FotoCal — Photography Awards, Grants and Open Calls Closing in May 2023
Photography Awards
Daylight Photo Awards — Closes next 1 May
Discovery Awards @ Encontros da Imagem — Closes next 1 May (extended deadline)
Transversalidades 2023 (for projects that “portray the diversity of territories, societies and cultures of different continents“)— Closes next 5 May
Creator Labs Photo Fund @ Google & Aperture (for US based photographers) — Closes next 6 May
Photobook Award @ Encontros da Imagem — Closes next 6 May
Portraits of Intimacy @ Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards — Closes next 6 May (extended deadline)
International Photography Exhibition 165 @ The Royal Photographic Society — Closes next 8 May
Prix de la Photographie Paris — Closes next 8 May
Prix Viviane Esders (for European photographers aged over 60) — Closes next 8 May
Monovisions Awards — Closes next 14 May
Nera di Verzasca Prize @ Verzasca Foto Festival — Closes next 14 May
Premio Eloi Gimeno (for photobooks. The rules are only available in Spanish but the call is open internationally) — Closes next 14 May
What Is Beauty? @ Photo Vogue — Closes next 15 May
Snider Prize @ Museum of Contemporary Photography (for students in their final year of graduate study) — Closes nex 19 May
Global Peace Photo Award — Closes next 21 May
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize — Closes next 22 May
Lumen Prize (for art created with technology) — Closes next 26 May
9th Jalón Ángel International Photography Awards (for the contest rule, click on the ‘Las Bases’ tab found next to the ‘Inscripcion’ tab below the call presentation) — Closes next 28 May
Youth @ Life Framer — Closes next 30 April
Paula Riff Award (for photographers using alternative photographic processes) — Closes next 1 June
Photography Grants
Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award @ Les Rencontres D’Arles — Closes next 15 May
Women Photograph Projects Grant & Women Photograph + Leica Grant — Closes next 15 May
Hopper Prize — Closes next 16 May
Eddie Adams Workshop — Closes next 16 May
Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award (for women photographers) — Closes next 20 May
The Book Awards @ Les Rencontres D’Arles — Closes next 26 May
Environmental Bursary @ The Royal Photographic Society — Closes next 29 May
Joan Wakelin Bursary @ The Royal Photographic Society (for new, social documentary projects) — Closes next 29 May
Open Calls
LPA Futures — Closes next 1 May
Mother’s Day @ Lenscratch — Closes next 1 May
Prix Maison Blanche — Closes next 1 May
Earth Photo — Closes next 2 May
I Don’t Know How to Respond to That @ PhMuseum Days — Closes next 4 May
Past & Present of Photography @ Der Greif — Closes next May 4 (extended deadline)
Home Is Where @ Float Magazine — Closes next 12 May
A State of Consciousness @ ProfiFoto — Closes next 15 May
Hamburg Portfolio Review — Closes next 15 May
Open Book @ Photo|Frome — Closes next 15 May
Open Theme @ F-Stop Magazine — Closes next 15 May
Revisiting the Family Album: Stories that Bind Us — Closes next 16 May
Balancing Belonging @ Der Greif — Closes next 18 May
Photography and Literature @ Wort Im Bild — Closes next 20 May
Courage @ Helsinki Photo Festival — Closes next 23 May
Common Love @ Der Greif — Closes next 25 May
Julia Margaret Cameron Award (for women photographers) — Closes next 28 May
MA-g Awards — Closes next 31 May
Keep looking...

“They Live and Work and Breathe and Die Right on the Edge” — Portraits by Tracy Chandler

FotoFirst — Tourism, Romance and Identity Come Together in Farah Foudeh’s Series ‘Just Because I Don’t Cry Doesn’t Mean I Am Strong’

Roselena Ramistella’s Lyrical Photographs Capture the Communities Living in Rural Sicily

Tomoya Imamura’s Photos Are Filled with Symbols Referencing Hungary’s History

In These Staged Images, Rydel Cerezo Explores His Relationship with the Catholic Church

We Are the Ones Turning — Ana Zibelnik Reflects on the Ideas of Death and Time

Michelle Sank Portrays Young People from the Black Country in Their Bedrooms
