Workshops, Grants, Contests, and Deadlines

Loeb created the awards to encourage and support reporting on business and finance that would inform and protect the private investor and the general public.

The globally acclaimed Panda Awards, the ‘Green Oscars’ of the international wildlife film and TV industry, have sat at the heart of the Wildscreen Festival since 1982. They celebrate the very best in the natural world storytelling craft, and remain the highest honour in the industry. This competition comprises of 15 craft and specialist categories and 4 special awards including our coveted Golden Panda for best overall production.

This initiative aims to support photographers worldwide by providing grants and resources to create compelling documentary photo essays. The Grant focuses on projects that illuminate urgent social, environmental, economic, and cultural issues of our time.

In 2020, the Serendipity Arts Foundation and Les Rencontres d’Arles announced the biggest lens-based media grant, supported by the Institut français en Inde, with the shared purpose of promoting cultural practices in the South Asian region. We are now open to receive applications for the third edition of the Serendipity Arles Grant 2025-26, inviting project proposals from South Asia, stemming from photography, video, new media and other lens based explorations. The initiative seeks not only to empower artists from the region, but also further a spirit of regional cooperation and representation. Submissions are open to all lens-based South Asian practitioners from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka.

The Leica Society International Women in Photography Grant is open to all women photographers in any part of the world (where allowed by law) and is made possible through LSI and Leica U.S. One grant in the amount of $10,000 USD will be awarded to help complete an in-progress, personal project. In addition, the grant recipient will receive a new** **Leica camera and lens, courtesy of Leica North America. This year’s theme is “Exploring Courage and Community,” and we invite you to share stories that highlight the strength found in both individual bravery and collective support.

The Griffin Museum recognizes the importance of photobooks. Distinct from the gallery aesthetic, photobooks offer their own visual language, often conducive to more narrative qualities and seriality than the standard on-the-wall format. We celebrate this form of artistry and want to see the photobooks our community is working on. Juried by Karen Davis, Curator and Co-owner of Davis Orton Gallery, and Crista Dix, Executive Director of the Griffin Museum, our 15th Annual Photobook exhibition will showcase 15-20 books in our Griffin Gallery during the summer of 2025.

AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships benefit underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students who are studying photography, illustration, and design disciplines in colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships are awarded annually to encourage social and environmental responsibility and cultural awareness in the next generation of artists and designers.

The National Geographic Society, in partnership with the Conrad Hilton Foundation’s Safe Water Initiative, invites proposals from storytellers to create and disseminate content that raises public awareness about sustainable freshwater use. This initiative seeks to illuminate global freshwater challenges, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Western Asia, and the Middle East. Projects can take various forms, including photography, film, and data visualization. They should focus on issues faced by communities, such as last mile households, low-income households, women and girls, and children, in achieving equitable access to freshwater. Applications are also encouraged for projects that highlight specific solutions to these challenges, and elevate the voices of individuals, organizations and communities at the forefront.

The John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, which carries a $5,000 prize, is given annually for news reporting that makes an exceptional contribution to the public’s understanding of environmental issues. The award was founded in 1993 by family, friends and colleagues of John B. Oakes (1913-2001), who was an environmental journalism pioneer, the founder of the modern op-ed page, and the editor of the editorial page for the New York Times from 1961 to 1976. It recognizes journalists whose work meets the highest standards of journalistic excellence.

Vital Impacts is thrilled to announce a special Flash Grant supported by Annie Griffiths, one of National Geographic's first female photographers and the founder of Ripple Effect Images. Annie is funding this grant, by donating 50 percent of all proceeds from her poignant and hilarious Substack Newsletter, "You're Not That Nice."

The "Luis Ferreira Alves International Photography Competition | A Contemporary Look at Architecture" is a biennial program. It aims to honor the person and the work of this outstanding photographer, who bridged the gap between analogue and digital photography and whose work is recognized both nationally and internationally.

Encontros da Imagem, founded in 1987, is a non-profit cultural association that promotes annually an International Photography and Visual Arts Festival in the city of Braga, Portugal. The festival celebrates classic and contemporary photography and other visual arts by showcasing emerging and established artists. Every year Encontros da Imagem promotes an open call for the Encontros da Imagem Award (previously “Discovery Award”), where the finalists have the opportunity to exhibit their work during the festival.

The International Photography Awards™ conducts an annual competition for professional, amateur, and student photographers globally, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today. Our mission is to salute the achievements of the world’s finest photographers, discover new and emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography.

The annual Inge Morath Award is given to a woman photographer under thirty years of age, to assist in the completion of a long term documentary project.

The MontPhoto International Nature Photography Contest is open to amateurs and professional photographers and videographers from all over the world organized by the MontPhoto Association. Their mission is to add value and help spread the art of photography in order to raise awareness and protect nature.

An international photography festival celebrating the impact of being connected. This first-ever Giga Photo Contest celebrates photographers worldwide who document the essence of human connection and the transformative power of internet connectivity.

Artists/photographers are invited to submit work that engages with any of the wide range of climate actions that are currently underway anywhere in the world, such as critical explorations of how individuals, grassroots movements or wider societal initiatives are tackling climate change by reducing carbon emissions, assisting circular economies, promoting biodiversity, exposing greenwashing, or enabling climate justice. What approaches? In addition to documentary, independent photo reportage and socially-engaged practices, the grant supports more oblique, personal, diaristic or conceptual approaches. Raising awareness about the effects of climate change is not enough. This Call is for photographic/video projects that make visible how individuals, communities or wider social groups are working to combat climate change.

The SIYU AWARD, formerly vfg Young Talent Award for Photography, is a competition honoring ten outstanding photography projects, which will be exhibited in Switzerland. The winner receives a CHF 3,000 cash prize, sponsored by SIYU and its partners. The award is organized by SIYU AWARD association, a non-profit-organisation supported by SIYU Professional Photography Switzerland. We stand for creative, professional photography. Our primary goal is to stimulate discussions about the photographic image and to promote professional photography across all fields. Eligible for the SIYU AWARD are participants with Swiss citizenship or residency in Switzerland at the time of submission. The jury looks forward to seeing well-edited, authentic work from all fields of photography.

50 selected artists will be invited to a 2-week all-expenses-covered residency in the South of France in August 2025.  The residency is open to visual artists in the following fields: painting, drawing, graphics, illustration, printmaking, paper art, photography, sculpture, ceramics, textile art.  A post-residency exhibition will be hosted at one of our partner galleries, with a printed publication produced to feature all the work created during the residency.

The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund supports emerging and early-career sports photographers.  Photographers with more than 3 years cumulative paid professional sports photography experience are considered beyond the scope of the DPPF’s programs.

The selected photographer will receive a €3,000 cash prize, production and setting up of the exhibition, and publication in the 2025 Fotografia Calabria Festival’s catalog. Contestants are invited to interpret the topic of the IV edition “Shared roots: places” by proposing photographic projects that reflect on one or more of the following aspects: • Everyday Places: Spaces that we live on a daily basis , which belong to our individual or collective history, that we want to document, celebrate, and crystallize, or that we have taken for granted, only to suddendly rediscover them. • Popular Places: Locations that embody images that everyone knows and are expected to be seen constantly the same (e.g., the gondola in Venice, the sunflower field in Tuscany, the snowy village at Christmas). How can we narrate them in a different way? • Imaginary Places: spaces that exist only in the imagination of those who create them but resonate ideas and widespread visions. The aim of this edition of the festival is to encourage participants to reflect on how “Shared roots: places” not only connect us to places, but also define the way we live them and how we narrate them. How do the invisible roots of a place that lay in the past, in our imagination and in our culture, influence our perception of it? How can we bring out these roots, making the invisible visible, and telling the stories of places in a new and authentic way?

Immerse yourself in an inclusive, creative environment where you can connect with your Chicago photo community at Prism Photo Workshop.

The Langhe Photo Prize invites photographers of all nationalities, both professionals and amateurs, to participate in the Open Call 2025 by submitting a photographic project. The theme is open, allowing space for creativity and personal visions: from intimate perspectives to social dimensions, from connections with the environment to collective dynamics—every approach is welcomed and valued. The Open Call aims to promote photographic language and provide a concrete opportunity to showcase one’s work.  Selected projects will be exhibited through solo and group shows during the Langhe Photo Festival 2025. Additionally, artists recognized for the value of their artistic research will receive support tools for their work, such as EIZO monitors, to encourage the development of their future projects.

Through these awards, the National Press Club seeks to recognize and honor professional journalists who have produced outstanding work for the public, either independently or as employees of editorially independent news entities.

The competition's goal is to showcase the best in mountain-themed photo essays – to recognize the best stories told through a series of still images. We invite photographers to submit photos to illustrate their mountain related stories whether culture, adventure, wildlife, sport, environment, or natural history. The jury is seeking a sequence of images that conveys a compelling story or message – with each image strong enough to stand on its own while conveying a greater narrative when viewed in the photographer’s desired sequence.

The National Geographic Society invites proposals that identify a challenge related to a specific place and its unique conditions and leverages an educational solution using spatial thinking to enable people to act on behalf of our planet and its people. Spatial thinking involves visualizing, interpreting, and reasoning information using location, patterns, scale, relationships, movement, and change over time in order to understand our world and develop impactful solutions. Applications are encouraged to make connections across disciplines to identify creative solutions through interdisciplinary methods, use experiential learning, and define spatial thinking broadly to engage learners (of any age, in any setting) in understanding a place’s unique conditions and inspiring people to take positive action for our planet and its people.

The selected photographers will receive a cash grant of £5,000, plus printing, framing (provided by the Bodleian Libraries) and artwork transportation costs.

The Bodleian Libraries Commission is an ambitious collaboration between the Bodleian Libraries and British Journal of Photography. It seeks to diversify the Bodleian Libraries’ portrait collection by commissioning new portraits that reflect the breadth and real-world impact of Oxford University research. This initiative will broaden the collection and ensure it is representative of the contemporary university, research community and the impact they have today.

The Lena Grant is an award created by former WPOW co-director Molly Roberts to encourage the coverage of health care issues in the USA. This year’s winner will receive $3,000 and a Sony Alpha A93 camera kit, courtesy of Sony. Accepted subject matter encompasses a wide range and includes physical, mental and emotional health, social determinants impacting health, reproductive care, addiction, PTSD, family caregiving, gender identity, migrant health, and any other medical and caregiving topic. The Lena Grant is open to WPOW members only and supports existing or new photo, video or multimedia projects.

For the 56th edition of the festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles and the LUMA Foundation are once again offering the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award, a prize to help publish a book model. Initiated in 2015 and endowed with a production budget of €25,000, this award is open to professional photographers and artists using photography, upon proposal of a book model that has never been published. Special attention will be paid to experimental and innovative editorial forms.

The Online Journalism Awards are open to websites, areas of websites and all digital platforms, including smart phones, e-readers and tablets, where journalists have originated the content or selected and amplified it. Search services, portal sites and wire services may submit content they created that fits the eligibility requirements.

Project Grants fund visual storytelling that inspires audiences and/or participants to look at family in new, meaningful ways. We invite proposals that employ photography or photo-based art for journalistic, artistic, therapeutic, educational, and research purposes. Projects may range from photography series and book projects to public art projects, mental health programs, long-form journalism, curriculum, performances, digital projects, scholarly publications, and more.

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 "Prix de la Photographie, Paris" (PX3) strives to promote the appreciation of photography, to discover emerging talent, and introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris. A selection of work from this competition is displayed in Paris and the winners are published in the PX3 Annual Book. Juried by leading editors, publishers, curators, gallery owners, consultants, creative directors, and art directors, PX3 brings the best of photography from across the globe to Paris.

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 FLORIDA MUSEUM of PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS is a museum dedicated to exhibiting important photographic art as central to contemporary life and culture. FMoPA collects, preserves, and exhibits historic and contemporary works by nationally and internationally known photographic artists. FMoPA also enriches the community by operating outreach programs to educate children and adults.

The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives. The award goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence.

Conceived and organized by Eyes Wide Open (the cultural production arm of The Eyes label) with the support of the French Ministry of Culture and SAIF, the Eyes Wide Open 1st Photo Book Bursary program is aimed at photographers who wish to propose a first book project with the support of an independent French publisher. The Eyes Wide Open 1st Photo Book Grants program offers to support 3 book projects by a photographer and his/her publisher, each with €5,000. It is divided into 3 categories, each meeting a specific need : – SAIF grant for a French photographer or a photographer living in France – Grant for a woman photographer of any nationality  – Grant for a photographer from a southern territory (Africa, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Middle East) 

Over a period of 12 weeks this tuition-free interdisciplinary seminar (held online) will equip the first 12 participant in our program for Native Americans with the necessary tools to produce photo essays suitable for publication in an editorial context.

This Level 1 course is the first step in a program designed to train a total of 24 journalists — including 12 at an advanced level — with the latest skills in visual journalism to make and distribute compelling reports on the Native American experience for years to come. The program is operated in partnership with Buffalo’s Fire and is supported by grant from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.

Canon and Visa pour l’Image will be presenting the prestigious Canon Female Photojournalist Grant to an outstanding photographer in recognition of her contribution to photojournalism. The grant of €8,000 provides funding to support a compelling new project which will be featured as an exhibition at the festival.

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 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.