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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Your best shot. On display.

Experienced photographer or casual snap-shooter – everybody has a unique creative vision and the ability to create remarkable images. What does your best shot bring to the table?

Anyone 18+ can apply with one image per entry. Any theme, medium and subject are welcome. We accept pure lens-based, mobile or smartphone camera, AI, film, digital, and analogue photography.

50 selected photographers will be part of the major BBA Prizes 10 Year Anniversary exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin. The winner of the One Shot Award will receive a cash prize of 300€ and online promotion.

16€ fee/entry.

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The organic and the inorganic shape our world, forming the essence of both natural landscapes and human-made environments. Their dynamic interaction – whether in harmony or contrast – defines our visual and conceptual experiences. The (In)Organic exhibition invites photographers to explore these dualities: the natural and the artificial, the living and the inanimate, the spontaneous and the constructed. Through photography, we seek to reveal the aesthetic, symbolic, and conceptual dialogues between these realms. From the human body to vast landscapes, from architectural structures to intimate interiors and still lifes, the exhibition welcomes both representational and abstract works that challenge, redefine, and reimagine the boundaries between organic and inorganic forms.

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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: May 1 – 31, 2025.

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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For the 35th edition of the photo festival Encontros da Imagem, we would like to present different trends in contemporary photography. Highlight its democracy and richness in its different approaches. Therefore, all projects are welcome: from documentary typology works to others that explore the limits of photographic construction.

Encontros da Imagem returns to Braga this year between September 18th and November 2nd. With exhibitions also in the cities of Porto, Guimarães, Barcelos and Avintes, we hope to democratize photography for its fruition and creation — and to hear both the individual and collective experience.

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The 42nd 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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Out of the ordinary is often characterised as strange, unusual, odd, peculiar, bizarre, uncanny, weird, mysterious, or even surreal. Subjects, scenes, themes, perspectives, compositions, portrayed events, visual experiences, and imaginative narratives may all deviate from the ordinary. Photographers often step into the realm of the extraordinary through the lens of their camera, embracing the unconventional, where the peculiar dances with the mysterious, and the odd intertwines with the surreal. They explore the realms of strange, unusual, and uncanny. Some venture into the world of traditional straight photography, where authenticity captures the essence of the outlandish. Others delve into staged photography, where each frame unfolds a narrative beyond the ordinary, or embrace the art of photomontage, seamlessly blending disparate elements to craft a visual tapestry of uniqueness. AI-generated photo-based images offer a digital canvas to manifest the bizarre and create a fusion of reality and imagination. This exhibition celebrates the diversity of perspectives that redefine the ordinary and elevate the extraordinary. The photographer’s lens is the gateway to a realm where the peculiar becomes art, the bizarre transforms into beauty, and the unconventional takes centre stage.

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The artist’s and writer’s call for the ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal ABSTRACTION issue is now open.

Abstraction empowers creators and viewers to explore new dimensions of meaning through colours, shapes, and forms. It encourages us to challenge our perceptions and discover deeper truths often missed in direct expression. By embracing abstraction in visual art and literature, we enrich our understanding and ignite our imaginations, breaking free from traditional confines. Share your reflections on ABSTRACTION—through images, words, or any 2D medium that conveys the unexpected or evokes a sense of freedom in interpretation.

ArtAscent is a theme-based publication and online exhibition that showcases artists and writers from around the world practising a broad range of skills, including painting, illustration, photography, mixed media, ceramics, sculpture, textile, jewelry, printmaking, digital graphics, fashion, film, video, installation, performance, story writing and poetry writing.

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Diverse visions and vibrant colors: the Color Photography Award celebrates the breadth and depth of contemporary photography. From bold portraits to ethereal landscapes, we invite all photographers to join the competition and share their best works!⁠

1st Prize -$1,000

2nd Prize – $600

3rd Prize – $400

Each of the 7 finalists also receive $100!

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The Blue Koi Gallery invites artists worldwide to enter Portrait Theme: Faces That Speak, a competition celebrating the power of portraiture. Whether capturing raw emotion, cultural identity, or the essence of a moment, we welcome all styles and mediums that bring faces to life.

Win $150 in Cash, prizes, & promotions

Entry Fee: $20 for 4 images, $35 for 6 images

Winners will be prominently featured on our website, social media, newsletter and receive a certificate. Honorable Mentions and Finalists will also be recognized and showcased in the Blue Koi Online Art Exhibition among leading contemporary artists.

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Announcing the launch of the 2025 Daylight Photo Awards!

One top prize winner will receive a $2500 cash prize and the creation of a digital portfolio.

Juror picks will be promoted via internal and external marketing campaigns and have the opportunity to collaborate with Daylight on the creation of a monograph of their work.

Previous Daylight Photo Award winners include Verena Bruening, Takako Kido, Vikesh Kapoor, Donavon Smallwood, Bryan Thomas, Maria Sturm, Matthew Genitempo, Bryan Schutmaat, Katrin Koenning among others… Winners will be announced in August.

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The essence of great photographic portraiture goes beyond technical proficiency; it involves capturing the subject in a way that is emotionally resonant, visually compelling, and communicates a deeper understanding of the individual.

In her book, Portraits and Persons, writer Cynthia Freeland describes three essential elements that constitute a portrait: “(1) a recognizable physical body (2) an inner life, i.e., some sort of psychological or mental states and (3) self-presentation, or the “posing.”

Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographs that celebrate the aesthetic and conceptual considerations involved in the creation of the portrait: revealing personal narratives or new anthologies through the artistic representation of the subject. 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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With Spring upon us, what does rebirth and renewal mean to you? These concepts, though closely related, carry their own unique essence—each symbolizing transformation and the opportunity for new beginnings. Whether you view them as a personal awakening, a spiritual rejuvenation, or a deep connection to the changing seasons or the cycles of nature, spring often serves as the perfect metaphor for these profound shifts. It’s a time when growth, renewal, and a fresh start invites us to reflect on our own moments of rebirth.

We invite you to share your interpretations of these themes—whether through a celebration of nature, an exploration of spirituality, or a deeply personal revelation during a unique journey, or simply spending time to reflect during one’s solitude…
Let your creativity shine through any genre: Conceptual, Staged, Documentary, Street, Social Commentary, Montage, Alternative Processes, or Experimental. (Fully AI generated imagery will not be considered).

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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.

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We are seeking photography of any genre in a square format. Whether you specialize in portraits, landscapes, documentary, architecture, or conceptual photography, we’d love to see submissions that embrace the creative possibilities within a square frame.

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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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Are you passionate about street, portrait, or conceptual photography?

No matter the style — from documentary to fine art — this is your moment to take your artist career to the next level!

FotoSlovo Awards is open to emerging and established artists from every corner of the globe with the thematic freedom for applicants! Entries will be judged anonymously by a panel of photography experts, selecting winners based on creativity, artistic merit and subject.

Winners and Finalists will gain international exposure, Cash Prize, iPhone, opportunity for Book printing, Gallery exhibitions, being exposed in photography Festivals and much more. FotoSlovo Awards is dedicated to supporting innovative voices in photography, connecting artists with industry leaders and global audience!

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Color has the power to transform an image—to set a mood, evoke an emotion, or demand attention. In Color + Space, we invite photographers to explore the dynamic relationship between color and the spaces it inhabits. Whether expansive landscapes, intimate interiors, or abstract compositions, this exhibition seeks images where color interacts with space in compelling ways.

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AAP Magazine #48 “Portrait” invites photographers to explore humanity in each of us. From the classic studio portraits to the rise of the selfie, the best portraits give a glimpse into somebody’s soul, a connection formed across countries, cultures and ages.

We seek the submission of photographs that celebrate the aesthetic and conceptual considerations involved in the creation of the portrait: celebrate diversity, creativity, honesty and self-expression. Studio portraits, candid street shots, self-portraits, conceptual and fine art all welcome. With 7.57 billion people to choose from around the world, show us the ones that matter to you.

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

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The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 40th annual photography competition with a difference. Instead of only installing an exhibit that would be seen by a limited number of people, The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2025 competition issue and on its website. Thus, the accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people all across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition. Also, the prizewinning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at Philadelphia’s noted Woodmere Art Museum. Plus, numerous Editor’s Selections will be exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries.

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F-STOP Magazine, Issue 131 will have no theme, all fine art and documentary photography welcome.

Submit up to 12 photographs.

Issue #130 will have an expected publication date of June 1, 2025.

Only one submission per person for an issue.
The featured artist is chosen from the work that is submitted to the issue.

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The Portrait. We use portraits as objects of remembrance and reverence, of seduction and glorification. From the keepsakes in lockets as tiny remembrances of love, to the likenesses of leaders meant to inspire and seduce with their power.

Our juror, Aline Smithson, is a visual artist, educator, and editor based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, her work is influenced by the elevated unreal. She received a BA in art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the College of Creative Studies, studying under artists such as William Wegman, Allen Ruppersburg, and Charles Garabian. After a decade-long career as a New York Fashion Editor, Smithson returned to Los Angeles and to her own artistic practice.

5-40 selected images will hang in the SE Center’s 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 slideshow. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.

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Let’s celebrate the untamed spirit of the animal kingdom. From the majestic to the minute every creature carries character, wisdom, and energy uniquely their own. We’re looking for artwork that captures the undeniable presence and beauty of the creatures we share our world with. Show us UNTAMED from your perspective.

JPEGs due by Friday, May 16, 2025, at midnight (MST). Over $1,200 in cash prizes. All accepted pieces will be displayed in our online gallery at www.art-fluent.com.

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The Photo Oxford 25 Open Call welcomes work from photographers, curators, collectives and artists from around the world.

Our stellar panel of jurors are ready to engage with new and refreshing visions of life and personal experience expressed through photography.

Photo Oxford is an international festival of photography that takes place biannually. The dates for our next edition are 25th October to November 2025. As the name suggests it takes place in the beautiful and historic city of Oxford which is a short train ride away from London.

The festival is known for its connections to the great museums and colleges of the world-famous University of Oxford but we look to the world for participants and seek to engage in a global conversation about photography.

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The 7th edition of Fotofestival Lenzburg in May 2026 explores happiness in all its complexities, contradictions, and fleeting moments. In a world where happiness is both a personal pursuit and a commercialized ideal, photography serves as a powerful tool to capture, question, and redefine what it truly means to be happy. What excites us about the search for happiness? And how can images help us understand its limits? Submit your work and be part of the conversation.

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Photography is a medium of still images; it cannot create the illusion of motion the way moving images such as film, video, or cartoons can. The static nature of the image itself, however, has never prevented photographers from putting motion in the centre of their endeavours. In addition to freezing the moment, they often strive to capture movement and the passing of time in a variety of other ways as well. The fragile moment might be disrupted by showing the sweeping power of motion. Capturing motion is never a given in photography because it is not a default option of the medium. Depicting or expressing motion is a welcome challenge for photographers; it is also the source of some of the most creative images in diverse photographic genres.

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Transform the familiar, into the extraordinary with Still Life: Beyond the Ordinary theme! Open to all mediums and styles—traditional art, mixed media, digital art, sculpture, and photography. This competition invites you to push the boundaries of still life art. Go beyond simple representations of objects, and explore new interpretations, dynamic compositions, and unexpected subjects that make everyday life extraordinary.

Up to $500 Cash Award | Social Media Promotion | Email Blast to Galleries, Art Admirers & Collectors | Certificate.

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URBAN Photo Awards celebrates the diversity of urban photography through four main categories for single photos: Street, capturing the essence of daily life in the streets; People, portraying humanity and its stories; Space, exploring architecture and urban spaces; and Creative, offering freedom for artistic and experimental expression.

Each category is an invitation to showcase your unique vision of the city. For more details, visit our website and find out how to participate!

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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.

A part of everyone’s day includes the decision about what to wear. The vast selection of apparel includes shirts, pants, costumes, uniforms, coats, capes, shoes, boots and on and on.

For this call the emphasis is on how you, the photographer, capture these articles of clothing in a creative way. Does a uniformed officer create the mood in a picture of a crowd, is there a grouping of colorful blouses hanging in a shop, does a small part of a wedding gown catch your eye or is it just fun to see a boot on a child’s foot splash in a puddle.

As with all our contests send us your best. All 2D photo processes are welcome.

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Do you want to elevate your photography career and make your mark globally? This is your opportunity to become part of a publication dedicated to bold, innovative artists with a unique creative vision.

We are exclusively selecting six outstanding photographers whose visual proposals set trends, break boundaries, and inspire global audiences. If you believe your work has the originality, visual strength, and creativity to stand out among the best, this call is specially designed for you.

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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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Rarefied Light 2025‘s Call for Entry will open via Café (callforentry.org) until June 11th at 10pm MST. Our 2025 Rarefied Light Juror is Stephanie Johnson, a globally recognized leader & mentor of ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) & creative photography.

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The Denis Roussel Award is open to all photographers whose work is based on the historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. No inkjet prints. All work must be created by the person submitting. Due to copyright considerations no AI work is permitted.

The Denis Roussel Award is judged as a portfolio of seven images.

1. Please send seven images.
2. Please tell us about yourself, and why you are applying for the Denis Roussel Award.
3. Tell us about the work you are submitting and the process you are using.
4. In your e-mail, please include your website address if you have one. E-mail your application to rfotofolio@rfotofolio.org with “2025 Denis Roussel Award” in the subject line.

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Rural or urban, desert or jungle, ancient to recent. The SE Center is looking for photographers who appreciate the ravages of time and create compelling images reflecting those effects around us. Color or BW, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Our juror for The Abandoned Landscape is Constance Lewis. Constance Lewis holds a Fine Art degree in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She founded Opal Gallery, an Atlanta-based artist collective that exhibited the work of an international array of artists. She has studied photography conversation in Paris, France and her independent curatorial work includes exhibitions in Paris, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Mississippi. She has published; Oraien Catledge: Photographs (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) and has worked with renowned photographers on multiple book projects.

35-40 selected images will hang in the SE Center’s 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 slideshow. A video walkthrough of each exhibition is also featured and archived.

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Eurostars Hotel Company announces the Eurostars Hotel Company Netherlands Photography Award, dedicated to the theme “Flowers of the Netherlands”. Participants can send their photographs until June 19, 2025, and opt for prizes of € 1,500 and nine free stays. The call is aimed at amateur and professional photographers from all over the world, inviting them to capture suggestive images of the country with its magnificent flowers as protagonists. Not in vain are they one of the national symbols, together with its windmills and bicycles. In spring, the landscape is tinged with red, yellow, pink, violet, blue, white… A chromatic spectacle in which an infinite number of species participate, and which can also be enjoyed the
rest of the year in its markets.

Each participant may submit a maximum of three photographs. They may do so through the
award’s website until June 19, 2025, when the deadline expires. The jury’s decision will be
communicated to the winners after the decision of an expert jury.

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For this call for art, we’re looking for artwork that whispers, not shouts. Serenity is the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled. It embodies a sense of tranquility, clarity, and harmony, free from stress or chaos. However you define calm, we want to see it. Show us SERENITY from your perspective.

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Street Photography takes many forms and this call looks to provide an updated look at this exciting and often challenging form of photography. This is a chance to explore our world today, to present a largely unscripted reaction to what you see, what you experience and what captures your attention. We want to see the world from your perspective, from what’s outside your front door to what’s happening Downtown and everything in-between. We are looking to celebrate the chance encounters, the random incidents and the challenge of capturing meaningful images without the preplanning or cooperation of models. Work from photographers engaged in long-term projects, and exploring social documentary projects are also welcome.

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The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant awarded to lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental. Applicants must be based in the U.S. This grant was established by Hammer in 2017 to give needed support to moving-image art made by lesbians. The grant is supported directly by funds provided by Hammer’s estate and administered through Queer|Art by lesbians for lesbians, with a rotating panel of judges. The grant includes an award of $5,000, and a series of individual studio visits with QA staff members and the grant’s judges. This year’s judges include A.K. Burns, Ela Troyano, and Cheryl Dunye.

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The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists is an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field. Now in its 5th year, the Illuminations Grant was developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara. Winning artists and finalists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field.

“The Illuminations Grant not only highlights the lacking representation of Black trans women in the visual arts,” says Lang, “but also seeks to confront the systemic barriers that deny them artistic opportunities and a sustainable craft. By supporting this grant, Mariette Pathy Allen challenges herself and the art industry to see Black trans women as more than mere subjects, while forging a new pathway for visual artists within this community to thrive.”

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Arte Laguna Prize is the Venice-based International Contemporary Art Competition that welcomes and exhibits emerging artists of all ages, countries, genders and artistic backgrounds, and is free-themed. With two decades of experience, the competition offers numerous opportunities for participants to expand their contacts, gain global visibility and access fundamental resources for career development. Among the 10 disciplines admitted, the Photographic Art category allows the submission of photographs or series of photographs on both analog or digital support, in color or black and white.

In the jury, as for each edition, prominent figures from the current international art scene will select the 120 finalists who will compete for the € 10,000 prize, and who will exhibit their works in the iconic 3,000-square-meter area of the Arsenale Nord in Venice.

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

The general theme is The Sea and the Lighthouses, 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

Awards:

1st Prize: € 4,000.-

2nd Prize: € 1,500.-

3rd Prize: € 500.-

Mar Cantabrico Award: € 500.-

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DETAILS:

Entry fees:
Professional: Single Image – $30, Series – $50
Non-Professional: Single Image – $25, Series – $40

Entrants also receive 5% back in rewards & 50% off entry to additional categories. Student discounts are available.

Eligibility:
Open to all, age 18 and above.

Awards:
Over $4,000 in cash prizes, global exposure, artist profile, winner’s gallery feature, custom press release, interview, and more.

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