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Reveal us the elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. The rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation... an organic coordination of visual elements. Henri Cartier-Bresson Send us your images - preferably a cohesive body of work or portfolio - both where shapes may not just influence the pictures, but where it may also be the subject solely.Whether in portrait, landscape, nude, street or any other form of photography - classic or experimental: we're open to all genres and we want to discover the best and most interesting photography from all over the world. Winners will receive

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Issue #48

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Shoot the Frame

Shoot The Frame is a suite of monthly international photography contests, designed to celebrate stunning photography and expose talented photographers. We are a community that is completely in love with all things photography. If you are a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we would love to see your imagery. You can submit your photos into our contests below. We have three categories every month. Shoot the Face, Shoot the Land and Shoot the Wild. All finalists and winners will h

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Photographer of the Month

"For Photographers Only" is a platform dedicated to selecting and sharing the finest international opportunities exclusively tailored for photographers. We are excited to introduce our monthly photo contest, an exclusive privilege for our members. The winner will receive an online exhibition, and their work will be prominently featured on our homepage and shared across our social media platforms throughout the entire month. If you're a passionate amateur or professional photographer, we invit

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

TDM Awards 2025

TDM Awards 2025 shines a light on the boldest voices in contemporary street photography — offering a global platform for photographers who push the boundaries of visual storytelling in public spaces. This year’s competition invites emerging and established talents to share their most compelling street moments with an international audience. A distinguished panel of four world-class judges — Siegfried Hansen, Melissa O’Shaughnessy, Kiran Karnani, and Mark Makela — will review all sub

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Chromatic Photography Awards 2025

Chromatic Awards is an international competition of color photography open to both professionals and amateurs. Participation in the Chromatic Awards offers not only prestige, but also the opportunity to win extra money for the development of passion. As such, every professional and amateur photographer from every corner of the world is invited and urged to participate in the third edition of this international prestigious photographic competition dedicated to color photography where 20 catego

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

20th Arte Laguna Prize

Arte Laguna Prize is the Venice-based International Contemporary Art Competition that welcomes and exhibits emerging artists of all ages, countries, genders and artistic backgrounds. The competition is free-themed and it embraces 10 different artistic disciplines, including photographic art, video art and digital graphic art. With two decades of experience, the competition offers numerous opportunities for participants to expand their contacts, gain global visibility and access crucial resources

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 8th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It includes all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow. The Prize seeks to inspire creatives from around the world to pursue a life and career in the arts, and to help careers grow through funding

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Spotlight Awards 2025

The Spotlight Awards highlights world-class commercial photographers who are creating the most outstanding imagery within advertising. Winners are rewarded with an amazing prize pool worth over $55,000.00 across all the categories and invaluable international exposure. The contest is open globally to all professional photographers. Grand prize winner $1000 cash prize Portfolio Review event ticket, worth $1500 2-year VSCO Pro Membership, feature on VSCO, training by a VSCO

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

From icy polar snowscapes to vast and arid deserts; from sweeping agricultural plains to dense tropical rainforest; the earth has always provided an awe-inspiring backdrop to our short stay. This month we want you to capture the beauty of our shared planet – nature’s landscapes and man’s influence on them. The land, our cultures, and the myriad of species with which we inhabit planet Earth. Let’s step out into our world and capture its majesty! Landscapes, conceptual, aerial, document

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

The Camera Clara Prize awards

The Camera Clara Prize awards the art of large format photography, a unique approach in the digital age. Each winner receives a prize of 8,000 euros and the production of an exhibition. Created in 2012, Camera Clara Photo Award is dedicated to photographers using large format camera. It rewards an unpublished work created by an artist, presented as a series or other coherent and comprehensive photographic set. The work will be assessed on its coherence, as a form as well as a cont

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Form Photo Award 2025

This annual photography competition is dedicated to discovering emerging voices, fresh aesthetics, and thought-provoking themes With the support of Scope Miami Beach 2025, Picter, Photo Basel and Form Magazine, we are proud to launch the Form Photo Award 2025 dedicated to contemporary photography. This annual photography competition is dedicated to discovering emerging voices, fresh aesthetics, and thought-provoking themes. It aims to foster global dialogue, intellectual exchange, and cross-c

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the fifth Monochrome online art contest for the month of August 2025. Artists from around the world are welcome to submit. Entries must include the black and white or shades of gray as the primary focus, but also the range of a single color such as sepia, green, blue, red, yellow. All visual art mediums (except video and sound) are allowed. Winning artwork (Best of Show) will be on the poster of the show. All winning artists will receive a digital award certifi

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Deadline: August 01, 2025

Tokyo International Foto Award (TIFA) 2025

Tokyo International Foto Awards acknowledges, commands and exposes outstanding photography from all corners of the globe. TIFA connects photographers with the creative community in Tokyo, Japan, to provide them with an excellent platform to present their work to a new market. We encourage all photographers to participate in the TIFA photo competition. Share your unique talents with the world and win prizes, awards, and recognition. If you would like to have your work exposed to the Russian cr

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Deadline: August 01, 2025

Annual Americana Photo Awards

We are delighted to announce the first annual Americana Photo Awards, a global photography show that transcends borders to celebrate the rich tapestry of America's spirit. From stunning landscapes, architectural wonders to cultural moments and the vibrant people who shape the American identity. The awards international jury encourages you to express your unique perspective and capture the essence of this extraordinary nation. Visit Americana Photo Awards today and submit your best images to b

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Deadline: August 01, 2025

Inner Landscapes

Inner Landscapes Not all landscapes are visible. Some unfold behind closed eyes, shaped not by geography but by memory, emotion, and thought. These inner terrains—subtle, elusive, deeply personal—form a vast and ever-shifting world that reflects how we see, feel, and remember. Inner Landscapes invites artists to chart the topographies of their inner world: emotional geographies, psychological contours, dreamlike spaces, and abstract states of being. How does grief become a color field? Ho

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Deadline: August 01, 2025

AAP Magazine#50: SHAPES

Reveal us the elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. The rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation... an organic coordination of visual elements. Henri Cartier-Bresson Send us your images - preferably a cohesive body of work or portfolio - both where shapes may not just influence the pictures, but where it may also be the subject solely.Whether in portrait, landscape, nude, street o

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Deadline: August 01, 2025

The Homiens Art Prize

The Homiens Art Prize is one of the highest paying art prizes maintained by an independent art gallery, awarding artists over $12,000 USD annually. The announcement of the prize is an internationally celebrated event that elevates art careers to new heights. Ownership of all artworks entered remains with the artist. All entrants are free to exhibit and display their artworks elsewhere. Our prize is open to all artists and art forms internationally. We celebrate our chosen artists across our m

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Deadline: August 01, 2025

Black Is Magazine

Black Is Magazine is now accepting submissions for our inaugural print issue, centered on the theme: Legacy and Continuity in Black Photographic Practice. We are seeking thoughtful, visually compelling work that reflects how Black photographers preserve memory, document culture, and shape lineage through the photographic image. We are currently accepting for two features: The Everyday Archive Submit a photographic series (3–8 images) that meditates on the quiet power of everyday B

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Deadline: August 03, 2025

Past Perfect - Present Tense

The Past Perfect / Present Tense Open Call and resulting exhibition will explore the dynamic interplay between representations of culture in the past and the present as portrayed through a contemporary lens. Theme Description: For this open call, we invite you to submit art that shows how the past continues to inform, energize, and challenge the present, artwork that draws on and reinterprets the rich legacies of past art movements, masters, and genres, and creates a dialogue between what

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Deadline: August 03, 2025

Head On Photo Awards 2025

Since 2004 we have helped photographers worldwide to create, exhibit and inspire, awarding over $930,000 in cash and prizes. The Head On Photo Awards represent a global selection of the best work from emerging and established photographers across three categories: Portrait | Landscape | Exposure The Head On Portrait, Landscape and Exposure Awards are open INTERNATIONALLY to photographers of all levels. Judged without artists’ names to ensure equal opportunity $75,000 pri

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Deadline: August 03, 2025

The Streets at Night

Exhibition dates: Sept 20 - Oct 18, 2025 Street photography in its unique way it captures the mystery and aura of everyday city living. At night, that aura deepens—shadows lengthen, lights flicker, and the ordinary becomes theatrical. The street photographer, often likened to the historical figure of the flâneur—a wanderer of city streets—observes the rhythms of urban life with a mixture of detachment and curiosity. After dark, these rhythms shift. Figures pass under neon. S

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Deadline: August 03, 2025

Enter a realm where focus dissolves and movement becomes the message. This exhibition explores the evocative power of blur in photography—a space where images abandon sharpness in favor of atmosphere, emotion, and poetic ambiguity. Through the soft distortion of form and streaks of movement, each photograph invites the viewer to pause and feel what lies between the frames. Whether capturing the pulse of a crowded city, the sweep of a dancer’s body, or the quiet drift of fog over a landscape,

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Deadline: August 03, 2025

Photographer of the Week 33

Showcase Your Talent: Become Our Photographer of the Week! Each week, from Monday morning to Sunday evening, you can submit up to 10 of your best shots! If your photo is chosen by our jury, you'll have your image featured across the All About Photo website and social media for an entire week. Don’t miss your chance to shine it's free! Showcase Your Talent: Become Our Photographer of the Week! For the entire week: Your winning photo will be showcased on the All About Photo webs

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Deadline: August 04, 2025

BBA One Shot Award

Your best shot. On display. Experienced photographer or casual snap-shooter – everybody has a unique creative vision and the ability to create remarkable images. What does your best shot bring to the table? Anyone 18+ can apply with one image per entry. Any theme, medium and subject are welcome. We accept pure lens-based, mobile or smartphone camera, AI, film, digital, and analogue photography. 50 selected photographers will be part of the major BBA Prizes 10 Year Anniversary exhi

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Deadline: August 05, 2025

Photography 4 Humanity 2025

The 2025 Global Contest promotes climate justice. We believe climate change is a human rights issue, so we are looking for images that show people impacted by the escalating climate crisis. They include climate refuges, the very young, the very old, the disabled and injured, the poor, indigenous and island people, and women. Images of climate champions advocating for change, and those helping to mitigate and reverse climate change are welcome. 2025 GLOBAL PRIZE COMPETITION The 2025

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Deadline: August 05, 2025

Metropolitan Melodies

Cities hum with stories. From towering skylines to the hush of late-night streets, every block holds a rhythm, every shadow a story. Metropolitan Melodies is your chance to turn the pulse of the city into powerful, career-elevating art. Whether you work in paint, pixels, photos, or found objects, this competition is open to your expression. Let the streets speak through your work. Share what city life means to you. Whether it’s bustling energy or quiet corners, your vision could be the o

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Deadline: August 06, 2025

LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2025

Are you ready to elevate your street photography from hidden gems in your portfolio to celebrated art on a global stage? The LensCulture Street Photography Awards invite you to submit your most captivating photos and series, offering you a unique platform to showcase the vibrant, pulsating life of your streets from around the world. Street photography is not just an art — it’s an encounter, an ongoing dialogue with the unpredictability of everyday moments. It’s the early morning rush, t

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Deadline: August 07, 2025

2025 Photographer of the Year Contest

Over $4,000 in cash prizes, global exposure, artist profile, winner's gallery feature, custom press release, interview, and more. Welcoming both series and individual entries that remind viewers of the indisputable power of photography Awarding the most exceptional creators with our highest possible global honor Image: Wayne Sorensen

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Deadline: August 07, 2025

Plastic Visions

FREE ENTRY Photographers, visual designers and video artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme. Statues, sculptures, monuments and more generally all kinds of plastic productions will be the subject of analysis, documentation and interpretation of the next exhibition curated by LoosenArt. Photographic works, videos, 3D graphics, and other digital productions will present the “plastic object” as a determinant of form, through which new meanings, concepts, and vis

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Deadline: August 07, 2025

Shadows, both subtle and dramatic will always have an impact on the mood, composition and overall flow of our compositions. From the sublime to the bold they have also long been a critical part of many of the worlds finest images! Share with us your best frames and moments showing your Shadows Visions! Works will be selected based on creativity, quality of execution and uniqueness of vision. The work can be expressed from realism to abstraction. Prizes Cash Awards up to $10,00

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Deadline: August 08, 2025

(s)Light of Hand, 2025

A photograph is a (s)Light of Hand, a magic trick of sorts, conjured into being. Light is summoned and chemistry is concocted, making visible both the intangible and the corporeal. It is heart and mind, imagination and craft, melding together into an experience of life-altering alchemy. We here at our Collective and Gallery have a deep respect and affection for historic processes. In this call for entries, we wish to celebrate this love for hand-made, photo-based processes and invite you to

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Deadline: August 08, 2025

Photo Shoot: 2025

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on shadow and light. Photography is the documentation of patterns of darkness and light. Shadows enhance the relationships of subjects in an image, they give definition and dimension, which complements the quality of the light values. Photographers have used dramatic shadows and patterns in black and white images and have also explored using ethereal and moody shadows and textures in color photography. We will be looking for a ra

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Deadline: August 08, 2025

Charta Award 2025

The Charta Award is open to artists who incorporate the photographic medium in their artistic practice and have produced a project that could be printed in the book format. The theme of the award is open. We are looking for projects that underline an original narrative and use of contemporary language. Artists are invited to send a folder consisting of a minimum of 30 images and a synopsis that includes the author’s name, as well as the title and the description of the project. The artists are

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Deadline: August 10, 2025

Submissions for issue #17

see-zeen is open to any kind of photographic expression: any theme, any style, any genre. It can be portrait, landscape, documentary, fashion, abstract etc. We believe that art can change the world by starting conversations and planting tiny seeds for change. Start a dialog with your photography. If you have something to express we want to see it. Be inspired, find your bliss and your own voice and know your reach is global. Tell your friends! Submit a series of 6-15** images. File info

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Deadline: August 11, 2025

Global Connection

Exploring visual stories of human ties across cultures, communities and the natural world. In a world marked by differences and complexity, we invite photographers to explore what connects us across borders, cultures, and experiences. Global Connection calls for visual stories that reveal the threads of humanity that transcend boundaries — in gestures of care, resilience, belonging, identity, and shared presence. How do we express connection across distances? Where do we find unity in

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Deadline: August 11, 2025

Trees and Seasons

The meeting of land and water is a place of transformation—a space where motion and stillness, power and tranquility, exist side by side. The Coastal Landscape is a juried photography exhibition celebrating the diverse character of coastlines, shorelines, and waterscapes. We’re seeking photographs that capture the beauty, power, and mood of coastal environments—from dramatic waves to quiet shores. All photographic styles, from traditional to experimental, are welcome. We are honored

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Deadline: August 14, 2025

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the fifth "Blue" online art contest for the month of August 2025. Artists from around the world are welcome to submit. The theme may include any work with depiction of the color blue or shades of blue (pale blue of a daytime sky, shades of turquoise, ultramarine blue, deep ocean blue). All visual art mediums (except video and sound) are allowed. The Best of Show winning artwork will be displayed as the poster of the show. All wining artists (Merit Award & Honor

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Deadline: August 15, 2025

Budapest International Foto Awards 2025 (bifa)

BUDAPEST INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS is an international platform for photographers from all levels and genres to share their best images with the creative community in Hungary and Eastern Europe. We acknowledge the power of even a single photograph to greatly influence an audience, and how the artistic eye of the photographer behind the camera can interpret a scene in so many creative ways. We know that every image has a story to tell, and this is the place to tell it! The competition is open

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Deadline: August 15, 2025

TERAVARNA is hosting its highly anticipated "10th FLOWER International Juried Art Competition," extending an open invitation to visual artists worldwide to showcase their finest artworks centered around the theme of flowers. The competition encompasses a broad spectrum of flower art paintings style, encompassing 2D and 3D works, such as paintings, sculptures, digital art, printmaking, fiber art, photography, graphic art, mixed media, experimental creations, and installation pieces. The eve

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Deadline: August 15, 2025

Philo Photo international photography contest

This year’s theme, From Darkness to Light, invites photographers to delve into the transformative power of light and its ability to reshape how we experience the world. Light reveals what was once hidden, uncovering truths obscured by darkness and bridging the gap between perception and reality. Beyond the physical, this theme also reflects an inner journey—a movement from ignorance to self-awareness, from confusion to clarity. Explore the profound interplay between shadow and illumin

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Deadline: August 15, 2025

We all wear masks. At Halloween, Mardi Gras. At work we are one person, at home, another, and with friends we have yet more masks to choose from. We're looking for images with masks, literal and figurative. 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 name your files: Aband.Last Name.First Initial.Image#.jpg (Examples:

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Deadline: August 15, 2025

Lucid - In Dreams

Dreams offer us a glimpse into the realm of the unconscious. Although the images flickering and manifesting behind our eyes may seem bizarre and nonsensical, analysis of one's dreams can reveal their essence. Beneath the surface of our consciousness, the latent content of dreams illustrates the hidden meaning of our thoughts, drives, and desires. We suppress the manifestation of our unconscious to defend ourselves from primitive emotions that are especially difficult to contend with. What is rev

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Deadline: August 16, 2025

Once again, POY Latam opens its doors to all those who, through photography, seek to understand and narrate the world we live in. Submissions will be accepted from June 30 to August 16, 2025. As always, all decisions have been made collectively, with the support of our Advisory Board, whose members remain the same: Gael Almeida, Angela Berlinde, Maíra Gamarra, Manuel Ortiz, Yinna Higuera, Gisela Volá and Tiago Santana. In recent years, we have witnessed a profound erosion of the democratic

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Deadline: August 17, 2025

A Summer of Hope

LENSCRATCH is creating exposure opportunities for photographers with group online exhibitions. Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition. Please follow directions exactly. The world is in turmoil, and dissonance reverberates louder than ever. In response, LENSCRATCH invites photographers to submit work for an online exhibition centered on the theme of hope—hope for a more just, compassionate, and peaceful future. What can your photographs do to move the world toward somethi

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Deadline: August 18, 2025

The imperfect lens

Plastic and homemade lenses along with pinholes eschew perfection — like drawing with the charred end of a log or singing opera to the accompaniment of ukuleles. The drawing can be exceptional and the music sublime, unexpected. Removing the technical and using simplistic tools allows the image maker to focus on what is in front of them to achieve their creative vision. Images captured using toy, pinhole and any camera using homemade lenses are eligible for submission. The camera that th

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Deadline: August 19, 2025

AAP Solo Exhibition September 2025

Send your best project to Ann Jastrab! 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 most vibrant portals of photography on the web. The Solo Exhibition competition is open to any category of photography or subject matter. Photojournalism, street photography, artistic ph

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Deadline: August 20, 2025

Submit to Dek Unu

Unlike anthology or gallery-style magazines, Dek Unu publishes only one artist per issue. We are highly artist-centric; each edition is themed and curated by the artist, not the editorial staff. Along with 11 images, Dek Unu emphasizes each artist's words – each issue includes an artist's commentary for each image and an in-depth interview. Additional images from the artist are included in the interview section to add context, depth, and texture to readers' understanding of the artist and the

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Deadline: August 20, 2025

Estee Lauder Pink Ribbon Photo Award 2025

The Estée Lauder Companies Pink Ribbon Photo Award was created in 2012 by The Estée Lauder Companies France, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Pink Ribbon, in homage to Mrs. Evelyn H. Lauder and in order to support the actions of the Ruban Rose organization. A pioneer in its genre and on a national scale, this competition is open to all photographers, amateurs and professionals alike. Since its first edition, several hundred contributions have been received from every region in

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Deadline: August 21, 2025

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 9th “Open” Online Art Competition for the month of August 2025. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. There is no theme in this competition. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installation art) except sound and video art. Winning artwork (First place) will be on the poster of the show.

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Deadline: August 26, 2025

AAP Magazine #51: Colors

Life is a stream of colors. Red, blue, yellow, and all the possible combinations in between these primary colors without forgetting black and white surround us everywhere. Send us your images - preferably a cohesive body of work or portfolio - both where colors may not just influence the pictures, but where it may also be the subject solely. The contest is open to any color photography interpretation, from photojournalism, street photography, artistic photography, portrait, nude, landscapes, n

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Deadline: August 27, 2025

FOTOGRAFICA NEXT

FOTOGRAFICA, Bergamo Photography Festival, invites talents under 30 to participate in FOTOGRAFICA NEXT, a new Open Call that awards two distinct categories: Photography and AI Photography—projects created wholly or partially with generative AI. This year's theme is “As Brave As We Can,” and all submitted projects must relate to the concept: Courage isn't something you're born with—it's something you grow into. It’s a journey made of choices, stumbles, doubts and dreams that keep you

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Deadline: August 28, 2025

ING Discerning Eye

The ING Discerning Eye exhibition announces its 2025 call for entries and selectors, each recognised as a tastemaker and influencer in the art world. Sponsored by global bank ING, the open exhibition gives artists the opportunity to show their work to six distinguished selectors, exhibit in central London, and win prizes totalling over £13,000. The prizes include the ING Purchase Prize, worth £5,000, and celebrate a wide range of art media (including print, sculpture, landscape, and port

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Deadline: August 29, 2025

Humans have always had an entrancing relationship with the dark. Within our minds Darkness breeds mystery, fantasy and occasionally fear. Darkness is the space in which stories are born. As photographers we capture these stories and feelings in a moment to better explore them and our own dark passenger. We look forward to exploring the darkness in your photography. At least 26 images will be selected by the juror for exhibition at Decode Gallery. The gallery handles all printing for accepted

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Deadline: August 30, 2025

We're excited to announce that submissions are now open for AQ Volume VII, our collectible hardcover catalog produced in collaboration with Art Queens. This fall edition will be juried by Danielle Krysa, the artist, curator, author, and creative powerhouse behind The Jealous Curator. Danielle is a leading voice in contemporary art. She launched The Jealous Curator in 2009 to reframe the way we talk about creativity—and has since built a global platform that uplifts emerging and mid

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Deadline: August 31, 2025

Eidolon Grant 2025

eidolon is delighted to announce that the eidolon Grant 2025, eidolon’s international grant programme for projects which explore, promote and conserve vernacular photography is open. The deadline for submission is August 31, and applications can be made under two categories, with a total of 25.000 EUR to be distributed. The eidolon Grant is an international programme that is presented annually to artists, academics, professionals, researchers, collectors and vernacular photography enthusiast

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Deadline: August 31, 2025

Grant for a new humanitarian perspective

In response to the profound changes experienced by NGOs in recent months, Action contre la Faim is launching the third edition of its Grant for a New Humanitarian Perspective—a renewed and reimagined version of the initiative. This year, the selected project will receive a €5,000 grant to support work that addresses a humanitarian theme aligned with Action contre la Faim’s areas of intervention, in a country where the organisation is active. The humanitarian landscape is evolving. Th

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Deadline: August 31, 2025

From fleeting moments on bustling streets to quiet rituals behind closed doors, life unfolds all around us—in the extraordinary and the everyday. This month, we invite you to capture the rhythm of life as you see it. Think daily routines, family gatherings, market crowds, still-life arrangements, moments of solitude, or shared joy. Religion, sports, work, hobbies. The people, spaces, and objects that tell the stories of how we live. All interpretations are welcome—intimate or expansive

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Deadline: August 31, 2025

Le prix Bleu du ciel 2025, nuit de la photographie

The Prize: To celebrate its 25th anniversary and mark the closing of the exhibition "The Empire of Signs" by Philippe Chancel, the photography center Le Bleu du Ciel is launching the "Prix Bleu du Ciel – Nuit de la Photographie", and will present the winners during the Night of Photography on Saturday, September 27, 2025. Ten winners will be selected by a jury of professionals in early September, and their work will be showcased as a large-scale projection during the event on September 27.

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Deadline: August 31, 2025

GAZE: The queer photoaward 2025

GAZE is an initiative that aims to strengthen the visibility and acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community through photography.Thematically, GAZE ties in with Pride Month in June - as an opportunity to celebrate political achievements, honour queer life and create spaces for solidarity and visibility. These spaces are particularly necessary in places where queer people continue to experience invisibility, marginalisation or discrimination - especially in rural or structurally disadvantaged regions.Th

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Deadline: September 01, 2025

The Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence

GOST books will collaborate with the recipient of the Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence to create a book of their work. The recipient must have an in-depth project which is nearing completion and extensive enough to warrant a book. Working closely with GOST's Director Stu Smith, they will produce an edit of both photography and text. The recipient will have the opportunity to visit Italy to view the book proofs and amend any changes. The book will be clothbound in hardback an

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Deadline: September 01, 2025

2025 Lucie Scholarship Program

The Lucie Foundation is proud to support professional and emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, to digital and film-based works. Our concern is to support photographers producing work that is at once gripping, and original. The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer four cash grants and a variety of prizes to suppo

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Deadline: September 01, 2025

Lucie Photobook Prize

The Lucie Foundation is dedicated to celebrating all forms of photography, in print and online and is pleased to introduce the Lucie Photo Book Prize. This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to prototypes, hand-made books to zines. The awards are presented to photographers, editors, curators or publishers. The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer two cash prizes to the top two finalists for their outstanding work. Trad

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Deadline: September 07, 2025

We are seeking photography of any genre in a square format. Whether you specialize in portraits, landscapes, documentary, architecture, or conceptual photography, we’d love to see submissions that embrace the creative possibilities within a square frame. 12 images will be selected by the juror for exhibition at Decode Gallery. The gallery handles all printing for accepted photographers for free, we print professionally on an Epson printer with Ilford Pearl paper. We will only print one

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Deadline: September 07, 2025

Copenhagen International Photography Festival: Call for Solo Artists 2026

Copenhagen Photo Festival 2026 is showcasing an artistically and conceptually ambitious programme that celebrates creativity and experimentation within photography and lens-based art, and aims to build bridges between fine art and documentary photography. The festival takes place in the center of Copenhagen as well as at collaborating galleries, museums and cultural institutions in Copenhagen and southern Sweden. Throughout the festival, photography is on the agenda through exhibitions, netwo

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Deadline: September 09, 2025

Dear Dave, Fellowships

HAVE YOUR WORK SEEN BY THIS VISIONARY GROUP OF CURATORS, EDITORS, GALLERISTS AND ARTISTS. THREE RECIPIENTS WILL BE CHOSEN TO HAVE A PORTFOLIO IN A FORTHCOMING ISSUE OF DEAR DAVE, AND THE 40 ENTRANTS WHO RECEIVE THE HIGHEST RANKINGS WILL HAVE A PORTFOLIO IN THE FELLOWSHIP ARCHIVE ON THE DEAR DAVE, WEBSITE. Since 2007, Dear Dave, magazine has been supporting the publication of photographers and writers, and the fellowship fosters the continued conversation about the medium through idiosyn

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Deadline: September 10, 2025

FREE ENTRY Photographers, visual designers and video artists are invited to submit 1 up to 3 works addressing the theme. Men can learn to know themselves through their relationship with nature; awakening in them feelings, curiosity, fears etc., thus bringing out the most authentic side of one’s own being. Re-discovering the connections that bring men closer to everything in nature, one perceives and elaborates an organic cohesion with the world that influences his own emotions, thoughts an

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Deadline: September 10, 2025

Innovate Grant: Summer 2025

Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (6) honorable mentions (3 in art and 3 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant's commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. For more information and to apply visit https://innovateartistgrants.org Innovate Grant supports ar

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Deadline: September 10, 2025

Landskrona Foto Residency Autumn 2025

Landskrona Foto has in recent years been established as one of the Nordic regions’ eminent photography initiatives and includes the renowned Landskrona Foto Festival. What winners receive It’s an opportunity for a non-Swedish photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens-based media to have time and space away from their usual environment and obligations. The residency takes place for 6 weeks from November 2025. The residency photographer receives a grant of 15000 SEK, trav

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

The Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants

Vital Impacts is dedicated to supporting visual storytellers who capture compelling, solutions-focused environmental stories at the local level. We are excited to offer one (1) $20,000 grant and six (6) $5,000 grants to help bring these vital stories to life. Grant recipients will have twelve months to develop their projects, with support from Vital Impacts to publish and showcase their work. Additionally, ten (10) emerging photographers will be chosen to participate in an intensive mento

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

Artadia Awards: Boston

Artadia has active awards programs in the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Awards are granted in participating cities on a rotating basis. Artadia Awards are $15,000 and are unrestricted: The award money can be used however the artist sees fit. Artadia chooses to fund artists in cities that demonstrate a commitment to contemporary art. These cities are notable for: • The active presence of local artists

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

F-Stop Magazine - Environmental Portraits

Issue #133 will focus on Environmental Portraits - photography of a person or group of people shown within their work, home or leisure environment to tell a story about the person/people or provide more information about the subjects personality or life. Submit up to 12 photographs. Issue #133 will have an expected publication date of October/November, 2025.

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Deadline: September 15, 2025

TERAVARNA is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated "7th WATER International Juried Art Competition." Artists worldwide are cordially invited to submit their finest artworks, exploring the captivating theme of water, to be considered for inclusion in this prestigious exhibition. This remarkable event welcomes various art styles, encompassing both 2D and 3D creations, such as watercolor painting portraits, sculptures, digital art, printmaking, fiber art, photography, graphic design, mixed me

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Deadline: September 16, 2025

SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest 2025

The 2025 contest is open! This year’s theme is “The Power of Light,” which aims to showcase the transformative and awe-inspiring impact of light on our lives, communities, and planet. Two technology-specific divisions, “Technology-Made Images” and a “Technology Around the Globe,” are also available for entry. Examples of content include, but are not exclusive to, artistic images that depict: Various properties of light and how it interacts with the atmosphere, nature, and

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Deadline: September 21, 2025

ND Awards aims to promote photography and photographers. Our idea is to create new opportunities to present valuable work to audiences all over the world. We aim to build a place where photographers can show different points of view and thrive through competition. The winners of the Professional and Non-Professional sections will receive the titles: ND Photographer of the Year and ND Discovery of the Year and cash prizes. Our judging panel will comprise highly acclaimed industry professionals, i

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Deadline: September 26, 2025

Decode Gallery is thrilled to reveal our latest call for entry, Portrait. Often, portraits show aspects of the subject’s character that may not be immediately apparent. Portraits tell a story. The art of crafting a portrait has been around for centuries and continues to capture us today. We invite you to submit your most compelling portrait photography. At least 26 images will be selected by the juror for exhibition at Decode Gallery. The gallery handles all printing for accepted photog

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Deadline: September 28, 2025

NATURE AND HUMANS Photo Contest 2025

Nature and Humans is an international photography contest that invites reflection on the relationship between people and nature. Organized by the DESEA Foundation, the 2025 edition offers more than €15,800 in prizes, including €8,800 in cash and the rest in professional photographic equipment and travel vouchers. The contest stands out as a unique platform where art, environmental awareness, and international exposure converge. Its main categories focus on conservation—with the most

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

IMACRES Awards – The European Photography Competition

Open to all photographers in Europe, the competition, which allows entries to be submitted either in black and white or in colour, presents the opportunity for participants to showcase their work to an international audience. Split into 4 categories of wildlife, landscape, people, and architecture, the winning entries for each category will be awarded gold, silver and bronze badges in the Gallery of Winners, on Social Media and also featured in the IMACRES Awards Annual book. The first-pl

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

Inta International Travel Photo Awards 2025

The INTA Travel Photo Awards 2025 invite photographers worldwide to showcase their best travel and holiday moments across five categories: Smartphone Photos, Sea and Ocean, Mountains and Nature, Portrait and People, and Street and Celebration. Participants can submit up to four photos per category for a fee of €12 per theme. Winners will be featured in the international FOTOCULT Magazine, have their work exhibited in Málaga, and compete for prizes including an exclusive holiday stay in Spain

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

Architecture Photography MasterPrize 2025

The Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP) Award is a prestigious accolade within the Architecture MasterPrize program, dedicated to recognizing outstanding architectural photography from around the globe. This award celebrates the art of capturing the built environment, emphasizing images that reveal the spatial elements, light, shadows, and textures that define architectural masterpieces. Whether your work focuses on capturing the visual impact of architectural spaces in interiors or exte

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

Ten Moir Gallery invites artists and photographers to explore Earth, Water Air, Fire. Submissions to our online art contest is open to artist from around the world. Best in show wins a cash prize, free entry in to the Blu Sky Artist Award, will have their artwork used as the poster of the exhibition and more. All winning artists will receive a digital award certificate. Best in Show: Ten Moir Gallery will announce one winner. Best in show will receive $150 cash prize, be featured on the cove

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

Call for Art: NINE

Call for Art: NINE – Create! Magazine’s 9-Year Anniversary Issue Issue #54 | Deadline: September 30, 2025 | Release: November 2025 Juried by: The Create! Magazine Team Create! Magazine is excited to announce the open call for Issue #54, our 9-year anniversary edition, NINE. This special issue celebrates nearly a decade of amplifying emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from around the world. Selected artists will receive: • A two-page feature in the print and digital editi

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Deadline: September 30, 2025

Global Lens Photography Awards 2025

The Global Lens Photography Awards 2025 is now open for entries, inviting photographers from around the globe to share their best visual stories. This annual competition highlights authenticity and creative expression through eight genre categories: Landscape, Travel, Street, Mobile, Wildlife, Drone, Black & White, and Architecture. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a passionate emerging photographer, GLPA is designed to celebrate your unique perspective. What sets this competition ap

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Deadline: October 01, 2025

Artadia Awards: Atlanta

Artadia has active awards programs in the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Awards are granted in participating cities on a rotating basis. Artadia Awards are $15,000 and are unrestricted: The award money can be used however the artist sees fit. Artadia chooses to fund artists in cities that demonstrate a commitment to contemporary art. These cities are notable for: • The active presence of local artists

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Deadline: October 01, 2025

2025 CPA International Juried Exhibition

The Center for Photographic Art (CPA) is excited to announce the 2025 International Juried Exhibition with over $5,000 in awards! Forty-five juror-selected photographs will be exhibited from December 6, 2025 through January 4, 2026 in our historic gallery in Carmel, California, and vie for eight cash awards totaling more than $5,000. These photographs will also be featured in an online gallery on the CPA website along with an additional forty-five juror selected images. An exhibition catalog of

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Deadline: October 10, 2025

29th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award

Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the 29th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best photo series that singularly demonstrate social inequities, injustices and / or human rights abuses, or the situations that either foster or fight them. By giving this competition the name of the photographer and international cooperant Luis Valtueña, we pay tribute to his memory, as well as to that of the three other cooperants of the assoc

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Deadline: October 10, 2025

Earth Partner Prize 2025

Theme: climate justice, corporate greenwashing, material innovation, wildlife and ecosystem conservation, grassroots activism, intersectional environmentalism, regeneration, the physical and mental impacts of the climate crisis, and nature-based wisdom. We invite artists of all nationalities, races, genders, and faiths, aged 14 to 30, to submit work that comments on the ecological crisis. Eight finalists will be awarded cash prizes of $10k, $5k or $2k. An additional 20 creatives will recei

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Deadline: October 10, 2025

V Barcelona Human Rights International Photo Festival

The ten projects selected by the jury will be exhibited during the festival in the streets of Barcelona and will be part of the catalog of the 2025 edition. And the best of the ten projects will receive a prize of 3.000 euros. We are looking for photography projects about human rights and global justice! Global Justice. The Associació Catalana per la Pau (ACP) International Action Peace and Mas Retina they summon this initiative aimed at finding, recognizing and promoting the best photogr

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Deadline: October 13, 2025

AESTHETIC DYNAMICS

The aesthetic elaborations that turn their gaze towards formal dynamics have originated from the studies on the organic world. These have been being developed since the nineteenth century, thanks to scientific discoveries and technological inventions such as the microscope, x-rays, microphotography, etc., and all these are tools through which artists could also observe the natural world: in this cultural context Art Noveau develops as an artistic phenomenon characterized by a style that uses cur

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Deadline: October 19, 2025

LENSCRATCH is creating exposure opportunities for photographers with group online exhibitions. Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition. Please follow directions exactly. Send ONE image of costumes, candy, ghosts and goblins, dark nights or pumpkins. Spooky and Scary images too! All images will be published, if appropriate to the call. Submit one photograph by October 19th for a chance to be featured.

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Deadline: October 20, 2025

23rd Eurostars Grand Marina Photography Award 2025

The Hotusa Group invites amateurs and professionals to participate in the 23rd Eurostars Grand Marina Photography Award 2025. Participants must compose photographic triptychs inspired by the theme "Barcelona in nature". The jury will recognise the series that, in their opinion, capture the theme with an innovative approach and technical and aesthetic quality. Surrounded by the Mediterranean, the Collserola mountain and the Besòs and Llobregat rivers, Barcelona integrates the natural environ

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Deadline: October 21, 2025

Landskrona Foto Festival 2026 Open Call

Landskrona Foto Festival celebrates its 10th edition in 2026. Over the years, the festival has established a strong tradition of exhibiting photography in outdoor settings. It is a core part of our mission to take photography beyond cultural institutions and bring it closer to the local community. For our 2026 edition, we invite artists and photographers to submit projects for our outdoor exhibition programme, responding to the theme Displacement. Displacement can be understood in many way

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Deadline: October 24, 2025

19th Annual International Color Awards

International Color Awards is open to professional and amateur photographers shooting in all forms of color photography using traditional or digital methods. We encourage classic styles, new creative ideas and photographers who are driven by their artistic eye and a desire to excel in this classic art form. Winning photographers enjoy exposure on a global scale as they vie for the 16th Annual International Color Awards. Prize money, Certificates of Achievement, winner medals, publication in

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Deadline: October 28, 2025

reFocus Awards 2025 World Photo Annual

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, an immersive, dedicated digital gallery to share their works in a global Artist Directory, and way more. Company Description: The reFocus Awards were created to celebrate the lasting power and indomitable spirit of the photographic image and its unique ability

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Deadline: October 31, 2025

Anthology Cover Art Award 2025

The Anthology Cover Art Competition is established to foster and support both established and emerging visual artists and provide a platform for publication, the cover art competition is open to multiple genres including painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and digital media. Works entered must not have appeared on the cover of another publication and not entered simultaneously in any other contest or competition. Works previously exhibited or published on the artist’s website

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Deadline: October 31, 2025

10th FIGURATIVE

Welcome to TERAVARNA's "10th FIGURATIVE" International Juried Art Competition! We are thrilled to announce this exciting opportunity for visual artists worldwide. At TERAVARNA, we help you showcase your finest artwork centered around the theme of figurative paintings. Artists from around the globe are invited to submit their creations for consideration in our prestigious exhibition. Our figurative art competition embraces the diversity of artistic styles and mediums, offering a platform for art

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Deadline: November 01, 2025

Artadia Awards: Houston

Artadia has active awards programs in the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Awards are granted in participating cities on a rotating basis. Artadia Awards are $15,000 and are unrestricted: The award money can be used however the artist sees fit. Artadia chooses to fund artists in cities that demonstrate a commitment to contemporary art. These cities are notable for: • The active presence of local artists

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Deadline: November 04, 2025

7th Chelsea International Photography Competition

The 7th Chelsea International Photography Competition provides the selected participants the opportunity to exhibit at one of our New York spaces, located in the heart of the Chelsea art district. The sprawling and elegant street-level space attracts hundreds of visitors with its striking exterior. With prizes valued over $55,000, the competition is open to photographers from around the world at any stage of their careers. Collective Exhibition 30 photographers will be selected t

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Deadline: November 15, 2025

The Nature Photography Contest 2025

The Nature Photography Contest has 10 categories for you to submit your images of natural landscapes, wildlife, macrophotography and more. You can win cash prizes and international recognition. The winner of the best photograph of the year will receive €1000, the winner of each category will receive €100 and the best photographer of the year will receive a trophy. In addition, for each participant, a tree will be planted in the country chosen by the winner. Nature photography is a g

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Deadline: November 16, 2025

Monochrome Photography Awards 2025

The connection of Black and White Photography with tradition and timeless values is beyond contestation. Since its infancy, black and white photography was not only the craft but primarily the art, where ideas conjured in the artist's imagination is immortalized through the lens of their camera. The Monochrome Awards is primarily aimed at people of whom photography is a passion and a way of life. It is a platform where professionals and amateurs can enter their shots amongst a sea of ambitiou

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Deadline: November 16, 2025

The aesthetic elaborations that turn their gaze towards formal dynamics have originated from the studies on the organic world. These have been being developed since the nineteenth century, thanks to scientific discoveries and technological inventions such as the microscope, x-rays, microphotography, etc., and all these are tools through which artists could also observe the natural world: in this cultural context Art Noveau develops as an artistic phenomenon characterized by a style that uses cur

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Deadline: November 25, 2025

London International Creative Competition 2025

Since starting out in 2006, the London International Creative Competition has been recognising and rewarding the world’s most fresh and progressive creative talents. Our artists and designers are connected not by conventions, but by qualities. They work across a diverse range of formats, genres and industries, creating stunning and essential works of art in their respective fields. We’re not looking for anything done by-the-book. We’re looking for work that is as visual as it is vital.

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