Photography awards, grants, and open calls — April 2019
By: Roman Drits
Tags: Art, Photographer, Photojournalism, Competition, Photography

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Espy photo award — www.espyphotoaward.com

Deadline: 01.04

Espy supports all mediums and genres of photography and is keen to showcase photographers experimenting with their process.

www.colum.edu

Deadline: 01.04

The Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues creates a space for a socially engaged photographer to produce a compelling and dynamic body of work highlighting human rights and social issues.

Light Work — www.lightwork.org

Deadline: 01.04

Light Work was founded as an artist-run, non-profit organization in 1973. Its mission is to provide direct support through residencies, publications, exhibitions, a community-access digital lab facility, and other related projects to emerging and under-represented artists working in the media of photography and digital imaging.

The Snider Prize — www.mocp.org

Deadline: 12.04

The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study. The winner receives $2,000, and two honorable mentions each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to the MoCP’s permanent collection.

contests.picter.com

Deadline: 12.04

This year, Queer Festival Heidelberg is opening its call for its annual exhibition to submissions from all over Europe.

contests.picter.com

Deadline: 13.04

How can photographs define the diversity of urban experience today?

www.rencontres-arles.com

Deadline: 13.04

Since 2015, the Rencontres d’Arles has offered an award supporting the publication of a dummy book. This prize, with a production budget of €25,000, is open to any new photographer or artist using photography, submitting a previously unpublished dummy book.

Happiness ONTHEMOVE prize — www.cortonaonthemove.com

Deadline: 14.04

As with all previous editions, the 8th edition of our Happiness ONTHEMOVE contest, partnered with Consorzio Vino Chianti, features happiness as its central theme. Development of the theme is left to your own personal vision, creativity and sensitivity.

Palm* Photo Prize — palmstudios.co.uk

Deadline: 15.04

Palm Photo Prize is open to photographers working in all disciplines and styles. Submit your work for a chance to be shortlisted and featured in the exhibition at theprintspace gallery opening 14 May 2018 as an official satellite event to Photo London.

OPEN CALL / Grants for Female Photographers from South Caucasus Region — tpmm.ge

Deadline: 15.04

Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum announces its second open call for South Caucasian female photographers within the project “South Caucasus Photography Hub for Education and Innovation”, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Portrait of Britain — www.portraitofbritain.uk

Deadline: 18.04

Portrait of Britain — Be part of a groundbreaking exhibition showing the face of modern britain.

GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival — www.getxophoto.com

Deadline: 21.04

GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival invites photographers and visual artists from all over the world to share their vision on: Post Homo Sapiens. Programming the future. Thinking about humanity’s future and reflecting on its possibilities is this year’s festival theme.

contests.picter.com

Deadline: 21.04

contests.picter.com

Deadline: 21.04

contests.picter.com

Deadline: 21.04

Kassel Dummy Award — fotobookfestival.org

Deadline: 24.04

We again invite all photographers worldwide to take part and to send us their unpublished photobook mock-up for the KASSEL DUMMY AWARD contest.

LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2019 — www.lensculture.com

Deadline: 24.04

The LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2019 are seeking today’s finest street photographers from all over the world. Enter today for a chance at an exhibition in New York!

contests.picter.com

Deadline: 29.04

POY Latam celebrates excellence in documentary and artistic photography in Ibero-America (Latin America + Caribbean + Spain&Portugal). Our commitment is on transparency and our mission: to connect and build communities through competitions, exhibitions, publications, and educational opportunities.

HCB Award 2019 — www.henricartierbresson.org

Deadline: 30.04

Presented by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the HCB Award supports the creation of a photography project which could not be achieved without this help.

Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards — www.klphotoawards.com

Deadline: 30.04

Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards for portrait photography 2019 contest.

Inge Morath Award — www.magnumfoundation.org

Deadline: 30.04

The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Estate are pleased to announce the 18th annual Inge Morath Award, a $5,000 grant given to a woman photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project.

www.daylightphotoawards.com

Deadline: 01.05

One top prize winner will receive a $1000 cash prize and the creation of a digital feature. Juror picks will be promoted via internal and external marketing campaigns and have the opportunity to collaborate with Daylight on the creation of a monograph of their work.

Arab Documentary Photography Program — www.magnumfoundation.org

Deadline: 01.05

In collaboration with The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Prince Claus Fund (PCF), we are pleased to open applications for the sixth year of the Arab Documentary Photography Program.

Aint–Bad — Issue №14 — Call For Entry — www.aint-bad.com

Deadline: 01.05

We are excited to invite all lens-based image-makers, visual artists, and photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and influences to submit. The possible outcomes are limitless.

The Image Flow Artist in Residence Program — theimageflow.com

Deadline: 01.05

The Image Flow invites applications for a 2–3 month Artist Residency program to support a visual artist working within photography and/or image-based media.

Prix Levallois — prix-levallois.com

Deadline: 02.05

Applications of Prix Levallois 2019 are now open.

2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest — www.nationalgeographic.com

Deadline: 03.05

Join the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest and see amazing photos from around the world.

www.luciefoundation.org

Deadline: 03.05

The Lucie Emerging Scholarships are open to emerging photographers 18 years and older, worldwide. We define “emerging” as any photographer enrolled as a student, in the first five years of their photography career, or does not earn the majority of their income from photography. The ChromaLuxe X Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship Scholarship is open to both emerging and established photographers.

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