Workshops, Grants, Contests, and Deadlines

The FotoEvidence Women Award is devoted to engaged women photographers who want to tell their personal stories in the form of a photo book.

The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audio-visual installations.

To draw public attention to the critical issue of water in our times, with special focus on access to good water.

The Penumbra Workspace Program benefits three US based emerging artists* with access to time, facilities, critical and technical support, and honoraria. The extension of the program ranges from two weeks to four weeks depending on the time requested by the selected artists. Participants have liberal access to the workspace facilities. They are expected to use their time to pursue their own projects: researching, photographing, scanning, printing, working on an exhibition or editing a book.

The Risograph Residency provides the opportunity for artists to propose a photographic project to produce in print form, at our Risograph facilities in New York City. It is particularly well suited to the production of small edition photographic artist’s books.

Entry is limited to National Press Photographers Assn. members in the New England, New York/International, and Mid-Atlantic Regions (formerly Regions 1, 2, and 3).

During this three-day event learn from and network with industry leaders, as they share their work and discuss what makes them successful. Choose from a variety of workshops and lectures on topics such as business practices, safety training, multimedia, lighting, video storytelling, and more.

Applications from students with a genuine passion for visual journalism are welcome. Qualified candidates will be chosen based on the quality of their portfolio work and their demonstrated commitment to academic excellence. Applicants must be a current NABJ student member in good standing.

The Risograph Residency provides the opportunity for artists to propose a photographic project to produce in print form, at our Risograph facilities in New York City. It is particularly well suited to the production of small edition photographic artist’s books.

The Medium Review takes place virtually April 3-5, 2025._ _ The Medium Review offers an intimate experience to meet with professionals from across the field of photography, allowing artists to build connections that advance their career. The 2025 Festival includes two days of in-person events in San Diego and Tijuana on March 22-23.

Every year, BigPicture poses the question “What on Earth have you photographed?” as part of our annual Natural World Photography Competition with winning images displayed at the California Academy of Sciences for all visitors to enjoy. Featuring the work of award-winning nature, wildlife, and conservation photographers from around the world, the exhibit uses photography as a means to celebrate and illustrate the rich diversity of life on Earth and inspire action to protect and conserve it.

The Kalish Workshop is an inspirational and intense five-day experience led by award-winning faculty and staff members who focus on the editing and decision making aspects of visual storytelling. It is designed to benefit anyone who touches photography and video with a narrative storyline across platforms.

EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography is the largest biennial festival of photographic images in Germany. Museums, exhibition institutions, memorials, archives, libraries, collections, cultural institutes, universities, art academies and other training locations, municipal and private galleries and project spaces from Berlin and Potsdam are - together with the exhibiting artists - the key players in this open festival format.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year showcases the world's best space photography, from spectacular skyscapes to mind-blowing images of distant planets and galaxies.

Through access, education, programming and impact investing, NXTHVN launches the careers of artists and curators and strengthens the livelihood of its local community. Located in the historically African-American Dixwell neighborhood of New Haven, CT, the expansive adapted-reuse campus houses gallery, studio, office, performance and living spaces.

This is for photographers with strong relationships to the people and work they are documenting. In terms of topics and themes, think land and water protection, Indigenous science and wisdom, climate change, regeneration, and everything intersecting in between including human rights, Indigenous sovereignty, land back, and more.

Over 200 photographs from both well-known photographers and rising stars emerge from this prestigious Photography Competition. Categories include advertising, editorial, for sale, motion and unpublished.

Celebrating the year's best editorial, advertising, book, promotional, unpublished and fine art illustration.

The Indigenous Journalists Association will recognize outstanding coverage through the 2024 Indigenous Media Awards during the 2024 Indigenous Media Conference July 25-27 at the Omni Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. The deadline for entries is March 8, 2024. The annual competition recognizes excellence in reporting by Indigenous and non-Indigenous journalists across the U.S. and Canada.

SPJ’s New America Award honors public service journalism that explores and exposes an issue of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities currently living in the United States. Although not required, collaboration with ethnic media is taken into account.

En Foco’s Media Arts Fund: Work in Progress (WIP) Initiative is a grant to support New York City based, early-career artists of color who engage with digital media technologies in their art-making processes.

The Project Development Grant provides funding to a fine art, reportage, or documentary work-in-progress.

The Project Launch Grant provides funding to a complete, or nearly completed, documentary project or fine art series.

A weeklong residential workshop designed specifically for female photographers and editors who want to learn to better organize, edit, and sequence their visual work, while exploring how to harness their power as female storytellers.

This residency will provide up to one year of room and board to a person who demonstrates a strong project that addresses ending Systemic Racism and who has a necessity to be in New York City for up to one year. They will reside at the Penington Friends House located in New York City’s Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Bayard Rustin Resident will demonstrate a need to live in Manhattan. Areas of focus of their work can include activism in the arts, policy change, human rights, community organizing, and other areas of activism focusing on ending racism and strengthening equality. Residents will meet regularly with the Residency Manager and will be expected to share their progress with the New York City community in the form of presentations or workshops. The resident does not have to be Quaker but their work should be shaped by and in harmony with our tenants of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Stewardship. The resident will be expected to be a full-time resident of PFH and be participating member of this intentional community

Every year for the past half-century, the Society for Professional Journalism has honored the best in Florida journalism. The state’s largest and oldest journalism contest recognizes the best writing, photography, and design for both pros and students.

All amateur and professional photographers are invited to embark on a photographic journey of discovery and capture impressive pictures of the many facets of Europe's natural world.

Excellence in Photojournalism Award

The NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards were established in 1993 to foster and recognize excellence in journalism on issues related to the LGBTQ+ community. The Excellence in Journalism Awards are open to anyone, including non-members and journalists who do not identify as LGBTQ+

Jeanne Córdova Award

The Jeanne Córdova Award recognizes the achievement of an LGBTQ woman for a current body of work in journalism and/or opinion, with an emphasis on but not exclusively coverage of issues of importance to the LGBTQ community, in any medium and on any platform.

The Light Work Grants in Photography program was established in 1975 to support photographers in Central New York. The $3,000 grants are awarded to encourage the creation of new work. The work of the grant recipients is exhibited at Light Work and reproduced in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.

The National Geographic Society warmly welcomes and encourages applicants from historically and currently underrepresented and underserved populations to apply. National Geographic is committed to funding a diverse and globally representative cohort of Explorers.

Upcoming Grant: The Ocean Exploration and Discovery: Request for Proposals Throughout history, stories from oceanic expeditions, such as those led by National Geographic Explorers at Large Sylvia Earle and Bob Ballard, have left people with a sense of adventure and, most importantly, urgency for protecting our blue planet. In 2022, a partnership between Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) and the National Geographic Society was forged to advance ocean science and exploration. The Society and SOI are now recruiting early career scientists who can lead ship-based research, technology, or conservation projects aboard SOI’s Falkor (too) research vessel in 2025 when it will traverse the southeast coast of South America.

Selected artists come to VCCA’s Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia or the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France for intense periods of creative work, free from the distractions of day-to-day life. During residencies lasting anywhere from a week to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals. Whether sequestered in the rolling foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains or on the banks of the Garonne River in Southwest France, VCCA Fellows can work in concentrated solitude, then re-energize in the company of other artists.

The Nature Photographer of the Year competition is open to residents of every country and to almost all ages starting from 10 years old.

The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is committed to fostering an equitable environment where a diverse and inclusive community of artists and arts workers have the opportunity to thrive professionally.

sipa is one of the photo contests with the highest international participation ever. 2022 edition has received nearly 48.000 images from amateur and professional photographers from 156 countries worldwide.

Through artistic creativity, the hearts and minds of each artist will bring forward new visions for just and equitable behaviors and structures, so that the dimensions of structural racism (culturally, historically, institutionally, politically and ideologically) are dismantled and a better world is rebuilt and assembled.   Ats NDN Collective, we are unabashedly and unapologetically NDN. We believe in the power, the creativity, the audacity and the commitment of artists, culture bearers and designers to create and imagine new paths, new futures, and new worlds.

Each year Light Work invites 12-15 artists to participate in its residency program, including one artist co-sponsored by Autograph ABP, and two artists co-sponsored by the Darryl Chappel Foundation. Artists selected for the residency program are invited to live in Syracuse for one month. They receive a $5,000 stipend, an apartment to stay in, a private digital studio, a private darkroom, and 24-hour access to our facility.