• All About Photo • Deadline: December 16th, 2025 • Theme: Open • Prize: Online Solo Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Maximize Your Exposure: Enter the Solo Exhibition Competition and secure a month-long online showcase designed to elevate your photography career. At All About Photo , we champion powerful visual storytelling—photographs that captivate, challenge, and move viewers around the world. This competition is your chance to put your work in fro

• Shoot The Frame • Deadline: December 31st, 2025 • Category: Portrait Photography • Prize: $2,000 + ViewSonic Monitor + Exhibitions • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE 13 years of Shoot The Frame. Launched in 2012, Shoot The Frame evolved into a global suite of photography contests celebrating exceptional portrait, landscape and wildlife photography. In 2025, we’re pausing the monthly contests and launching the inaugural Shoot The Frame Portrait Award. The story be

• Decode Gallery • Deadline: November 28th, 2025 • Theme: Light and Shadow • Prize: Exhibition in Tucson + Sales + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Decode Gallery invites you to enter a world where illumination meets mystery. Our upcoming exhibition, Light and Shadow , calls upon photographers to delve into the spaces where brightness tells stories and darkness keeps secrets. Every beam of light has a purpose, every shadow a hidden truth—and between them

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• PhotoPlace Gallery • Deadline: December 8th, 2025 • Theme: On the Street • Prize: Exhibition in Vermont (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE On the Street  is an exploration of the world as it really is — unposed, unfiltered, and alive with energy. From fleeting eye contact between passersby to unguarded moments of emotion, street photography  reveals the pulse of life as it moves around us. For this exhibition, we are seeking photographs that capture

• Decagon Gallery • Deadline: December 18th, 2025 • Theme: The Art of Belonging • Prize: Promotion + Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Home is both a destination and a sensation, a physical landscape and an invisible thread that tugs at the heart. It might be the land where your first footsteps touched the earth, the country you once left behind, the rooms that held your childhood dreams, or a place you yearn for with an ache that never quite fades. Hom

Overview of the Contest For more than two decades, the Smithsonian Magazine Annual Photo Contest has celebrated creativity and the power of photography. This contest captures the world’s beauty, complexity, and stories. Now entering its 23rd year , the contest invites submissions from around the globe starting on September 15, 2025 . The entry period will remain open until December 1, 2025, at 5:00 PM EST . Every participant, by submitting, confirms they are 18 years or olde

• Photometria International Photo Festival • Deadline: December 15th, 2025 • Theme: Open • Prize: Exhibition at Photometria Festival in Greece • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Photography is a language of endless voices—each one unique, each one essential. In celebration of contemporary vision and creative dialogue, the Photometria International Photography Festival  is pleased to announce its Parallel Voices Portfolio Contest , accepting submissions from Novembe

• un/producer & un/fund • Deadline: November 25th, 2025 • Theme: Open • Prize: €10k + Publishing + Residency + Mentorship.  • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE un/fund warmly welcomes visionary and underrepresented visual artists worldwide to apply for its annual open call—an invitation to expand creative horizons through four remarkable opportunities. Artists may pursue a transformative residency experience, secure a publishing partnership to share their work, rece

• Eurordis • Deadline: January 30th, 2026 • Category: Documentary Photography • Prize: GoPro HERO13 Black + Certificate • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The EURORDIS Photo Award  offers a powerful opportunity for individuals to visually share what it means to live with a rare disease. Every photograph submitted becomes more than an image—it becomes a story, a voice, and a bridge that connects people living with rare conditions to the broader community. Through y

• New York Center for Photographic Arts • Deadline: February 8th, 2026 • Theme: Water • Prize: $4,000 Prize Pool + Online Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE H₂O  — one of the first chemical equations we ever learn, yet one of the most profound. With just three simple characters, it represents the essence of life itself. Water surrounds us constantly, shaping our world in ways both visible and unseen. It carves valleys into stone, nourishes the roots of e

• Fine Art Photography Awards • Deadline: February 15th, 2026 • Theme: Fine Art Photography • Prize: $3000 + Online Exhibition + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Welcome to a celebration of boundless imagination and artistic courage—the Fine Art Photography Awards have returned, and we’re inviting all creators who see the world through a different, daring lens. This is your moment to step forward and share the visions that others might overlook or deem t

• Chennai International Photo Biennale • Deadline: December 31st, 202 • Theme: Open • Prize: Exhibition in Chennai (India) + Promotion • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Every artist who submits work will have their photography reviewed by a distinguished and international jury composed of curators, institutional directors, festival programmers, and respected leaders within the global photography community. Your submission ensures that your work is seen, considere

• Decagon Gallery • Deadline: January 31st, 2026 • Theme: Human Body: The Art of Seeing Ourselves • Prize: $1,000 Prize Pool + Online Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Human Body: The Art of Seeing Ourselves  invites photographers and viewers alike to move beyond the surface—to look past skin and form, and into the deeper stories written within the human body. The exhibition challenges us to see the body not simply as a physical subject to be framed, bu

• Boomer Gallery London • Deadline: December 5th, 2025 • Theme: Transcendence • Prize: Exhibition in London + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free Submission (Pay if Selected) • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Art has always served as a mirror to the most complex aspects of human emotion—passion, conflict, love. These elements intertwine across mediums: the fluid line of a painting, the frozen instant of a photograph, the tactile weight of a sculpture. Within each lies a story, a confession

• Envision Kindness • Deadline: December 15th, 2025 • Theme: Kind People / Kindness in Nature • Prize: $2,000 + Online Exhibition • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Over the course of its first six contests, the Our World is Kind Photography Contest  has welcomed an extraordinary outpouring of creativity and compassion. More than 12,000 photographs have been submitted by over 2,000 photographers representing more than 150 countries, forming a remarkable archive of

• The FIBA Photo Contest 2025 • Deadline: November 21st, 2025 • Theme: Dream Team • Prize: 2,500 CHF + Travel + Accommodation • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE For nearly a decade, the FIBA Photo Contest  has been a home for storytellers of the game—a place where every shutter click echoes the rhythm of a bouncing ball, where passion meets purpose, and where basketball’s universal language is spoken through images. As we celebrate the 9th edition , we invite you

• Dusk Photo Gallery • Deadline: November 20th, 2025 • Theme: Grayscale • Prize: Exhibition in Santa Fe (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Before color, everything began with light and shadow—the foundation of every photograph ever made. Black and white imagery takes us back to that beginning, revealing what’s essential. Without the distraction of color, we’re left with pure visual storytelling: the play of brightness and darkness, the texture of surf

• Rotterdam Photo • Deadline: December 1st, 2025 • Theme: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist's Soul • Prize: Exhibition at the Rotterdam Photo Festival • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Rotterdam Photo 2026 presents Echoes of Silence , an exhibition that explores how war shapes artistic identity when the artist is not a witness but an inheritor of its emotional aftermath. In a world oversaturated with images of violence, this edition invites a more personal and

• Umbra Awards • Deadline: November 30th, 2025 • Theme: Several Categories • Prize: Statues + Medals + Certificates • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Step into the spotlight with the Umbra Awards 3rd Edition 2025 , where photography becomes more than an image—it becomes a story that moves the world. The Umbra International Photography Awards™  stand among the most respected honors in the creative community, celebrating artists whose photographs capture imagination