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2026 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter (in the Q1: Winter, Q2: Spring, Q3: Summer, and Q4: Fall), to one Photographer and one Artist. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. For more information and to apply visit https://innovateartistgrants.org

Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. We’ve simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and our application reflects that.

Innovate Grant awards:
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grants to a Photographer
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grants to a Visual Artist*
+ 12 x Honorable Mentions Interviews

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Some photographs reveal. Others withhold.

Seen / Unseen invites work that engages with what is visible and what remains hidden—within the frame, within the subject, or within the photograph itself. This may take the form of portraiture, or images where meaning is suggested rather than stated.We are interested in photographs that hold tension: between presence and absence, clarity and ambiguity, exposure and concealment. What is shown is only part of the image. What is implied, obscured, or left unresolved carries equal weight.

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F-STOP Issue #138 will include documentary photography projects. This is work that focuses on recording events, environments or everyday life in a straightforward and accurate way. It typically has a longer term focus than photojournalism and is about a topic, place or event.

Submit up to 12 photographs and a project statement. Please see the submission guidelines for details on how to submit your work.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on Trees and Water. This exhibition will look to feature both subjects in a dynamic and diverse exhibition on contemporary photography. Trees and Water are both powerful and important subjects. Water can be an ocean, a river, a pool, a fountain, rain or mist or fog, lakes, snow and waves. And Trees can be great subjects of composition, giving the picture a strong foundation to play with the visual elements of space and time. This exhibit will look at both subjects and the powerful visual language of contemporary photographers who are exploring and documenting these exciting subjects. There is a lot of space here for magical and poetic pictures, explore your technique and ideas, the gallery looks forward to hosting a dynamic and exciting exhibition.

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For our upcoming issue, Let’s Get the F@!#k Outta Here, Float invites artists to consider humanity’s growing fascination with looking beyond Earth. In recent years—and especially in recent months—conversations surrounding Mars, UFOs, space travel, and extraterrestrial life have moved from the realm of science fiction into everyday culture. As we look toward the sky searching for answers, meaning, possibility, or escape, we are left wondering: what does it mean to imagine a life beyond our own world?

While photographs of the sky, stars, planets, and astronomical phenomena are certainly welcome, we also encourage artists to think more broadly about space and our relationship to it. We are interested in photographic works that engage with the emotional, psychological, philosophical, and scientific ideas surrounding the unknown. What hopes, fears, fantasies, technologies, myths, and desires shape our understanding of what lies beyond Earth? Through photography and lens-based work, we invite artists to explore the space between wonder and uncertainty, science and belief, reality and imagination.

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The PopUp Tour is one of the premier events during SlowExposures weekend in Pike County, Georgia. Several shows–solo or group–will be staged in nontraditional venues in-and-around the Courthouse Square in Zebulon. Show-goers will collect a unique stamp in their PopUp Passport at each show to exchange for tickets to participate in our PopUp Raffle at the Saturday Supper.

We are pleased to welcome the return of Nashville’s Jerry Atnip as our 2026 PopUp Juror. He is celebrated for his photography, his enthusiastic support for up-and-coming and established photographers, and his long-time support for SlowExposures.

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“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” — Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
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Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographic art that explores the formal, conceptual, and metaphoric implications of the shadow. Submissions may focus on the shadow as pure visual form expressed through the creation of line, shape, pattern, and texture. They may also examine the cultural and psychological implications of the shadow—exploring ideas of foreboding, internal conflict, passages into the unconscious, or other ephemeral interpretations. All lens-based artwork is welcome. Juror: Ann Jastrab

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Call to Photoshoppers, Canva fans, Snapseeders, Gimp Gurus, Paintshop Pros, and all other post-producers of “manufactured” images. August’s online and paperback editions of Dek Unu Magazine will feature five artworks from each of five different image crafters, constructors, cooks, and crazies. Montage, media mix, long exposure, alt-process, AI-hacks, and strange brews – all photo-based departures are invited. First prize: $250, remaining winners’ entry fees are refunded, $35/5 images. Tuŝis – Altered States.

Dek Unu is not-for-profit and non-advertising, which means that we enjoy lots of creative freedom to provide a unique outlet for fine art photography of all kinds to artists without regard to pedigree, career stage, or connections. It also means that we must hustle (in as gentle and dignified way as possible) for funds to pay the bills. This call is for our one and only contest and fund-raiser each year and supports both the mission of the magazine and artists whose work is often hard to categorize. Your help to spread the word is essential to the effort. Please share this note with anyone to whom the call might appeal – you know who they are!

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BECOME ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE YEAR

We invite you to take part in the fifth edition of the Monochromatic Awards. We are looking for the best monochromatic photography of 2026.

This competition is open to all interpretations of monochromatic photography: from traditional black and white to grayscale, sepia, cyanotype, or any other variation based on a single tone. What matters is how you use that limitation to build an image.

Photographers from all genres and backgrounds are welcome to participate. Beyond category, we are looking for work with a clear vision and a defined intention.

The winner will be recognized as Photographer of the Year and, together with the finalists, will be included in the annual Monochromatic Book. This publication brings together an international selection of works, carefully edited and presented, creating a coherent body that reflects what is happening in monochromatic photography today.

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With an open theme, On the Shelf seeks well-conceived, original, and compelling photo books. Eligible entries include all types of photo books, whether self-published, handmade, or commercially published. Books by or featuring the work of more than one artist are also eligible. Books must have been completed within the last three years.

A Juror’s Choice and Honorable Mention will be awarded. The Juror’s Choice Award comes with a $500 cash prize. The cost to submit to On the Shelf is $25.00 for a single photo book project. Please note: artists will be responsible for the cost of shipping books to and from Filter Space gallery if accepted into the exhibition.

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Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our online exhibit, HER.SELF.

The feminine spirit cannot be contained by a single definition. It is layered and luminous. We invite artwork that honors women in all their complexities… her presence, her resilience, her beauty, her becoming. Show us HER.SELF as you see her.

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Atlanta Photography Group (APG) is now accepting entries for Rebecca Morse Selects 2026. This CFE is open themed and Rebecca Morse, Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be our esteemed juror.

One artist from this exhibition will be selected for the APG/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Purchase Award, a $3,000 prize which is made possible through a generous grant from Julin Maloof and Stacey Harmer (in honor of Gloria and Ted Maloof), and Edwin Robinson. This is a great opportunity to get your work in front of an important museum curator and to be considered by Lisa Volpe, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the museum purchase award.

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A Sense of Place invites visual artists to explore how place shapes human experience, identity, and belonging—whether as a physical location or an emotional, internal landscape of memory and longing.

Open internationally to all visual media including painting, drawing, photography, digital media, mixed media, sculpture, and installation. Potential themes include Refuge and Solace, Belonging & Displacement, The Architecture of Memory, Digital Place, Place as Inheritance, and Vanishing Landscapes.

Selected artists will be featured in an exhibition at The BLANC Art Space in New York City. Finalists will also be invited to join the SeeMe Digital Gallery and the Artsy Collection.

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This year’s theme, Fashion Regenerated, calls on photographers and filmmakers to capture powerful, real-world stories of regeneration across the fashion, textile, and apparel industry. The competition sets out to document the potential of clothing and textiles to bring about beneficial ecological, social, and animal welfare outcomes.

Regeneration is about improving the systems behind our clothes, so they give back more than they take. Regenerative practices are rooted in centuries of Indigenous and local farming traditions, and Fashion Regenerated is about recognizing and evidencing those leading the way, uplifting the stories that are often quietly continuing around the world.

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Motion Blur in photography creates a paradox: the image is a frozen moment in time, yet what it captures is movement—streaking, bending, or distortion of light and form in the frame. Blur can convey velocity, gesture, or emotional tone. It can introduce dream-like or surreal qualities by invoking the transitory nature of time passing.
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Meteors streak across the sky. Figures pass through a space and dissolve. An artist draws with light. These moments reveal motion not as interruption, but as presence—an imprint of time unfolding within the still image.​ Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that explores the visual and conceptual potential of motion and blur.​

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this juried open call welcomes all mediums of visual and performance art, including but not limited to sculpture, fiber art, installation, video art, sound art, painting, photography, works on paper, and ceramics. there’s poetry in art/making, and we often hold those poems for or within ourselves; either articulating it in a language only we know or unable to speak it because words often fall short.

for “i can’t get at the poem of this,” we invite you to share a little bit about the poetry that led to your piece or the story that drives the work. this is a call for “trying to find
the words”—a familiar feeling or refrain of late. your words don’t have to be a poem or paragraphs-long, but just an attempt at sharing what you’re giving your attention to or are tending to.

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Although photography initially emerged as a technological invention, it quickly evolved into an expressive artistic practice. Pictorialist photographs from the nineteenth century were crafted to resemble paintings, while proponents of straight photography in the early twentieth century aimed for a purely photographic approach to conveying meaning. Street photographers dedicated the medium to capturing fleeting moments, and in the latter part of the twentieth century, many photographers embraced staging and directing to employ photography as a means of artistic visual communication. Straight photography derives expressive meaning from the observed scene, while directorial, or staged photography involves creating a scene based on a preconceived notion. Art photography today encompasses various genres and creative practices, ranging from portraiture, landscape, and still life to staged, abstract, and conceptual photography. More recently, AI-generated photo-based images have also asserted their presence in the art photography scene. In this call, we invite contemporary photographers to demonstrate their understanding of photography as an expressive fine art practice in the twenty-first century.

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Each month, a talented photographer will be featured in a Solo Exhibition on our dedicated showroom pages, providing incredible visibility.

Next Exhibition Dates: August 1 – 31, 2026.

Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work to a global audience!
Maximize Your Exposure: Enter the Solo Exhibition Competition for a Month-Long Online Showcase

At All About Photo, we celebrate extraordinary photography that inspires, transforms, and connects with us on a deeper level.

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Dusk Gallery invites photographers living and working in the American Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, or California) to submit work that speaks to the spirit of the region. From vast desert landscapes and indigenous cultures to borderlands, urban grit, and the unique light that defines the Southwest—show us your vision of home, memory, or transformation through the lens.

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Summer has a way of refusing to end. For this call, we want photographs that capture that feeling: golden hour on repeat, the weight of humid air, a day that never seems to darken. Whether your summer is joyful or solitary, crowded or calm, show us the season you wish would last forever.

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Accent Gallery is an independent online platform presenting curated international exhibitions for contemporary artists and photographers. Every submission is reviewed by our curatorial team before inclusion in an exhibition.

Our first international photography exhibition explores reflections in all their forms—from mirrors and water to glass, architecture, and unexpected moments of light.

Reflections marks the beginning of the photography program at Accent Gallery. We invite photographers from around the world to take part in its very first exhibition.

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Photographers are invited to explore the many forms fatherhood can take.

When reviewing submissions, the juror will be looking for photographs that move beyond traditional portraits and familiar narratives. A father may be a source of love, protection, guidance, expectation, distance, loss, mystery, or memory. He may be present or absent. He may be a biological parent, stepfather, grandfather, mentor, teacher, or someone who shaped a life in unexpected ways.

We are interested in work that explores the complexity of fatherhood and its lasting impact. Images may be documentary, conceptual, autobiographical, archival, or symbolic. A father does not need to appear in the photograph.
Consider what fathers leave behind: stories, habits, objects, landscapes, traditions, beliefs, dreams, wounds, or gifts. What traces remain? How does a father continue to influence who we become?

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We welcome proposals from artists at all stages of their professional careers, working across a wide range of media—including photography, film, video, performance documentation, animation, and digital, interactive, or hybrid forms. Submissions may include existing bodies of work or new projects that critically engage with this year’s theme.

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Dive into the world of Revela’t Festival with our exclusive Portfolio Review session. Connect with 18 talented individuals and present your projects to a panel of 11 distinguished experts from the photographic field – including gallery owners, curators, festival directors, critics, and editors. Immerse yourself in 20-minute one-to-one sessions with each expert viewer, totaling 3 hours of valuable insights and constructive feedback on your work. Elevate your work and make meaningful connections.

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We are currently seeking two photographers to be featured in our fall exhibition. Selected artists will have their printing and exhibition promotion fully covered. Artists are simply responsible for making their own arrangements should they decide to attend and enjoy the opening night.

For this open call, photographers are free to develop on the theme: Cycle(s). We are very honoured to have Carolyn Mendelsohn as our guest jury. Please note that we reserve the right to present a solo exhibition if a submission demonstrates particularly strong artistic merit and a unique, singular vision.

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IX International Mini Print Cantabria 2026, “Open Sea. Reality, imagination and poetics” Award

The Award is open to all printmaking disciplines, admitting digital printed artwork and monotype as well.

The general theme is “Open Sea. Reality, imagination and poetics”, but this does not imply that the artwork must be figurative. All kinds of aesthetic languages are admitted.

The image and the paper must not exceed 20 x 20 cm. (7,8” x 7,8”)

There is no minimum image or paper size.

You can submit up to 3 artworks.

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MUUS Collection is an American 20th century photography collection that preserves, researches, and reveals work from the archives it owns and represents.

As a part of our mission to transform our archives through new interpretations and scholarship, MUUS Collection is launching our first MUUS Collection Research Fellowship to invite a curator or academic to spend time in the archives over the course of a year and develop an exhibition or publication concept offering a new perspective. In addition to time spent in the archives, where the Research Fellow will be invited to examine physical works and ephemera (including journals, contact sheets, and cameras) in addition to the totality of each photographer’s photographic collections, the Research Fellow will benefit from our new MUUSEUM online research portal.

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Born out of the return of war to the European continent, Kometa is an independent magazine that reports on the world where it is in flux. From Iran to China, from the United States to Palestine, every three months we bring stories by leading contemporary voices, testimonies, photographs, analyses and maps that offer a unique perspective.

At a time when certain parts of the world are becoming increasingly difficult to report on, Kometa launches a programme to support ambitious on-the-ground reporting.

The Kometa Fellows programme provides one year’s funding for the work of authors (journalists, writers or photographers) who document reality in contexts of war, censorship or severe political and social tensions. A patron funds one year’s work for each Fellow. In September 2026, six recipients will each receive €10,000 in funding.

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Every year, Southern California land trust Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy runs a nature photography contest to celebrate local wildlife and natural habitats. Now in its fourth year, the contest is free to enter and open to photographers of any level. Judged by wildlife photographers based in Los Angeles, the contest is an opportunity to share how you connect with nature. We invite all local photographers or nature enthusiasts to apply!

Categories include birds, mammals, other wildlife, plants, landscapes, people in nature, and abstract or conceptual images with nature as a subject. Images must be taken in Southern California. Winning images will be shared on the Conservancy’s social media and digital outreach, and printed and displayed at their Urban Conservation Awards ceremony at the Autry Museum of the American West in September.

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In 2025 I published a compilation zine called Men Asleep which included 21 photographers’ photographs of men sleeping. I’m expanding this project into a book and exhibition and holding a call for entry for additional photographs of men asleep.
This call is free and is open to all.

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Things break. People struggle. Places change. And yet — something endures.

Overcoming — What Remains Standing invites photographers to submit work about survival, resilience, and what’s left after hardship. We’re looking for images that show what it means to get through something — whether that’s personal loss, illness, grief, displacement, or simply the passage of difficult time.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a color photography juried group photo show. Contemporary color photography has a big range of dynamic colors being used for landscape, portraiture, architecture, fashion, street, abstract, documentary, still life, narrative, conceptual projects, nature and night photography. How do photographers use color to think about, compose, stylize and captivate and present contemporary photography?

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Showcasing sartorial splendor and exuberance, this exhibition calls for art to wear: objects fashioned to disguise, enhance, adorn, bedeck, camouflage, enshroud, veil, cloak, or augment. All kinds of art to wear are w are welcome. Masks. Glasses. Headdresses. Tiaras. Hats. Gloves. Bodices. Shoes. Capes. Peplums. Pants, skirts, vests and costumes — wearable and decorative. Open nationally to artists of all backgrounds and ages.

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Returning for its sixth year we are excited to announce that the OD Photo Prize is now open for submissions. An annual prize dedicated to discovering the next generation of photographic artists.
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This year’s Winner receives an increased cash prize as well as an exclusive interview with our media partner 1000 Words Magazine and exposure to our network of collectors and curators. The full Shortlist of artists will be invited to exhibit with Open Doors Gallery in London in November, as well as access to a long list of other awards and opportunities.

OD Photo Prize has no age barriers however all artists submitting must be working within the first ten years of their artistic practice. We also accept submissions by artistic collaboratives and duos.

There is no theme. Submissions must be in project form and be accompanied by an artist statement that describes and gives context to the work being presented to us.

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Open to women and non-binary artists age 65 and older to submit work for In Full View, a juried exhibition exploring visibility, aging, identity, memory, and the legacy of a fully lived life. Open to all mediums, the show celebrates presence, resilience, and the ongoing power of creative expression.

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The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, black and white, etc.).

Winners will receive $4,000 in cash awards, be featured on the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the winners catalog. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page.

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Abstract art is like breaking the rules of traditional art. It doesn’t try to show things as they are in real life; instead, it uses colors, shapes, and lines in wild and creative ways to express feelings or ideas, often leaving interpretation open to the viewer. It’s a celebration of artistic freedom and imagination. Show us PURE ABSTRACTION through your perspective.

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SOFT PUBLISHING is a small and young independent publishing house focused on contemporary
photography and art. It is interested in new photographic trends and emerging artists, and publishes photo books in limited editions.

We are now accepting submissions for our next photobook on the theme of Black & White
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The fine art nude has been a celebrated subject of photography since the beginning and played an important role in establishing photography as a fine art medium. Early on, both in history and most photographers experience, the nude has been featured in a classical pose and setting, maturing to illustrating the human body as a sculptural abstraction, and with some pushing boundaries.

Analog and digital manipulation in all its forms welcome. Monochrome or color, all subjects, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations where legal are welcome.

Our juror for The Modern Nude is Howard Schatz. The photographs of Howard Schatz are exhibited in museums and photography galleries internationally and are included in innumerable private collections. He has received international acclaim for his work and has won virtually every award in his field including numerous “Photographer of the Year” awards and Gold Medals in the most prestigious competitions. His work has been published in twenty-three monographs.

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The Aaron Siskind Award celebrates the artistic legacy of Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), advances the practice of photography as a vital means of creative expression and honors the role that the Aaron Siskind Foundation played in supporting photographers through the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, which was awarded for 28 years.

“The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is committed to nurturing and funding photographic artists through the Aaron Siskind Award,” said Director and CEO Alex Nyerges. “This extraordinary award program provides recipients with transformative financial resources so that they can pursue major artistic projects.”

The goal of VMFA’s Aaron Siskind Award for Photography is to provide material support that enables photographers to complete a meaningful body of work — whether the continuation or finalization of a photographic series; the development of an exhibition, monograph or book project; or another major creative endeavor.

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The Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards are an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the narrative of photography. The awards, established in 2012, recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year. Each year, winners are selected from among nearly one thousand books submitted by artists and publishers from around the world.

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photoED Magazine shares diverse photography stories in a brand new light.

Issue #78 will feature the work of photographers exploring REAL vs IMAGINARY stories – with UNIQUE, LENS BASED methods.

Our 2026 season explores fresh directions in photography, exploring contrasting themes interpreted through photographers lenses. This Call seeks submissions of fine art photography projects that present the idea of REALITY, constructed IMAGINED photo-based stories, or a juxtaposition the two.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a Black and White juried group photo show. There is often a classic, nostalgic and dynamic translation to black and white photography. Black and White has an important tradition of luminous, well-crafted and thoughtfully composed imagery. Contemporary photographers are involved in this dialog of history and tradition, but with their own modern voice, visions and aesthetics of imagery. Black Box will be looking for a diversity of photographic works and ideas for this exciting exhibition!

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F-STOP Issue #139 will focus on photography of and about food.

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The Lucie Foundation is dedicated to celebrating all forms of photography. This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to hand-made books and zines. The awards are presented to photographers and publishers.

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The Lucie Foundation is proud to support professional and emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, to digital and film-based works. Our concern is to support photographers producing work that is at once gripping, and original.

The Lucie Foundation is pleased to offer four cash grants and a variety of prizes to support the work of emerging and established photographers.

Winners will be part of a group exhibition. This exhibition will then travel to the House of Lucie Galleries worldwide, including Los Angeles, Athens, Budapest, Ostuni, and Samui.

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The Monte-Carlo Photo Contest is an annual international photography competition, open to photographers of all nationalities, whether amateur or professional.

The competition is under the patronage of the FIAP (Federation Internationale de l’Art Photographique) and the AAPMC (Académie de l’Art Photographique de Monte-Carlo).

The rules comply with FIAP document 048/2025 E, therefore the Monte-Carlo Photo Contest classifications are valid for FIAP honours and distinctions.

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Do you want to share with the world the wonders of the planet and contribute to its protection? Then don’t miss the opportunity to participate in The Nature Photography Contest, an international photography contest for professionals and amateurs.

The Nature Photography Contest has 10 categories for you to submit your images of natural landscapes, wildlife, macrophotography and more. You can win cash prizes and international recognition. The winner of the best photograph of the year will receive €1000, the winner of each category will receive €100 and the best photographer of the year will receive a trophy. In addition, for each participant, a tree will be planted in the country chosen by the winner.

The jury is composed of three renowned nature photographers: Luke Stackpoole, Cynthia Bandurek and Mario Cea. They will be in charge of evaluating the technical, artistic and emotional quality of the photographs.

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EMBODIED is dedicated to photographic and interdisciplinary work exploring body politics, embodiment, identity, intimacy, memory, trauma, sexuality, health, and lived experience. We are currently accepting ongoing submissions from photographers and visual artists working across any medium and from any location.

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