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Deadline: April 28, 2024
23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers
We are thrilled to announce the Call for Entries for the prestigious 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers and the 21st edition of the Pollux Awards. This is a unique opportunity for you to showcase your vision and talent in the most celebrated photography events of the year. Selected works will have the honor of being exhibited at FotoNostrum, the renowned Mediterranean House of Photography, in July 2025, subject to and compliant with the rules of the competition.
Deadline: April 29, 2024
Viviane Esders Prize 2024
A prize that each year rewards the career of an independent professional European photographer over sixty years of age, always looking for a creative approach. A major player in the world of photography, Viviane Esders is pursuing her commitment by creating this eponymous prize. The prize rewards a career that has already been recognised, but whose importance now deserves to be highlighted and included more clearly in the history of photography. Each year, a prestigious jury wi
Deadline: April 30, 2024
2024 Inge Morath Award
We are accepting applications for the Inge Morath Award, a grant given to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. The selected recipient will receive a grant of $7,500, and one finalist will also receive a $1,000 grant in support of their project. The recipient and finalist are selected by a jury composed of Magnum Photos members, the Inge Morath Estate, and the Executive Director of the Magnum Foundation. Inge Mor
Deadline: May 05, 2024
Romano Cagnoni Photojournalism Award 2024
The theme proposed for the 2024 edition is Roots. At a time when the very roots of photojournalism are being challenged by new technologies, it is essential to enhance the photographic story as an authentic narrative on specific situations and events, it can illuminate circumstances and create awareness in public opinion on issues of fundamental importance. Selected by an international jury, the winner will receive a prize of € 5,000, a sculpture symbol of the RCA realized by the internatio
Deadline: May 07, 2024
Prix Virginia 2024
Awarded every two years since 2012, The Prix Virginia is the first photography prize exclusively reserved for a woman photographer, regardless of her age or nationality. The work submitted must never have yet been exhibited in France and must not be the result of an editorial assignment or advertisement commission. The work submitted must never have yet been exhibited in France and must not be the result of an editorial assignment or advertisement commission. The candidate must submit 12-1
Deadline: May 07, 2024
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2024
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize returns for its 17th year, showcasing the work of talented young photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography. The competition celebrates a diverse range of images and tells the fascinating stories behind the creation of works, from formal commissioned portraits to more spontaneous and intimate moments capturing friends and family. The annual In Focus display will also highlight new work by an es
Deadline: May 10, 2024
Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles 2024
Since 2015, the Rencontres d’Arles offers an award supporting the publication of a dummy book. This prize, with a production budget of € 25,000, is open to any new photographer or artist using photography, submitting a previously unpublished dummy book. Special attention is paid to experimental and innovative forms of publishing. An international jury will choose the winner. The 2024 winner’s dummy book, as well as those of the nominees, will be exhibited this summer during the Renco
Deadline: May 14, 2024
Camille Lepage Award 2024
The Association named Camille Lepage – On est ensemble was founded on September 20, 2014, only months after the death of Camille Lepage while reporting in the Central African Republic. The Association commemorates Camille, her work and commitment. For the eighth time, the collecting society la Saif* is supporting the award (€8,000) which provides backing and encouragement for a photojournalist committed to a long-term project.
Deadline: May 19, 2024
Yves Rocher Foundation Photography Award 2024
The Yves Rocher Foundation has a special award in partnership with the International Festival of Photojournalism Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan: the Yves Rocher Foundation Photography Award. The award will be granted, for the tenth time, to a professional photographer wishing to conduct a report in the area of the environment, relationships between humans and the earth, or major challenges for transition to the green economy. Produced in partnership with Visa pour l’Image – Perpigna
Deadline: May 21, 2024
Canon Female Photojournalist Grant
For the twenty-fourth year in a row, Canon and Visa pour l’Image will be presenting the prestigious Canon Female Photojournalist Grant to an outstanding photographer in recognition of her contribution to photojournalism. The grant of €8,000 provides funding to support a compelling new project which will be featured as an exhibition at the 2025 festival. This year, we are featuring Anastasia Taylor-Lind (2023 winner) on the civilian experience of war in the Donbas region of eastern Ukra
Deadline: June 06, 2024
Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents 2024
Clarissa Ward, CNN’s award-winning chief international correspondent, has agreed to chair the jury for this 31 st edition. Clarissa Ward has been covering the world’s most violent conflicts for over 20 years. Her experience, her career and the respect shown to her by her fellow professionals will make her presence in Bayeux an event in itself JOURNALISTS SEND REPORTS UNTIL THE 6th OF JUNE Photo, radio, television and written press reports on a conflict or news event relating to the
Deadline: December 31, 2024
The Pulitzer Center’s global reporting grants
Applications include the following: - A description of the proposed project in no more than 250 words. - A thorough publication plan. Letters of interest or commitment from editors and news outlets should be included. - A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs. Travel grants cover hard costs associated with the reporting; please do not include stipends for the applicants. Local reporting partner/translator/driver fees are acceptable. Three samples of published
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Gender Equality Grants
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that supports independent global journalism, is seeking applications for investigative data-driven projects on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women & girls. This opportunity is open to all newsrooms and independent journalists in the United States and abroad. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by global crises and face discrimination and violence worldwide. In the fight against the dispar

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