For years, I missed so many competition deadlines, just because I never had an overview over all the deadlines. I now try to keep a list of all grants, competitions, call for applications, etc. Let me share it with you. (Contact me if I missed something!)
Please use your common sense when applying to awards that ask for a fee. I know of an example (among very many) where the more than 13,000 produced revenue of roughly $180,000 for the organizers. The prizes awarded totaled just $6,000 and winners even had to pay for the to framing of their own photographs and had to give 40% commission on sales of their winning work to the organization’s gallery partner. Currently, I am including all awards in this list, yet I consider to exclude all those that ask for any entry fee.
Rolling
January
- Prefix (1. Jan)
- Sony Awards (9. Jan ’13)
- Canon Fotoförderpreis (9. Jan ’13)
- World Press Photo Multimedia Contest (10. Jan ’13)
- Karl-Buchrucker-Preis (10. Jan ’13)
- BRIDGES Emscher Zukunft (11. Jan ’13)
- Noorderlicht (11. Jan ’13)
- Art Directors Club Photo Contest (11. Jan ‘ 13)
- Photoreporter Festival in the Bay of Saint Brieuc (13. Jan ’13)
- Syngenta (15. Jan ’13)
- Days in Japan Photojournalism Awards (15. Jan ’13)
- Gabriel-Grüner-Stipendium (15. Jan ’13)
- Hansel-Mieth-Preis (15. Jan ’13)
- Picture of the Year International POYi (16. Jan ’13)
- World Press Photo (17. Jan ’13)
- Alexia Foundation (18. Jan ’13)
- CENTER awards (23. Jan ’13)
- American Illustration-American Photography (25. Jan ’13)
- NPPA Best of Video-Photojournalism (25. Jan ’13)
- PDN Photo Annual (29. Jan ‘ 13)
- PGB Photo Award (30. Jan)
- Voies Off Arles (30. Jan. ’13)
- Prix Voies Off (30. Jan ’13)
- Hillman Prize for Photojournalism (31. Jan ’13)
- Px3 Selfportrait (31. Jan ’13)
- New York Photo Awards: Sandy Devastation, Document, Drive (31. Jan ‘ 13)
- EPAP – European Publishers Award for Photography (31. Jan ’13)
- New York Photo Awards (31: Jan ’13)
- Berg.Welten (paused)
February
- NPPA Best of Photojournalism (1. Feb ’13)
- n-Ost Reportagepreis (1. Feb ’13)
- Photo Le Mer (10. Feb ’13)
- FotoEvidence Book Award (15. Feb ‘ 13)
- Les Nuits photographiques (15. Feb ’13)
- Persephone Miel Fellowship (15. Feb ’13)
- Su-ture by Gomma (18. Feb ’13)
- Museum of Humanity (18. Feb ’13)
- Noor-Nikon Masterclass (22. Feb)
- Pulitzer Prizes (25. Feb ’13)
- OSI: Moving Walls (26. Feb ’13)
- Nikon Photo Contest (28. Feb ’13)
- Aperture Portfolio Prize (28. Feb ’13)
- European Design ED -Awards (28. Feb ’13)
- Magnum Expression Awards (28. Feb ‘ 13)
- Lumix Award (Bi-Annual – 2014)
March
- Picture Berlin Summer Session (1. Mar ’13)
- Victor Fellowship (1. Mar ’13)
- The Grez Sur Loing stipend (1. Mar ’13)
- The San Michelle stipend (1. Mar ’13)
- Stipend in Nature Photography (tbc)
- Getty Creative Grant (1. Mar ’13)
- Leica Oscar Barnack Award (1. Mar ’13)
- Images Singulieres/SFR (tbc)
- CNAP (15. Mar ’13)
- PhotoCollection (tbc)
- Vevey International Photo Award (15. Mar ’13)
- Fotofestiwal Łódź Masterclass (tbc)
- Recess (15. Mar ’13)
- Px3 Photography Competition (15. Mar ‘ 13)
- Communication Arts Magazine (15. Mar ’13)
- BMW / Nicephore Niepce (tbc)
- BlankSpace (20. Mar ’13)
- Art ©opyright – Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti (22. Mar)
- Journalism Grants (25. Mar ’13)
- Joop Swart Masterclass (tbc)
- SFR Jeunes Talents / Arles (tbc)
- Visa Pour l’Image (30 Mar)
- Dummy Award (not yet started)
- JGS Quarterly Awards (31. Mar ’13)
- Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Documentary Prize (31. Mar ‘ 13)
- International Photographer of the Year / / Lucie Awards (31. Mar ’13)
- Foam Magazine Talent Call
- Hey Hot Shot
April
- Soros Audience Engagement Grant (3. April ’13)
- SFR Recontres d’Arles (8. April ’13)
- BOZAR Monography Award (12. April ’13)
- HCB Award (15. April ’13)
- The Other Hundred (15. April ’13)
- FOAM talent
- Delhi Fotofestival (20. April ’13)
- Young Curators, Mr. & Mrs. Amani Olu, (27. April)
- Photocrati Fund (30. April ‘ 13)
- Inge Morath Prize (30. April ’13)
- Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation (30. April ’13)
- ILO Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe (30. April ’13)
- Humble Arts Foundation Grant
May
- Getty Editorial Grant (1. May ’13)
- Getty Emerging Talent Award (1. May ’13)
- PROOF (1. May ’13)
- ASMP/NY Annual Photo Contest (1. May ’13)
- Bourse du Talent Portrait (2. May ’13)
- Emerging Photographer Fund (5. May ’13)
- Santa Fe Prize for Photography (7. May ’13)
- AnthropoGraphia (7. May ’13)
- QPN (FR) (18. May ’13)
- OjodePez
- Soros Production Grant
- Grain d’Image
- Photo Levallois (20. May ’13)
- BOZAR Photography Awards (20. May)
- Aaron Siskind IPF Grant (24. May ’13)
- Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédias (24. May)
- Art Takes Times Square (25. May)
- acatech Punkt multimedia (27. May ’13)
- Night Contest (27. May ’13)
- Medienpreis Kinderrechte (31. May ’13)
- Environmental Awareness Bursary (31. May)
- Self! Artist Wanted (31. May)
- Canon Female Photojournalist Award (31. May ’13)
- Bourse du Talent (31. May ’13)
- FotoDoks (31. May ’13)
- Gene Smith Grant
- Howard Chapnick Grant
- POYi Emerging Vision Grant
- F Award
- OSI Moving Walls
June
- The Cord Prize (2. Jun ’13)
- ICRC Photojournalism Award (5. Jun ’13)
- Alexandra Boulat Prize (7. June ’13)
- Bayeux-Calvados award for war correspondents (8. Jun)
- IdeasTap Photographic Award (15. Jun)
- Angkor Wat Photo Festival (15. June ’13)
- Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère (23. Jun)
- Académie des Beaux-Arts (29 Jun)
- Eugene Smith
- Humble Art (29 Jun)
- CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
- Critical Mass by Photolucida
- Visa pour l’image – Visa d’Or award
- Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association Grant
- CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage
- CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
July
- Prefiz (1. Jul)
- Noorderlicht Masterclass (15. Jul)
- 1000words Photography (23. Jul)
- Deutscher Preis für Wissenschaftsfotografie (30. Jul ’13)
- Canon Fotoförderpreis
- Ian Parry scholarship
- Spider Awards B&W Photo
- Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
- FRANCE24-RFI Web Documentary Award
- International Color Awards
August
- Punkt Foto (5. Aug ’13)
- Le Bal (16. Aug)
- WYNG Masters Award Hong Kong (31. Aug)
- Alexia Foundation: The Women’s Initiative Grant
- Magnum Expression Award
- One Life International Photography Competition
September
- Fondation des Trailles (1. Sept)
- Archifoto (2. Sept)
- Wüstenrotstiftung (6. Sept ’13)
- Folkwang Museum (14. Sept)
- Le Lieu (15. Sept)
- BJP Travel (17. Sept)
- Bourse du Talent Landscape & Architecture (20. Sept ’13)
- BJP International Photography Award
- FotoVisura Grant
October
- Fear (2 Oct.)
- Eurazeo (15. Oct)
- Kulturstiftung des Bundes (31. Oct ’13)
- American Photo Images of the Year
- Terry O’Neill Award
- Unicef Photo of the Year International Award (by nomination)
- Magenta Flash Forward
November
- VG Bild (15. Nov.)
- Tim Hetherington Grand (15. Nov)
- Aftermath Project
- American Photography
- Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest
- Onward
December
- Nieman Fellowships (1. Dec)
- John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships (1. Dec)
- Rückblende (5. Dec)
- Talents c/o Berlin (14. Dec.)
- Hasselblad Masters Awards
- The Julia Margaret Cameron Award for female photographers
- Arte Laguna Prize
- SocialDocumentary.net / MSH Photography Fellowship in Africa
- FotoVisura Photography Grant
- Magnum Foundation Human Rights Fellowship
- Environmental Photographer of the Year
- Canteen
Good Luck!