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Rotterdam Photo
Territory: Worldwide
Theme: Open
Eligibility: Open to all
Entry Fees: Free
Prize: Exhibition
We are happy to announce the launch of a variety of awards for the Rotterdam Photo 2021 edition. The awards welcome a wide range of photographs and exhibition projects to be considered for recognition in various categories. While some award categories will be judged by a panel of assigned judges, others will be voted for by the public through our social media profiles. The winners in each of these categories will receive a monetary remuneration.
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Issue #45
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Deadline: April 17, 2025
Cortona On The Move: BarTur Grant
Cortona On The Move and the BarTur Photo Award are proud to announce their partnership to launch the Cortona On The Move | BarTur Grant, supported by the Visual Storytellers Fund. This new initiative is dedicated to empowering photographers globally, providing grants and resources to support the creation of compelling documentary photo essays that address urgent social, environmental, economic, and cultural issues of our time. Cortona On The Move, the renowned international photograph
Deadline: April 18, 2025
2025 CPA Artist Grants
Four separate grants of $5,000 each will be awarded to deserving photographers: one emerging photographer (students are encouraged to apply), one more established photographer, one landscape photographer, and one LGBTQ+ photographer. We’ve invited Nancy Kathryn Burns, WM Hunt, and Frank Yamrus to be on our selection committee this year.
Deadline: April 18, 2025
AAP Magazine#47: Shadows
Mysterious, magical, intense, timeless, sometimes nostalgic... mastering the shadows in photography is an art in itself. It is a story in its own right, a unique form of expression. Send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio - capturing the poetry and the power of shadows! The subject is totally up to you. Your photos can be in color or black and white, and be landscape, portraiture, street photography or any other genre. Any capture method or process, whether digital or a
Deadline: April 19, 2025
2025 Virtual Portfolio Review
Atlanta Center for Photography is excited to present our annual Virtual Portfolio Review in it's 5th year. Held over the course of one day from 10 AM to 3 PM, photographers and lens-based artists will have the chance to be in conversation with and get critique from numerous experts in the art world. Since the inception of our Virtual Portfolio Review, ACP has been proud to host curators, writers, artists and more from a variety of institutions and focuses, including but not limited t
Deadline: April 20, 2025
31st Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
Our annual Juried Members’ Exhibition is open to all creative artists who use photography as their primary medium. It celebrates still images while also welcoming moving images, installations, public works, and experimental or mixed techniques, all for inclusion in our summer exhibition. We are so pleased to announce our juror is Ann Jastrab from Center for Photographic Art, Carmel. Ann M. Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carme
Deadline: April 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
Deadline: April 20, 2025
Photographer of the Week 18
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 sh
Deadline: April 21, 2025
BBA One Shot Award 2025
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
Deadline: April 21, 2025
Transversalidades 2025
The Center for Iberian Studies - Centro de Estudos Ibéricos (CEI)- remains committed to strengthening the cultural and scientific axis organized by Coimbra, Guarda and Salamanca and, through an active involvement in territorial cooperation, committed to low density territories, particularly the most peripheral and border ones. Based on these references and on the importance of image in contemporary societies, the project Transversalities: Photographs without Frontiers uses photography as a mean
Deadline: April 21, 2025
Photographic Performance 2025
Do you have a body of work or a concept for an exhibition that is photography or photography based? We are looking for compelling solo or cooperative exhibitions to be exhibited in our online gallery. The entry can be photographic images only, photography combined with mixed media, photography as sculpture, photography based installations or….. This is the sixth year of the “Photographic Performance” for 2025. We are hoping once again you can show us what it can be. It is important that
Deadline: April 22, 2025
Request for Proposals: Freshwater Storytelling
Access to Safe and Clean Water is crucial to human development. Sustainable Development Goal #6 captures the essence of water by committing to making safe and affordable drinking water available for all by the year 2030. Despite this, many parts of the world are currently having significant challenges with access to safe water. Issues like climate change, and the way that we live, are putting unsustainable demands on the global supply of freshwater. In essence, we are using more freshwater than
Deadline: April 22, 2025
Vital Impacts Flash Grant
Vital Impacts is thrilled to announce a special Grant supported by Annie Griffiths, one of National Geographic's first female photographers and the founder of Ripple Effect Images. Annie is funding this grant, by donating 50 percent of all proceeds from her poignant and hilarious Substack Newsletter, "You're Not That Nice." Apply below by explaining how you will use the funds to document and support the natural world and humanity's relationship to it and by uploading five photos that tell
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