Amateur Photo Contests

MWCP is seeking emerging photographers creating fresh and exciting new pictures. We feel strongly about providing this exhibition opportunity to emerging photographers. Professionally preparing a series of work, entering to galleries within the stated guidelines of gallery submissions and through subsequently building an exhibition record is a major and essential aspect of building a career in art photography. In the year of 2025 we will be featuring 25 photographers for the EMERGE competitio

The Photobook Dummy Award is one of the highlights of the Hong Kong Photobook Festival, which aims to support emerging artists and provide them with opportunities to showcase their work at international festivals. This year photographers, artists and creative talents from all over the world are as usual invited to submit their works. Thanks to the support of various partners, the winning and shortlisted dummies from previous year have been toured and exhibited in numerous places, included but

College Students (of any age) attending a college or university are invited to submit up to 10 images, photography or photo based art in the SE Center College Call. The Call is open theme - all subjects, media, digital, analog, or antique processes that show your best work. Entering Your Images: You can enter your images online at www.SmarterEntry.com For best results, make sure your image is 1200 pixels @72 dpi on the longest side, Images should be in JPEG format, sRGB color space. Please

These grants enable current college student photographers and filmmakers to produce bodies of work that align with The Alexia’s mission. We also encourage a diversity of creators, issues and approaches, and value work that elevates understanding and inspires meaningful change. Student applicants are encouraged to consider proposing projects located close to where they live because a successful body of work is more likely with easy and repeated access. Most student grant recipients are al

We are pleased to announce our fourth Colors online Art Competition for the month of February 2025. The gallery invites artists and photographers from around the world to share their artistic vision using a concentration of one color or a multitude of colors. A variety of interpretations of Colors theme can be submitted (representative, abstract, conceptional). All visual art mediums are allowed. In addition to the selected artists, the jury will select award winners in the following art categ

Submit your art and photography animal portraits. There are so many styles of animal portraiture in the world now, show us yours! We are especially happy when a portrait tells us something about the animal. This could be anything from their personality to their favorite food. Something as simple as the angle of a collar or Submit your animal artwork! Any sort of animal is eligible. For this art call, we want to see your most stunning portrayals of animals. Show us epic brush work, incredible com

In 2025, TUMO Gallery opens its doors to collaborations and young creators. We invite artists, exhibition curators, and project managers working in the visual arts field, both from Lithuania and abroad, who are aged 18 to 35 at the time of application, to submit proposals for exhibitions in the TUMO Gallery exhibition space (95 m²), located in Užupis, Vilnius. HOW TO APPLY? By February 20, 2025 (inclusive), fill out and submit the application form. Attach visual material of the project (

Photographing the visual essence of a person as well as capturing the genuine quality of someone is a decisive documentation to mark a moment in a persons life. One of the rewarding challenges of portrait photography is to have the ability to viscerally communicate observations of a person and translate that into the photograph. Recording the fleeting moments of mannerisms, expressions and gestures of someone in a click of the shutter is a compelling experience, as time is always changing. The a

Fusion Art invites submissions for the 2025 Artist’s Choice art competition for an online exhibition during the month of March 2025. This is the 9th annual Artist’s Choice art competition that the gallery has held. For this open (no theme) competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art and photography in any subject matter and any media. The artwork can range from realism to surrealism to abstraction and artists, regardless of location or experience,

UP25 contest will be open from 20 January to 3 March 2025. Interested photographers are invited to follow MUSEC’s social channels (IG @museclugano and FB MusecLugano ) for updates; as soon as the competition is online, they can apply through the form available here The UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest is promoted by the Fondazione culture e musei of Lugano (FCM) with MUSEC-Lugano; organised in collaboration with the 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS Gallery in Milan and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e

Our Street Photography Contest invites photographers from around the world to showcase their talent in freezing these fleeting moments. From bustling cityscapes to quiet corners, the contest celebrates the pulse of life as seen through the eyes of skilled photographers. ​Street photography is an art of observation, capturing the raw, unscripted moments that unfold in everyday life. It’s a genre that thrives on spontaneity, blending light, shadow, movement, and human connection into compel

Photo North Festival announces free national student photography competition. The theme is HOPE and winners will get to exhibit their work at Photo North Festival in April 2025. Through our daily lives, news channels and social media feeds, HOPE can too easily be consumed by negativity, anxiety and alienation. HOPE can raise the spirits, generate pride and self belief. It has the power to heal and to help, to give freedom to dreams. HOPE can bring a positive dimension to our lives. Wha

The Rebecca Vassie Trust today announces the sixth Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers, which includes a cash bursary of £2,000. The award, which funds an early-career photographer in the UK to undertake a new narrative photography project, also includes mentorship and support towards industry and public exposure. In addition, up to twelve longlisted applicants will join the trust’s Development Network, through which they become eligible for a series of smaller gran

Fusion Art invites submissions for the Colors 2025 art competition for an online exhibition during the month of April 2025. For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art and photography using a concentration of colors. One color or a multitude of colors meets the criteria for this competition. This is the 9th Colors competitions the gallery has held. This is an international open (no theme) competition so any subject matter and any media are

Our Black and White Photo Contest invited photographers to showcase their creativity and vision without thematic constraints—the only rule was that the final image had to be in black and white. From dramatic landscapes to intimate portraits or urban scenes, the submissions revealed the power of monochrome storytelling. The best 25 photos will be recognized. The 1st place get 15% of all the money collected, 2nd place 10% and 3rd place 5%. The best 15 photos will get a customized feedback fro