FotoCal — Photography Awards, Grants and Open Calls Closing in August 2025
Photography Awards
Head On Photo Awards — Closes next 3 August (extended deadline)
Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize (for work about climate change) — Closes next 5 August
LensCulture Street Photography Awards — Closes next 6 August
OD Photo Prize — Closes next 11 August
POY Latam (for Latin American photographers) — Closes next 15 August
Photographer of the Year Contest — Closes next 20 August
Lucie Photo Book Prize — Closes next 22 August
As Brave as We Can @ Fotografica Next Festival (for photographers aged under 30) — Closes next 27 August
Scenes of Life @ Life Framer — Closes next 31 August
Nature and Humans @ ADF Foundation for Sustainable Development — Closes next 1 September
Aaron Siskind Award for Photography @ Virginia Musuem of Fine Arts — Closes next 2 September
Photography Grants
Eamonn McCabe Bursary @ The Royal Photographic Society (for projects about ‘sporting endeavour’ by photographers under 30) — Closes next 4 August
Charta Award (for photobooks) — Closes next 8 August (extended deadline)
Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award — Closes next 15 August (extended deadline)
Eidolon Grant (for vernacular photography) — Closes next 31 August
Grant for a New Humanitarian Perspective @ Actions against Hunger — Closes next 31 August
Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant (for photographers ‘no older than 24 years of age or enrolled in a full-time photographic course’) — Closes next 1 September
KBr Photo Award @ Fundaciòn MAPFRE — Closes next 1 September
Lucie Scholarship Program — Closes next 1 September
Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence (for the production of a photobook) — Closes next 1 September
Open Calls for Photographers
BBA One Shot Award — Closes next 4 August
Open Theme @ A Smith Gallery — Closes next 4 August
Plastic Visions @ LoosenArt — Closes next 7 August
Call for Exhibitions @ The Evergreen State College (for US based photographers) — Closes next 8
August
Open Theme @ Atlanta Photography Group x Atlanta Art Fair — Closes next 8 August
Global Connection @ Artdoc Magazine — Closes next 11 August
LAS Contemporary — Closes next 15 August
Masks @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 15 August
A Summer of Hope @ Lenscratch — Closes next 17 August
The Dark Before Dawn @ Der Greif Guest Room — Closes next 19 August
Abandoned @ Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 22 August
Travel @ Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 22 August
Premio Internacional FELIFA (for photobooks) — Closes next 24 August
Darkness @ Decode Gallery — Closes next 29 August
Open Theme @ Sarah Spurgeon Gallery — Closes next 31 August
Revolt and Beauty @ Le Bleu du Ciel — Closes next 31 August
Documentary Photography Awards @ The Royal Photographic Society — Closes next 1 September
Come back next month for September’s FotoCal :)
Keep looking...

FotoFirst — Olga Sokal Photographs Lynch, a Small U.S. Town Suffering from the Decline of Coal

Adagio — Laura Ghezzi’s Poetic Images Respond to a Time of Change in Her Life

Jakob Ganslmeier Portrays Former Neo-Nazis Who Are Removing Their Nazi-Inspired Tattoos

FotoFirst — Michael Swann’s Series Noema Is Inspired by (Alleged) Apparitions of the Virgin Mary

In His Series Cicha Woda, Piotr Pietrus Collects Mundane Observations of Reality

Mirjana Vrbaski Shares Her Minimalist Portraits of Women from Her Series Verses of Emptiness

Giulio Di Sturco Captures the Alarming Conditions of the Ganges River in Stunning Photographs
