Current Photography Competitions and Grants – May 2015
There are a huge number of photography competitions and grants currently vying for your images. We have listed the details and deadlines below, with links, to help make it easier for you to enter and find them all. Hope this helps! If you know of anymore competitions, please let me know and I will add them to this list.
Mobile Photography/Art Competition – FIPA/TheAppWhisperer Special Award – ‘Gates of Paradise’
The theme is ‘Gates of Paradise’ I selected this theme to honour the gilded bronze doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni and as inspiration for all mobile artists to create a magnificent work of art; not depicting the literal ‘Gates of Paradise’ but to portray, what the ‘Gates of Paradise’ represent to you. Think widely a place of contentment, a garden, being with a loved one, a tranquil location to retreat in times of stress.
More details can be found here
Deadline for this Competition is May 15, 2015
NEM/FIPA – Pro Series Open Call
The theme is ‘Lifestyles’, deadline is May 15, 2015. More details can be found here.
Siena International Photo Awards
The Cultural Association Art Photo Travel, is a society which focuses on creating cultural activities with the purpose of speaking, promoting and valuing art, monuments, traditions, cultures, natural wonders and landscapes around the world.
The projects are not only for those who love art and culture, but also for those interested in the unknown aspects and less touristic places, for those who like dreaming impossibile dreams and for those who want to know them through the eyes of others who have lived and recorded their experiences.
An approach oriented at growing a sensibility toward a culture mainly imprinted by understanding the people and the place.
Deadline for submissions: May 18th, 2015 – 12:00:00 p.m. (GMT + 0:00)
The Mobile Digital Art and Creativity Summit (mDAC15)
The Mobile Digital Art and Creativity Summit (mDAC15). The mDAC Summit will feature work of more than 100+ fine artists, illustrators and photographers from all over the world with work exclusively created on iPhones, iPads, Androids and Surface tablets and other mobile devices. This event is sponsored by the Palo Alto Art Center, California, US and hosted by the Mobile Art Academy.
There are three categories to enter, Mobile Digital Art, Mobile Photography Art and Layer Magic. The submission deadline for entry is May 31st, 2015. The top 100 artworks will be announced on June 18th,2015.
The Exposure Award Offering Photographers $75K In Awards & Prizes
Exposure is a photography award and a global celebration of the image, premiering July 13th 2015, at The Louvre Museum in Paris with submissions from 191 different nations over the past five years; the photography submitted to Exposure has been seen by over 3 million viewers.
All entries and payments must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday May 8th, 2015 (the “Initial Deadline”). Entries will be accepted after the Initial Deadline, but in any event prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday May 29th, 2015 (the “Final Deadline”), time being of the essence, provided any such late entries may be subject to an additional Ten Dollar ($10.00) late entry fee. Any entries and/or payments submitted after the Final Deadline will be automatically void.
Getty Images Instagram Grant – Up To $30,000 To Be Awarded
Getty Images have announced a collaboration with Instagram to offer a grant to support photographers using Instagram to document stories from underrepresented communities around the world.
A total of three grants of $10,000 each will be awarded. Winners will not only receive a cash grant, they will also have the opportunity for mentorship with award-winning Getty Images photographers.
Application deadline – June 4, 2015, 11.59 pm (GMT)
To find out more and to enter, go here.
Renaissance Photography Prize 2015
The prize is looking to discover talent and celebrate the best in photography, giving image makers access to new opportunities and world-wide audience for their work. It is open to anyone worldwide, and closes 12 June 23:59 GMT+1, London, UK time.
A prestigious judging panel, exhibition in London and over £6000/$9000 worth in prizes.
All profit from entry fees is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care, to help younger women suffering from breast cancer.
iPhotographer Magazine Cover Competition
The theme is ‘water’, there is a charge to enter this competition but also a $500 top prize among others. We have a discount code to slightly bring down the cost of entering for our readers. Instead of paying $6, the code will reduce it to $5. Enter this code: imp_aw_water on the main site.
Submission period opens May 1, 2015 and runs to June 1
International Mobile Film Festival
The purpose of the mobile film festival is not only to create interest and spark creativity in people of all ages with limited income or resources, but to actually inspire creative filmmakers to live to their potential and realize the opportunity to fulfill their dream. The International Mobil Film Festival™ is for everyone around the world! All ages welcome.
Submissions open June 19, 2015 for 2016 entry – click here for more information.
SUPER 9 – Mobile Film Festival
Nine competition months, to find out more, go here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
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Carolyn Hall Young
Thank you for this!