Calls For Entry

2025 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.

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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From the Ground Up: Contemporary Landscape is an exhibition that explores how artists investigate the landscape today.

We invite submissions across all disciplines that engage landscape—urban or rural, real or imagined, material or symbolic to submit their work for consideration.

Artists of all career levels based in the United States are invited to apply.

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Raw Photo Fest invites photographers from around the world to take part in the first edition of a festival that reimagines how we experience photography. From May 7–10, 2026, Alaior, on the island of Menorca, Spain, will transform into a living gallery, where images leave the white walls behind and come to life in streets, convents, cafés, private homes, and open landscapes.

We’re looking for photographers whose work tells real, human stories, whether it’s exploring moments on the street, journeys across cultures, politics, and history or glimpses into daily life. There’s no theme; what connects all submissions is the art of storytelling.

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• form • perception • distortion • gesture • pattern • essence

“An abstract photograph draws away from that which is realistic or literal. It departs from natural appearances and recognizable subjects in the world. Some even say it transcends meaning, existence, and reality itself — standing apart from the concrete whole, relying instead on conceptual meaning and intrinsic form.”
– John Suler

Praxis Gallery seeks photographic artwork that explores the world through an abstracted lens. Submissions may utilize color, light, shadow, texture, shape, or line to create images that move beyond traditional representation — inviting viewers to experience photography as pure visual expression.

All genres, capture types, black & white, and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic, and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.

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Dreams and visions in art have long been a familiar and powerful motif. These mysterious and otherworldly images often serve as representations of our deepest subconscious thoughts, emotions, and desires. The dream in art acts like a wandering spirit, guiding us along the winding path of the imagination. It invites us to explore and question the complex relationship between the visible world we perceive and the invisible forces that influence our inner lives.

This SE Center asks you to explore your inner dream state. We encourage your interpretation of this theme.

Our Juror Dreams & Visions is Michael Pannier, Opening his first gallery in the Washington, DC suburbs in 1987, Michael has continuously been involved in art and photography gallery circles. Initially concentrating on works on paper and multiples, he has been focused on photography for the past 20 years.

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The Cherokee Ranch & Castle Foundation and CPAC invite photographers to apply for a yearlong residency exploring “Land, Legacy, and Lens: Visual Narratives of Place.” Set on a 3,400-acre estate of conservation land and historic architecture, the residency includes a $1,000 stipend, yearlong site access, CPAC printing support, and a solo exhibition during the 2027 Month of Photography.

Open to photographers at any career stage; artists from underrepresented communities are especially encouraged to apply.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on shadow and light. Photography is the documentation of patterns of darkness and light. Shadows enhance the relationships of subjects in an image, they give definition and dimension, which complements the quality of the light values. Photographers have used dramatic shadows and patterns in black and white images and have also explored using ethereal and moody shadows and textures in color photography. We will be looking for a range of how shadow and light are interpreted by contemporary photographers.

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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: January 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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We are so excited to see your perspective on color. It’s remarkable how a single hue can transform the entire mood of an image. F`or this exhibition, we’re looking for work where color is the heart and soul of the photograph. Show us your vibrant street scenes, your serene landscapes, or your intimate portraits—where the palette itself tells a powerful story. We can’t wait to see your best work.

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LoosenArt is inviting photographers to take part in the collective exhibition “Geographies: an exploration between places, environments and cultures”, an exhibition project that seeks to question and narrate the many forms of contemporary geography: physical and symbolic, human and environmental, local and global.

The aim is to explore borders – geographical, cultural, political, and emotional – and their transformations through the creative gaze of participants.

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– Note: International, Open theme, All photo genres and techniques invited.

– Fee: Never a fee to submit.

– Contact:
Roger Leege
Publisher, Dek Unu Magazine
dekunumag [at] gmail [dot] com

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Street photography is a unique art form associated with a photographer’s skill in capturing a moment that would have gone unseen without their intervention. A street photographer thrives in a time and place where the mundane transforms into the extraordinary, with their surroundings serving as a canvas for artistic expression. Whether it’s capturing the energy of bustling streets or the quiet solitude of hidden alleyways, we invite you to share your vision of the human condition with us.

The Art of Street Photography is an international open call for photographers ages 18 and older. All forms of two-dimensional images, traditional and non-conventional media, and conventional or alternative photographic processes with a subjective analog or digital photographic base are welcome for submission.

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The International Photography Festivals Association (IPFA) invites photographers and artists from all over the world to take part in the IPFA Award. This open call goes beyond a traditional prize; it is an international platform to explore, share and transform contemporary photography, connecting photographers with festivals, curators and audiences worldwide. From your images to the world: join this global movement of photography festivals.

Your work will have the opportunity to be seen by directors and curators of photography festivals around the globe, expanding your visibility and international reach. With a single application, your project will be reviewed by 20 international curators. You may be selected for a solo exhibition at a participating festival or take part in a collective exhibition opening on 19 March 2026 in Barcelona, which will later travel to various festivals.

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Panopticon Gallery invites photographers to submit 10 images from a cohesive body of work to First Look 2026, our annual juried portfolio exhibition on view February–April 2026. Selected artists will have five images exhibited in the main gallery.

All submissions will also be reviewed for First Look: A Second Glance, a separate companion exhibition on The Wall at Panopticon Gallery, featuring one image from each selected artist. Open to emerging and established photographers.

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Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme “Photographic Mysticism / an instant film call for entry” to A Smith Gallery by December 29, 2025. This call is open exclusively to instant film: Polaroid, Fuji Instax, or discontinued formats such as Impossible Project and New55. Subject matter is unrestricted. Entries of 13 or more images are eligible for a complementary review by the gallery directors. The entry fee is $40 for the first 5 images and $5 for each additional image. Up to forty-seven images will be selected for exhibition and shown in the online gallery from February 1 to March 31, 2026. An exhibition catalogue with all the accepted images will be available for purchase. There will be an online prerecorded GalleryTalk during the exhibition period. Also, 27 images from the total 47 images will be selected for “The 27”, a limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition. The Juror’s and Director’s award winners will each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book as well as an online solo exhibition and GalleryTalk. The Visitors’ Award is $100 and is selected by most Instagram likes.

Juror for “photographic mysticism” will be Michael Behlen, photographer and writer as well as curator and publisher of Analog Forever Magazine.

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We are seeking an amazing artist to be granted the 2026 Artist Award and be featured in an exhibition in our gallery between Mar 13 – Apr, 24, 2026. The winner will also receive a monetary grant for the production of a future work, and will have their work displayed on a billboard in Downtown San Diego, CA.

Five additional artists will be selected to be featured in the exhibition along with the winner.

Submit your best work expressing your view/perspective of what human body means to you. The competition is open to all art forms and mediums.

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It is an honor to invite you to participate in the third edition of the fine art awards 2025, a celebration of excellence in photographic art.

This is the third edition of an event that promises to highlight and reward the most outstanding works of 2025. Your talent and creativity are crucial to the success of this initiative.

Creativity is the soul of Fine Art photography. The photographers gathered here aim to convey emotions, concepts, and thoughts through their images. Each photograph is the result of meticulous planning, carefully designed artistic composition, and image manipulation to achieve a desired effect. This is the essence of Fine Art photography: the ability to capture the unique vision of an artist.

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Family Diary 2026 invites photographic works that trace the contours of daily life: intimate, diaristic explorations that blur the line between personal record and creative expression. Artists are encouraged to submit projects that chronicle lived experience, memory, and emotion through sequential or documentary approaches that echo the structure of a diary.

This exhibition seeks images that form visual narratives of family, biological, chosen, or imagined and the evolving definitions of belonging, love, and connection. Submissions may take the form of personal archives, found or vernacular photography, or new works that reinterpret the idea of family through a contemporary lens. Projects can range from single bodies of work developed through disciplined daily practice, ongoing visual journals, family albums reexamined, or constructed fictions that challenge our understanding of what a family is and how it’s remembered.

All photographic approaches are welcome — analog, digital, mixed media, or video stills.

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Monochrome photography, images produced with a single hue, rather than recording the colors of the object that was photographed. The SE Center is looking for all forms of Monochrome imagery, black-and-white and toned photography- all subjects, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Our juror for Black, White & Monochrome is Michael Foley. Michael Foley was born in Delaware and grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He opened his gallery in the fall of 2004 after fourteen years of working with notable photography galleries, including Fraenkel, Howard Greenberg, and Yancey Richardson.

Art and photography have been a passion since his high school days as a staff yearbook photographer. His personal art-making practice is equally inspired by collage, cut paper, and painting. In 2006, he brought artists within these disciplines to the list of exhibiting gallery artists.

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The New York Center for Photographic Arts (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 in the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the Prize Winners catalog. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page.

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For over a century, artists have reinvented photography through cutting, layering, and reassembling images. From early Cubist experiments to today’s digital, analog, and hybrid approaches, photo-collage remains a powerful way to explore identity, history, culture, and the construction of images.

PhotoPlace Gallery invites submissions of photo-based collage in any form—handmade or digital, sculptural or time-based, traditional or experimental. Show us work that pushes the boundaries of photography, engages with meaningful themes, or transforms found and photographic materials in compelling ways.

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Hosted annually by Spiva Center for the Arts, the competition is open to all amateur and professional US photographers.

Established in 1977, PhotoSpiva is the longest-running competition of its kind.

PhotoSpiva is a national competition hosted annually by Spiva Center for the Arts. Founded in 1977, PhotoSpiva has become the longest-running photographic competition of its kind in the U.S. As stated by the founders, the objective of PhotoSpiva is to “present an exhibition of excellence in photography, celebrating the scope and vigorous activity of today’s contemporary photographers.”

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Open Call: Virtual Exhibition

Juror & Curator: Paris Chong, Gallery Director, Leica Gallery

Prizes: 1st Place winner will receive $1,000; 2nd Place winner will receive a $500 LACP gift card; 3rd Place winner will receive $250 LACP gift card. Honorable Mentions: Other artists will receive honorable mentions and have their work shown in our online gallery.

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Filter Photo is pleased to announce Context 2026, our twelth annual spring open call for photography-based work. This year’s exhibition will be juried by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography

All types of photographic work will be considered for this annual survey exhibition of contemporary photography. This open theme allows for the widest understanding of current photography practices.

Context 2026 will open on March 6th and will remain open through April 18th. A juror’s choice award and an honorable mention will be awarded. The juror’s choice award includes a $500 cash prize.

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Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL, is excited to announce the call for entry for LENS 2026, our 16th annual juried international exhibition of fine art photography. Photographers are invited to submit work for possible inclusion in the exhibition. All subject matter and photographic processes, except AI, are welcome. This year’s exhibit will be juried by Ann M. Jastrab, the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. Before CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center and the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery, both in San Francisco, California. Besides being a curator and an educator, Ann is a writer and editor, and a fine art photographer.

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Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL is sharing our “Call for Entries” for Lens 2026, our 16th annual juried exhibition of fine art photography. The juror is Ann M. Jastrab, the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. Photographers are invited to submit work for possible inclusion in the exhibition. All subject matter and photographic processes are welcome, except for Ai images.

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Applications for İstanbul Photo Awards 2026, an international contest where the photos that set the world’s stage compete at the top level, opened on Nov. 13.

Organized by Anadolu for the 12th consecutive year, the contest aims to promote press photography globally.

Each year, around 20,000 images are submitted to İstanbul Photo Awards, which is widely seen as one of the world’s top photography contests.

Professional photographers, regardless of their press affiliation, are eligible to enter the contest provided their newsworthy photos were taken between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2025.

The contest features 10 categories, including Single News, Story News, Single Sports, Story Sports, Single Nature and Environment, Story Nature and Environment, Single Daily Life, Story Daily Life, Single Portrait, and Story Portrait.

Photographers may submit both published and unpublished work in all categories, with the responsibility to provide accurate personal and image details.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce an open themed juried group photo show. Show us your favorite photographic shots! Open to all themes and ideas, all styles and genres, all perspectives on crafsmanship and photographic creativity. Great opportunity for landscape, architecture, portraiture, documentary, fashion, still life, conceptual projects, street, color and black and white, nature, night photography. This will be an exciting exhibition with a great diversity of photographs!

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University of West Georgia 2026 National Juried Photography Exhibition is seeking contemporary photographic and lens-based works. The exhibition looks to explore ideas from the conceptual to the speculative, while recognizing photography’s inherent
referential capacity. Any photographic or lens-based medium, such as, but not limited to: historicprocess, silver-gelatin, digital production, including all single channel video works are encouraged for entry. This exhibition is open to national artists of all levels (18 years and older).

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Submissions
The competition is open to all photographers 18 years old and older, excluding members of Soho Photo Gallery. Use the Enter link below to upload your digital entries and payment. Please be sure that the email address you are using for CaFE is your current one.

Juror
Our juror is Paula Tognarelli who recently retired as a cultural administrator and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography. As the Executive Director she produced 54 exhibitions a year. Paula frequently reviewed at national and local portfolio events and jumpstarted hundreds of photographers’ careers. She holds an M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University, a B.A. from Regis College, is a graduate of the New England School of Photography and has finally given up on her never-ending journey towards finishing her
Masters in Education.

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FRAME/SEQUENCE’s second edition, A Light in the Dark, allows for multiple interpretations from artists across different walks of life.

Our country is experiencing a dark time, and we want to provide a space that highlights what still brings joy and defines the relationship between the light and the dark. From the literal interpretation of photography as a source of light, to illuminating aspects of life in our current reality, we welcome work encapsulating all angles of this theme. As always, we want to offer a platform to voices often unheard.

This edition will be curated from an open submission process, inviting individuals across Philadelphia and Greater Pennsylvania to share their stories. FRAME/SEQUENCE is committed to telling the rich and diverse stories of this region’s artists and communities.

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Issue #135 will focus on constructed still life – photographs of objects like a still life that only live in photograph form, this could be any sort of construction that is made or set up just for the photograph.

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

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Decagon Gallery invites photographers from around the world to take part in Monday Flash – A Photo That Changed You, an open call dedicated to the photographs that transformed us.

It’s more than an open call; it is an emotional experiment — a shared space where we reflect on our lives through images and words.

Participants are asked to submit one photograph that has changed them — an image that carries a story, emotion, or a personal turning point in life.

Along with the photograph, each participant is invited to take part in the emotional experiment: to write a short letter to themselves in that moment — not a description of the photo, but an honest and personal message to the person they once were.
The submission template is available on the open call page of the Decagon Gallery website.

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Photography of the Year 2025 at Grid Photo Gallery invites photographers from around the world to take part in our most important annual challenge and compete with the most outstanding images showcased in our gallery throughout the year. With no thematic limitations, this open call celebrates the very best in photography. What truly matters is the strength of a single photograph: its impact, its clarity of intent, and its ability to stay with the viewer.

This call is an invitation to bring your finest work forward: images that capture decisive moments, quiet subtleties, bold experiments, or refined craft. We welcome diverse genres and approaches, provided the photograph shows a high level of artistic and technical excellence.

Selected photographs will appear in a global online exhibition launching February 1, 2026. The 1st Place winner will hold the title “Grid Photo Gallery Photography of the Year 2025”, receive a €300 cash prize, and be featured prominently within the exhibition. The top three images will be highlighted as part of the showcase, and selected works may be included in a printed catalog available for purchase.

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nice grant is an unrestricted grant of $500 that supports emerging and mid-career artists. this annual grant is due january 20; each cycle, at least two artists will be selected to enhance their creative practices. this grant will be juried by midwest nice art co-founders tim rickett + epiphany knedler, and previous nice art grant winners josh johnson and emma mckay Ryan.

winners will be asked to help jury nice grant in the following year. winners will receive unrestricted grant funds, a blog profiling their art and creative practice, a post pinned to our profile, and consideration for future jurying and curatorial opportunities.

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LoosenArt is launching a call for photographerfor the selection of works to be included in the exhibition “Homo Technologicus”.

The exhibition aims to explore the relationship between human beings and technology, investigating the social, environmental, physical, cognitive, and emotional transformations brought about by technological and digital innovation.
Photos that interpret the theme either directly or metaphorically, with full freedom of language and experimentation, are welcome.

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Theme:
From Madrid to heaven

Although the origin of the saying “From Madrid to heaven” is unclear, the meaning is clear: There is no place like Madrid. In this edition we invite photographers to interpret this concept, showing in images everything that makes the capital unique. It is about looking around and inward and capturing moments of beauty and wellbeing in Madrid.

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Winter strips it all down with its bare trees, frosted mornings, and that sharp breath of cold air. But it’s not all icy; there’s cocoa, cozy fires, and the sparkle of snowflakes, too. Show us your version of winter’s beauty and transformation… show us THE BIG CHILL from your perspective.

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“To take photographs means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Calling All Visionaries! Unleash Your Creativity at All About Photo Awards 2026 – The Mind’s Eye!

Step into a world of creativity and recognition with the 11th edition of the All About Photo Awards – The Mind’s Eye. For over a decade, we have provided photographers from around the world with a global platform to showcase their work, gain international exposure, and compete for over $100,000 in prizes awarded to date.

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Mythography VI is open: a free international call exploring the tension between Jupiter (order, strength) and Bacchus (ecstasy, transformation). Submit single photos and/or portfolios by 31 January 2026 for a chance to be published in the Mythography VI book and exhibited at Trieste Photo Days 2026, with prizes including STELE, SIGILLO awards and PhotoPoints for the best authors.

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Why do we do the things we do? What forces shape our choices, behavior, and sense of identity?

Analog Forever invites photographic artists working with film and analog processes to submit works that explore the cultural, social, and psychological pressures that inform our actions. As we consider the expectations placed upon us, what motivates conformity, rebellion, and everything in between?

We are looking for work that investigates the forces that mold identity, broadly or personally.

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The history of photography has a long tradition of representing women as subjects but has less to say about women as artists. Today, the roles of women in photography are both behind the camera and in front of it. Who understands women better than women? The female perspective offers an important view of the many facets of womanhood and women’s role in society. This exhibition seeks women photographers who explore and celebrate the myriad ways that they render female-identifying subjects.

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H2O – one of the first chemical equations we learn.

Water surrounds us as rivers, lakes, oceans, seas. It is also so very central to much of our lives – the rain that makes our flowers grow, the ice cubes that cool our drinks, and on and on.

And it is beautiful to photograph. This call is about how you, the photographer, capture water in all its forms. Is it the crest of water hitting a seaside rock? Is it water heated to become steam or frozen like ice? There are the glistening droplets of water from a puppy shaking itself off, tears expressing heartfelt emotion, reflections in a city pond as well as active steam from a geyser. Maybe you used a slow shutter to create the soft image of flowing water in a stream or ventured out on a winter day to watch patterns emerge in the city ice rink. Raindrops, dew drops …. ice floes, waterfalls, rapids and serene lakes. The list goes on. Black and white, color, abstract – all 2D mediums are welcome.

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The New York Center for Photographic Arts (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 prize winners catalog. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page.

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WABI-SABI is a Japanese term that refers to that which is impermanent, imperfect, aged, humbled, and unconventional. It is a state of mind and a way of being. It expresses a whole new world of seeing. Perhaps being open to mistakes and accidents will lead us somewhere new, beautiful, and authentic. As artists, we know this all too well. Visually, it is the simplicity of composition and exploring the meaning and beauty of everyday objects. Show us WABI-SABI from your perspective.

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Lucie Foundation invites you to join us “on the block”, where stories unfold in the open and every corner hides unexpected beauty. ‘On the Block’ celebrates the unposed, unfiltered, and fleeting moments that define the art of documenting everyday life, whether in dense urban streets or sleepy rural towns. From street photography to urban landscape, this competition seeks images that reveal the quiet truths and vivid stories concealed beneath everyday moments.

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The Asian American Museum of Orange County (AAMOC) is announcing a Juried Photo Art Contest to celebrate storied images of Asian American life. We are creating a visual that highlights our vibrant Southern California Community by inviting photo artists to express their individual and/or shared interpretations of Asian America through their lenses. Just as a mosaic is composed of countless unique pieces that, together, create a singular work of art, so too is the Asian American experience. Our identity is not a monolith, but a fluid diverse, multiracial, multigenerational spectrum. Both professional and amateur photographers are encouraged to submit black and white and/or color photos for the contest.

We invite you to contribute your creative vision to this mosaic. Our distinguished judges include professional photographers, artists, photo educators, and members of the media.

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