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The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant 2025

Photojournalism Grant supports young and emerging photographers as they embark on their career in the world of photojournalism. We offer financial support, mentorship and ongoing assistance for the promotion of their work.

Deadline: Aug 31st, 2025

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Sep 15th, 2025

Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship

£15,000 + Exhibition

Photo Credit: Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship

Photoworks is pleased to launch the third iteration of the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship. This opportunity in collaboration with The Ampersand Foundation, is for a mid-career photographer living in the UK. The fellowship will provide a transformative opportunity to complete a new body of work.

Sep 21st, 2024

ND Awards 2025 – prestige and exposure

Prize: $10,000

Photo Credit: Deryk Baumgärtner

ND Awards aims to promote photography and photographers. Our idea is to create new opportunities to present valuable work to audiences all over the world. We aim to build a place where photographers can show different points of view and thrive through competition.

Oct 31st, 2024

Castelfiorentino For The Arts Award Contemporary Photography

Prize: €3,000 (Open) and €500 (Student)

Photo Credit: Serena Radicioli

“Raccont’arti” is a free international open call for photographers and visual artists, aimed at mapping the state of contemporary photography. The 2025 edition explores “The illusion of knowledge: the photographic image between freedom and control”.

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Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award 2025

Image credit: Mahmoud Issa

Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the 29th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best images that singularly demonstrate social inequities, injustices, and/or human rights abuses, or the situations that either foster or fight them.

Prize: $6,000 + Exhibition

Deadline: Oct 10th, 2025

Earth Partner Prize 2025

Image credit: Adedolapo Boluwatife

We invite artists of all nationalities, races, genders, and faiths, aged 14 to 30, to submit work that comments on the ecological crisis.
Eight finalists will be awarded cash prizes of $10k, $5k or $2k. An additional 20 creatives will receive honourable mentions by a globally recognised panel of judges composed of industry experts and leaders in the fields of arts and science.

Prize: $10,000

Deadline: Oct 10th, 2025

The W. Eugene Smith Grant for Student Photographers

Image credit: Lea Greub

The W. Eugene Smith Grant for Student Photographers is designed to encourage and support students whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist.

Prize: $5,000

Deadline: Oct 5th, 2025

Grant For A New Humanitarian Perspective

Image credit: Tom Gustin

The humanitarian landscape is evolving. The significant disruptions that NGOs have recently faced led us to redesign the format of this grant. Continuing this initiative was essential for Action contre la Faim—not only to spotlight the work of applicants, but above all to increase the visibility of the people we work with and for, and the realities they face wherever we intervene.

Prize: €5,000

Deadline: Aug 31st, 2025

Mapfre Foundation - KBr Biennial International Photo Award 2025

Image credit: Felipe Romero Beltrán

The international competition organized every two years by the Foundation. This award seeks to recognize and highlight photographers with an established professional career whose work demonstrates artistic values of particular interest within the tradition of documentary photography.

Prize: €25,000 + Exhibition

Deadline: Sep 8th, 2025

The W. Eugene Smith Grant

Image credit: Murat Yazar

The judges will be looking for a photographer and project that seem most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition.

Prize: $30,000