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01/01/2026 – 12/31/2026

Grants for Artists and Photographers

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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04/03/2026

2026 CPAC Annual Members’ Show

Colorado Photographic Arts Center

Denver, CO

The Colorado Photographic Arts Center announces its annual juried members’ photography exhibition. This year’s juror is Brian Piper, Ph. D., the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). The exhibition will be a survey of work made by CPAC members, and is intended to highlight the creative talents of CPAC’s community. There is no theme. The show is open to current, registered members of the organization only. If you are not a member of CPAC you can become one online. If you are a member, please call 303.837.1314 or email info@cpacphoto.org for the code.

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04/03/2026

2026 International Portfolio Competition

Soho Photo Gallery

New York, NY

About the competition
Soho Photo Gallery, located in Chelsea, is New York City’s longest-running cooperative photography gallery. The gallery has exhibited prints by some of the finest contemporary photographers throughout the world. The gallery is now awarding solo shows to three winning photographers.

The Jurors
Members of Soho Photo Gallery’s Portfolio Review Committee will jury the competition. The committee has reviewed thousands of portfolios since the gallery’s beginning in 1971. The jurors will make their initial selections based on digital submissions. Final selections will be based on prints.

Eligibility
The competition is open to all photographers 18 years and older, excluding members of Soho Photo Gallery. No AI generated work will be accepted.

Submission
One portfolio consisting of 10-15 compositionally and technically strong images, with a consistent theme or topic.

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04/04/2026

Queer Conscience

The Image Flow

Mill Valley, California

The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to our 4th Annual juried photography exhibition, Queer Conscience 2026.

In this juried exhibition, set to coincide with Pride month, we ask queer artists to express their resistance and share their truest queer journeys with us. Join us in celebrating our community and our creativity with a clear conscience.

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04/05/2026

THE PORTRAIT

Praxis Photo Arts Center

Minneapolis, MN

A portrait begins with attention. It is an act of looking — and of being looked at. Every portrait holds a tension between appearance and interior life. A face, a posture, a gesture, a setting — each carries information, but also ambiguity. Some portraits are direct and documentary. Others are constructed, performative, or conceptual. Some reveal intimacy; others explore distance, anonymity, or self-invention.

To make a portrait is to engage another presence — or to turn the camera toward oneself — and to consider how identity is shaped, expressed, withheld, or transformed through the photographic frame.

Praxis Gallery seeks photographic portraits that explore the depth and complexity of the human subject. We invite work that reflects lived experience, psychological presence, cultural context, or formal exploration through the lens. All lens-based photographic and lens-based art practices are welcome. Juried by Elizabeth Flinsch.

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04/06/2026

New Perspectives

Photo Place Gallery

Middlebury, VT

A portal suggests passage. It invites us to look through, step beyond, or imagine what lies on the other side. For Portals: New Perspectives, we invite photographs that explore openings, thresholds, and points of transition. Windows, doorways, mirrors, gates, archways, reflections, and frames within frames may serve as literal portals, while shifts in light, shadow, or perspective can transform familiar spaces into something unexpected.

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04/08/2026

Earthly Fabulations

The “Earth Day 2026″ open call invites lens-based artists to deconstruct the traditional and colonial history of “landscape photography” by engaging with the intersectional and systemic realities of our planet. This initiative centers on ecocriticism, examining the parallel histories of environmental exploitation while rooting artistic practice in the commitment to understanding and living in harmony with the specificities of one’s local geographic region and beyond. We seek works that move beyond the human-centric gaze to acknowledge non-human agency, treating plants, animals, and geological formations as active protagonists rather than passive photographic subjects.

Rather than centering competition, Earthly Fabulations foreground process, dialogue, and mutual support. Selected works will be presented in an ephemeral online exhibition on Der Greif’s homepage for one month, creating a temporary yet visible gathering of practices from across geographies and contexts.

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04/10/2026

Framed: Black and White

Black Box Gallery

Portland, OR

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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04/10/2026

Hiding in Plain Sight: Unseen or Forgotten, People, Places, & Things

Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts

Providence, RI

We are looking for entries to revisit and explore the Unseen or Forgotten. Show us the People, Places & Things hiding in plain sight that we need to remember or revalue. This call looks to explore our values, through photographs that address what most chose to forget or ignore…

This call is for photography that looks to the forgotten, abandoned or under represented. Help us remember, and challenge the myths or realities surrounding the people, places and things most often ignored or forgotten. In a sea of inconvenient truths, reminders of past glories are no more important than our past failures… what do you see, what do we need to remember… or what do we need to see to make a better future?

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04/11/2026

Queer Conscience 2026 Photography Exhibition

The Image Flow

Mill Valley, California

The Image Flow invites photographic artists closely tied to the LGBTQIA2+ community to submit work to our 4th Annual juried photography exhibition, Queer Conscience 2026. Participants chosen for exhibition will receive a softcover catalog detailing all selected works, and will also be showcased in our online gallery and on our social media.

We probably don’t need to inform you that queer rights are under attack, unlike ever before. Queer Conscience seeks to push back against these forces and affirm our own truths through the photographic medium.

In this juried exhibition, set to coincide with Pride month, we ask queer artists to express their resistance and share their truest queer journeys with us. Join us in celebrating our community and our creativity with a clear conscience.

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04/12/2026

Open Show #51 Pasadena/East LA

THEME: WHEN THE STUDENTS BECOME THE TEACHERS

We are now accepting submissions for our special upcoming Open Show in collaboration with the Inglewood Photo Festival 2026. Selected artists will present LIVE at the Inglewood Photo Festival 2026 on May 16th (exact time and location TBA). This call is open to all current photography students (18 and over) from community college to the university level, as well as those who recently graduated in 2024 and 2025. We want this to be an opportunity for you to show your work beyond the academic setting, and engage in the larger photographic community.

Photographic Project submission is free.
* Selected photographers will be notified by April 24, 2026
** Only submit if you are available to present IN PERSON on Saturday, May 16, 2026 | Presenting time TBA

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04/12/2026

PPA Photo Award 2026

Pasadena Photography Arts is pleased to announce an open call for our PPA Photo Award 2026: Excellence in Contemporary Photography (Open Theme). This is an annual award for emerging photographers with residence in the United States.

The winning photographer will receive a $2,000 cash prize, a published interview on Pasadena Photography Arts’ website, a feature on Lenscratch, and a virtual artist talk.

The PPA Photo Award 2026 is accepting entries through April 12th, 2026. Results will be publicly announced August 21st, 2026. Analogue, digital, portrait, abstract, mixed-media, documentary, street photography, conceptual, still-life photography, alternative processes, landscape, cell phone photography is acceptable.

The jury panel is composed of Pasadena Photography Arts Advisors alongside esteemed guest juror Craig Krull, art dealer and founder of Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica.

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04/13/2026

light

A Smith Gallery

Johnson City,, TX

light : sunny, cloudless, ablaze, lucent, aglow, beaming, shiny, luminous, brilliant, radiant, bright ……

Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme “light” to A Smith Gallery by April 13, 2026. 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 May 8 to June 18, 2026. An exhibition catalogue with all the accepted images will be available for purchase. Also, 27 of 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 recipients will each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book and a solo exhibition. The Visitors’ Award is $100 and is selected by the most Instagram likes.

Juror for “light” will be Elizabeth Avedon, independent curator, photography book designer, educator and writer.

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04/15/2026

Photography Fellow

PowerLines is seeking an experienced documentary photographer for its 2026 Photography Fellowship, a three-month program dedicated to humanizing the impact of rising utility bills on everyday consumers and communities across the United States.

The Visual Fellow will develop and execute an original visual project with the potential to become a public-facing book, exhibition, or story platform — and will contribute to a lasting image library that supports PowerLines’ work. The project proposal should consider how communities and individuals are confronting utility costs, addressing electricity access, and the economic realities and limitations related to energy use when writing their project proposal.

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04/15/2026

Portrait Awards 2026

Dodho Magazine

Barcelona,

The Portrait Awards return in 2026 for their fourth edition, reaffirming a commitment to portrait photography as a space of presence, responsibility, and authorship. In a visual landscape saturated with immediacy and repetition, this call insists on the portrait as a deliberate act, one that requires time, attention, and a clear position from the photographer.

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04/15/2026

Sharing and Caring Cities: Portraits of Collective Urban Life

Across the world, cities are shaped by what we share: our streets, our stories, our struggles, and our hopes. Sidewalk markets in Bogotá, commuter trains in Tokyo, neighborhood parks in Nairobi, waterfronts in Amsterdam, and streets in Minneapolis are all urban places that become shared spaces where culture, community, and creativity thrive.

The Penn Institute for Urban Research invites photographers and visual storytellers around the world to enter our 10th annual photo contest: Sharing and Caring Cities: Portraits of Collective Urban Life.

As urban challenges grow more complex—from inequality and climate change to displacement and polarization—spaces for caring and sharing are more needed than ever. They offer opportunities for collaboration between public, private, and civic actors and help foster belonging, resilience, and innovation at the neighborhood level.

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04/15/2026

The Butzlaff Family Fellowship

Filter Photo Festival

Chicago, IL

We are very excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2026–2027 Butzlaff Family Fellowship! Open to emerging and early-career artists and arts administrators, this Fellowship offers a unique, experiential opportunity to work collaboratively with Filter Photo staff.

In addition to supporting the organizational capacity of the organization, the Fellow will work to ideate and facilitate public programming for Filter Photo. We are looking for applicants with a strong sense of initiative who are eager to contribute their unique perspective to the organization.

This is a 10–15 hours/week position lasting from June 1st, 2026 – May 31st, 2027. Compensation includes ongoing mentoring with staff and industry professionals, in addition to an annual stipend of $15,000 (paid in monthly installments of $1250).

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04/15/2026

ViewPoint Gallery’s 2026 International Photography Competition

ViewPoint Gallery is an artist-run co-operative dedicated to promoting the art of photography. Since 2011 our annual International Photography Competition has promoted the photographic print – its creation and display – in an era dominated by simple, small online occurrence. This competition offers 12 winners the opportunity to display their work on our gallery wall for one month each.

We are the only international photography competition in Eastern Canada to offer gallery display of winning entries. In an age where online display is the norm, ViewPoint gallery is dedicated to the art and display of the printed fine art photograph.

Twelve juried winning images will be professionally printed, matted, and framed at no cost to the photographer. Each print will be displayed for one month at the gallery between June 2026 and May 2027.

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04/16/2026

CITY Photography Exhibit

Dusk Photo Gallery

Santa Fe, NM

Cities are more than just skylines and streets; they hold the rhythm of our daily lives. We’re seeking photographs that capture your personal experience of the urban environment, from quiet, unnoticed moments to the bustling energy of a metropolis. Show us the city through your eyes. Selected photographs will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Dusk Gallery.

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04/16/2026

The Cortona on The Move | BarTur Grant

BarTur Photo Award

New York, NY

The COTM | BarTur Grant was created for photographers who carry a story not only in their imagination, but in their daily effort, those who have already invested their own time, resources, and heart into bringing a vision to life. Developed in collaboration with Cortona On The Move, this international award honors visual storytellers who push the medium forward through courage, curiosity, and steadfast commitment.

We believe every photographer has a project that won’t let them go – an idea they have nurtured, returned to, and pursued as far as they could on their own. The COTM | BarTur Grant exists to meet them at that threshold, offering the support needed to take that work further: to refine, complete, and elevate a story already born from dedication.

This grant celebrates photography shaped by authorship and intention, grounded in cultural resonance, and expressed through a clear, fearless point of view. It is an invitation for committed storytellers to step deeper into their vision and bring long-imagined projects to their fullest realization.

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04/17/2026

The Love & Romance Show

Blue Sky Gallery

Portland, OR

Love is a powerful, complex, and ever-evolving force in human experience. This new online exhibition pays tribute to the original 1985 Love & Romance Show, inviting you to reflect on how love has transformed alongside cultural and societal changes, and how those shifts shape personal experience today. Submissions may explore themes such as queer relationships, love in times of conflict or separation, and the influence of nostalgia or loss, with an emphasis on diverse, cultural, and experimental perspectives.

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04/18/2026

2026 Montgomery Photo Festival

The Eighth Annual Montgomery Photo Festival is now accepting submissions from all photographers (professional and amateur), working in all forms of photography. Four categories are offered.

1. Color
2. Monochromatic
3. Alternative process
4. Manipulation (digital and film)

The cost to enter is $35.00. You may enter up to three images for that fee. There is no theme for this exhibit. There is no time limit for when you produced your work. Let’s elevate photography as fine art. Show us your best!

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04/18/2026

HOME Photography Exhibit

Decode Gallery

Tucson, AZ

Decode Gallery is thrilled to announce our latest call for entry, HOME. More than just a physical structure, “home” is a feeling, a memory, a sanctuary, or a point of departure. It can be a place, a presence, or an abstract sense of belonging.

We invite photographers from all backgrounds and styles to submit work that explores the multifaceted nature of home. What does home look like? Is it the familiar walls of a lived-in space, the faces of loved ones, the landscape of a homeland, or the interior geography of the heart? We are seeking compelling images that document, interpret, or challenge our understanding of domesticity, heritage, shelter, and identity.

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04/19/2026

ANIMAL LIFE

Praxis Photo Arts Center

Minneapolis, MN

From companion animals and farm creatures to insects, birds, sea life, and wildlife in their natural habitats, Animal Life invites photographic work that honors the complexity, beauty, and individuality of animals across species and environments.

Artists are encouraged to approach their subjects with curiosity, empathy, and imagination. Whether through quiet observation, environmental portraiture, documentary approaches, or experimental interpretations, the exhibition welcomes diverse perspectives that explore the many ways humans encounter and represent the living world around us.

Across species and settings, these photographs invite viewers to look more closely and consider the shared environments and relationships that shape life on this planet. All lens-based work is welcome. Juried by Praxis Directors.

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04/19/2026

LUMINOSITY – The Impact of Light

New York Center for Photographic Arts

New York, NY

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 Prizewinning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page.

LUMINOSITY – THE IMPACT OF LIGHT:

Light meters, backlighting, shadows and glare – photography is all about light – its presence as well as its absence. There is an iconic photograph of Grand Central Station with streams of sunlight filling the airspace as it reflects off dust particles in the air. Whether you are shooting in morning or evening light, sunrise or sunset the time of day an image is captured can be as important as the selection of the subject itself. A snapshot at one time of day, becomes an impactful photograph at another.

This call is about images where the presence, absence, and/or the location of light made the difference. Glare, flare, shadow, fill light all work as do lampshades aglow from an inside bulb, night lights in a city, streaming rays of sunlight. There are examples everywhere. Show us your shots where light is a key element. All 2D photo mediums are welcome.

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04/19/2026

The 43rd Center Annual

Houston Center for Photography

Houston, TX

The 43rd Center Annual is Houston Center for Photography’s yearly group exhibition that seeks to highlight and provide insight into current themes, technologies, and practices in photography. The show features a diverse array of works from members of our global photography community and is selected by a leading curator, editor, or artist. This annual exhibition opens our galleries to photographers from anywhere in the world, whether emerging, mid-career, or established, and as such, aims to provide viewers with critical insight into our current moment – both within the field of photography and within society at large. Of those selected, two artists are chosen to receive the HCP Juried Membership Honoraria of $500 each.

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04/21/2026

FMoPA 2026 International Photography Competition

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

Tampa, Floria

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is pleased to announce that the 2026 International Photography Competition will open for submissions on February 9.

FMoPA invites photographers worldwide to submit their work for consideration by our international jury. Winning entries will be printed and featured in a group exhibition at our Ybor City location from June 16 through August 2, 2026.

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04/21/2026

Solo Exhibition May 2026

All About Photo

La Jolla, CA

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

Next Exhibition Dates: May 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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04/26/2026

Film Photo Award

The Film Photo Award offers three distinct grants of professional film and complimentary film processing by Praus Productions to photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and are motivated to continue the development of still, film-based photography in the 21st century.

The Film Photo Award is open to all emerging, established, and student photographers worldwide, 18 years old or older.

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05/03/2026

Exposure One Awards 2026 One Shot Photo Contest

Join us in celebrating the timeless, eternal nature of black and white photography with the Black & White Photo Contest by Exposure One. Winners will receive career-enhancing cash prizes, an immersive, dedicated digital gallery to share their works in a global Artist Directory, and way more.

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05/05/2026 – 05/12/2026

The Hopper Prize Grants

$4,500 Grants for Photographers & Artists

The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for Spring 2026.

They will be providing 6 grants totaling $13,000 USD. 2 artists will each receive $4,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. All visual art media is eligible. This open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Additional exposure is available via a 30 artist shortlist, online journal, & Instagram currently reaching over 160k.

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05/09/2026

Issue #137: Open Theme 2026 – June/July

F-STOP Issue #137 will have no theme, all fine art and documentary photography welcome.

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05/15/2026

Magic of Light

Southeast Center for Photography

Greenville, South Carolina

It’s all about the light! Light and shadow have been the foundation of photography since the beginning. While illumination is important, darkness is an equally compelling component and, together, the elements of a successful photograph. Show us your best light!

Our Juror for Magic of Light is Wendi Schneider. Wendi is a Denver-based visual artist widely known for her ongoing series of hand-gilded photographs, States of Grace –– illuminated impressions of grace in the natural world. Drawn to the serenity she finds in the sinuous elegance of organic forms, she embraces photography to preserve vanishing moments of beauty in our vulnerable environment. Schneider’s gilding process creates images that seemingly dance on the paper’s surface amidst reflections of light on precious metals, creating a synthesis of technique and subject.

35-40 selected images will hang in the Virtual Gallery space for approximately one month. In addition, selected images are featured in the SE Center social media accounts (FB, IG, Twitter) and an archived, online slide show. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.

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05/17/2026

1839 Awards Color Photography Contest

Join us in distinctive images that celebrate and honor color photography with the Color Photography Contest by 1839 Awards. Winners will receive $4,000 in cash prizes, an immersive, dedicated digital gallery to share their works in a global Artist Directory, and way more.

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05/17/2026

Fully Produced Duo/Solo Show in Rome

We are currently seeking two photographers to be featured in our summer exhibition, which will run for five weeks, in Millepiani in Rome. 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.

We are interested in photographers who offer personal and compelling ways of seeing. We seek work that moves beyond familiar aesthetics and well-worn visual trends, without the need to conform to a specific tone, genre, or model. What matters most is a distinct perspective – thoughtful and organic – capable of subtly shifting how we engage with images and ideas we may think we already know. Selection is based on curatorial coherence and artistic strength. All genres welcome.

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05/18/2026

Photographic Performance 2026

A Smith Gallery

Johnson City,, TX

Do you have a body of work or a concept for an exhibition that is photography or photography based? We are looking for compelling solo or cooperative exhibitions to be exhibited in our online gallery. The entry can be photographic images only, photography combined with mixed media, photography as sculpture, photography based installations or….. This is the sixth year of the “Photographic Performance” for 2026. We hope once again you can show us what it can be. It is important that the body of work has a conceptual narrative, actual or implied.

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05/20/2026

nice;04

nice;04 is our fourth annual open call, juried by midwest nice art co-founders tim rickett + epiphany knedler. each year the nice; exhibition serves as a survey of contemporary artists exploring complex personal and social narratives. as an open call without a theme, the resulting show is a reflection of the art world and recent events. we invite you to submit to nice;04.

This exhibition will be on view July through September at JFAC Gallery at the Johnson Fine Arts Center on the Northern State University campus in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The exhibition includes over $1000 in cash prizes. The awards will include a $300 First-Place Prize, a $200 Second-Place Prize, a $100 Third-Place Prize, and four $50 Honorable Mention Prizes, as well as additional community and purchase awards. This call is open to any mediums to any artists located within the United States over 18 years old (work is not limited to the Midwest/about the Midwest!).

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05/24/2026

reFocus Awards 2026 Black and White Photo Contest

CALL FOR ENTRIES. Celebrate the timeless nature of black and white photography with the Black & White Photo Contest by reFocus. Photography winners will receive career-enhancing cash prizes, and more.

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05/25/2026

The Book Project

Black Box Gallery

Portland, OR

The book project is a series of focused hardbound photography books published by Black Box Gallery. Each printed book will focus on a specific theme or concept in photography and will use a call for entry that will be open to all levels of photographers worldwide. Each published book will have 10 photographers selected and have 5 photographs from each photographer printed as a focused representation of their photographic work. The hardbound photography book will be printed by Blurb Books and will be available for purchase on the Black Box Gallery website.

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05/31/2026

Monograph No 01

No-Type invites lens-based artists to submit to our open call for an individual artist monograph. We are seeking photographic projects of any subject, genre, or process. Submissions should present a cohesive and ambitious body of work that is ready to be developed into book form.

The selected artist will have a monograph published by No-Type, dedicated entirely to their work. All costs of editing, design, printing, and marketing will be covered. The selected artist will receive 20% of the total edition to sell and distribute at their discretion.

All submitted artists will be considered for additional opportunities, including inclusion in a special Editor’s Choice issue of No-Type Magazine and features across our digital platforms. A shortlist of 6 artists will be selected for interviews to be published on our website.

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06/05/2026

JUST ADD WATER

ART FLUENT

Boston, MA

Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to our online exhibit, JUST ADD WATER.

Artists are drawn to water because it’s gorgeous, moody, and a little bit magical. Oceans, rain, rivers, puddles, or even a hint of blue, water gives us a way to splash around with feeling, memory, and transformation. So go ahead… JUST ADD WATER and show us what water means to you.

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06/07/2026

BOTANICALS

New York Center for Photographic Arts

New York, NY

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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06/10/2026

Rarefied Light 2026

Alaska Photographic Center

Anchorage, Alaska

Our 2026 Juror is Nevada Wier.

In this workshop Nevada will dissect what it means to “see photographically”. How to
convert “looking” to acutely “seeing” the creative potential in front of you, and then how to translate it into a compelling photograph.

It might be the use of analogous color in landscapes. Or maybe compelling action in
warm late afternoon light. Or a repetitive pattern with contrasting colors and intriguing shadows. Or… There are numerous possibilities, if you unite at least two of CLAP (color, light, action, pattern).

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06/12/2026

Snider Prize

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, IL

CHICAGO – Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) will begin accepting submissions for the 2026 Snider Prize, a purchase award given to emerging artists upon completing their graduate program. The application portal is open January 8, 2026 and will close June 12, 2026 at 11:59pm (ct).

Established by Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, the Snider Prize is a purchase award for emerging artists in their final year of graduate study. This award forms a part of the museum’s ongoing commitment to support new talent in the field of contemporary photography.

Each year, museum curatorial staff select one recipient to receive an honorarium of $3,000 with two honorable mentions each receiving $500. These funds support the acquisition of the selected works into MoCP’s permanent collection.

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06/15/2026

Black and White Photo Awards 2026

The Black & White Photo Awards 2026 continues its mission to recognize and reward exceptional talent in black and white photography. With five thematic categories — Architecture, Street, Wildlife, Portrait, and Landscape — and a new Open Theme category (6 in total), photographers from around the world have the opportunity to showcase their creativity and vision in monochrome art.

In this fifth edition, the contest increases the value of its main prize to €1,500 for the absolute winner and €200 for each of the 6 winners in the different categories.

The winners of the Street and Portrait categories will receive exclusive access to the Retouch4me editing suite, a professional tool to improve their workflow in photographic post-production.

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06/19/2026

Evolution Grant

ART FLUENT

Boston, MA

Art Fluent’s grant cycle is now open to individual artists through an international open call. The Evolution Grant will provide unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. $1,000 to one visual artist each grant cycle. Unrestricted funds applied toward any expense to enhance the artist’s ability to create work.

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06/21/2026

reFocus Awards 2026 Color Photography Contest

Join us in celebrating and honoring exceptional color photography with the Color Photography Contest by reFocus. Winners will receive career-enhancing cash prizes, an immersive, dedicated digital gallery to share their works in a global Artist Directory, and way more.

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06/30/2026

2027 Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program

Apply for Light Work’s renowned Artist-in-Residence program. Selected artists will receive a $7,500 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Applications are open to all artists working in photography or image-based media.

*Please note: $10 application fee is paid directly to SlideRoom as a processing fee, and is not a charge initiated by or paid to Light Work.

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06/30/2026

Arte Laguna Prize

Arte Laguna Prize is an International Contemporary Art Competition based in Venice that welcomes and exhibits emerging artists of any age, country, gender, and artistic background. With 21 years of experience, the competition offers numerous opportunities to participants, who can expand their network, gain global visibility, and access resources to develop their artistic careers.

The jury, composed of leading figures from the contemporary art scene, will select 120 finalist artists who will have the opportunity to exhibit their works in the iconic 3,000 square meters of the Arsenale Nord in Venice, as well as the winner of the first prize of €10,000.

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07/17/2026

HER.SELF

ART FLUENT

Boston, MA

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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07/31/2026

IX International Mini Print Cantabria 2026

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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