A Information To December 2025 Photo Awards & Open Calls

Discovery Award Louis Roederer Foundation, The Rencontres d’Arles Curatorial Research Fellowship, Arab Documentary Photography Program Open Call, Premio Luigi Ghirri, and Pride Photo Open Call are among the many alternatives we chosen this month.

Deadline 1 December / No entry payment

The Discovery Award – Louis Roederer Foundation is geared toward bringing rising photographic expertise into the Rencontres d’Arles competition. Rather than particular person artists making use of straight, the award invitations galleries, artwork centres, group areas, and establishments to suggest an exhibition undertaking on behalf of the artists they help. The award presents two acquisition prizes: a €15,000 Jury Prize and a €5,000 Public Prize, each shared between the artist and the supporting construction. During the opening week of the competition, a jury chosen by Rencontres d’Arles awards the Jury Prize, whereas guests vote for the Public Prize. Nadine Hounkpatin, this 12 months’s invited exhibition curator, will work with the chosen artists and establishments from choice by means of to exhibition design and set up.

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Deadline 1 December / No entry payment

Supported by Jean-François Dubos and providing a €20,000 grant, the Rencontres d’Arles Curatorial Research Fellowship helps curators or curatorial collectives who need to develop an exhibition or research-based photographic undertaking, probably for presentation on the competition. The fellowship help begins with €5,000 to fund six months of preliminary analysis and conceptual improvement. Following this six-month interval, the chosen curator should submit a feasibility word to the competition’s inventive course. If the report is accepted by the competition, an extra €15,000 is awarded to help additional manufacturing.

Submissions are open till 1 December, with no entry payment. Find out extra on their website.

Deadline 10 December / No entry payment

The Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) 2026, run by the Magnum Foundation in partnership with AFAC and the Prince Claus Fund, helps documentary photographers from the Arab world or working within the area, together with displaced photographers whose proposed work stays rooted of their dwelling international locations. Up to eight photographers might be chosen, every receiving a $7,000 grant, entry to a few intensive workshops, and ongoing mentorship. Projects could also be conventional or experimental and may embody multimedia components equivalent to audio or video.

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Deadline 19 December / No entry payment

GFI | Premio Luigi Ghirri invitations Italian or Italy-based artists underneath 35 to submit their tasks on the theme Voices. This 12 months’s matter encourages submissions that replicate how images can discover human or non-human connections, reminiscence, and speculative narratives. Finalists can have their work exhibited at Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy, from April to June 2026. They obtain €1,500 to cowl manufacturing, transportation, and journey, and one prize recipient is awarded a €4,000 money prize throughout a ceremony to be held through the opening weekend. In addition, one chosen artist might be supplied a residency in Stockholm by means of Nuove Traiettorie – GFI a Stoccolma, and one other could participate in Photo‑Match at Fotofestiwal Łódź. Selection is made by a world jury composed of Danit Ariel, Ilaria Campioli, Krzysztof Candrowicz, Daniele De Luigi, and Femke Rotteveel.

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Deadline 9 December / Entry payment £20 – £35

The RPS International Photography Exhibition 167 is a part of the Royal Photographic Society’s lengthy‑working touring exhibition program, welcoming photographers of all ages, kinds, and backgrounds. This version’s choice panel consists of Max Gorbatsky, Irene Lombardo, Dr. Michael Pritchard, Lydia Goldblatt, and Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora. From the entries, 100 works might be chosen for exhibition in RPS-partnered venues, and prizes embody a £1,000 IPE Award, a £1,000 Under-30s Award, and a totally supported two‑week solo present for one photographer. Selected photographers additionally obtain written suggestions from the selectors and a digital version of the IPE Journal.

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Deadline 31 December / No entry payment

The Pride Photo Foundation strives to discover a wealthy, multi-faceted, and various assortment of tales representing the worldwide LGBTQIA+ group. Pride Photo invitations photographers whose work displays LGBTQIA+ identities, points, and tales, and embraces all kinds of visible approaches, together with documentary, portraiture, collage, and AI-assisted work. Selected photographs are awarded €500 every, exhibited in Amsterdam.

You can apply till 31 December. Visit their website for more information.

Deadline 15 December / No entry payment

The Lumínic Festival 2026 in Sant Cugat del Vallès, in Barcelona, Spain, invitations photographers worldwide to submit tasks exploring the poetic energy of photographs. It encourages photographic tasks which can be poetic, evocative or conceptually suggestive. Two chosen photographers will obtain both €500 in manufacturing help or a €500 payment if the work is already accomplished, whereas additional ten tasks might be chosen for exhibition, both as a projection on the opening or as a part of a bunch present on the Blanca Gallery through the competition.

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Other Deadlines

Helsinki Analog Festival 2026 Open Call / Deadline 14 December / Entry payment €20

The Helsinki Analog Festival 2026 invitations artists worldwide to submit analog, handmade, and experimental works throughout varied media, welcoming submissions that commemorate materiality and craftsmanship. Ten artists might be chosen to exhibit at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte in Helsinki, Finland, from 2 April to three May 2026. Each chosen artist receives a €500 expense allowance to help transport or materials prices. The theme for 2026 is Body, specializing in embodied inventive practices and bodily, sensory engagement.

Parallel Voices 26 Open Call / Deadline 15 December / Entry payment €20

Nine chosen portfolios might be showcased within the Photometria International Photography Festival 2026 in Ioannina, Greece, as a part of a bunch exhibition entitled Parallel Voices , and will obtain discounted lodging to help their participation. All matters and approaches are welcome, encouraging private imaginative and prescient, robust storytelling, and various views. The jury consists of Panagiotis Papoutsis, Achilleas Tziakos, and Panagiotis Pappas.

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