Photography Awards

Center for Photographic Arts International Juried Exhibition — Closes next 3 October
ZeroWaste @ European Environment Agency (for European photographers) — Closes next 3 October
Fine Art Photography Awards — Closes next 8 October (early bird deadline)
FOCUS photo l.a. — Closes next 8 October
Colors @ All About Photo — Closes next 10 October
Maribor Photobook Award — Closes next 10 October
Black and White @ reFocus Awards — Closes next 12 October (early bird deadline)
Prix Nadar (for a photobook published in France by a French publisher) — Closes next 15 October
Castelfiorentino for the Arts Award — Closes next 16 October
#CreateCOP28 (for work about the climate crisis, by photographers aged 14-30) — Closes next 16 October
Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award (for social documentary photography) — Closes next 20 October
Chromatic Awards — Closes next 22 October
YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art — Closes next 26 October
Julia Margaret Cameron Award (for women photographers) — Closes next 29 October
Global SinoPhoto Awards (for international photographers with a story about China) — Closes next 30 October
III Barcelona Human Rights International Photo Festival — Closes next 31 October
Humans @ Life Framer — Closes next 31 October

Photography Grants

Photobook Long Term Program @ Penumbra Foundation (photographers may apply for a need-based scholarship) — Closes next
Reflector Professional Development Programme (for England-based photographers of color) — Closes next 9 October
PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant — Closes next 12 October
The Burtynsky Grant (for the creation of a photobook by a Canadian photographer) — Closes next 13 October
Taurus Prize for Visual Arts — Closes next 15 October
W. Eugene Smith Grant — Closes next 15 October
W. Eugene Smith Grant for Student Photographers — Closes next 15 October
Afghanistan @ Carmignac Photojournalism Award — Closes next 17 October
LensCulture Black and White Photography Awards — Closes next 18 October
The Bob and Diane Fund (for stories about Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia) — Closes next 22 October
Swiss Storytelling Photo Grant (open internationally) — Closes next 31 October

Open Calls

Exhibition Proposal Series @ Gallery 263 — Closes next 1 October
Halftone @ Photo Ireland Festival — Closes next 1 October
Facsimile @ Borderline Press (for work about the anthropocene) — Closes next 2 October
Open Book Call Publisher @ Photobook Week Aarhus — Closes next 9 October
Our World Is Beautiful @ Photobook Week Aarhus (for work made with AI tools) — Closes next 9 October
Nocturnal @ Decode Gallery — Closes next 12 October
Portrait of the Self @ COPA — Closes next 13 October
Private @ Biennale della Fotografia Femminile (open internationally) — Closes next 15 October
Exhibition Proposals @ Capture Photography Festival — Closes next 16 October
Imagine @ Rotterdam Photo — Closes next 16 October
Open theme @ PEP Photographic Explorations — Closes next 17 October
Identity @ Revela’t Photography Fesitval (for analog photography) — Closes next 18 October (extended deadline)
Empathy @ Der Greif — Closes next 19 October
Icon Awards — Closes next 20 October
CCP x Hahnemühle Summer Salon 2023 (for work made in Australia) — Closes next 27 October
Enchantment @ Angkor Photo Festival — Closes next 31 October
Out of State: Our Relationship with The Land @ Essarter Editions — Closes next 1 November