Professional Photography Contests, Pro Photo Competitions & Awards

Deadline: April 18, 2021

Athens Photo World Award 2021

Athens Photo World (APW), with a donation by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is, for the third year, organizing the annual Photojournalism Award for professional photographers living and working in Greece and/or Cyprus. APW will award a 5,000� cash prize to an ongoing or complete project of photojournalism or documentary photography, created after January 2018. Always aiming to promote the work of photographers and photojournalists, and familiarise the public with contemporary photojournalism a

Deadline: April 18, 2021

Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award

Athens Photo World (APW), upon the expressed wish of Yannis Behrakis and with the lead support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), aims at supporting and highlighting the work and vision of Greek and international photojournalists. For the second consecutive year, the 15,000� "Yannis Behrakis" International Photojournalism Award will be awarded to a full-length photojournalism or documentary work. The winning project will be presented at next year's APW festival with an individual ex

Deadline: April 30, 2021

Arab Documentary Photography Program

The Arab Fund for Art and Culture (AFAC) and the Prince Claus Fund (PCF) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in partnership with the Magnum Foundation in New York, USA, launched the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) in 2014. The ADPP is a program jointly funded by AFAC and PCF (in the framework of the Fund's Mentorship Awards), targeting creative documentary photographers in the Arab region. Selected grantees receive production support in the amount of $5,000 USD to produce long-term cr

Deadline: April 30, 2021

Prix HCB 2021

Presented by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the HCB Award supports the creation of a photography project which could not be achieved without this help. It is intended for a photographer who has already completed a significant body of work, close to the documentary approach. The candidate must be supported by an institution - museum, gallery, independent curator, publisher, etc. The HCB Award is presented once every two years and grants the indivisible amount of 35 000 euros. The winner'

Deadline: May 15, 2021

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize

First announced in 1990, the Dorothea Lange�Paul Taylor Prize was created by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. Like Lange an

Deadline: May 15, 2021

Women Photograph Project Grants

Women Photograph Project Grants These $5,000 grants will support photography projects � either new or in-progress � from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity. Five grants are available, one of which will be earmarked for a non-binary or transgender photographer. Applicants are encouraged to submit a story, rather than singles, as part of the grant application. The images need not be related to the project proposal. Multimedia projects are welcome.

Deadline: May 30, 2021

Howard Chapnick Grant 2021

In 1996 the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund established the Howard Chapnick Grant, to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing, research, education and management. The Grant was established to honor the memory of Howard Chapnick, and to acknowledge the value of his enormous contribution to photography. As president of the photo agency Black Star, Chapnick was responsible for making and maintaining a network of photographers around the world. He mento

Deadline: May 30, 2021

W. Eugene Smith Grant

The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith's concerned photography and dedicated compassion evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. This Grant is designed to help a photographer begin a photographic project or help complete an ongoing photographic project. The Judges will be looking for a photographer whose propos

Deadline: May 31, 2021

The Guardian Project

The Lucie Foundation is proud to announce the Guardian Project, an open call supporting Pathshala/South Asian Media institute. The Lucie Foundation will be donating 50% of the profits received to support the ongoing efforts of their educational programs in photography, film and multimedia journalism. Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Pathshala /South Asian Media institute targets promising young photographers of the region. Though an initial quota has been kept for women and people from marginalized c

Deadline: June 07, 2021

Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents

Photo, radio, television and written press reports on a conflict or news event relating to the fight for freedom and democracy must be submitted before the 7th June to be considered for the 2021 selection. They must have been made between the 1st June 2020 and the 31st May 2021. There is a � 7,000 grant to be won in each category. THE YOUNG REPORTER'S AWARD In 2021: the category will be written press. Since there is a different category according to the years, the presented story must h

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Overall Winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021

The World Photography Organisation is delighted to announce the overall winners in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2021. The Photographer of the Year title and accompanying $25,000 (USD) cash prize and a range of Sony's digital imaging kit is awarded to the esteemed documentarian Craig Easton (United Kingdom) for his series Bank Top. Also announced are the ten category winners alongside 2nd and 3rd place of the Professional competition as well as overall winners of the Open, Student and Youth competitions.

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The Fascinating Winning Images of AAP Magazine 16 Shadows

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #16: Shadows". They come from 12 different countries and 3 continents!

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Leica Camera USA Announces the 2nd Annual Leica Women Foto Project Award Winners

For the second year in a row, three award recipients will receive $10,000, a Leica Q2 camera and mentorship to support a personal photographic project through the female perspective

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Results of the Gomma Grant 2020

The results of the 2020 Gomma Photography Grant are now live. The Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund and support photographers, both emerging and established, working among various genre. Started in 2014, Gomma Grant has quickly obtained a reputation of being ethical and quality-focused, with an eye to spot fresh talents and encouraging those already in the spotlight. In addition to receiving cash grants the winning and shortlisted photographers can enjoy a huge amount of international exposure. Photographers that are recognized through the Gomma Grant are known to have evolved their career to a higher level, both professionally and artistically.

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Aassmaa Akhannouch and Cyrus Cornut winners of the PRIX HSBC 2021

Sylvie Hugues, Artistic advisor, proposed 12 photographers to the members of the Executive Committee and comments her choices: "After nearly two centuries of existence, photography still carries its original ontological ambiguity, a duality that makes it both a highly refined technique and a commonplace practice: a clearly identified profession and an acknowledged art form. In 2021, more than ever, the inter-mingling of artists, uses, viewpoints and skills, is reflected in the Prix HSBC."

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Sony World Photography Awards: Open Competion results

The World Photography Organisation is delighted to announce this year's category winners and shortlist in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021, recognising the best single images from 2020.

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2021 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo

RED FLAG by the Latin American collective COVID LATAM wins the 2021 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo.

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The Winners of News Photo Awards - Overcoming COVID

Brais Lorenzo Couto, Ilya Pitalev and Adam Gray named as winners of the News Photo Awards. Overcoming COVID photo contest. Photojournalists Diego Ibarra S�nchez, Josh Edelson, Tao Liang and Ilya Pitalev chosen as the winners of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's special prize.

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Bnw Minimalist Photography Prize 2020

The Black and White Minimalism magazine announced the winners of the Black and White Minimalist Photography Prize 2020. In this first edition of the Prize, despite the restrictions on the subject that only minimalist black and white photographs were accepted, 1470 photographs were submitted to the competition

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