A Information to August 2025 Photo Awards & Open Calls

KBr Photo Award III, Eidolon Grant, Lucie Photo Book Prize, The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, POY Latam, and Premio Internacional FELIFA are among the many alternatives we chosen this month.

Deadline 1 September / No entry price

Promoted by Fundación MAPFRE, the biennial KBr Photo Award goals to foster a vital and in-depth understanding of the defining social, political, territorial, and environmental problems with our time. The award helps established worldwide photographers with unpublished initiatives that honor the wealthy custom of documentary observe. The successful photographer will obtain a €25,000 prize, an exhibition of their undertaking on the basis’s two galleries (KBr and Madrid), and an accompanying revealed catalogue. Previous prize recipients embody Anastasia Samoylova and Felipe Romero Beltrán.

This 12 months, the jury consists of Diane Dufour (Co-Director of LE BAL), Ramón Reverté (Editor at Editorial RM), Krzysztof Candrowicz (Independent Curator), Gabriela Urtiaga (Chief Curator of the Museum of Latin American Art – MOLAA in Los Angeles), and Carlos Gollonet (Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE).

You can submit your work till 1 September, with no entry price. Learn extra on KBr’s website.

Deadline 31 August / No entry price

The Eidolon Grant provides a complete of €25,000 throughout two classes for initiatives that discover, promote, and preserve vernacular pictures—from analogue archives to modern picture cultures. This 12 months’s name focuses on nineteenth–Twentieth-century on a regular basis pictures and Twenty first-century digital visible practices, supporting proposals that critically have interaction with the social, aesthetic, and cultural significance of how we’ve photographed, and proceed to {photograph}, our day by day lives. Whether drawing from household albums, forgotten archives, or Instagram feeds, chosen initiatives will contribute to Eidolon’s mission to reframe the which means of on a regular basis pictures via modern analysis, creative interpretation, or curatorial observe. Among the jurors are Nathan Jurgenson, Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey, Lev Manovich, Marcel Top, and Róza Tekla Szilágyi.

Find out extra on their website.

Deadline 22 August / Entry price €35-55

The 2025 version of the Lucie Photo Book Prize is now open for submissions, providing two money awards. The Traditional Prize features a $3,000 money prize and will probably be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator, or writer whose guide is commercially produced and distributed. The Independent Prize, consisting of a $2,000 money prize, will probably be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator, or writer whose guide is revealed and distributed independently. Additionally, chosen artists and finalists will exhibit their work in a gaggle present at Picto in New York City this fall. This jury consists of consultants similar to Gwen Lee, Kira Pollack, Mikki Takkunen, Dean Brierly, Karen Williams, Nicola Motta, and Daniella Zalcman.

Applications are open till 22 August. Discover extra on their website.

Deadline 1 September / No entry price

The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant helps rising photojournalists aged 24 and below, or anybody who’s finding out in a full-time photographic course, with a £10,000 award to fund a proposed undertaking. In addition to the grant, the recipient will obtain a year-long mortgage of Canon tools, battle coaching and physique armour, a private mentorship with an trade knowledgeable, and an task from photojournalist Giles Duley. Their undertaking will even be featured in The Guardian and included within the Hamburg Portfolio Review. Judges will prioritize proposals that tackle urgent points tied to the human situation—starting from social change and humanitarian concern to environmental, cultural, or political significance.

Learn extra on their website.

Deadline 26 August / No entry price

The POY Latam award is open to photographers from Ibero-America (Latin America, Portugal, and Spain) or to those that have resided in an Ibero-American nation for at the very least one 12 months. It believes within the energy of documentary pictures and its unwavering dedication to the tales it tells. With this in thoughts, the competitors goals to have fun excellence in documentary and creative pictures throughout Ibero-America. Photographers can submit their work in 15 totally different classes, every with particular standards. The prize recipient of the “Photojournalist of the Year” class will obtain a $1,000 USD money prize, and chosen photographers in different classes will obtain a certificates.

Read extra on their website.

Deadline 24 August / Entry price €22

The FELIFA International Award seeks to spotlight the phases of the editorial course of and acknowledge the a number of abilities required to create a photobook. The prize recipient in every class—Editing, Graphic Design, and Graphic Production—and the general recipient of the FELIFA International Award will probably be introduced through the nineteenth version of the competition at an occasion going down on 18 October 2025 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The successful and finalist books will probably be featured in a touring exhibition that may go to associate festivals and establishments all through Latin America in 2026. This exhibition will even function a examine of the chosen books, analyzing their distinctive traits and the particular editorial, design, and manufacturing choices behind them to showcase the richness and complexity of the editorial course of.

You can submit your guide till 24 August. Read extra on their website.

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