• NYC4PA • Deadline: April 19th, 2026 • Theme: Luminosity (The Impact of Light) • Prize: $4,000 Prize Pool + Online Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Photography is inseparable from light—its strength, its softness, its direction, and even its disappearance. Tools such as light meters and techniques like backlighting or managing glare are all part of an ongoing relationship with illumination. A well-known image of Grand Central Station, filled with beam

• BBA Prizes & Gallery • Deadline: March 30th, 2026 • Theme: Open • Prize:  €1,000 + Solo Show in Berlin (Germany) • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE At the core of this competition lies a commitment to outstanding visual quality, impactful storytelling, innovative conceptual thinking, meticulous technical skill, profound engagement with subject matter, and a sincere grasp of photographic expression. Our esteemed panel of jurors — all seasoned professionals from acr

• Decagon Gallery • Deadline: May 3rd, 2026 • Theme: This Is a Person • Prize: $1,000 Prize Pool + Online Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Portraiture has long been associated with the act of recording outward appearance—capturing likeness, form, and surface. This exhibition seeks to move beyond that tradition by asking a more complex and introspective question: what exists beneath what we see? We are inviting photographic works that gesture toward an

• Beautiful Bizarre Magazine + MPB • Deadline: July 17th, 2026 • Theme: Open • Prize: $4,500 Cash + Publication + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Artists working within a representational photographic style are warmly invited to submit their work to the MPB Photography Award. This includes all photographic practices, whether created through analogue processes, digital capture, or a combination of both. As long as the work remains grounded in photographi

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• Black Box Gallery • Deadline: April 10th, 2026 • Category: Black and White Photography • Prize:  Exhibition in Portland (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Black Box Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming juried group photography exhibition dedicated entirely to black and white imagery. This special exhibition invites photographers to explore the expressive power of monochrome photography, a medium that has long been associated with a timeless sen

• Natural Landscape Photography Awards • Deadline: May 31st, 2026 • Category: Landscape / Natural Photography • Prize:  $5,000 + Exposure + Publication • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Welcome to the Natural Landscape Photography Awards (NLPA) , an international photography competition dedicated to discovering and celebrating some of the finest landscape and nature photography from around the world. The competition was created with the goal of highlighting photogr

• Appennino Foto Festival • Deadline: April 26th, 2026 • Category: Several Categories • Prize:  €3,900 Total Prizes + Exhibition in Italy • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The Impressum Photo Award 2026 is an international photography competition open to photographers from all over the world, welcoming participants regardless of nationality, experience level, or photographic style. The contest aims to provide a global platform where photographers can present their

• Photometria International Photo Festival • Deadline: March 31st, 2026 • Theme: Open • Prize:  Exhibition at Photometria Festival in Greece • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE With a continued focus on nurturing young creative talent, the Photometria International Photography Festival announces the launch of “Youth Collective 2026,” a competition dedicated to empowering the next generation of photographers. This initiative reflects the festival’s ongoing mission to

• Milano Photo Awards 2026 + Nikon • Deadline: August 15th, 2026 • Category: C ontemporary Photography • Prize:  €30,000 in Prizes + Nikon Z50II Camera + Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The Milano Photo Awards distinguish themselves from many other photography competitions thanks to a guiding principle that lies at the heart of the initiative: recognition is not reserved solely for the winners. While the final prizes celebrate excellence, the event is

• Decode Gallery • Deadline: March 28th, 2026 • Category: Color Photography • Prize:  Exhibition in Tucson + Sales + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Our next theme invites you to explore the world of COLOR . From striking, high-contrast hues that demand attention to delicate, understated tones that gently set a mood, color can transform an ordinary scene into something unforgettable. It is more than just a visual element — it is a language of emotion, at

• Narwhal Rainbow Alliance • Deadline: May 31st, 2026 • Theme: Queer Nature (non-human) • Prize:  €1000 + Exhibitions + Publication • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Welcome to the Queer Nature Photography Awards , a space dedicated to celebrating the rich and vibrant meeting point between queerness and biodiversity. Across the natural world, life expresses itself in countless forms, relationships, and adaptations that challenge rigid categories and remind us that

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• Profoto • Deadline: March 15th, 2026 • Category: Best use of Light • Prize:  $2,000 in Profoto Gear + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE This is an open invitation to explore your relationship with light. There are no thematic frameworks to respond to and no boundaries to restrict your creativity. The brief is intentionally simple: create an image that demonstrates what you can achieve with your Profoto light. Think carefully about how light behaves in y

• All About Photo • Deadline: March 31st, 2026 • Theme: Shadows • Prize:  $1,000 + Online Exhibition + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE At All About Photo , we are dedicated to celebrating photography that goes beyond technical excellence—images that inspire, challenge perspectives, and create meaningful emotional connections. We believe that powerful photography has the ability to transform the way we see the world, spark conversation, and bring people t

• PhotoPlace Gallery • Deadline: April 6th, 2026 • Theme: Portals: New Perspectives • Prize:  Exhibition in Vermont (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE A portal is more than just an opening; it suggests the possibility of passage, discovery, and transformation. It invites us to pause and look through, to step beyond the visible threshold, or to imagine what might exist just out of view. A portal can separate spaces while also connecting them, marking th

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• Form Photography • Deadline: March 15th, 2026 • Theme: Open • Prize:  Exhibition during Art Basel + Feature • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE With the support of photo basel , Picter , and Form. , we are excited to introduce the Form Photo Award 2026 , an annual photography prize dedicated to contemporary image-making and new artistic perspectives. The award is designed to spotlight photographers who bring fresh ideas, strong visual identities, and thoughtful app

• Dusk Photo Gallery • Deadline: March 26th, 2026 • Theme: Botanical • Prize:  Exhibition in Santa Fe (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE This call centers on the theme of Botanical , inviting artists to explore the natural world with curiosity, imagination, and creative depth. We are not simply seeking images that document plants as they appear, but rather photographs that transform botanical subjects into compelling visual experiences. We encourage yo

• FOTO Bali Festival • Deadline: March 13th, 2026 • Theme: Afterimage • Prize:  Exhibition in Bali (Indonesia) • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE This edition proposes a shift in temporal perspective. Instead of concentrating on the decisive event or the immediacy of representation, it examines what follows—what remains once an occurrence has concluded and its effects begin to sediment into reality. After transformation has taken place, after urgency has dissipated

• Siena Awards • Deadline: April 1st, 2026 • Category: Several Categories • Prize:  €500 + Exhibition + 2-night Stay in Italy • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The Creative Photo Awards  serves as a global platform that brings together professional and emerging photographers, offering them the opportunity to share their vision with an international audience. The competition is open to photographers of all backgrounds and styles, united by a passion for creativity

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• VIEPA • Deadline: May 31st, 2026 • Category: Several Categories • Prize: €10,000 in Prizes + Exhibition in Austria • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Photography serves as a universal language, a medium capable of connecting people across the globe. Its quiet strength fosters understanding, bridging the gaps between nations, communities, and continents. The peaceful power inherent in photographic expression brings individuals together, encouraging dialogue, empat

• Kuala Lumpur Portrait Awards • Deadline: March 31st, 2026 • Category: A Stranger's Face • Prize:  €2,000 + Exhibition in Malaysia • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Travel photography continues to captivate photographers and audiences alike, offering the promise of new places, unfamiliar cultures, and unforgettable experiences. While dramatic landscapes, vibrant cities, and local cuisine often dominate the visual narrative of travel, it is the people encountered a

• Profoto • Deadline: March 15th, 2026 • Category: Best use of Light • Prize:  $2,000 in Profoto Gear + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Here is your moment to reveal how you work with light at its fullest potential. There are no imposed concepts, no narrative requirements, and no creative limitations—except one: your image must show what you can achieve with your Profoto light. Approach it in the way that feels most authentic to you. Perhaps you sculpt

• Photojournalism Prize (PJP) • Deadline: April 30th, 2026 • Category: Photojournalism and Documentary • Prize: €5,000 + Online Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The introduction of the Photo Journalism Prize (PJP) marks the debut of a competition dedicated to acknowledging the ability of photography to document reality with depth, emotion, and nuance. Designed to be inclusive of all skill levels, the PJP invites both seasoned photojournalists and emerg

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• Boomer Gallery London • Deadline: March 12th, 2026 • Theme: Vogued • Prize:  Exhibition in London • Entry Fees: Free Submission (Pay if Selected) • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE At a time when the art world is evolving faster than ever, understanding how to approach contemporary art has become an increasingly important question. New technologies have transformed the creative process, allowing artists to generate highly complex works in mere seconds, while traditional artistic pr

• Decagon Gallery • Deadline: March 31st, 2026 • Theme: Night Works • Prize: $1,000 Total Cash + Online Solo Exhibition • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE NIGHT WORKS  calls on photographers to explore the visual and emotional possibilities of the hours after dark. In this exhibition, night is more than a setting—it is a creative force that shapes light, alters perception, and redefines space. Submitted images may be bold or restrained, urban or rural, crowded or d

• FOTO Bali Festival • Deadline: March 13th, 2026 • Theme: Afterimage • Prize:  Exhibition in Bali (Indonesia) • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE In this edition, we turn away from the flash of the moment and toward its aftermath. We are interested in what remains once something has already occurred—after the noise has subsided, after change has quietly settled into the fabric of things, after attention has drifted elsewhere. What endures when the image no longer d

• Black Box Gallery • Deadline: March 11th, 2026 • Theme: Color Photography • Prize:  Exhibition in Portland (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Black Box Gallery announces a juried group exhibition focused on the expansive field of contemporary color photography. This exhibition seeks to examine how photographers engage with color not merely as a descriptive element, but as a conceptual and aesthetic force within their work. Across today’s photographic

• International Aerial Photographer of the Year • Deadline: April 30th, 2026 • Category: Aerial Photography • Prize:  $10,000 in Cash Prizes + Publication • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Those wondering whether they have made it into the Top 101 have two straightforward ways to check. They can explore the flipbook featuring all Top 101 entries, available at the bottom of the article, where the selected works are presented in full. Alternatively, they can access t

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• PhotoPlace Gallery • Deadline: March 9th, 2026 • Theme: Water: Element of Change • Prize:  Exhibition in Vermont (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Water surrounds us and sustains us, flowing through our lives in ways both visible and subtle. It shapes the land beneath our feet, catches and reflects light in ever-changing patterns, and carries a sense of movement, memory, and emotional depth. Sometimes it appears calm and quiet; at other times it fee

• Profoto • Deadline: March 15th, 2026 • Category: Best use of Light • Prize:  $2,000 in Profoto Gear + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE This is your opportunity to demonstrate how you shape, control, and interpret light in your own distinctive way. There are no predefined themes to follow, no conceptual boundaries to stay within, and no stylistic constraints to limit your approach. The only essential element is this: we want to see what you can create u

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• All About Photo • Deadline: March 6th, 2026 • Theme: Women • Prize:  $1,000 + Online Exhibition + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Since photography first emerged as a medium, women have been central to its history. They have appeared frequently as subjects, while also embracing photography as a powerful means of documentation and self-expression. Through the camera, women have explored identity, recorded lived experience, and contributed to the evoluti

• BBA Prizes & Gallery • Deadline: March 30th, 2026 • Theme: Open • Prize:  €1,000 + Solo Show in Berlin (Germany) • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Visual excellence, compelling narrative power, original conceptual thinking, refined technical craftsmanship, meaningful subject depth, and an authentic understanding of the medium all stand at the heart of the evaluation process. These core qualities form the foundation upon which our distinguished jury — composed of

• FOTO Bali Festival • Deadline: March 13th, 2026 • Theme: Afterimage • Prize:  Exhibition in Bali (Indonesia) • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE This edition shifts its focus toward what persists after the event itself has passed—toward the traces, residues, and quiet continuities that remain once the decisive moment is no longer present. It asks what survives after transformation has already taken root, after the spectacle has faded, after collective attention ha

• PhotoEd Magazine • Deadline: June 15th, 2026 • Theme: Home vs Away • Prize:  Publication (Digital & Print) • Entry Fees: Free for Subscribers • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE photoED Magazine continues its commitment to showcasing diverse photographic voices by presenting compelling visual stories in fresh and innovative ways. With each issue, the magazine highlights artists who push creative boundaries while exploring meaningful contemporary themes through lens-based practices.

• Seeing Happy • Deadline: March 7th, 2026 • Theme: Imagining Well-Being • Prize:  $200 + Exposure • Entry Fees: Free • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE This initiative is led and curated by SeeingHappy, an international nonprofit organization that employs photography as a tool for reflection, connection, and the advancement of human well-being. Through its programs and exhibitions, SeeingHappy uses visual narratives to promote empathy, deepen understanding, and encourage positive so

• Photo Artfolio • Deadline: March 25th, 2026 • Theme: The Human Portrait • Prize:  $1,000 + Online Exhibition + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE To celebrate our continued commitment to showcasing contemporary photography, Photo Artfolio invites photographers worldwide to participate in The Human Portrait , a global online exhibition exploring portraiture as a deeply human and endlessly evolving form of expression. The portrait has never existed as a sin

• Form Photography • Deadline: March 15th, 2026 • Theme: Open • Prize:  Exhibition during Art Basel + Feature • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Supported by photo basel , Picter , and Form. , the Form Photo Award 2026  proudly returns as an annual platform dedicated to contemporary photography and its evolving visual languages. Conceived as a space for discovery and experimentation, the award invites photographers who challenge conventions, propose new narratives,

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• Black Box Gallery • Deadline: March 11th, 2026 • Theme: Color Photography • Prize:  Exhibition in Portland (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Black Box Gallery is excited to present a juried group exhibition celebrating the creative possibilities of color photography. This show will highlight the many ways photographers use color as a central element in their visual storytelling and artistic exploration. In contemporary photography, color plays an in

• Exposure Photo Gallery • Deadline: June 30th, 2026 • Theme: The Shape of a Moment • Prize: $500 Exhibition in USA and Argentina • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Some moments pass almost unnoticed, lasting no longer than a heartbeat, yet they leave an imprint that stays with us. They exist at the edge of perception, where light, emotion, and time briefly align. This call invites you to observe those quiet intersections and capture the fragile beauty of what is f

• Dusk Photo Gallery • Deadline: March 26th, 2026 • Theme: Botanical • Prize:  Exhibition in Santa Fe (USA) + Sales • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE The theme of this call is Botanical . We are interested in images that move beyond straightforward documentation of plants and natural subjects. Rather than simple representation, we encourage photographers to explore the expressive and imaginative possibilities within the botanical world. We invite you to look closel

• Decode Gallery • Deadline: March 28th, 2026 • Category: Color Photography • Prize:  Exhibition in Tucson + Sales + Exposure • Entry Fees: Yes • REGISTRATION: CLICK HERE Our next theme is COLOR . It can be bold and impossible to ignore, or soft and barely whispered. It can be vibrant and full of energy, or muted and quietly atmospheric. However you choose to use it, color remains one of the most powerful storytelling tools available to photographers. It has the unique abilit

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