2025 Best Photo Contests, Photography Contests, Competitions & Awards

All About Photo has selected the best photo contests, photography competitions and call for entries. This list of international photo competitions and photo contests is thoroughly curated to help photographers find their next creative breakthrough and keep up with all the current opportunities to gain exposure. Exhibition, cash prize, publication... find the photo contest that is right for you.

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Patterns in the Wild

Whether found in the fractals of a fern, the geometry of city grids, the textures of rust and decay, or the symmetry in animal markings—patterns speak a universal language. They reveal order in chaos, beauty in randomness, and design where we least expect it. Benefits: The First Place entry will be offered a free Solo Exhibit in the gallery's Featured section. Digital badges will be awarded to all participants and Certificates will be given to the First, Second and Th

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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

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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 2

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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,

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

Planet Earth

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,

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Deadline: July 31, 2025

PHOTOLAR 17th: Celebrations and Traditions Worldwide

Gráficas LAR is hosting their 17th PHOTOLAR photography contest and calling for entries from all parts of the world. The subject for 2025 is “Celebrations and Traditions Worldwide” and eligible for entry are images that convey the essence of traditions or celebrations worldwide. The winner will be awarded a 400 Euro cash prize, and his/her name will be printed in the whole 2026 Gráficas LAR calendar. The winner will also be the author of the twelve pictures that will illustrate the photo c

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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,

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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 a

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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 an

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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

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Macadam Awards 2025: Second Edition Winners

Street Macadam has announced the winners of the 2nd edition of the Macadam Awards, an international street and documentary photography competition open to photographers around the world. Held from May 1 to June 30, 2025, the contest invited both amateur and professional photographers aged 18 and over to submit their best color or black-and-white street images. The results were revealed on Monday, July 8, 2025, following the deliberation of an international jury of respected photographers and curators.

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AOP Announces its 40th Anniversary Student Award Winners

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the Association of Photographers’ (AOP) Student Awards on show at Free Range, the graduate showcase of creative arts at London’s Truman Brewery from 11 - 13 July 2025. This year’s core themes reflect a strong sense of the surreal with provocative and playful subject matter displayed in the submitted images. The Awards reflects the AOP’s continuing commitment to shining a light on the next generation of photographers and image makers.

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The 2025 Gomma Black & White Awards Winners

Gomma is thrilled to officially announce the winners of this year’s edition of AAP Magazine: Black & White — a powerful celebration of timeless photography, bold artistic vision, and emotional resonance.

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Winner announced for Marilyn Stafford Fotoreportage Award 2025

JODI WINDVOGEL has won the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2025 for her photo essay: LIFE UNDER OCCUPATION: INSIDE CISSIE GOOL HOUSE & CAPE TOWN’S HOUSING CRISIS. Further shortlisted artists and their images are also shared today for the first time.

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Winners of the 40th Anniversary Edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards

Mahmoud Khattab and Ellen E. Jones Win the 40th Anniversary Edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, the UK’s Leading Prize Celebrating Excellence in Photography and Moving Image Publishing

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AAP Magazine 48: Portrait Photography Competition Winners Announced

AAP Magazine is proud to announce the winners of its 48th issue, dedicated to Portrait Photography. Selected from a wide array of international submissions, the 25 winning photographers have captured the essence of portraiture—revealing powerful stories, raw emotions, and the universal depth of the human experience.

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25 Winning Photographers Who Masterfully Captured the Art of Shadows

Shadows are more than just the absence of light — they are a powerful visual language. In AAP Magazine #47: Shadows, we set out to discover the most compelling photography that uses shadow as a key compositional and emotional element. The result? A stunning collection of 25 winning images that explore contrast, depth, mood, and mystery.

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Black and White Photo Contest 2025 – Submit Your Work & Get Published

Are you passionate about black-and-white photography? AAP Magazine is thrilled to announce the launch of its 49th edition, dedicated to the timeless beauty of black-and-white imagery. We invite photographers from around the world to submit their best work for a chance to be published, win cash prizes, and gain international exposure.

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Discover the 50 Award-Winning Images from All About Photo Awards 2025! (Part I)

Discover powerful, award-winning images from the All About Photo Awards 2025. This international photography competition highlights the best contemporary photographers from around the world. Featuring compelling portraits, street scenes, documentary, and fine art photography, the selection reflects the diversity and creativity in today’s visual storytelling. Chosen by a panel of six expert jurors, these photographs represent the most inspiring visual narratives of the year.

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The 2025 Women Photograph Grantees

Jul 28, 2025 | Source: Women Photograph
Women Photograph is thrilled to announce the recipients of our 2025 grants: the Women Photograph Project Grants of $5,000 have been awarded to Teala Elise Avery, Chloé Azzopardi, Elsie Haddad, Nicola Muirhead, and Melissa Ann Pinney. The Women Photograph + Leica Grant of $10,000 has been awarded to Chinky Shukla.

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Photo Elysée and Parmigiani Fleurier are delighted to announce the winner of the Prix Elysée 2025

Jul 06, 2025 | Source: Prix Elysee
Photo Elysée and Parmigiani Fleurier are delighted to announce the winner of the Prix Elysée 2025: Iranian photographer Hannah Darabi for her series Why Don't You Dance?

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The 2025 Paula Riff Award Winner is Marni Myers

Jul 01, 2025 | Source: Center for Photographic Art
The Center for Photographic Art and Lenscratch are pleased to announce that Marni Myers is the 2025 Paula Riff Award winner! We received hundreds of submissions for this year’s competition from photographers across the country and around the world. Juror Paula Tognarelli had no small feat selecting a single artist for this award.

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Earth Photo 2025 Announces Award Winner

Jun 17, 2025 | Source: Earth Photo
Created in 2018 by Forestry England, the Royal Geographical Society and Parker Harris, Earth Photo is a world-leading programme engaging with still and moving image makers to showcase the issues affecting the climate and life on our planet.

Out of over 1,582 entries, a judging panel made up of experts from the fields of photography, film, geography and environment selected the Earth Photo 2025 shortlist: 195 images and 8 videos by 40 photographers and filmmakers from around the world. A selection of outstanding photography and film projects were chosen as the Earth Photo 2025 award winners.

Earth Photo 2025: Lorenzo Poli for Autophagy.

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The Winner of the BigPicture Competition

Jun 15, 2025 | Source: BigPicture Competition
We can’t think of a better day than Nature Photography Day to announce this year's Grand-Prize-winning image, Lemur’s Tough Life, photographed by Donglin Zhou of Hangzhou, China! This incredible image captures the moment a Common brown lemur makes a harrowing leap from one towering cliffside to another while carrying her baby on her back.

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The 2025 Niépce Prize : Ed Alcock

May 28, 2025 | Source: Picto Foundation
Since 2016, Picto Foundation, PICTO laboratories’ endowment fund, has been pleased to partner with Gens d’images to celebrate and support the Niépce Prize. The 70th edition of the Niépce Gens d’images Prize has just been awarded to British-French photographer photographer Ed Alcock.

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