Year (under 18) will receive 500 GBP.
ENDS 06/30/22
MVIBE Magazine is a magazine created by artists for artists solely for the purpose of advertising worldwide.
ENDS 09/30/22
Split into 4 categories of wildlife, landscape, people, and architecture, the IMACRES Awards helps some of the best photographers in Europe showcase their work to an international audience
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The contest features prizes exceeding $35,000 in value from some of the world's top liveaboard, resort, and photo gear sponsors.
ENDS 10/23/22
Chromatic Awards is an international competition of color photography open to both professionals and amateurs. Participation in the Chromatic Awards offers not only prestige, but also the opportunity to win extra money for the development of passion.
ENDS 10/24/22
BUDAPEST INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS is an international platform for photographers from all levels and genres to share their best images with the creative community in Hungary and Eastern Europe.
ENDS 11/13/22
Monochrome Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers.
ENDS 11/20/22
TIFA connects photographers from around the world with the creative community in Tokyo, Japan, providing them with an excellent platform to present their work to a new market.
ENDS 11/30/22
The Student competition is one of the world’s leading programs for photography students.
ENDS 12/31/22
Every weekend, The Eye of Photography dedicates itself to the portfolios of its readers. By publishing the best portfolios, the magazine enables photographers around the world to show case their photographs.
ENDS 12/31/22
We encourage both professional and non-professional photographers to submit your work to the Social Documentary Network website.
ENDS 12/31/22
There is no particular theme, but we have an affinity for photos that display humorous, colorful, pattern oriented, and allegorical content.
ENDS 12/31/22
MVIBE Magazine is a magazine created by artists for artists solely for the purpose of advertising worldwide.
ENDS 12/31/22
Artists are welcome to submit their works. All techniques are welcome.
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Picto Foundation is pleased to launch the 24th call for submissions for the Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode.
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An Online Photography Competition Organized by IMA magazine
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Enter one of the most prestigious competitions for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition.
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Athens Photo Festival 2022 is accepting submissions from artists and photographers for its exhibition program.
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Issue #112 will have the theme 'Amusement'
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Guest Curator: Aline Smithson
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International Portfolio Open Call and Photobook Open Call.
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For this exhibition, we seek images that arise from within, that may be deeply personal, fantastical, beautiful or disturbing. All captures and processes are welcome.
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The Whalebone magazine photo contest presented by B&H; Photo is a way to celebrate the awesome humans who point and shoot these cameras and their work.
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The Prix Elysée is open to mid-career photographers or artists from around the world. They must be recommended by a reputed professional in the fields of photography, contemporary art, cinema, fashion, journalism or publishing.
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This land is your land is a physical, social & cultural exploration of where you live. In this call I hope to see personal interpretations of our world.
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Each exhibition will have 24 photographs selected by the juror for exhibiton at the gallery.
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In this first edition focuses on the theme of food. Food is essential for the life of all living beings but it also determines the way that human beings relate to each other.
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The Science Without Borders® Challenge is an international art contest that engages students to promote the need to preserve, protect, and restore the world's oceans and aquatic resources.
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Group Exhibition in Rome or Milan city, Italy. June 2022
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Landscape is the theme for this month's competition. Win $10,000 in our Street Photography Competition!
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We are delighted to announce the Open Call for exhibits at the Fotofestival Lenzburg 2022, which will be held in Lenzburg between the 26 of August and the 2nd of October 2022
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For this call the focus is on bodies - from head to toe, in and out of focus, as a well-lit image or silhouette, dressed or undressed.
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The competition showcases the world's best space photography, from spectacular skyscapes to mindblowing images of distant planets and galaxies.
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Three separate grants of $5,000 each will be awarded to deserving photographers!
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The grant includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the work's final stages.
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The Project Launch is granted to an outstanding photographer working on a fine art series or documentary project. The grant includes a cash award to help complete or disseminate the works, as well as providing a platform for exposure.
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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
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From the earliest days of photography to the modern digital era: black & white photography has changed the way we see the world.
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BigPicture celebrates and illustrates the rich diversity of life on Earth and inspires action to protect and conserve it through the power of imagery.
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Enter your photography for an opportunity to have one of your images selected to represent the 2022 Festival and 2022/23 World Tour.
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Win up to $1,000 and more!
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CALLS FOR WORK are open to all photographers internationally. All processes, techniques and experience levels are welcomed. Color work can be submitted but will be reproduced in black & white. Please follow guidelines closely.
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BigPicture encourages photographers from around the world to contribute their work to this competition that will both celebrate and illustrate the rich diversity of life on Earth and inspire action to protect and conserve it through the power of imagery.
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Wildlife, studio, documentary, storytelling, conceptual, candid or staged… All genres welcome.
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The contest is organized in cooperation with Un Water and with the patronage of the European Community to raise funds to bring drinking water to communities who need Water to live, through projects for water purification.
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The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo contest was established on December 22, 2014. The contest is run by Rossiya Segodnya under the auspices of the Russian Federation Commission for UNESCO
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Contemporary Art Gallery Online encourages entries from all 2D and 3D artists regardless of their experience or education in the art field.
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Professional grant recipients receive $20,000 in funding.
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The Alexia Foundation offers production grants to students photographers to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place.
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Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that explores the genre of street photography from all angles, including people, urban structure, and documentary subject matter.
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For the call for Conversations with the Archive, we are looking for work using historical, familial, or found photographs (or ephemera) to create a new visual language or expression.
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Best of 100 works will be published in the annual catalogue.
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The prize is endowed with €5,000 to use as the winner sees fit.
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The Center for Photographic Art (CPA) is excited to announce the 2022 Members' Juried Exhibition! This year we are offering $2250 in awards.
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The MUSE Photography Awards celebrates the creative ethos and underlying afternotes of what makes a photograph so influential.
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The 10th-anniversary edition of the PHmuseum Photography Grant is now open for submissions. €10,000 in cash prizes + exhibition.
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Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 1st 'Landscapes' Online Art Competition for the month of March 2022.
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The Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award recognizes women photojournalists with a commitment to shining a light on important stories around the world through brave and compelling work.
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Journey to the corners of the world and explore the sky to discover the greatest treasures of our planet.
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The biennial Belfast Photo Festival provided the perfect platform for gaining exposure to an international audience, with previous editions having welcome over 100,000 visitors from all over the world
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Be Featured in our March 2022 Online Juried Solo Exhibition!
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Presenting the American Photography 38 A new competition to celebrate the best pictures submitted by photo enthusiasts, taken with any device.
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The Camera Trophy is awarded to the following highest ranked photographer provided he/she gets a minimum of 22 points.
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This year's CIPC rewards selected artists with an exhibition in Chelsea, New York, along with other numerous PR opportunities. The event also provides invaluable exposure to the community while promoting career growth and recognition.
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Istanbul Photo Awards is an international news photography contest organized by Anadolu Agency.
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Submission of photographic art created by or about women image-makers
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For Botanical, we’re looking for images created in nature, the garden or the studio that capture the beauty and unique character of plant life of all kinds.
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LENSCRATCH is creating exposure opportunities for photographers with group on-line exhibitions. Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition.
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We will be looking for a range of how shadow and light are interpreted by contemporary photographers. Exhibition Dates: March 1-20, 2022
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The submission of photos for the specific contest is free. Each photographer can participate with up to 5 files.
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An opportunity for artists under the age of 35 years old to have their work included in a museum collection.