Workshops, Grants, Contests, and Deadlines

The National Press Photographers Foundation (NPPF) is pleased to provide a $15,000 annual fellowship to honor the memory of Michel du Cille, a dedicated photojournalist who died in 2014 while covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Our goal is to encourage photojournalists to cover topics of great importance in today’s changing world.

Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who: - Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding - Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates

Saltonstall offers free residencies to artists and writers who are year-round residents of New York State and/or one of the Indian Nations located therein. Our residencies are designed for those looking for a quiet, supportive environment in which to focus on their craft.

Filter Photo is pleased to announce Context 2025, our eleventh annual spring open call for photography-based work. This year's exhibition will be juried by Shana Lopes, PhD, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA.

All types of photographic work will be considered for this annual survey exhibition of contemporary photography. This open theme allows for the widest understanding of current photography practices.

Context 2025 will open on March 7th and will remain open through April 19th. A juror’s choice award and an honorable mention will be awarded. The juror’s choice award includes a $500 cash prize.

This is the premier two-year newspaper fellowship in the country. Our goal is to recruit, train and retain the best of the next generation of journalists – top-notch multi-media professionals with a broad range of skills.

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)’s Humanities Institute cordially invites applicants for a nine-month Larry Lederman Photography Fellowship, awarded to an outstanding photographer whose work focuses on gardens or landscapes. The grant is awarded annually to an established or emerging photographer whose work demonstrates excellence and a creative approach to the art of landscape photography.

The application period runs from September 15 through December 15, 2023. The selected Fellow will receive a $20,000 grant disbursed in installments for a nine-month term, March 1 through November 30, 2024, during which time the Fellow will have complimentary access to NYBG’s 250-acre landscape and historic collections.

Two student documentary photographers are awarded the $3,000 Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling and $3,000 Tim Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling annually.** Each student is provided **zero-cost housing for a 12-week intensive documentary opportunity to participate in the annual Boyd’s Station Project 306.36 visual documentary program to photograph and write about the people and culture of Harrison County, Kentucky.

LIAEP seeks applications from dedicated artists who create work of exceptional quality and whose work and career is at a level to benefit from international exchange with peers.

The Booooooom Photo Awards are back for a third year with five award categories to submit to: Portrait, Nature, Street, Colour, Fashion. They’ll be awarding each category winner a $1,000 USD cash prize, editorial, and social coverage, and a feature in a printed publication.

The Anderson Center at Tower View's Artist Residency Program is an opportunity in August and October 2025 for early career, mid-career, and established artists working across all disciplines and based anywhere in the world. The program is interdisciplinary and the organization welcomes applications from a wide range of creative and intellectual genres, including those that don't fit neatly into one category.

The Early Career Artist Residency Program is an opportunity for early-career artists living within the state of Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City in need of focused time and dedicated space in an inspiring residency work environment that empowers them take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving.

The winners of this year’s awards will be featured at the LensCulture Discoveries exhibition in New York City. Winners also receive extensive global media coverage, projection at several international photography festivals, cash prizes, and more. Our esteemed jurors are seeking compelling portraits, so don’t miss this opportunity to have your work seen — and chosen — by some of the most respected names in the industry.

Organized by the News Photographers Association of Canada/Association des photographes de presse du Canada.

5 Point Adventure Film Festival is dedicated to sharing stories of adventure that have the power to ignite positive social and environmental change in local communities and around the globe. As the organization looks to reevaluate what adventure means and how to make it more accessible, they're searching for diverse stories and storytellers that help expand our understanding of the collective connection to the outdoors.

The Kala Art Institute Fellowship is an artist residency for local, national, and international artists. Artists producing innovative work in and across mediums including printmaking, photography, digital media, social practice, media installation, and book arts are encouraged to apply. Each year Kala conducts an international competition that awards Fellowships to six artists from a variety of disciplines based on conceptual creativity, originality, and artistic excellence.

Chicago’s best journalism from across the media spectrum.

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

MacDowell provides time, space, and an inspiring residential environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to six weeks. There are no residency fees, and MacDowell offers financial assistance to cover the costs of traveling to and from the residency, as well as expenses that artists expect to incur while in residence, including rent, lost income, and childcare.

Radio Television Digital News Association. The award honors outstanding achievements in electronic journalism and are presented to news organizations.

The fellowship is targeted at visual storytellers that are at the early stages of their career and so apart from supporting the project, the fellowship is aimed at developing you as a photographer.

The PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award was created in 2015.

The Nikon Photo Contest International has been held by Nikon Corporation since 1969 to provide an opportunity for photographers around the world to communicate and to enrich image-making culture for professionals and amateurs alike.

Anderson Ranch’s Artists-in-Residence Program fosters creative, intellectual and professional growth for emerging and established visual artists. Residents have access to world-class facilities and studio time, free from everyday pressures. Residents can pursue interdisciplinary projects among a community of working artists, and gain feedback from prominent Visiting Artists and Critics. The Ranch setting is specifically crafted to aid artists in the production of their work. The residency is designed to allow artists to take risks and pursue new projects and ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.