FotoCal — Photography Awards, Grants and Open Calls Closing in January 2025
Photography Awards
Aperture Portfolio Prize — Closes next 10 January
Sony World Photography Alpha Female Award — Closes next 3 January
Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition — Closes next 3 January
Sony World Photography Awards Youth Competition — Closes next 3 January
Siena International Photography Awards — Closes next 9 January
Istanbul Photo Awards (news photography) — Closes next 10 January
Sony World Photography Latin America Professional Award — Closes next 10 January
Sony World Photography Awards Professional Competition — Closes next 10 January
World Press Photo — Closes next 10 January
Pictures of the Year International — Closes next 12 January
Wellcome Photography Prize (for ” stories of health, science and human experience” )— Closes next 14 January
LensCulture New Visions Photography Awards — Closes next 15 January
ZEKE Awards — Closes next 15 January
NPPA Best of Photojournalism — Closes next 19 January
Four Seasons @ Life Framer — Closes next 31 December
Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards — Closes next 31 January
Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Photography Award (for non-European photographers) — Closes next 31 January
ProfiFoto New Talent Award — Closes next 31 January
Photography Grants
Unity @ V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography — Closes next 8 January
Artist In Residence @ Emmanuel College — Closes next 15 January
Realisation Grants @ Centre for British Photography (for photographers of any nationality, but based in Britain) — Closes next 15 January
Nice Art Grant — Closes next 20 January
Artist Residency @ Montresso Art Foundation — Closes next 31 January
Artist in Residence @ Center for Photography at Woodstock (for US based photographers belonging to selected minorities) — Closes next 31 January
Fotografia Europea Book Award (for European photographers) — Closes next 31 January
Open theme @ Belfast Photo Festival — Closes next 31 January
Kassel Fotobook Festival Dummy Award — Closes next 31 January
Open Calls
Open Theme @ Decode Gallery — Closes next 2 January
Machine Entanglements @ Noorderlicht Biennale — Closes next 3 January
Context 2025 @ Filter Photo — Closes next 5 January
FUTURES @ ISSP (for photographers from the Baltic Countries) — Closes next 5 January
Guest Room: WHERE is the photographic image? @ Der Greif — Closes next 7 January
Whispering Shadows @ Float Magazine — Closes next 7 January
Lens 2025 @ Perspective Gallery — Closes next 8 January
FUTURES @ Triennial of Photography Hamburg (for German based photographers) — Closes next 10 January
inEquality @ Photo|Frome — Closes next 10 January
Unveiling Identity @ PhotoPlace Gallery — Closes next 13 January
FUTURES @ Organ Vida (for photographers from selected Balkan Countries) — Closes next 15 January
Landscape @ F-Stop Magazine — Closes next 15 January
OFF-THE-WALL Award @ MIA Photo Fair — Closes next 15 January
Women by Women @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 15 January
MPB Student Awards @ Photo|Frome — Closes next 17 January
Found and Discovered @ LoosenArt — Closes next 20 January
Guest Room: Echoes of Truth @ Der Greif — Closes next 23 January
Talent Embassy @ FOTODOK — Closes next 27 January
Feelings & Photography @ Photoszene Köln Festival — Closes next 31 January
Shared/Connected @ Rotterdam Photo Festival — Closes next 1 February
Happy new year! Come back next month for February’s FotoCal :)
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