FotoCal — Photography Awards, Grants and Open Calls Closing in March 2025
Photography Awards
Museum Purchase Award @ Atlanta Photography Group — Closes next 1 March
Rovinj Photodays — Closes next 2 March
Thresholds @ Los Angeles Center of Photography — Closes next 4 March
Nikon Film and Photo Contest — Closes next 7 March (extended deadline)
Anja Niedringhaus Courage In Photojournalism Award (for women photojournalists) — Closes next 14 March
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards — Closes next 15 March
Me&Eve Award, Multimedia Award, Personal Award, Socially Engaged Award and Environmental Award @ CENTER — Closes next 15 March
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Photography Award (for non-European photographers) — Closes next 17 March
Portraits from the Street — Closes next 30 March
Colors @ Life Framer — Closes next 31 March
Fear @ Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize — Closes next 1 April
Photography Grants
Revolutionary Storyteller Grant @ Photographers Without Borders — Closes next 5 March
ISSP Riga Residency — Closes next 9 March
The Aftermath Project Grant — Closes next 14 March
Bourse de l’Image Photographique (for photographers from or based in France) — Closes next 15 March
PhotoWork Senior Fellowship (for the creation of a photobook) — Closes next 15 March
Project Launch Grant and Project Development Grant — Closes next 15 March
Risograph Residency @ Penumbra Foundation — Closes next 15 March (their website still states that 28 February is the closing date, but the deadline has been extended)
Workspace Residency @ Penumbra Foundation (for photographers from or based in the US) — Closes next 15 March (their website still states that 28 February is the closing date, but the deadline has been extended)
Man and the Sea @ Ronan Guillou Grants (for photographers from Europe and the southern shores of the Mediterranean) — Closes next 16 March
Back and Forth Mentorship @ Fonderia 20.9 (for Italy based photographers) — Closes next 18 March
Visiting Artist Program @ Fonderia 20.9 — Closes next 18 March
Exhibition Proposals @ Filter Photo — Closes next 19 March
Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award (for photographers from or based in the UK) — Closes next 31 March
Sirmione Photo Residency — Closes next 31 March
Water @ SCAN Photography Festival — Closes next 31 March
International Photobook Grant @ Hasselblad Foundation — Closes next 1 April
Light Work Grants — Closes next 1 April
Open Calls
Open theme @ RI Center for Photographic Arts — Closes next 1 March
Social Impact @ BBK Basque Dok Festival Award — Closes next 4 March
Show Me Love @ PHOTO 2026 — Closes next 5 March (extended deadline)
Guest Room: Sounds of Resistance @ Der Greif — Closes next 6 March
Open theme @ Experimental Hub Barcelona — Closes next 10 March
Ruins and Remnants @ PhotoPlace Gallery — Closes next 10 March
Traditions in Transition @ OpenWalls by The British Journal of Photography — Closes next 13 March
Street @ Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 14 March
Inhabit @ F-Stop Magazine — Closes next 15 March
Exhibition Proposals @ Head On Photo Festival — Closes next 23 March
Exhibition Proposals @ Foto Wien (for photo organizations, not individual photographers) — Closes next 25 March
Impactful Photography @ Float Magazine — Closes next 25 March
A Scientific Approach @ LoosenArt — Closes next 26 March
Open theme @ Source Photographic Review — Closes next 28 March
Self Portrait @ Decode Gallery — Closes next 28 March
Open theme @ Fano Centrale Festival (for photographers aged 30 and under) — Closes next 30 March
New Frontiers @ ZOOM Photo Festival — Closes next 30 March
Flora and Fauna @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 31 March
Hidden Beauty @ Lucie Foundation — Closes next 31 March
Come back next month for April’s FotoCal :)
Keep looking...

Bird of Dreams — Fergus Thomas Photographs a Group of Men with a Passion for Pigeon Racing

FotoFirst — George Voronov Photographs Young People at Religious and Spiritual Retreats

Folly — Jamie E Murray Makes Work Inspired by Conversations with Ex-Prisoners

Niklas Grapatin Turns the Dust in Dhaka’s Air into Magic

Land of Plenty — Marco Barbieri Photographs Doha as a Still and Empty City

Rick Schatzberg Juxtaposes Photos of His Friends When They Were Young and Now in Their 60s

State of Identity — Milan Gies Portrays Young People Transitioning Gender
