FotoCal — Photography Awards, Grants and Open Calls Closing in May 2025
Photography Awards
Daylight Photo Awards — Closes next 1 May
Kodak Flow Photo Contest — Closes next 2 May
Shared Roots: Places @ Fotografia Calabria Festival Award — Closes next 2 May
Verzasca Foto Festival Awards — Closes next 2 May
Self Portrait Prize @ Ruth Borchard Collection — Closes next 2 May
Reflecting the Real @ Photo Museum Ireland — Closes next 5 May
Revelation Prize @ Festival Off Arles — Closes next 10 May
Book Awards @ Les Rencontres d’Arles — Closes next 12 May
Encontros da Imagem Awards — Closes next 12 May
Global Peace Photo Award — Closes next 11 May
Black and White @ reFocus Awards — Closes next 14 May
Analog Sparks Film Photography Awards — Closes next 15 May
Monovisions Awards — Closes next 18 May
International Photography Competition @ Florida Museum of Photographic Arts — Closes next 19 May
Forever Happy @ Fotofestival Lenzburg — Closes next 20 May
Bourse du Talent @ Picto Foundation — Closes next 23 May
Lumen Prize — Closes next 23 May
Jalón Ángel International Photography Prize — Closes next 26 May
Premio Marco Bastianelli (for Italian photographers) — Closes next 30 May
Youth @ Life Framer — Closes next 31 May
Paula Riff Award — Closes next 1 June
Women by Women @ PhotoVogue — Closes next 1 June
Photography Grants
Artist Residency @ Lithuanian Photographers Association — Closes next 4 May
Camille Lepage Award (for photojournalists) — Closes next 5 May
Lodz Photo-Match Portfolio Review — Closes next 12 May
LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award — Closes next 12 May
Hopper Prize — Closes next 13 May
Working Assumption Project Grants (for work about family) — Closes next 15 May
Eyes Wide Open 1st Photobook Grants (one for French photographers; one for women photographers; one for photographers from the Global South) — Closes next 18 May
Canon Female Photojournalist Grant — Closes next 21 May
Yves Rocher Foundation Photo Prize (for photojournalists) — Closes next 25 May
Artist in Residence @ Gallery 263 — Closes next 26 May
Canon Video Grant (for photojournalists) — Closes next 27 May
Martine Franck Curatorial Research Grant @ Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson — Closes next 31 May
Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Grant (for photojournalists) — Closes next 1 June
Project Space Residency @ Visual Studies Workshop — Closes next 2 June
Open Calls for Photographers
Guest Room: The Ties that Bind @ Guest Room — Closes next 2 May
LanghePhotoPrize — Closes next 4 May
The Modern Nude @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 5 May
PhMuseum Online Masterclasses (one scholarship is offered for each masterclass) — Closes next 8 May
Photo Poetry Publication @ Photoworks — Closes next 13 May
Portrait @ All About Photo Magazine — Closes next 13 May
Open theme @ F-Stop Magazine — Closes next 15 May
Revealing Truth @ Photo Oxford — Closes next 19 May
Ethereal @ Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 23 May
Identity @ Glasgow Gallery of Photography — Closes next 23 May
The Contemporary Portrait @ Southeast Center for Photography — Closes next 25 May
Hamburg Portfolio Review — Closes next 31 May
Trip without a Ticket @ OFF Bratislava Festival — Closes next 31 May
Exhibit Proposals @ Manifest Gallery — Closes next 1 June
Northerness @ LoosenArt — Closes next 1 June
Come back next month for June’s FotoCal :)
Keep looking...

FotoFirst — This Is What Your Love (and Sex) Life Could Be Like When You’re Old

FotoFirst — Aaron Dickson’s Photos Scrutinize Our Relationship with the Environments We Build

FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America

Twin Palms — Matt Henry Empowers the Stay-at-Home Women of a Fictional 1960s Town

Made in Chengdu — Larry Hallegua Explores the Streets of a Rapidly Modernizing Chinese City

Sun-Drenched Photos of the Life Flowing Along the Los Angeles River

Silent Voices — Marinka Masséus Calls the World Out on Gender Inequality
