May 2026 Deadlines for Photography Awards, Grants, and Open Calls
FotoRoom has released a compilation of photography awards, grants, and open calls with deadlines in May 2026. Notable awards featured are the Daylight Photo Awards (May 1), Escapism @ PORTRAITS Hellerau (May 3), One Shot Photo Contest (May 3), Prix Virginia (May 7), Encontros da Imagem Award (May 10), Bourse du Talent (May 11), Hopper Prize (May 12), Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards (May 13), MonoVisions Awards (May 17), Singapore International Photography Festival Award (May 17), Lumen Prize (May 23), and ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award (May 27). Grants listed include the Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Grant (May 3), Camille Lepage Award (May 4), and Sonntag Grant (May 31), along with open calls such as #HopperHappens (May 3) and After Dark (May 4).
Key facts
- Daylight Photo Awards closes May 1, 2026.
- Prix Virginia is for women photographers, closes May 7.
- Lumen Prize spans art and technology, closes May 23.
- ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award targets photojournalists, closes May 27.
- Hasselblad Foundation Nature Photography Grant is for Nordic-based photographers, closes May 8.
- Sonntag Grant for Photography is open to female, lesbian, inter, non-binary, trans, agender photographers, closes May 31.
- Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship closes May 16.
- Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech open call 'Two Centuries of Light' closes May 31.
Entities
Institutions
- Daylight Photo Awards
- PORTRAITS Hellerau Photography Award
- One Shot Photo Contest
- Prix Virginia
- Encontros da Imagem Award
- Bourse du Talent
- Hopper Prize
- Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards
- MonoVisions Awards
- Singapore International Photography Festival
- Lumen Prize
- Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award
- Global Peace Photo Award
- ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award
- HIPA Award
- Vienna International Photo Award
- Paula Riff Award
- Center for Photographic Art
- Lenscratch Student Prize
- Lisbon Street Photo Fest Awards
- Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Grant
- Camille Lepage Award
- Tulsa Artist Fellowship
- Hasselblad Foundation
- Encounter of Collectives
- LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award
- Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship
- Eyes Wide Open
- Visual Studies Workshop
- Lithuanian Photographers Association
- Sonntag Grant for Photography
- Working Assumption
- Edward Hopper House Museum
- Decagon Gallery
- PhotoPlace Gallery
- Fieldwork
- PhMuseum Days
- Der Greif Guest Room
- Der Greif
- F-Stop Magazine
- Profifoto
- PhEST Photography Festival
- Fotobus Library Award
- Southeast Center for Photography
- Lodz Photo-Match Portfolio Review
- A Smith Gallery
- Dusk Gallery
- Panoramic Festival
- Hamburg Portfolio Review
- Photometria Festival
- No-Type
- Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech
- Texas Photographic Society
- FotoRoom
Locations
- Arles
- France
- Singapore
- Vienna
- Austria
- Lisbon
- Portugal
- Tulsa
- United States
- Nordic countries
- Lithuania
- Hamburg
- Germany
- Marrakech
- Morocco
- Texas
Sources
- FotoRoom —