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
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