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Tue, Nov 18Nov 18, 2025, 11:30 PMFee: $25 / Prize: $5,000+ ExposureTheme: Several Categories. Contest Description: CALL FOR ENTRIES. A celebration of the enduring power of photography, this prestigious annual contest awards the honor of Photographer of the Year within each category. Winners will receive $5,000 in cash prizes...
Tue, Nov 18Nov 18, 2025, 11:30 PMFee: Yes / Prize: Solo ExhibitionTheme: Open. We want to showcase incredible work. Photography that awakens our imagination, transforms our way of thinking, or simply resonates with who we are. The Solo Exhibition enables you to reach a wider audience through our independent magazine that has become one of the...
Tue, Nov 18Nov 18, 2025, 11:30 PMFee: $25 / Prize: ExhibitionTheme: Common Ground. Call for Entries: Common Ground invites artists to explore how we form, sustain, and imagine community. Submit by November 18 for the PRC’s Giving Tuesday Online Exhibition, launching December 2, 2025. Up to thirty photographers will be selected for the...
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Wed, Nov 19Nov 19, 2025, 11:30 PM GMT-6Fee: $40 / Prize: $1,000Theme: Open. Silver Eye Center for Photography announces the Call for Entries for Fellowship 26 our annual photography open call. All awardees and honorable mentions will be included in the Fellowship 26 exhibition in May, 2026. Awardees and honorable mentions will receive curatorial...
Thu, Nov 20Nov 20, 2025, 11:30 PMFee: Free / Prize: $25,000 + SmartphoneTheme: Super Every Moment. OPPO has officially launched its annual mobile photography competition, the OPPO Photography Awards 2025. As a global platform celebrating visual storytelling, the contest aims to inspire OPPO users around the world to capture and share beauty...
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Dusk Photo Gallery - Grayscale: Call for Entries
• 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


The Boomer Gallery - Transcendence: International Call for Artists
• 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


Portrait 2025 by Street Photographers Foundation Awards
• 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 - "Black and White" Open Call
• 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,


The Hopper Prize - Grant for Artists and Photographers Open Call
• 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


"Filling the Frame" Open Call by PhotoPlace Gallery
• 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


3rd Edition of The Portfolio Parade by MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas 2026
• 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 Photography 2026 Open Call
• 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 2026: Echoes of Silence – War in the Artist's Soul
• 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 Awards 2025 - "Portrait" Call for Entries
• 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 - November: Soft Light Open Call
• 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 - Berlin International Photo Award Call for Entries
• 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


Travel Photo Contest by All About Photo
• 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


NYC4PA - Urban Landscapes, Suburban Scenes, Rural Impressions: Call for Entry
• New York Center for Photographic Arts • Deadline: January 4th, 2026 • Theme: Urban, Suburban, Rural • Prize: $4,000 Prize Pool +...


L. A. Times - Spring and Summer Internships 2026
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World Street Photo Awards 2025 - Open Call
• World Street Photo Awards • Deadline: November 29th, 2025 • Category: Street Photography • Prize: €2,000 Total Prize Pool +...


"The New Artist" Call For Entries by Boomer Gallery
• 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


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


International Image Festival 2026 by Getxophoto
• 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 Awards 2025 - Portrait
• 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 - Call for Exhibition
• 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 - Travel Photo Contest Open Call
• 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
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