Fine Art photography is a perfect instrument, which allows a person to communicate with the world and share their vision. The Fine Art Photography Award is open to everyone, amateurs and professionals alike. Entries are welcome from any country in the world. Your work will be judged by an international panel of high profile photographers.
Submission deadline: February 7th, 2021
Photo: Ioanna Natsikou
Seeking new visions in portraiture. We're excited to announce that plainpicture creative director Roman Haerer has been appointed as member of the international jury of the LensCulture Portrait Awards! The annual award is open to photographers at all levels of experience, and all genres of portraiture and all types artistic approaches are welcomed, from professional studio shoots to conceptual work.
You can enter the awards until: February 17th, 2021
The Contemporary African Photography Prize - Prepare your work that engages with the African continent or its diaspora. A panel of international curators, publishers, editors and artists will review your work. 25 artists will be shortlisted and five short listed artists awarded with the CAP Prize 2021. The winners will be announced at Photo Basel International Art Fair.
Submission deadline: 07.February 2021
Photo: Cesar Dezfuli
Decade of Change aims to bring together photography, philanthropy, research and activism to address the climate crisis on a global collaborative scale. From humankind to wildlife and cityscapes to ecosystems, the award will explore both the strength and fragility of our planet — celebrating all that we have to protect, and cautioning all that we have to lose. Open to photographers and visual artists around the world, the culminating exhibition will tour internationally.
Entries close 28 January 2021
"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
All About Photo presents its 6th edition of All About Photo Awards, The Mind's Eye calling all photographers from around the world. Winners will receive $10,000 in cash awards, extensive press coverage and global recognition.
Final Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2021.
In collaboration with 1854/British Journal of Photography, WaterAid is commissioning three new photographic projects exploring the ways in which the climate crisis is making it harder for people to access their basic human rights of clean water, decent sanitation and personal hygiene — especially in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Deadline for initial applications is 11th January 2021
photo: Dafe Oboro
Der bund professioneller portraitfotografen - bpp hat einen neuen Selbstportrait-Fotografie-Wettbewerb für Nachwuchsfotografen ins Leben gerufen. Das Wettbewerbsthema SELBSTPORTRAIT soll die eigene Persönlichkeit in den Fokus stellen. Kreative und künstlerisch anspruchsvolle Arbeiten sind willkommen. Der YOUNG PHOTO AWARD 2021 richtet sich an alle jungen Fotografen bis 28 Jahre aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz und den Niederlanden.
Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the internationally acclaimed Sony World Photography Awards are one of the most important fixtures in the photographic calendar. The Professional competition and the Open competition celebrate outstanding contemporary photography from artists working across the world. Photographers can enter their work to various categories.
Deadlines for submissions
Open competition: January 7th, 2020
Professional Competition: January 14th, 2020
Connecting the world to the stories that matter: The annual World Press Photo Contest rewards photographers for the best single exposure pictures contributing to the past year of visual journalism. Whether entered as singles or stories, these pictures are judged in terms of their accurate, fair, and visually compelling insights about our world.
Open until 12 January 2021
Photo: Esther Horvath - Singles, 1st Prize 2020
Regardless of genres, The Independent Photographer Award encouragea all photographers to share their best images. Fine art, landscape, street, documentary, portrait, still life & more:
There are no boundaries and photographers are free to submit any kind of work.
Deadline: 31 December 2020