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

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

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

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We invite photographers from around the world to submit work for our upcoming exhibition exploring the theme Whimsical.

We are seeking photographs that surprise, delight, and transport viewers beyond the expected. Whimsy may reveal itself through playful storytelling, imaginative staging, surreal elements, visual irony, unexpected juxtapositions, or quiet moments of magic found in everyday life.

This international call encourages broad interpretation. Whether bold or subtle, humorous or poetic, conceptual or documentary, we welcome work that invites curiosity, sparks joy, and reimagines reality through a creative lens.

All photographic styles and processes are eligible, including traditional, digital, experimental, and alternative techniques.

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This open call invites submissions for images produced with analog cameras, toy cameras, snaps developed in the darkroom and/or images that were created by using analog printing methods.

Life with social media is exhausting. AI floods the world with machine generated images. The more connected we are, the more isolated we feel. In response, emerging voices and veteran visual storytellers turn to the tactility of the photographic object, the intentionality of the development process, and the uniqueness of a composition captured on a roll of film. They seek connection and community through photography. The future, so it seems, is analog.

Fast Forward considers how photography creates a space for camaraderie and interaction, and how analog processes play a pivotal role in such conversations.

We invite submissions of single images or series, collages and photomontages, Lomo explorations, experimental printing, or disposable magic that consider the emergence of analog aesthetics in the second quarter of the twenty-first century.

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The theme is Botanical. We’re looking for images that go beyond simple documentation. We want to see how you find character in a leaf, architecture in a seedpod, or a whole world in the curve of a petal. All styles and processes are welcome.

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“Entanglement” invites photographers to explore the intricate webs of connections that define contemporary experience. From the most intimate human relationships to the vast systems shaping our planet, existence unfolds through networks of dependency, influence, and mutual transformation.

Nothing can truly exist in isolation. In nature, forests communicate beneath the soil through hidden fungal networks; life relies on sunlight, water, and cycles that exceed human perception. Interdependence is equally unavoidable in a globalized world, where production chains, urban structures, and social systems intertwine across borders and cities. On a human scale, entanglement emerges through relationships, collaborations and intimate bonds. Our identities and life paths are shaped by the emotional, social, and cultural systems we inhabit – where care and connection coexist with tension and vulnerability.

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The Atlanta Photography Group (APG) invites photographers worldwide to enter images using any photographic process for our upcoming, juried exhibition, Portfolio 2026. This exhibition features strong, cohesive bodies of work.

Our esteemed juror this year is Natasha Egan, Executive Director at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. Egan will select photographic works from eight artists whose work will be exhibited.

The 8 exhibiting artists will be eligible for the 2026 APG/ Museum Purchase Award of $4,000, which is slated for placement into the High Museum’s permanent collection.

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Our next theme is COLOR. Bold. Subtle. Vibrant. Muted. However you use it, color is one of the most powerful storytelling tools we have as photographers. It grabs attention, stirs emotion, and leaves a lasting impression. Show us how you see color through your lens.

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TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image invites artists to submit applications for our annual artist-in-residence program. The AIR Program supports talented, self-directed, committed artists of all levels who advance contemporary photography by incorporating innovative approaches to making in their practice and whose work aligns with our core values of diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and justice.

Participants receive a stipend, access to high-end digital facilities/equipment, a platform to share their work with the public through an open studio, and time/space to reflect on how they want to expand their practice. We hope to create a transformative experience for each artist who participates in the program during and beyond their residency.

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Beauty- ever-changing, always subjective, and often imperfect- is a powerful quality that can transform and inspire. We want to see your vision of beauty. We welcome any handcrafted print, including experimental silver gelatin, albumen, anthotype, argyrotype, calotype, carbon, casein, chrysotype, cyanotype, gum bichromate, gumoil, photopolymer gravure, ivorytype, kallitype, mordançage, platinum/palladium, van dyke brown, wet plate collodion, and combinations thereof.

Images can originate from a digital camera and/or a digital negative—no AI generated images please—as long as the final print is handmade and not digitally printed. We look forward to seeing all the beauty you create!

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In moments when reality feels shaped by political threats, abstraction becomes more than a visual choice. It becomes a way of seeing, sensing, and surviving.

Abstract Visions invites photographers working with abstraction as a method of engaging with the world — emotionally, politically, and intuitively. We are interested in work that communicates through atmosphere, rhythm, colour, and form.
Abstract Visions welcomes photographic projects that build their meaning in sequences, contrast, and repetition. Colour may function as emotional structure. Form may carry tension.

In an unpredictable world, abstraction can become a way of creating a self-contained visual world where complexity is allowed to exist without explanation.

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The streets are calling, and it’s time to show the world what you see through your lens! From the raw energy of a packed corner to the stark geometry of a dead-end street—we want to see your best street scenes. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting: show us your world!

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One of the most popular photography genres is travel photography, and as rewarding as seeing far-flung places, exotic lands, and tasting new cuisines can be, the people you meet are often the most memorable part of any journey, near or far. For our 18th edition, KLPA seeks portraits taken during your recent travels. Simple as it may sound, creating enigmatic and engaging portraits of strangers requires more than chance encounters, good fortune and quick snapshots.

An acknowledged nod or smile can lead to a friendly conversation, offering new insights and opportunities to gain trust, make new friends, and capture memorable photographic moments. New perspectives allow you to see the world and its people within it in a whole new light.

We are looking for portraits that speak to the viewer on many levels, open conversations, and present an element of intrigue and uniqueness. Portraits may be posed or spontaneous, and can be photographed indoors or outdoors in any of the typical photography genres. Portraits that connect the viewer and the subject at a deeper level. Quite often, the photographer’s approach and methodology are more evident than the camera and lens used. Suitable captions also assist the jurors in placing meaning and context to your portraits.

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Mysterious, magical, intense, timeless, sometimes nostalgic… mastering the shadows in photography is an art in itself. It is a story in its own right, a unique form of expression.

Send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio – capturing the poetry and the power of shadows! The subject is totally up to you. Your photos can be in color or black and white, and be landscape, portraiture, street photography or any other genre. Any capture method or process, whether digital or analog, including monochromatic toning, is welcome.

Winners will receive $1,000 in cash awards, their winning image(s) or full portfolio published in AAP Magazine #56, extensive press coverage and global recognition.

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

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

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Inviting you to our next challenge: Colour! Join our Calendar Event – open for entries now.

Each year, members unite around a theme to celebrate alternative photographic processes, fostering creativity and community. Past themes have included tributes to Anna Atkins (2023) and Sir John Herschel (2025), as well as creative challenges such as Composites (2024) and Colour (in 2026). This members-only event encourages experimentation and sharing. The results become beautiful, inspiring publications – calendars, journals, and a book – created by artists, for artists, and shared with everyone to spread our passion for alternative photography. Exclusive to Supporting Members.

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The SRO Photo Gallery at the Texas Tech University School of Art hosts an annual open call for six to eight exhibitions of still photographic artwork to be exhibited between August 2026 and May 2027. We will also be presenting four solo moving image exhibitions to be presented during the same academic year. Portfolio submissions will be reviewed by a committee consisting of the Digital & Narrative Arts faculty and students of the School of Art and the Landmark Arts staff.

We seek portfolios that utilize lens-based and photographic adjacent art in all styles, techniques, and aesthetic approaches which speak to the ever-developing and shifting landscape of contemporary photographic art practice. Consistency in the work as well as creative vision is important in the selection process.

Photographic artwork can only be displayed without framing (either matted, loose prints or mounted on thin backing). The works will be exhibited within eight glass display cases which measure 30 inches tall x 72 inches wide x 1 inch deep. When thinking about the exhibition layout please take this into consideration.
Moving images will be displayed on four video monitors, wall mounted next to each other. We only accept .MOV, .MPG, and MPEG-4 files for display.

A full color brochure listing the selected artists along with reproductions of their work, and exhibition dates is published annually and distributed locally and nationally.

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Want to take your work to the next level? FotoSlovo Award invites photographers to present their projects, gain visibility, and compete for distinguished prizes and international recognition!

With a mission to discover and celebrate outstanding photographic talent, FotoSlovo Award recognizes artists from all over the world, across all photography genres. Whether you specialize in conceptual, fine art, street, documentary, portrait, or experimental photography, this is your opportunity to boost your career!

Rewards are: 2k cash prize, new IPhone last version, participation in Limassol Biennale, exhibitions in Art Galleries in Romania, Bucharest, spotlight in photo magazine, projection at international Festivals, free Book production and promoting of Winners.

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Night Works invites photographers to submit images made after dark, where night is not simply a setting but an active collaborator. These photographs may be dramatic or understated, urban or rural, populated or solitary. They may explore artificial light, long exposures, ambient glow, or near-total darkness. What matters is not subject, but how the night shapes the image.

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People 2026 at Grid Photo Gallery is an international open call that invites photographers from around the world to submit compelling work that engages with the human figure in all its visual and conceptual richness. With no prescribed style, process, or narrative framework, the theme People embraces a broad spectrum of photographic approaches — including portraiture, documentary, street photography, photojournalism, and studio-based work — wherever the human presence is expressed through gesture, composition, context, or relationship within the frame.

Rather than defining “people” through a single visual or conceptual lens, this call celebrates diversity of interpretation and expression. Submissions should reflect each photographer’s individual approach to depicting human presence — posed or candid, singular or collective, observed or imagined — in ways that reveal clarity of intent and visual coherence. A curated selection of chosen works will be presented in a global online exhibition accessible worldwide.

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Light Work is pleased to announce the 2026 Light Work Grants in Photography program. Light Work began offering grants to CNY artists in 1975 to encourage the production of new photographic work in the region. Five $3,000 grants will be awarded to photographers who live and work within New York State, outside of the New York City region. The recipients of these grants are invited to display their work in an exhibition at Light Work in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, and their work will also be reproduced in a special publication of Light Work’s award-winning Contact Sheet.

In its 51-year history, Light Work Grants have supported more than 110 artists. With the help of the regional grant, many artists have been able to continue long-term projects, purchase equipment, frame photographs for exhibitions, promote their work, collaborate with others or otherwise continue their artistic goals.

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Thoughts of Summer, that time of year for family, friends, fun and food. The time for vacations, the beach and the mountains. Share your best images that celebrate summer.

Color or monochrome, all subjects, digital or antique processes, analog and digital manipulation, all forms welcome. Photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Our jurors for the Thoughts of Summer are Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish, the Co-Curators at Pictura. Motivated by a desire to create meaningful experiences with photographic art, collaboratively, they produce the gallery’s year-round programming. They work to generate thoughtful and nuanced exhibits, showcasing projects with strong formal sensibilities and depth of content.

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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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$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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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