Photography Awards

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest — Closes next 2 December
Guest Room: Urban Exoticism @ Der Greif — Closes next 5 December
Photography Competition @ Hyères Festival of Fashion and Photography — Closes next 6 December
Being Twenty @ Fotografia Europea (for European photographers) — Closes next 13 December
Annual Photography Awards — Closes next 15 December
TOTO BANANA Grant (erotic photography) — Closes next 15 December
Unire @ Giovane Fotografia Italiana — Closes next 17 December
Fodar Photo Festival Biennale — Closes next 31 December
Shining a Light: Iconic Women @ Muhammad Ali Center — Closes next 31 December
Urban Life @ Life Framer — Closes next 31 December

Photography Grants

Tall Poppy Open Call (for the production of a photobook) — Closes next 1 December
Swiss Storytelling Photo Grant — Closes next 2 December
Curatorial Research Fellowship @ Les Rencontres d’Arles — Closes next 5 December
Dust Publishing Prize — Closes next 6 December
Inglewood Photography Festival Book Award — Closes next 9 December
Family Portraits @ New Focus x Impressions Gallery (for UK based photographers) — Closes next 12 December
Futuri Prossimi: Diritti e Rovesci @ JEST (we could only find the call’s rules in Italian, but the open call is open internationally) — Closes next 12 December
Catchlight Global Fellowship — Closes next 15 December
Germaine Van Parys Award (for women photographers) — Closes next 15 December
Michel du Cille Fellowship (for US based photojournalists) — Closes next 31 December
Photography Foundation Awards — Closes next 31 December

Open Calls

Connected Landscapes, Heritage Futures @ Noorderlicht Biennale — Closes next 1 December
Film Photo Award (for US photographers) — Closes next 1 December
State of Wonder @ Shots Magazine — Closes next 1 December
Echoes of Yesterday @ LoosenArt — Closes next 3 December
Shades of Black & White @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 8 December
Life Today @ ARTDOC Magazine — Closes next 9 December
Monochrome @ PhotoPlace Gallery — Closes next 9 December
Power Relations @ Luminic Photography Festival — Closes next 9 December
Female in Focus: Renewal @ British Journal of Photography — Closes next 10 December
Open theme @ Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival — Closes next 10 December
Staring at the Cloud: Collage between Analog and Digital @ Los Angeles Center of Photography — Closes next 10 December
FUTURES @ PhotoIreland (for UK and Irish photographers) — Closes next 15 December
Living Image @ The Halide Project (alternative photographic processes) — Closes next 16 December
Guest Room: WHERE is the photographic image? @ Der Greif — Closes next 19 December
Shared/Connected @ Rotterdam Photo Festival — Closes next 20 December
Alternatives 2025 presents: Image as Record @ Ohio University School of Art + Design — Closes next 23 December
First Look 2025 @ Panopticon Gallery — Closes next 27 December
NOICE Visual Expression Awards — Closes next 31 December
Parallel Voices @ Photometria Photography Festival — Closes next 31 December

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