• Dusk Photo Gallery • Deadline: November 20th, 2025 • Theme: Grayscale • Prize: Exhibition in Santa Fe (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Before there was color, there was only light and shadow—the primal language of photography. In black and white, a world is revealed not through hues, but through essence: contrast, texture, and form become the storytellers. Every highlight burns with truth, every shadow whispers with mystery. Together they speak a

• Boomer Gallery London • Deadline: December 5th, 2025 • Theme: Transcendence • Prize: Exhibition in London + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free Submission (Pay if Selected) • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Passion. Conflict. Love. Within these timeless forces lies the heartbeat of artistic creation—a potent fusion that breathes life into canvases, photographs, sculptures, and every imaginable medium. Each artwork becomes a vessel for emotion, carrying whispers of the artist’s soul. Thro

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• Street Photographers Foundation • Deadline: November 10th, 2025 • Category: Street Photography • Prize: €1,000 Cash Awards + Global Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE No two people see the world in exactly the same way. Each set of eyes tells a different story, finding beauty and meaning in unique details. That’s what makes every single day different — our individual perspectives color every experience. Still, something unites us all: the desire to captu

• Black Box Gallery • Deadline: November 12th, 2025 • Theme: Black and White • Prize: Exhibition in Portland (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Black Box Gallery  is thrilled to announce a new Black and White Juried Group Photography Exhibition , celebrating the artistry, drama, and timeless appeal of monochrome photography. Black and white has long been a cornerstone of the photographic medium — a way of seeing that distills the world into pure form,

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• The Hopper Prize • Deadline: November 11th, 2025 • Theme: Open • Prize: $4,500 X4 Artists/Photographers + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Artists, take note — The Hopper Prize  is officially accepting entries for the Fall 2025 artist grants , and this year’s awards are bigger than ever. For this open call, the grant amounts have been raised to $4,500 , giving artists an even greater opportunity to fund their creative projects. In total, two artists wi

• PhotoPlace Gallery • Deadline: November 10th, 2025 • Theme: Filling the Frame • Prize: Exhibition in Vermont (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE “The more stuff in the picture, the better. . . . In a sense it’s more fun to add more stuff if you can, and still make the picture.” — Lee Friedlander FILLING THE FRAME  challenges photographers to go beyond simplicity — to capture the pulse and rhythm of visual excess. We’re celebrating images that overflo

• MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas 2026 • Deadline: January 15th, 2026 • Category: Contemporary Photography • Prize: Exhibition in Milan + Publication + Residency in Italy • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Get ready for something extraordinary at the MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas 2026 . For the third year in a row , visionary Dutch artist, curator, and storyteller Erik Kessels  returns with an exciting side program devoted to emerging photographers and bold new ideas . Thr

• Thin Line Fest • Deadline: January 15th, 2026 • Category: Several Categories • Prize: $500 + Exhibition in Denton, Texas (USA) • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Thin Line Fest  is a five-day, multi-format celebration of the arts taking place March 18–22, 2026 , in the vibrant and creative city of Denton, Texas . More than just a single event, it brings together three distinct but interconnected festivals— Film, Music, and Photography —into one immersive cultural

• 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 What happens to an artist when war is not witnessed, but felt? When the noise of violence turns inward—into echoes, fragments, and quiet reflections? “Echoes of Silence” delves into the ways war, conflict, and collective trauma resound within artists who turn the camera not towa

• Street Photographers Foundation • Deadline: November 10th, 2025 • Category: Street Photography • Prize: €1,000 Cash Awards + Global Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Perspective defines everything. Each individual views the world differently, and that diversity of vision transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. No two days are the same because every person experiences life through their own distinct frame of reference. Still, there are shared thr

• Profoto • Deadline: November 15th, 2025 • Category: High Key Lighting • Prize: $2,000 USD in Profoto Gear + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE High key lighting is a style defined by its brilliance and clarity — a world bathed in light where brightness dominates and shadows take a subtle step back. Characterized by its soft tones, delicate highlights, and minimal contrast, this approach produces images that feel open, fresh, and full of vitality. The re

• Swiss Photo Club • Deadline: November 7th, 2025 • Theme: Open • Prize: Exhibition in Berlin + Sales + 300CHF • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The much-loved SPC PHOTO AWARDS  are making their return to Berlin , now hosted in a modern and centrally located space  designed to bring together photographers and art lovers from all around. This exciting photography competition welcomes everyone— no matter your experience level . Participating couldn’t be easier: just

• All About Photo • Deadline: November 7th, 2025 • Category: Travel Photography • Prize: $1,000 + Publication + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The 53rd printed edition of AAP Magazine  will be devoted to one of the most universal and enduring themes in photography: “TRAVELS.”  This issue aims to showcase a diverse collection of photographic projects that interpret the idea of travel in its many dimensions — geographic, emotional, and imaginative. Trave

• New York Center for Photographic Arts • Deadline: January 4th, 2026 • Theme: Urban, Suburban, Rural • Prize: $4,000 Prize Pool +...

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• World Street Photo Awards • Deadline: November 29th, 2025 • Category: Street Photography • Prize: €2,000 Total Prize Pool +...

• Boomer Gallery London • Deadline: November 5th, 2025 • Theme: Open • Prize: Exhibition in London + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free Submission (Pay if Selected) • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE In the last hundred years, the world has undergone a revolution unlike any other in human history. We have reshaped the skyline with skyscrapers, extended our reach beyond Earth through space exploration, and changed the way we connect with each other through social media. We have also witness

• Decagon Gallery • Deadline: November 30th, 2025 • Theme: Sanctuary (Spaces of refuge, renewal) • Prize: $1,000 + Online Solo...

• Getxophoto International Image Festival • Deadline: November 6th, 2025 • Theme: Reset • Prize: €500 + Exhibition in Spain + Accommodation • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Get ready — in June 2026 , the Getxophoto International Image Festival  turns 20 ! Over the past few years, we’ve hit PAUSE , PLAY , and REC , reflecting on how we stop, move, and capture moments. Now, as we step into this milestone year, it’s time to press the next button: RESET . It’s an inv

• Street Photographers Foundation • Deadline: November 10th, 2025 • Category: Street Photography • Prize: €1,000 Cash Awards + Global Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Every pair of eyes perceives the world through its own unique lens. What one person sees as ordinary, another may find extraordinary. Each day unfolds differently for each of us, shaped by our distinct perspectives and emotions. Yet despite these differences, we share common desires — the l

• Revela’t Contemporary Analog Festival • Deadline: November 16th, 2025 • Category: Analog Photography • Prize: €1,000 + Exhibition at Revela’t Festival • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE We live in an era saturated by images and overwhelmed by the promises of technology. Our vision is constantly mediated, filtered, and redirected. In such a context, to continue looking with curiosity, to sustain a sense of wonder, becomes an act of emancipation—a way of resisting

• All About Photo • Deadline: November 4th, 2025 • Category: Travel Photography • Prize: $1,000 + Publication + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The 53rd issue of AAP Magazine  is your ticket to adventure! This edition will celebrate “TRAVELS”  in all its forms — from bold expeditions to remote corners of the globe to spontaneous moments captured just around the corner. As Steve McCurry  once said, “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and obse