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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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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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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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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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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Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to announce its 30th National Competition. The gallery, now located in Manhattan’s Chelsea district, is New York City’s longest running co-operative photography gallery.

The Juror: Jean Dykstra is a writer, editor, and art critic who writes frequently about photography. The former editor of Photograph magazine, she has contributed to numerous publications, including the New York Review of Books, the Brooklyn Rail, and Dear Dave.

The Competition is open to all photographers, 18 years old or older, who are residents of the United States, excluding members of Soho Photo Gallery. All photo-based works are eligible, with no limitation as to subject matter or technique with one exception: no AI generated work will be accepted. Please note: If you have been accepted into previous National Competitions, we expect you to submit a different photograph. No previous winning photos will be allowed.

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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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“Animal Life” is a call for photographic work that celebrates the complex and multifaceted nature of animals, emphasizing kindness and compassion in representing our furry, feathery, and scaly friends. Showcasing companion animals, farm animals, wild animals, sea life, insects, and birds. This project encompasses various genres such as Animal Portraits, Ethical Wildlife Photography, Artistic Interpretations, Underwater Photography, Macro Photography, Conservation Photography, and Bird Photography – just to name a few examples.
Praxis Gallery seeks photographic art that captures kind and empathetic portraits of a wide range of animals, spanning from domestic pets and farm animals to a diverse array of wildlife species found across different ecosystems. 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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Step into the world of striking contrast with “BLACK & WHITE” – an open-themed exhibition celebrating the timeless power of monochrome photography. Without the distraction of color, each image brings focus to light, shadow, and raw emotion. In this stripped-back format, stories emerge with greater intensity—every texture, glance, and line becomes more vivid. From evocative portraits to dramatic cityscapes and serene natural scenes, these photographs reveal the beauty in simplicity and the depth in detail. “BLACK & WHITE” invites you to experience photography in its purest form—a visual language where silence speaks, and contrast captures the soul.

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Photography is more than an image — it’s a story, a perspective, a voice.
The FotoSlovo Awards celebrates photographers who dare to see the world differently, from raw street moments to portraits, conceptual, and beyond!

With a mission to discover and celebrate outstanding photographic talent, FotoSlovo Awards recognize artists from all over the world, across all photography genres. Step into the spotlight and take your place in contemporary photography!

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Photography and collage have a long history of being in dialogue with one another; however, the intersection of these two mediums is poorly explored. New Orleans Photo Alliance and Kolaj Institute are working together to investigate the intersection of this medium. We are seeking work by artists who collage their own photographs, make photomontage, use a collage-like process in either the composition of photographs or in the dark room. We are open to any artwork where the artist feels the image speaks to this intersection. In addition to sending images, the artist must provide a brief statement that explains why they feel this artwork is an example of photography and collage.

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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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Midwest Nice Art is excited to announce the opening of our call for art for nice;03, the third iteration of our annual national call hosted on the Northern State University campus in JFAC Gallery. We are thrilled to continue this survey of contemporary art!

This is an open call with no theme or medium restrictions. Artists must be over 18 and in the United States.

A non-refundable entry fee of $20 will be charged for each entrant. This fee allows for a maximum of 3 works to be considered for this exhibition. An entry fee does not guarantee inclusion in the exhibition.

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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: June 1 – 30, 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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Care is both love and labor—nurturing, repairing, and sustaining ourselves, others, and our communities. This exhibition builds on feminist histories of care work, recognizing its often invisible, gendered, racialized, and classed dimensions. Open to women and non-binary artists, including transgender women and femme-identifying genderqueer artists, the exhibition welcomes up to three works per artist in any visual medium that engage with the theme and have not been previously shown at WMG. Juror: Kristen Carter.

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Decode Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming theme: Black and White. Black and white photography is a powerful and timeless medium. It’s how photography began; it’s the deep unending shades of grey. We look forward to seeing through your lens in grayscale.

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It’s time to shake off the doldrums of winter and look forward to the beauty of summer. We want to see your photos of what summertime means to you. Be it your beautiful vegetable and/or flower gardens, a family trip, street photography of hot days, cool nights in the mountains, starry skies, farmers markets, long, lazy days on the beach, swimming pools … show us.

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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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We call to those who feel night photography is not merely documentation, but alchemy – a transformation of the ordinary into the ethereal through the interplay of darkness and light. The true New Orleans night reveals itself only to the patient and courageous, those who stray beyond the safety and comfort of the daylight. Wander where tourists fear to tread. Linger where instinct tells you something unseen pulses. Capture New Orleans’ nocturnal soul not as an outsider looking in, but as an ingrained accomplice in its mystery.

This call is open to all photographers, however, the images must be taken in New Orleans.

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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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We are looking for photographs for a gallery exhibition, to explore, express and document resistance. Beyond the requirement that light was captured somewhere in the process of making of your work, there are no limits to the resistance you represent.

/rəˈzɪst(ə)n(t)s/ electrical, physical, or any other form of resistance you choose to express…

Open to all photo-based work with no limit on subject matter or technique. Entries will be judged individually for this juried call for photography that represents, expresses or documents resistance, seen or unseen.

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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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The “found object” is a concept rooted in early 20th-century avant-garde practice: the idea that ordinary, often discarded materials can hold aesthetic or conceptual value when reframed as art. A “found object” is a material artifact discovered and assigned aesthetic value in an artist’s hand. Found art may include a wide array of objects—discarded, forgotten, dropped, or misplaced—such as shoes, forks, shopping carts, signs, doll heads, abandoned cars, clocks, mementos, or any object that can be reimagined through the lens of a camera.

Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that investigates this idiom: exploring the subject of the “found object” as pure visual form, detached from its history or utility, or conversely, as a catalyst for examining broader themes such as subjectivity and socialization, memory and loss, or love and death. All genres, capture methods, and post-production processes are welcome for submission. Juried by Jonathan Pavlica.

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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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For more than 50 years VSW has provided time, space and resources for artists from all over the world to expand their practice and continue ongoing projects. VSW supports artists in any stage of their career who are working in photography, film, or media art by offering four-week Project Space Residencies at VSW in Rochester, NY. Project Space Residency alumni include Sarah Friedland, Aaron Turner, Le’Andra LeSeur, Claudia Claremi, Eduardo Rivera, Shireen Seno and Peggy Ahwesh, among others.

“The Project Space Residency is a place for artists who are pushing the boundaries of their mediums,” comments Hernease Davis, VSW Assistant Curator. “Whether they are working through ongoing projects or attempting brand new directions, Visual Studies Workshop’s facilities and archive materials are a unique resource that have been a creative catalyst to artists for decades. We are particularly thrilled to welcome resident artists to our new location in Rochester.”

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It’s summer, let’s play. Inspired by LACP’s location between the Toy District, Little Tokyo and the Arts District in Los Angeles, this call invites submissions for photo-based works that explore vintage and lo-fi aesthetics and technologies from a multitude of perspectives, practices and approaches. You might be shooting with a beloved 1980s Holga, or giving your images a Lomo touch on your computer. Maybe you chronicle the streets of your town with a Polaroid, or you’re capturing playful portraits of people in your community. You might be working with a combination of alternative processes and digital printing, or completely virtual forms of display. We don’t know, but we would love to see them.

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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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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 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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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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Black & White Photo Awards 2025 continues its mission to recognize and reward outstanding talent in monochrome photography. With five thematic categories —Architecture, Street, Fauna and Flora, Portrait, and Landscape— photographers from around the world can showcase their creativity and vision.

This year, the contest reaches new heights with an expanded prize pool valued at €8,500. The Absolute Winner will receive €1,000, courtesy of SanDisk Professional, along with a ThyPoch Simera 35mm lens (E/RF/Z/X mount) to continue capturing breathtaking black & white images.

Special prizes include the Creativity Award, sponsored by SanDisk Professional, featuring their latest SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 SSD (4TB). The newly introduced Master of Light Award, sponsored by Godox, will reward the image that best captures light’s essence in black and white with a Godox AD600ProII flash. Additionally, the contest debuts a Second Prize, offering a Benro Tortoise TTOR24CGX30 carbon fiber tripod and a Tenba Axis V2 20L backpack, sponsored by Foto Técnica Import.

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“We want to create a show that highlights the range of our go-to and inventive coping mechanisms for the current moment. Artists after all are also humans, and it must be all but impossible to silo what happens in the world from what happens in the studio.

Do you garden, cook, or meditate, protest and organize, doom-scroll or re-read classic books, obsess over true crime podcasts and gallows humor, take up witchcraft or cycling, sink into nostalgia or self-medicating… news junkie or news blackout…? How do these dynamics manifest in your art? What do you think art has to offer to the discourse—provocation and challenge, healing and rest, a tether to history, or something else entirely?

As this theme is quite broad and open to thoughtful interpretation, we anticipate a great mix of beauty and dark humor in the entries. And we feel that as this is basically a universal experience at this moment—no matter what side you identify with any discourse, the world *as we have known it* is ending—a secondary goal is to let people know they aren’t alone with these burdens.

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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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In these fractured times, it can be comforting to find a place to belong, a home. Home embodies a sense of belonging, comfort, security, and a space to nurture relationships and memories, serving as a sanctuary and a foundation for personal growth and identity. This call asks artists to consider where they belong, where their spirit feels at home. How does your artwork represent the feeling of home?

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The Midwest Open is an annual exhibition at WMG that highlights the achievements of women and nonbinary artists living in the American Midwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the 12 states in the Midwest include Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
The exhibition encourages artists to expand their materials, push the boundaries of medium and texture, and explore innovative approaches. It seeks the most provocative work each artist has to offer, fostering a Midwest exhibition that challenges perspectives, sparks dialogue, and leaves a lasting impact. Artists may submit up to three works in any visual medium, provided they have not been previously shown at Woman Made Gallery. Juror: Kimberly Oliva.

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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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Woman Made Gallery invites women and non-binary artists worldwide to submit work for Drawing Resistance, a virtual exhibition exploring the complexities of creating art in politically turbulent times. Interpreting “drawing” both literally and metaphorically, the show seeks works that grapple with themes such as war, protest, censorship, and the personal cost of resistance. All mediums are welcome, and submissions should thoughtfully address the tensions between artistic expression and political conflict. All submissions must clearly relate to the exhibition theme. Selected works will be presented in an online gallery alongside artist statements to offer context and deepen audience engagement.

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We invite you to be part of the fourth edition of the monochromatic awards. we are searching for the best monochrome photograph of 2025

This competition is open to all artistic visions and interpretations of monochromatic photography: from traditional black and white to grayscale, sepia, cyanotype, or any other monochromatic tonality. we embrace every approach that explores the richness of working with a single dominant color.

At the Monochromatic Awards, photographers from every genre and background are welcome. Whether your work belongs to photojournalism, portrait, nude, architecture, landscape, wildlife, abstraction, experimental photography, street photography, still life, fine art, or alternative processes — your unique voice has a place here. We are excited to see both bold, contemporary visions and classic, timeless expressions of monochrome art.

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Entry fees:
Professional: Single Image – $35, Series – $50
Non-Professional: Single Image – $27, 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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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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Let’s talk shadows, secrets, and mystery. Bring us the moody. The dark. The silenced. The distorted. The vulnerable. The unsaid. Go full obscura on us. We’re ready to get lost in it. Show us OBSCURA from your perspective.

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This Call is open to undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in a university in Illinois, as well as students who have graduated in Spring 2025. This exhibition explores the profound transformations that shape our lives—particularly the journey from childhood to adulthood. Through this theme, we seek artwork that captures the physical, emotional, and psychological changes that define these formative years. We encourage submissions that reflect on personal or collective experiences of transition, whether through memory, identity, relationships, or the challenges of finding one’s place in the world. Jurors: Corinne Pompéy & Diana Vallera.

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Vital Impacts is dedicated to supporting visual storytellers who capture compelling, solutions-focused environmental stories at the local level. We are excited to offer one (1) $20,000 grant and six (6) $5,000 grants to help bring these vital stories to life.

Grant recipients will have twelve months to develop their projects, with support from Vital Impacts to publish and showcase their work.

Additionally, ten (10) emerging photographers will be chosen to participate in an intensive mentorship program, designed to nurture their growth and enhance their craft.

All applicants are also welcome to join our comprehensive online mentorship series, which provides valuable insights and guidance to all who are interested.

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