Workshops, Grants, Contests, and Deadlines

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.

The SFFILM Documentary Film Fund (DFF) supports engaging documentaries in post-production which exhibit compelling stories, intriguing characters, and an original, innovative visual approach. Since its launch in 2011, the SFFILM Documentary Film Fund has distributed more than $900,000 to advance new work by filmmakers nationwide.

The Eddie Adams Workshop is a merit-based, four-day photojournalism seminar in upstate New York held every Columbus Day weekend. One hundred students culled from numerous applicants are invited to participate. The Workshop is tuition-free and the students are chosen based on the merit of their pictures. 

The ambition is to support emerging filmmakers, give them the basic financial support to direct and produce a film and mentor them through the editorial process. It also encourages them to distribute their film to the greatest effect – to maximize their audience, create local impact through screenings, and provide schools with access to their films. These films will highlight filmmakers' voices worldwide, spreading talent and skills while showcasing authentic voices irrespective of gender, ethnicity, or disability.

The DIG Awards are an annual international competition that awards the best journalistic investigations and reportages in video and audio format.

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: the organization considers the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect the country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color. In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers.

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.

The call is open to authors born in or nationalized in Latin American countries, with no age limit. Each participant may submit one or more projects, as long as one entry is made for each title. Projects that have already been published may be submitted as long as they have been published in print runs of no more than 30 copies. The works submitted must have a maximum size of 21x29 cm closed, a maximum of 96 pages and soft covers (they can have flaps). Selected dummies will be part of the traveling exhibition through the network of festivals. Among the finalists, a winning project and up to two special mentions will be selected. This selection will be made by the organizers of the award such as Editorial La Luminosa, FELIFA and Akian Gráfica Editora. The winner will receive 50 copies of their printed book as a royalty payment.

PhotoVogue’s 2025 Global Open Call invites women photographers and video makers from around the world to explore and redefine how women see and are seen. Celebrating diverse and self-determined perspectives across all genres—from fashion to documentary, portraiture, fine art, and beyond—this open call champions visual storytelling as a powerful force for representation, empowerment, and change. The illusion of linear progress – the belief that rights, visibility, and recognition are irrevocable – has been shattered by the current political climate. Around the world, we are witnessing increasing pushback against women's autonomy, from reproductive rights to freedom of expression, reminding us that what once seemed secure can also be taken away.

Booooooom and Artmobile offer the chance to have your work published as a standalone book for free! We will be selecting 6 projects to turn into books—each by a different artist, illustrator, or photographer—at zero cost to the individual.

A unique celebration of British wildlife, BWPA welcomes images of nature taken in the UK.

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.

The Hariban Award combines a 170-year-old analogue technique with contemporary photography. The award was launched in 2014 with the aim of introducing artists and photographers to collotype, an alternative photographic process. Glass plates have been used as collotype printing plates, which is why the award is called “Hariban” because “Hari” means glass plate, and “ban” means printing plate in Japanese. This Award invites professionals and amateurs alike to submit black and white photographs for a chance to win. The winners are carefully selected by a jury of international curators, publishers and artists in the field of photography. The Grand Prize Winner will be invited to a two-week residency in Kyoto, Japan, to collaborate with the master printers of Benrido.

The Studio Workspace Residency is an opportunity for artists to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. This residency gives artists the necessity of time and space, an uninterrupted period to live and work away from the stresses of daily life. Artists may choose to work in any one or more of the studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, or ceramics.

The Art-in-Education (AIE) Workspace Residency is for artists interested in working with local school students while creating their own work in WSW’s supportive and immersive environment. This is an opportunity for artists with a range of teaching experience, from seasoned teachers and professors, to those with minimal experience and an interest in gaining skills and knowledge.

Curiosity is at the heart of humanity. The drive to better understand the mysteries of our world has invited storytellers to illuminate groundbreaking knowledge and the world’s wonders, and brought us closer together. Supported by the John Templeton Foundation, The National Geographic Society seeks innovative photography, short film, writing, data visualization and other storytelling proposals to delve into some of these big questions – questions we’ve wrestled with for millenia, and questions that are only just emerging. In its highest form, storytelling has the power to disseminate knowledge, prompt deep conversation and spark curiosity around the greatest questions of our time. The Big Questions on human flourishing, structures of reality and origins of life are key to understanding humankind’s purpose and place within the universe. These projects should in some way work to explore one of the following three questions: 1) What does it mean to be human? 2) Curiosity: What are the boundaries of Earth, or more precisely, what are the limits to what we can understand? 3) Human/Nature: What is the relationship between the human and natural worlds?

PhotoVogue’s Regional Open Call aims to discover and promote the most talented photographers and videographers from regions within East and Southeast Asia and their diaspora, celebrating their creativity and providing a global platform to amplify their unique perspectives.

SEJ’s awards honor the best environmental journalism in seven categories, bringing recognition to the most important stories on the planet. Journalism broadcast or published in print or online is eligible.

The theme of the 2025 edition of the Deloitte’s Photo Grant is dedicated to exploring the gap between equality and inequality, referencing the various contradictory aspects inherent in contemporary societies. Among these, the most striking point of friction lies in the moral disparity we experience daily: our social fabric is marked by wealth controlled by an inaccessible elite, while a significant portion of the world’s population lives in extreme hardship. To make matters worse, national constitutions, deeply rooted in ideological foundations, are built upon a principle of balance based on mutual respect. However, this principle still appears far from universal applicability, as it is continuously undermined by the many forms of discrimination that increasingly affect minorities.

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.

Administered by The Society in partnership with The Guardian. The Joan Wakelin Bursary offers £2000 for the production of a photographic essay on an overseas social documentary issue.

The Bursary was established in 2005 in memory of distinguished documentary photographer and Honorary Fellow of The Society, Joan Wakelin.

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: the organization considers the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect the country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color. In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers.

The HCB Award, granted by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson once every two years, supports the creation of an ambitious photography project. The HCB Award provides 35,000 euros and is accompanied by an exhibition and a publication of the project. It is intended for a photographer who has already completed a significant body of work, close to the documentary approach. The Henri Cartier-Bresson Prize for Creative Achievement is open to photographers of all nationalities and ages who have already completed a substantial body of documentary-inspired work. They must have several solo exhibitions and publications (monographs and/or catalogs) to show for it.

The Lucie Foundation is dedicated to celebrating all forms of photography, in print and online and is pleased to introduce the Lucie Photo Book Prize. This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to prototypes, hand-made books to zines.  The awards are presented to photographers, editors, curators or publishers.

The Eidolon Grant aims to identify phenomena, collections, histories, practices, and trends within vernacular photography with the aim of offering new interpretations and analyses. Thematising both photographic heritages and contemporary photographic practices is Eidolon’s mission and we invite you to join us in this important exploration. Each chosen project will contribute to the enrichment of their institution's program in the coming year.

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: the organization considers the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect the country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color. In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers.

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: the organization considers the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect the country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color. In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers.

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: the organization considers the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect the country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color. In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers.