FotoCal — Photography Awards, Grants and Open Calls Closing in October 2024
Photography Awards
Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award — Closes next 4 October
Autoportrait @ Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards — Closes next 6 October
Eyeshot Open Call — Closes next 6 October
Eloi Gimeno Award (for photobooks) — Closes next 13 October
Fine Art Photography Awards — Closes next 13 October (early-bird deadline)
Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize — Closes next 15 October
LensCulture Emerging Talent Photography Awards — Closes next 16 October
Chromatic Awards — Closes next 17 October
Castelfiorentino for the Arts Award — Closes next 30 October
#CreateCOP29 (for photographers aged 14 to 30 and work about climate change) — Closes next 31 October
Documentary Photography Contest — Closes next 31 October
Human Rights and Global Justice @ BCN-DH Photography Festival — Closes next 31 October
Humans @ Life Framer — Closes next 31 October
Richards Family Prize @ Griffin Museum of Photography (for mid-career photographers) — Closes next 31 October
Photography Grants
Photobook Long Term Program @ Penumbra Foundation (photographers may apply for a need-based scholarship) — Closes next 6 October
W. Eugene Smith Grant — Closes next 8 October
W. Eugene Smith Grant for Student Photographers — Closes next 8 October
Charta Award (for the production of a photobook) — Closes next 10 October
PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant — Closes next 10 October
PhotoWork Junior Fellowship (for US photographers) — Closes next 15 October
Andy Rocchelli Grant (for the production of a photobook) — Closes next 15 October
The Bob and Diane Fund (for stories about Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia) — Closes next 20 October
Counter Histories Fellowship @ Magnum Foundation — Closes next 1 November
Hope @ WMA Commission — Closes next 1 November
Open Calls
Open theme @ Exposure Photography Festival — Closes next 4 October
Pride Photo Award — Closes next 6 October
The Contemporary Portrait @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 6 October
The Members Show @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 6 October
Open theme @ Passepartout Photo Prize — Closes next 7 October
Open theme @ Rfotofolio Award — Closes next 7 October
Stories @ The Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 7 October
Metamorphosis @ Cluster Photography & Print Fair — Closes next 13 October
Poetry of the Ordinary @ PhotoPlace Gallery — Closes next 14 October
Call for Photobooks @ Diecixdieci Festival — Closes next 15 October
Exhibition Proposals @ Capture Photography Festival — Closes next 18 October
High and Dry: Peoples and Places of the World’s Dry Lands @ Texas Tech University International Affairs — Closes next 18 October
Open theme @ FotoFilmic JRNL 23 — Closes next 20 October
Southwest @ Decode Gallery — Closes next 25 October
The Unobserved @ ARTDOC Magazine — Closes next 27 October
Meaningful Aesthetics @ Numéro+ Magazine — Closes next 28 October
Contacts and Connections @ LoosenArt — Closes next 30 October
Open theme @ Getxophoto Festival — Closes next 31 October
Landscape @ The Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 1 November
Women in Photography @ The Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 1 November
Come back next month for November’s FotoCal :)
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