Workshops, Grants, Contests, and Deadlines

The second iteration of the Hot Docs Incubator will provide project grants, training, mentorship, and investment to documentary film directors, producers, and editors (referred to as “fellows”) to enhance their business development capacity and drive early interest in their current projects.

Only open to women photographers worldwide, professional and amateur, working in all mediums, styles, and schools of thought.

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.

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.

Applicants must have a clearly defined project pitch that may not otherwise be completed without WAM’s support. The focus of the proposal must be on animals used for food, and must have a beginning and an end. This can be a project that you have already started and need support to finish.

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.

Open to emerging and early-career artists and arts administrators, this Fellowship offers a unique, experiential opportunity to work collaboratively with an established, non-profit arts organization. It is designed to foster the professional development of an artist or arts administrator seeking to better understand and develop skills in the workings of a small non-profit.

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 "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.

An international prize awarded to a woman photographer, the Virginia Prize has been awarded every two years since 2012 to a professional photographer, of any nationality, with no age limit for photographic work, excluding press and advertising orders, unpublished in France.

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.

The Hopper Prize supports individual artists through two primary modes: unrestricted grant-making and an online digital archiving platform.

These $5,000 grants will support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity.

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. We encourage proposals that address underrepresented family arrangements, care work, memory, identity formation, and other related topics.

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.

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 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 and 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 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 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 IJA-AAJA Pacific Islander Journalism Scholarship Fund is intended to grow the number of Pacific Islander journalists and support their success.

The Sincerely Storyteller Fellowship program is the foundation’s pilot program. For the first year, they will only consider photographers with projects in Morocco. As part of the program, we select a small number of visual storytellers and support the completion and circulation of their storytelling project by means of financial and mentoring support over a long-term period, focused very much also on the personal development of the visual storytellers. 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 program selects storytellers with a clear project in mind within the communities they work with. These projects can be at various stages in terms of their development.

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

The process of becoming a full member to Magnum Photos takes a minimum of four years. New Photographers are only recruited once a year, during Magnum’s Annual General Meeting in June, where one day is set aside for considering and voting on potential new members’ portfolios.

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.

The Hariban Award invites professionals and amateurs alike to submit black and white photographs for a chance to win.

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.

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.

Apply for Light Work's renowned Artist-in-Residence program. Selected artists will receive a $5,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Applications are open to all artists working in photography or image-based media.

print and online investigative business journalism

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

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.

The Mountain Workshops gather storytellers from around the world to document the diverse communities within the Commonwealth of Kentucky through visual and written narratives.