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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: |
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05/30/2026 |
Pro/Fuse Woman Made Gallery Chicago, IL |
WMG invites women and non-binary artists to submit works that feature encaustic materials or techniques, either wholly or in part. Encaustic, derived from the Greek enkaustikos, meaning “to burn in” is a versatile medium traditionally made up of beeswax, damar resin, and pigment. Artists must incorporate hot wax methods, which involve heating and fusing layers with tools such as torches or heat. |
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05/30/2026 |
War/Conflict Photography |
The Ukrainian House of Photography: |
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05/31/2026 |
Making Strange Praxis Photo Arts Center Minneapolis, MN |
How do we see what happens and recurs every day—the banal, the common, the ordinary? Can we recover astonishment from the familiar by rendering it newly visible? |
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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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05/31/2026 |
Open Call For Photographers Dodho Magazine Barcelona, |
Dodho Magazine announces the open call for its upcoming print edition, a curated publication bringing together contemporary photographers selected by an international jury. More than a magazine, it is an editorial volume designed to provide real visibility and professional positioning within the global photography circuit. |
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05/31/2026 |
The Midnight Garden |
The Midnight Garden centers on themes of cultivation, transformation, and unseen processes of growth. Framed as a space of quiet unfolding, the garden becomes a metaphor for creative practice and emotional life, where cycles of blooming, decay, and renewal coexist. We’re seeking work that speaks to or challenges these ideas, interpreted through each artist’s lens. |
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06/01/2026 |
97 Modern & Midwest Coalition |
Ninety-Seven Modern is looking for art of any medium, visual or literary, that is with the only restraints being the work must be under twelve inches in any direction, and must be for sale. All selected pieces (looking for originals, books, zines, prints, etc.) will be available during the MdW Coalition conference in Detroit from June 22nd-27th, as a part of Ninety-Seven Modern’s booth at the conference. Due to space constraints, we highly suggest submitting your work early, as priority is given to early applicants. |
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06/01/2026 |
Critical Mass PHOTOLUCIDA portland, Oregon |
Critical Mass is an annual online program that connects photographers from around the world with leading voices in the field. Open to photographers at all levels, participants submit a portfolio of 10 images for consideration. After an initial pre-screening, 200 finalists are selected, and their work is reviewed and voted on by up to 200 respected photography professionals from around the world. From this group, the Top 50 are chosen, along with recipients of several prestigious awards. What makes Critical Mass unique is the level of visibility it offers. Your work is seen by museum curators, gallerists, publishers, editors, educators, artists, and media professionals—people who are actively looking for new talent. It’s an opportunity to put your images in front of the right audience. |
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06/01/2026 |
THE HUMAN FIGURE SHOTS Magazine Saint Pau, MN |
Our theme for our Fall 2026 Issue, #172 is: THE HUMAN FIGURE. We invite work that approaches the body as both material and metaphor: a landscape, a vessel, a threshold, a trace. |
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06/01/2026 |
The Paula Riff Award Center for Photographic Art Carmel, CA |
The Paula Riff Award was created by the Center of Photographic Art and Lenscratch in 2021 as a way to celebrate and continue the legacy of artist Paula Riff. Paula was an innovator, using lensless photography and historical processes to create objects of remarkable beauty. The Award is open to artists whose art is challenging conventional photography through work that reflects the artist’s hand, either based on the historical/alternative photographic processes or with physical intervention through cutting, sewing, etc. |
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06/01/2026 |
Transforming Landscapes |
The 20/20 Photo Festival presents our Call for Entry exhibit centered around the theme Transforming Landscapes. The show will bring together a wide range of perspectives from emerging and established photographers from Philadelphia and beyond, united by their love for film photography. We invite any artist whose work relates to the theme Transforming Landscapes to submit film photographic artwork to be selected by photographer and curator Andrew Piccone. The landscape of our country has changed greatly since its inception 250 years ago; not just the physical landscape but the technological, societal, political, scientific, and artistic landscapes as well. In many ways, the Founders would find the United States of America of today unrecognizable. Have all of the transformations our country has undergone been for the better? Who has benefitted from these changes, and who hasn’t? What sort of impact have they had upon the land- and city-scapes, the social fabric of the nation, and our psyches? |
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06/01/2026 |
Watershed Texas Photographic Society Johnson City, TX |
Texas Photographic Society is pleased to announce Watershed, a themed juried exhibition exploring water as subject, symbol, tool, and essential aspect of life. Water is never a neutral subject (especially in Texas). It shapes where cities grow, how land is worked, and how communities endure. It is also an essential part of the photographic process. From rivers and reservoirs to city pools, desert springs, summer storms, and later summer droughts, the presense (or absence) of water has served as inspiration for photographers since the invention of the camera. |
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06/01/2026 |
Working Assumptions’ 2026 Project Grants |
Who We Are: Working Assumptions invites people to observe and reflect on the everyday give-and-take of family and care through visual storytelling, because creating and sharing first-person photostories contributes to the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. We work specifically with pictures and words, offering educational programs for high school and college students, supporting visual storytellers through our grant programs, and bringing stories to the public through digital platforms and in-person experiences. About the Grants: Each year, we offer six grants of $10,000 each. Our funding is unrestricted, allowing recipients complete creative freedom, provided the project is intended for public consumption. Decisions are announced in September, and the grant term is eight months: October 1 to June 1. What We Fund: We support photography and photo-based art projects that explore the everyday give-and-take of family and caregiving. We believe visual storytelling can illuminate the complexities of family life today—fostering compassion and sparking reflection and dialogue around these themes. We welcome photography-focused proposals across artistic, therapeutic, educational, and research contexts. |
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06/02/2026 |
AAP Magazine 58 B&W All About Photo La Jolla, CA |
Black and white photography evokes timeless poetry, nostalgia, and emotional depth. By removing color, monochrome photography emphasizes contrast, composition, texture, light, and form, revealing the pure essence of the subject. This enduring photographic style continues to inspire photographers across genres and generations. This black and white photography contest is open to all interpretations of monochrome photography, including but not limited to photojournalism, street photography, documentary photography, portraiture, nude photography, landscape photography, wildlife, urban photography, architecture, fashion photography, and fine art photography. |
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06/03/2026 |
Portal – at the edge of becoming |
A portal is not simply an opening. It is a condition. We are interested in photographs that hold a viewer at the edge of something—where a shift is imminent but not yet complete. This may appear as a physical passage, but it does not have to. What matters is not the presence of a doorway, but the presence of tension. The strongest images will resist resolution. They will not describe transition—they will embody it. |
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06/05/2026 |
Focus 2026 Atlanta Photography Group Atlanta, GA |
Atlanta Photography Group (APG) is now accepting entries from Georgia artist photographers for Focus 2026. This CFE is open themed and Anne Leighton Massoni, Executive Director of the Houston Center for Photography will be our esteemed juror. This exhibition marks the 2nd year for the APG/Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Purchase Award (MOCA GA), a $1,000 prize which is made possible through a generous grant from Chip Standifer. The selected artist will have their work become part of MOCA GA’s permanent collection and receive $1,000. This is a great opportunity to have your work considered by Annette Cone-Skelton, President / CEO / Director of MOCA GA for the museum purchase award. |
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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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06/07/2026 |
Circulation(s) |
For the past 16 years, Circulation(s) festival promote a modern and inclusive vision of photography. It has more than a decade of discovering new emerging talent, and still a burning desire to make new visual writing accessible to all. |
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06/08/2026 |
A Celebration of Contemporary Photography Photo Place Gallery Middlebury, VT |
PhotoPlace Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit work for Open Call: A Celebration of Contemporary Photography, a juried exhibition honoring the creativity, diversity, and evolving practice of photography today. Presented in celebration of World Photography Day (August 19th), this exhibition is one of PhotoPlace Gallery’s most open and inclusive calls of the year. |
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06/08/2026 |
Viewpoint Members’ Exhibit Viewpoint Photographic Art Center Sacramento, CA |
Members’ Exhibit in July–if you’re not a member yet, this is a great way to jump in. Become a member today and then submit an image for Viewpoint’s annual Members’ Exhibit in July. The first 100 images will be accepted–no juror for this one. Just select your favorite image and submit online. |
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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 It might be the use of analogous color in landscapes. Or maybe compelling action in |
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06/12/2026 |
Photo Shoot: 2026 Black Box Gallery Portland, OR |
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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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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06/14/2026 |
Trieste Photo Days |
URBAN Photo Awards 2026: where your talent gets recognized. By participating in the URBAN Photo Awards, you’ll not only have the chance to showcase your work to an international audience, but you could also win some truly incredible prizes. |
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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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06/15/2026 |
Color Open Call 2026 Grid Photo Gallery |
Color 2026 at Grid Photo Gallery is an international open call inviting photographers from around the world to submit works in which color plays a central role in the construction, perception, and meaning of the image. Open to all photographic practices and visual approaches, the theme Color welcomes individual works across genres — from documentary, portraiture, landscape, still life, street photography, abstraction… — wherever color becomes an active and defining element within the frame. Rather than treating color as a decorative or secondary feature, this call encourages photographers to explore how it can shape rhythm, atmosphere, contrast, emotion, spatial relationships, or visual tension. Color may appear as a deliberate compositional strategy, an unexpected interruption, a subtle tonal field, or a symbolic and cultural presence. Whether vibrant or restrained, harmonious or dissonant, continuous or fragmented, submissions should demonstrate clarity of intention and a coherent visual relationship between color and image. |
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06/15/2026 |
Home VS Away |
photoED Magazine shares diverse photography stories in a brand new light. Issue #77 will feature the work of photographers exploring Home VS Away – with UNIQUE, LENS BASED methods. Our 2026 season explores fresh directions in photography, exploring contrasting themes interpreted through photographers lenses. This Call seeks submissions of fine art photography projects that present the idea of HOME, an experience of AWAY, or a juxtaposition the two. |
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06/15/2026 |
Photo Trouvée Magazine Print Issue 20 Open Call |
Photo Trouvée Magazine is excited to host an international open call for Issue 20. We are looking for artists who work with or are inspired by vintage found or family photographs in any media and at any stage in their careers. Artists may submit works previously created and/or published or we would encourage you to create something specific for this issue. There is no theme for this issue. |
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06/15/2026 |
The Abstract Vision Southeast Center for Photography Greenville, South Carolina |
The SE Center for Photography is looking for non-representational imagery, though it can be from found objects in nature, man made or figurative works. We’re seeking images that do not attempt to represent external reality, but seek to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and texture. Black-and-white or color, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome. |
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06/17/2026 |
Open Call for Exhibition Proposals Filter Photo Festival Chicago, IL |
Filter Photo hosts an annual open call for proposals for the exhibition calendar at Filter Space, for two distinct gallery spaces. All exhibition proposals should relate to photography, photographic materials, or lens-based artwork. However, this definition is purposefully open-ended—moving-image work, installations, and performances related to photography may all be included in proposals. Additionally, artists, curators, and collectives are all welcome to submit proposals. |
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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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06/19/2026 |
The San Francisco Photobook Fair |
The San Francisco Photobook Fair will host over 30 tables of publishers and vendors selling and promoting photography books, magazines, and zine publications during a two-day weekend event hosted at the Harvey Milk Photo Center. Our inaugural fair in 2025 drew over 2000 visitors. The fair will take place October 17th and 18th 2026 and will be open to the public for free. The Harvey Milk Photo Center invites photobook publishers and artists to join the fair by applying to reserve a table for book displays and sales through our application. |
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06/20/2026 |
Photo of the Season: Spring – Worth a Thousand Words The Image Flow Mill Valley, California |
Description: This spring, we invite you to explore the theme “Worth a Thousand Words.” We have all heard the phrase “a photograph is worth a thousand words”, and we want you to prove it. We want to see powerful, standalone images that tell a compelling story. Show us images that contain narrative, emotion, and make us think. Awards: 1st place receives $150, 2nd place receives $100, and 3rd place receives $50. All winners and 2 honorable mentions are featured in our newsletter, website, and social media. Selected images from all four seasons will be showcased in a group exhibition at The Image Flow in 2027. |
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06/20/2026 |
THAT ONE PHOTOGRAPH — the image you never left behind |
Years pass. People change. Places disappear. Entire parts of our lives quietly fall out of reach. And yet, some photographs remain impossibly close to us. Not because they are perfect, but because they continue holding something we were never fully able to leave behind. Decagon Gallery invites photographers worldwide to submit one photograph only: the image they never left behind. We are not searching for spectacle or technical perfection. We are interested in photographs that continue carrying emotional weight — images tied to memory, attachment, intimacy, grief, distance, tenderness, longing, or time. The strongest photographs will feel lived rather than constructed. They may be quiet, unresolved, visually restrained, or emotionally difficult to explain. We are less interested in nostalgia itself than in the traces it leaves behind. What matters is whether something remains inside the image long after it was taken. |
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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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06/21/2026 |
Water ~ Sky Praxis Photo Arts Center Minneapolis, MN |
Water and sky have long formed the visual and symbolic foundation of landscape photography. They remain spaces of atmosphere, reflection, movement, and transition. Water reflects the sky while recording weather, light, and motion; clouds dissolve, gather, and obscure the horizon. From sea to river, ocean to puddle, these elemental forms shift through color, texture, scale, and changing conditions. Water & Sky invites photographic work that explores the relationship between surface and depth, presence and distance, observation and sensation through the evolving language of landscape photography. |
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06/22/2026 |
The 17th Epson International Pano Awards |
We are pleased to announce The 17th Epson International Pano Awards for panoramic photography is now OPEN for entries, with over US$50,000 in cash and prizes on offer, and an exhibition to be held at the Sydney Botanic Gardens in June. |
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06/23/2026 |
Solo Exhibition July 2026 All About Photo Escondido, CA |
Each month, a talented photographer will be featured in a Solo Exhibition on our dedicated showroom pages, providing incredible visibility. Next Exhibition Dates: July 1 – 31, 2026. Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work to a global audience! At All About Photo, we celebrate extraordinary photography that inspires, transforms, and connects with us on a deeper level. |
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06/25/2026 |
RED Photography Exhibit Dusk Photo Gallery Santa Fe, NM |
We invite photographers to submit their work for RED, a juried exhibition dedicated to one of the boldest colors in the visual spectrum. From crimson sunsets and scarlet city lights to intimate portraits of passion, danger, or resilience, we seek images where red commands the frame. Show us how you see the world through a red lens: documentary, fine art, abstract, or experimental approaches are all welcome. |
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06/27/2026 |
COLLECTION 2026 Photography Exhibit Decode Gallery Tucson, AZ |
No themes. No limits. Just your best photography. Decode’s Collection 2026 call for entry is now open. Submit your work today for a chance to be featured in our most diverse exhibition yet. |
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06/27/2026 |
Feminism 250: Woman Made America Woman Made Gallery Chicago, IL |
Woman Made Gallery invites women and nonbinary artists at all career stages to submit work for Feminism 250: Woman Made America, an exhibition reflecting on 250 years of feminist thought and action in the U.S., timed to the nation’s seminal anniversary. Work in all media is welcome, spanning themes of erasure, reclamation, intersectionality, activism, and feminist futures, provided it is original and created without primary use of AI image-generation tools. |
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06/28/2026 |
2026 Denis Roussel Awards |
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. |
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06/28/2026 |
Open Call: Zone 0 ACCI Gallery Berkeley, California |
Faced with the rising threat of wildfires, many California residents are clearing combustible materials from around their homes and reducing vegetation in other parts of their gardens. The Zone 0 exhibition aims to unite artists and gardeners to bring creativity and imagination to home gardens — without compromising fire resilience. |
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06/30/2026 |
2027 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Viewpoint Photographic Art Center Sacramento, CA |
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center is now accepting proposals for solo and group exhibitions for January 2027 through December 2027. Proposals for Main Gallery exhibits are open to all interested artists working in the photographic arts. Proposals for Step-Up Gallery exhibits are limited to current members of Viewpoint Photographic Art Center. The Step Up Gallery is a more intimate display area adjacent to the Main Gallery. Exhibits run concurrently in both galleries for approximately four weeks. |
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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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07/01/2026 |
Architecture Southeast Center for Photography Greenville, South Carolina |
Architectural photography: The photographing of buildings and similar structures that are aesthetically pleasing and accurate representations of their subjects.Throughout the history of photography, buildings have been highly valued photographic subjects, mirroring society’s appreciation for architecture and its cultural significance. As building designs changed and broke with traditional forms, architectural photography also evolved. During the early-to-mid-20th century, architectural photography became more creative as photographers used lines and bold shadows in their compositions, and experimented with other techniques, resulting in architectural photography being viewed as more of an art form. The SE Center is looking for all forms of architectural imagery, urban or rural, black-and-white and color, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome. |
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07/04/2026 |
Apparently in America – Artist Award 2026 |
The Apparently in America Artist Award is an Open Call inviting photographers to reflect on American identity through image-making today. Open internationally, the award seeks work that engages with the cultural, political, and personal dimensions of life in the United States. Photographers we feature are invited to finish the sentence: “Apparently, in America…” Whether through satire or sincerity, protest or poetry, this platform amplifies the visual voices reflecting on the strange and shifting landscape of the U.S. From pandemic contradictions to culture wars, personal stories to political spectacles, this is where the messy image of America comes into focus. Each week, we present a new photographer whose work offers a unique take on the American condition. |
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07/05/2026 |
Bay Area Photography Open Exhibition The Image Flow Mill Valley, California |
The Image Flow is proud to present its 2nd annual Bay Area Photography Open Exhibition, a juried call for entry that seeks to showcase the exceptional creative talent of photographic artists in the extended Bay Area region. This will include each of the 9 Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. From digital images to alternative processes, this exhibition is open to all styles and disciplines that utilize a photographic element. This will be an open theme show; all subject matter and media explorations are eligible for consideration (with the exception of AI-generated images). |
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07/08/2026 |
Seen / Unseen—the visible and the implied |
Some photographs reveal. Others withhold. Seen / Unseen invites work that engages with what is visible and what remains hidden—within the frame, within the subject, or within the photograph itself. This may take the form of portraiture, or images where meaning is suggested rather than stated.We are interested in photographs that hold tension: between presence and absence, clarity and ambiguity, exposure and concealment. What is shown is only part of the image. What is implied, obscured, or left unresolved carries equal weight. |
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07/10/2026 |
Issue #138: Documentary 2026 August/September |
F-STOP Issue #138 will include documentary photography projects. This is work that focuses on recording events, environments or everyday life in a straightforward and accurate way. It typically has a longer term focus than photojournalism and is about a topic, place or event. Submit up to 12 photographs and a project statement. Please see the submission guidelines for details on how to submit your work. |
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07/10/2026 |
Lens Work: Trees and Water Black Box Gallery Portland, OR |
Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on Trees and Water. This exhibition will look to feature both subjects in a dynamic and diverse exhibition on contemporary photography. Trees and Water are both powerful and important subjects. Water can be an ocean, a river, a pool, a fountain, rain or mist or fog, lakes, snow and waves. And Trees can be great subjects of composition, giving the picture a strong foundation to play with the visual elements of space and time. This exhibit will look at both subjects and the powerful visual language of contemporary photographers who are exploring and documenting these exciting subjects. There is a lot of space here for magical and poetic pictures, explore your technique and ideas, the gallery looks forward to hosting a dynamic and exciting exhibition. |
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07/15/2026 |
MONOCHROMATIC 2026 Dodho Magazine Barcelona, |
BECOME ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE YEAR We invite you to take part in the fifth edition of the Monochromatic Awards. We are looking for the best monochromatic photography of 2026. This competition is open to all interpretations of monochromatic photography: from traditional black and white to grayscale, sepia, cyanotype, or any other variation based on a single tone. What matters is how you use that limitation to build an image. Photographers from all genres and backgrounds are welcome to participate. Beyond category, we are looking for work with a clear vision and a defined intention. The winner will be recognized as Photographer of the Year and, together with the finalists, will be included in the annual Monochromatic Book. This publication brings together an international selection of works, carefully edited and presented, creating a coherent body that reflects what is happening in monochromatic photography today. |
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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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07/31/2026 |
MUUS Collection – Research Fellowship |
MUUS Collection is an American 20th century photography collection that preserves, researches, and reveals work from the archives it owns and represents. As a part of our mission to transform our archives through new interpretations and scholarship, MUUS Collection is launching our first MUUS Collection Research Fellowship to invite a curator or academic to spend time in the archives over the course of a year and develop an exhibition or publication concept offering a new perspective. In addition to time spent in the archives, where the Research Fellow will be invited to examine physical works and ephemera (including journals, contact sheets, and cameras) in addition to the totality of each photographer’s photographic collections, the Research Fellow will benefit from our new MUUSEUM online research portal. |
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08/01/2026 |
Men Asleep |
In 2025 I published a compilation zine called Men Asleep which included 21 photographers’ photographs of men sleeping. I’m expanding this project into a book and exhibition and holding a call for entry for additional photographs of men asleep. |
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08/09/2026 |
Masquerade: Art to Wear ACCI Gallery Berkeley, California |
Showcasing sartorial splendor and exuberance, this exhibition calls for art to wear: objects fashioned to disguise, enhance, adorn, bedeck, camouflage, enshroud, veil, cloak, or augment. All kinds of art to wear are w are welcome. Masks. Glasses. Headdresses. Tiaras. Hats. Gloves. Bodices. Shoes. Capes. Peplums. Pants, skirts, vests and costumes — wearable and decorative. Open nationally to artists of all backgrounds and ages. |
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08/12/2026 |
In Full View Woman Made Gallery Chicago, IL |
Open to women and non-binary artists age 65 and older to submit work for In Full View, a juried exhibition exploring visibility, aging, identity, memory, and the legacy of a fully lived life. Open to all mediums, the show celebrates presence, resilience, and the ongoing power of creative expression. |
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08/28/2026 |
PURE ABSTRACTION ART FLUENT Boston, MA |
Abstract art is like breaking the rules of traditional art. It doesn’t try to show things as they are in real life; instead, it uses colors, shapes, and lines in wild and creative ways to express feelings or ideas, often leaving interpretation open to the viewer. It’s a celebration of artistic freedom and imagination. Show us PURE ABSTRACTION through your perspective. |
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09/09/2026 |
Real VS Imagined |
photoED Magazine shares diverse photography stories in a brand new light. Issue #78 will feature the work of photographers exploring REAL vs IMAGINARY stories – with UNIQUE, LENS BASED methods. Our 2026 season explores fresh directions in photography, exploring contrasting themes interpreted through photographers lenses. This Call seeks submissions of fine art photography projects that present the idea of REALITY, constructed IMAGINED photo-based stories, or a juxtaposition the two. |
Calls For Entry
To submit a call for entry, please email: lenscratch2@gmail.com

