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Little Dork sassily wishing you a happy Monday.

#PhotoMonday #Photography #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Cat #CatSky

Little Dork sassily wishing you a happy Monday.

#PhotoMonday #Photography #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #Cat #CatSky

To stay in the light or hide in the darkness? That is the question.

#MonochromeMonday #Photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

To stay in the light or hide in the darkness? That is the question.

#MonochromeMonday #Photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

To stay in the light or hide in the darkness? That is the question.

#MonochromeMonday #Photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

To stay in the light or hide in the darkness? That is the question.

#MonochromeMonday #Photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

To stay in the light or hide in the darkness? That is the question.

#MonochromeMonday #Photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

#fotomontag #monochromemonday

#mockfotos #photography #sonnenfinsternis #eclipse #monochrome #sonne #mond

#fotomontag #monochromemonday

#mockfotos #photography #sonnenfinsternis #eclipse #monochrome #sonne #mond

#fotomontag #monochromemonday

#mockfotos #photography #sonnenfinsternis #eclipse #monochrome #sonne #mond

#fotomontag #monochromemonday

#mockfotos #photography #sonnenfinsternis #eclipse #monochrome #sonne #mond

#fotomontag #monochromemonday

#mockfotos #photography #sonnenfinsternis #eclipse #monochrome #sonne #mond

RE: https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/117094881267097165

Another shot from the same sequence, showing the diamond ring right before totality began.

In case you're wondering, in the original sequence I posted below, the castle was lit by the overall sky during the total phase, whereas here it's backlit by the still partially unobstructed Sun.

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #eclipse

RE: https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/117094881267097165

Another shot from the same sequence, showing the diamond ring right before totality began.

In case you're wondering, in the original sequence I posted below, the castle was lit by the overall sky during the total phase, whereas here it's backlit by the still partially unobstructed Sun.

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #eclipse

RE: https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/117094881267097165

Another shot from the same sequence, showing the diamond ring right before totality began.

In case you're wondering, in the original sequence I posted below, the castle was lit by the overall sky during the total phase, whereas here it's backlit by the still partially unobstructed Sun.

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #eclipse

RE: https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/117094881267097165

Another shot from the same sequence, showing the diamond ring right before totality began.

In case you're wondering, in the original sequence I posted below, the castle was lit by the overall sky during the total phase, whereas here it's backlit by the still partially unobstructed Sun.

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #eclipse

RE: https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/117094881267097165

Another shot from the same sequence, showing the diamond ring right before totality began.

In case you're wondering, in the original sequence I posted below, the castle was lit by the overall sky during the total phase, whereas here it's backlit by the still partially unobstructed Sun.

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #eclipse

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

Good morning. Summer summers along. #Photography #Today #Bees #Chicago #Summer

A view of the #charlesriver in #massachusetts

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/charles-river-from-peters-reservation-adam-gladstone.html

#nature #naturephotography #photography #water #river #ayearforart #buyintoart #fineartamerica #fedigiftshop #fediart #mastoart #landscape #landscapephotograph

A view of the #charlesriver in #massachusetts

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/charles-river-from-peters-reservation-adam-gladstone.html

#nature #naturephotography #photography #water #river #ayearforart #buyintoart #fineartamerica #fedigiftshop #fediart #mastoart #landscape #landscapephotograph

A view of the #charlesriver in #massachusetts

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/charles-river-from-peters-reservation-adam-gladstone.html

#nature #naturephotography #photography #water #river #ayearforart #buyintoart #fineartamerica #fedigiftshop #fediart #mastoart #landscape #landscapephotograph

A view of the #charlesriver in #massachusetts

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/charles-river-from-peters-reservation-adam-gladstone.html

#nature #naturephotography #photography #water #river #ayearforart #buyintoart #fineartamerica #fedigiftshop #fediart #mastoart #landscape #landscapephotograph

A view of the #charlesriver in #massachusetts

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/charles-river-from-peters-reservation-adam-gladstone.html

#nature #naturephotography #photography #water #river #ayearforart #buyintoart #fineartamerica #fedigiftshop #fediart #mastoart #landscape #landscapephotograph

#photography #Photo #visualart #fotografie #fotografia #color #colors #colours #couleurs #ficciones #fictions #poesia #poetics #artberlin #artlondon #artparis #artmontreal #artbasel #artnewyork #NoToWar #urbanismo #urbanism #urbanisme #arquitectura #architecture #Tokio #Tokyo #Japon #Japan
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/08/bodegon-urbanistico-xcviii-nature.html

#photography #Photo #visualart #fotografie #fotografia #color #colors #colours #couleurs #ficciones #fictions #poesia #poetics #artberlin #artlondon #artparis #artmontreal #artbasel #artnewyork #NoToWar #urbanismo #urbanism #urbanisme #arquitectura #architecture #Tokio #Tokyo #Japon #Japan
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/08/bodegon-urbanistico-xcviii-nature.html

#photography #Photo #visualart #fotografie #fotografia #color #colors #colours #couleurs #ficciones #fictions #poesia #poetics #artberlin #artlondon #artparis #artmontreal #artbasel #artnewyork #NoToWar #urbanismo #urbanism #urbanisme #arquitectura #architecture #Tokio #Tokyo #Japon #Japan
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/08/bodegon-urbanistico-xcviii-nature.html

#photography #Photo #visualart #fotografie #fotografia #color #colors #colours #couleurs #ficciones #fictions #poesia #poetics #artberlin #artlondon #artparis #artmontreal #artbasel #artnewyork #NoToWar #urbanismo #urbanism #urbanisme #arquitectura #architecture #Tokio #Tokyo #Japon #Japan
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2026/08/bodegon-urbanistico-xcviii-nature.html

Laguna Negra en el circo de su nombre y de la laguna Larga de Neila.

https://eu.zonerama.com/Link/Photo/655754058/9070464

#fotografía #photography #paisaje #landscape #laguna #lagoon #bosque #forest #montañas #mountains #geología #geology #nieve #snow #SistemaIbérico #HuertaDeArriba #Neila #Burgos #mountainmonday

Laguna Negra en el circo de su nombre y de la laguna Larga de Neila.

https://eu.zonerama.com/Link/Photo/655754058/9070464

#fotografía #photography #paisaje #landscape #laguna #lagoon #bosque #forest #montañas #mountains #geología #geology #nieve #snow #SistemaIbérico #HuertaDeArriba #Neila #Burgos #mountainmonday

Laguna Negra en el circo de su nombre y de la laguna Larga de Neila.

https://eu.zonerama.com/Link/Photo/655754058/9070464

#fotografía #photography #paisaje #landscape #laguna #lagoon #bosque #forest #montañas #mountains #geología #geology #nieve #snow #SistemaIbérico #HuertaDeArriba #Neila #Burgos #mountainmonday

Laguna Negra en el circo de su nombre y de la laguna Larga de Neila.

https://eu.zonerama.com/Link/Photo/655754058/9070464

#fotografía #photography #paisaje #landscape #laguna #lagoon #bosque #forest #montañas #mountains #geología #geology #nieve #snow #SistemaIbérico #HuertaDeArriba #Neila #Burgos #mountainmonday

Laguna Negra en el circo de su nombre y de la laguna Larga de Neila.

https://eu.zonerama.com/Link/Photo/655754058/9070464

#fotografía #photography #paisaje #landscape #laguna #lagoon #bosque #forest #montañas #mountains #geología #geology #nieve #snow #SistemaIbérico #HuertaDeArriba #Neila #Burgos #mountainmonday

Visual memory of a nation: Photography in Türkiye

When we look at a photograph, what are we really looking at? The lines etched across a face?…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #212PHOTOGRAPHYISTANBUL #AhmetErtuğ #AraGuler #contemporaryart #Photography #PHOTOJOURNALISM #yıldızmoran
https://www.europesays.com/turkiye/40473/

#MonochromeMonday
Black-and-white night photograph of Budapest’s illuminated Hungarian Parliament Building, glowing beside the Danube with a soft reflection.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-hungarian-parliament-b-w-ez-lorenz.html

#BlackandWhite #BW #Monochrome #Architecture #Photography #Art #ArtForSale #Prints #ArtPrints #WallArt #Gifts #FediGiftShop #FediArt #MastoArt #Night #NightPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotoMonday #Budapest #Parliament #Hungary #Europe

#MonochromeMonday
Black-and-white night photograph of Budapest’s illuminated Hungarian Parliament Building, glowing beside the Danube with a soft reflection.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-hungarian-parliament-b-w-ez-lorenz.html

#BlackandWhite #BW #Monochrome #Architecture #Photography #Art #ArtForSale #Prints #ArtPrints #WallArt #Gifts #FediGiftShop #FediArt #MastoArt #Night #NightPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotoMonday #Budapest #Parliament #Hungary #Europe

#MonochromeMonday
Black-and-white night photograph of Budapest’s illuminated Hungarian Parliament Building, glowing beside the Danube with a soft reflection.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-hungarian-parliament-b-w-ez-lorenz.html

#BlackandWhite #BW #Monochrome #Architecture #Photography #Art #ArtForSale #Prints #ArtPrints #WallArt #Gifts #FediGiftShop #FediArt #MastoArt #Night #NightPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotoMonday #Budapest #Parliament #Hungary #Europe

#MonochromeMonday
Black-and-white night photograph of Budapest’s illuminated Hungarian Parliament Building, glowing beside the Danube with a soft reflection.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-hungarian-parliament-b-w-ez-lorenz.html

#BlackandWhite #BW #Monochrome #Architecture #Photography #Art #ArtForSale #Prints #ArtPrints #WallArt #Gifts #FediGiftShop #FediArt #MastoArt #Night #NightPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotoMonday #Budapest #Parliament #Hungary #Europe

#MonochromeMonday
Black-and-white night photograph of Budapest’s illuminated Hungarian Parliament Building, glowing beside the Danube with a soft reflection.

https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-hungarian-parliament-b-w-ez-lorenz.html

#BlackandWhite #BW #Monochrome #Architecture #Photography #Art #ArtForSale #Prints #ArtPrints #WallArt #Gifts #FediGiftShop #FediArt #MastoArt #Night #NightPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #PhotoMonday #Budapest #Parliament #Hungary #Europe

#Windy #Day at #Oxley #Beach 4 by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/windy-day-at-oxley-beach-4-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#landscape #sand #water #clouds #wind #plants #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

#Windy #Day at #Oxley #Beach 4 by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/windy-day-at-oxley-beach-4-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#landscape #sand #water #clouds #wind #plants #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

#Windy #Day at #Oxley #Beach 4 by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/windy-day-at-oxley-beach-4-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#landscape #sand #water #clouds #wind #plants #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

#Windy #Day at #Oxley #Beach 4 by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/windy-day-at-oxley-beach-4-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#landscape #sand #water #clouds #wind #plants #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Einen Glückskäfer für euch zum Wochenstart - habt ein paar angenehme Tage!
Here’s a lucky beetle for you to kick off the week – have some lovely days!
#Fotografie #photography #Makrofotografie #macrophotography #Blütenfotografie #flowerphotography #Gartenfotografie #Marienkäfer #ladybug

Einen Glückskäfer für euch zum Wochenstart - habt ein paar angenehme Tage!
Here’s a lucky beetle for you to kick off the week – have some lovely days!
#Fotografie #photography #Makrofotografie #macrophotography #Blütenfotografie #flowerphotography #Gartenfotografie #Marienkäfer #ladybug

Einen Glückskäfer für euch zum Wochenstart - habt ein paar angenehme Tage!
Here’s a lucky beetle for you to kick off the week – have some lovely days!
#Fotografie #photography #Makrofotografie #macrophotography #Blütenfotografie #flowerphotography #Gartenfotografie #Marienkäfer #ladybug

Einen Glückskäfer für euch zum Wochenstart - habt ein paar angenehme Tage!
Here’s a lucky beetle for you to kick off the week – have some lovely days!
#Fotografie #photography #Makrofotografie #macrophotography #Blütenfotografie #flowerphotography #Gartenfotografie #Marienkäfer #ladybug

Einen Glückskäfer für euch zum Wochenstart - habt ein paar angenehme Tage!
Here’s a lucky beetle for you to kick off the week – have some lovely days!
#Fotografie #photography #Makrofotografie #macrophotography #Blütenfotografie #flowerphotography #Gartenfotografie #Marienkäfer #ladybug

How to Find Photography Competitions, Open Calls, Grants and Travel Opportunities

Every week, somewhere in the world, a grant opens. A residency starts taking applications. A travel company goes looking for a photographer to document a trip. A magazine puts out an open call for submissions.

Photography opportunities are everywhere. The problem is finding them before the deadline passes.

If you’ve ever discovered a grant the day after it closed, this post is for you. Let’s look at where photography opportunities actually live, why they’re so easy to miss, and how to stop letting the good ones slip by.

Photography opportunities are out there (but they’re scattered)

Here’s the frustrating truth. The best photography opportunities are rarely in one place. A single grant might be announced on an arts foundation’s website. A residency lives on a museum’s page. A photo contest hides in a newsletter you don’t subscribe to. A paid travel gig gets posted once, on one platform, and then it’s gone.

To find them all, you’d have to check dozens of sites every week. Foundations. Museums. Magazines. Competition pages. Brand career pages. Social media. Nobody has time for that. So most photographers check a few sources, miss the rest, and assume there just aren’t many opportunities out there. There are. You’re just not seeing them.

What counts as a photography opportunity?

When people think about opportunities for photographers, they usually picture competitions. But the field is much wider than that. Here’s what’s actually available if you know where to look.

Open calls. Museums, galleries, and publications regularly put out open calls for submissions. Some lead to exhibitions. Some lead to being published. Many are free to enter.

Photography grants. Foundations and organisations offer grants to fund projects, sometimes worth thousands. These can pay for your next body of work, your gear, or your travel.

Artist residencies. Residencies give you time, space, and often funding to make work somewhere new. Some are aimed specifically at early-career photographers.

Photography competitions. Contests can offer prize money, exhibition space, gear, and exposure. The good ones are worth entering.

Paid travel and content work. Travel companies, hotels, and brands look for photographers, videographers, and content creators to document their trips and tell their stories. These roles are real, and they pay.

That’s a lot of ground. And it’s exactly why keeping track is so hard.

Why finding opportunities takes so long

Searching for photography opportunities on your own is a part-time job. You have to know which sites to check. You have to check them often, because deadlines move fast. You have to sort the worthwhile ones from the scams and the overpriced entry fees.

Most photographers give up on this quickly because the searching eats the time they’d rather spend actually shooting. So the opportunities keep appearing, and keep closing, and the work that could have come from them never happens.

There’s a better way to do this.

A simpler way to find open calls every week

This is exactly why I started The Open Call — a weekly newsletter of curated photography and travel opportunities, delivered to your inbox every Friday.

Instead of checking dozens of sites yourself, you get one email. It’s a hand-picked list of open calls, grants, residencies, competitions, and paid travel and content work worth applying for. I do the digging so you don’t have to.

Past finds have included all-expenses-covered residencies for early-career photographers, grants worth thousands plus gear, funding towards travel projects, competitions with prize money and exhibition space, and content-creator roles for global magazines. The kind of things that are easy to miss if you’re not looking in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

You spend your week shooting. I’ll spend mine finding the opportunities. Every Friday, the good ones land in your inbox.

Who it’s for

The Open Call is for photographers and videographers at every stage. If you shoot professionally, it’ll surface grants, residencies, and paid work you’d never find on your own.

And if you shoot on your phone but you’ve got a real eye and a story to tell, you belong here too. Plenty of the opportunities are open to anyone with a good eye, not just people with expensive gear. The list is built for both.

Start finding opportunities this week

You don’t have to keep missing deadlines. You don’t have to check twenty websites every week. You don’t have to find out about the perfect grant the day after it closed. You just have to open one email every Friday.

Sign up for The Open Call and let the best photography and travel opportunities come to you!

How to Find Photography Competitions, Open Calls, Grants and Travel Opportunities

Every week, somewhere in the world, a grant opens. A residency starts taking applications. A travel company goes looking for a photographer to document a trip. A magazine puts out an open call for submissions.

Photography opportunities are everywhere. The problem is finding them before the deadline passes.

If you’ve ever discovered a grant the day after it closed, this post is for you. Let’s look at where photography opportunities actually live, why they’re so easy to miss, and how to stop letting the good ones slip by.

Photography opportunities are out there (but they’re scattered)

Here’s the frustrating truth. The best photography opportunities are rarely in one place. A single grant might be announced on an arts foundation’s website. A residency lives on a museum’s page. A photo contest hides in a newsletter you don’t subscribe to. A paid travel gig gets posted once, on one platform, and then it’s gone.

To find them all, you’d have to check dozens of sites every week. Foundations. Museums. Magazines. Competition pages. Brand career pages. Social media. Nobody has time for that. So most photographers check a few sources, miss the rest, and assume there just aren’t many opportunities out there. There are. You’re just not seeing them.

What counts as a photography opportunity?

When people think about opportunities for photographers, they usually picture competitions. But the field is much wider than that. Here’s what’s actually available if you know where to look.

Open calls. Museums, galleries, and publications regularly put out open calls for submissions. Some lead to exhibitions. Some lead to being published. Many are free to enter.

Photography grants. Foundations and organisations offer grants to fund projects, sometimes worth thousands. These can pay for your next body of work, your gear, or your travel.

Artist residencies. Residencies give you time, space, and often funding to make work somewhere new. Some are aimed specifically at early-career photographers.

Photography competitions. Contests can offer prize money, exhibition space, gear, and exposure. The good ones are worth entering.

Paid travel and content work. Travel companies, hotels, and brands look for photographers, videographers, and content creators to document their trips and tell their stories. These roles are real, and they pay.

That’s a lot of ground. And it’s exactly why keeping track is so hard.

Why finding opportunities takes so long

Searching for photography opportunities on your own is a part-time job. You have to know which sites to check. You have to check them often, because deadlines move fast. You have to sort the worthwhile ones from the scams and the overpriced entry fees.

Most photographers give up on this quickly because the searching eats the time they’d rather spend actually shooting. So the opportunities keep appearing, and keep closing, and the work that could have come from them never happens.

There’s a better way to do this.

A simpler way to find open calls every week

This is exactly why I started The Open Call — a weekly newsletter of curated photography and travel opportunities, delivered to your inbox every Friday.

Instead of checking dozens of sites yourself, you get one email. It’s a hand-picked list of open calls, grants, residencies, competitions, and paid travel and content work worth applying for. I do the digging so you don’t have to.

Past finds have included all-expenses-covered residencies for early-career photographers, grants worth thousands plus gear, funding towards travel projects, competitions with prize money and exhibition space, and content-creator roles for global magazines. The kind of things that are easy to miss if you’re not looking in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

You spend your week shooting. I’ll spend mine finding the opportunities. Every Friday, the good ones land in your inbox.

Who it’s for

The Open Call is for photographers and videographers at every stage. If you shoot professionally, it’ll surface grants, residencies, and paid work you’d never find on your own.

And if you shoot on your phone but you’ve got a real eye and a story to tell, you belong here too. Plenty of the opportunities are open to anyone with a good eye, not just people with expensive gear. The list is built for both.

Start finding opportunities this week

You don’t have to keep missing deadlines. You don’t have to check twenty websites every week. You don’t have to find out about the perfect grant the day after it closed. You just have to open one email every Friday.

Sign up for The Open Call and let the best photography and travel opportunities come to you!

How to Find Photography Competitions, Open Calls, Grants and Travel Opportunities

Every week, somewhere in the world, a grant opens. A residency starts taking applications. A travel company goes looking for a photographer to document a trip. A magazine puts out an open call for submissions.

Photography opportunities are everywhere. The problem is finding them before the deadline passes.

If you’ve ever discovered a grant the day after it closed, this post is for you. Let’s look at where photography opportunities actually live, why they’re so easy to miss, and how to stop letting the good ones slip by.

Photography opportunities are out there (but they’re scattered)

Here’s the frustrating truth. The best photography opportunities are rarely in one place. A single grant might be announced on an arts foundation’s website. A residency lives on a museum’s page. A photo contest hides in a newsletter you don’t subscribe to. A paid travel gig gets posted once, on one platform, and then it’s gone.

To find them all, you’d have to check dozens of sites every week. Foundations. Museums. Magazines. Competition pages. Brand career pages. Social media. Nobody has time for that. So most photographers check a few sources, miss the rest, and assume there just aren’t many opportunities out there. There are. You’re just not seeing them.

What counts as a photography opportunity?

When people think about opportunities for photographers, they usually picture competitions. But the field is much wider than that. Here’s what’s actually available if you know where to look.

Open calls. Museums, galleries, and publications regularly put out open calls for submissions. Some lead to exhibitions. Some lead to being published. Many are free to enter.

Photography grants. Foundations and organisations offer grants to fund projects, sometimes worth thousands. These can pay for your next body of work, your gear, or your travel.

Artist residencies. Residencies give you time, space, and often funding to make work somewhere new. Some are aimed specifically at early-career photographers.

Photography competitions. Contests can offer prize money, exhibition space, gear, and exposure. The good ones are worth entering.

Paid travel and content work. Travel companies, hotels, and brands look for photographers, videographers, and content creators to document their trips and tell their stories. These roles are real, and they pay.

That’s a lot of ground. And it’s exactly why keeping track is so hard.

Why finding opportunities takes so long

Searching for photography opportunities on your own is a part-time job. You have to know which sites to check. You have to check them often, because deadlines move fast. You have to sort the worthwhile ones from the scams and the overpriced entry fees.

Most photographers give up on this quickly because the searching eats the time they’d rather spend actually shooting. So the opportunities keep appearing, and keep closing, and the work that could have come from them never happens.

There’s a better way to do this.

A simpler way to find open calls every week

This is exactly why I started The Open Call — a weekly newsletter of curated photography and travel opportunities, delivered to your inbox every Friday.

Instead of checking dozens of sites yourself, you get one email. It’s a hand-picked list of open calls, grants, residencies, competitions, and paid travel and content work worth applying for. I do the digging so you don’t have to.

Past finds have included all-expenses-covered residencies for early-career photographers, grants worth thousands plus gear, funding towards travel projects, competitions with prize money and exhibition space, and content-creator roles for global magazines. The kind of things that are easy to miss if you’re not looking in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

You spend your week shooting. I’ll spend mine finding the opportunities. Every Friday, the good ones land in your inbox.

Who it’s for

The Open Call is for photographers and videographers at every stage. If you shoot professionally, it’ll surface grants, residencies, and paid work you’d never find on your own.

And if you shoot on your phone but you’ve got a real eye and a story to tell, you belong here too. Plenty of the opportunities are open to anyone with a good eye, not just people with expensive gear. The list is built for both.

Start finding opportunities this week

You don’t have to keep missing deadlines. You don’t have to check twenty websites every week. You don’t have to find out about the perfect grant the day after it closed. You just have to open one email every Friday.

Sign up for The Open Call and let the best photography and travel opportunities come to you!

How to Find Photography Competitions, Open Calls, Grants and Travel Opportunities

Every week, somewhere in the world, a grant opens. A residency starts taking applications. A travel company goes looking for a photographer to document a trip. A magazine puts out an open call for submissions.

Photography opportunities are everywhere. The problem is finding them before the deadline passes.

If you’ve ever discovered a grant the day after it closed, this post is for you. Let’s look at where photography opportunities actually live, why they’re so easy to miss, and how to stop letting the good ones slip by.

Photography opportunities are out there (but they’re scattered)

Here’s the frustrating truth. The best photography opportunities are rarely in one place. A single grant might be announced on an arts foundation’s website. A residency lives on a museum’s page. A photo contest hides in a newsletter you don’t subscribe to. A paid travel gig gets posted once, on one platform, and then it’s gone.

To find them all, you’d have to check dozens of sites every week. Foundations. Museums. Magazines. Competition pages. Brand career pages. Social media. Nobody has time for that. So most photographers check a few sources, miss the rest, and assume there just aren’t many opportunities out there. There are. You’re just not seeing them.

What counts as a photography opportunity?

When people think about opportunities for photographers, they usually picture competitions. But the field is much wider than that. Here’s what’s actually available if you know where to look.

Open calls. Museums, galleries, and publications regularly put out open calls for submissions. Some lead to exhibitions. Some lead to being published. Many are free to enter.

Photography grants. Foundations and organisations offer grants to fund projects, sometimes worth thousands. These can pay for your next body of work, your gear, or your travel.

Artist residencies. Residencies give you time, space, and often funding to make work somewhere new. Some are aimed specifically at early-career photographers.

Photography competitions. Contests can offer prize money, exhibition space, gear, and exposure. The good ones are worth entering.

Paid travel and content work. Travel companies, hotels, and brands look for photographers, videographers, and content creators to document their trips and tell their stories. These roles are real, and they pay.

That’s a lot of ground. And it’s exactly why keeping track is so hard.

Why finding opportunities takes so long

Searching for photography opportunities on your own is a part-time job. You have to know which sites to check. You have to check them often, because deadlines move fast. You have to sort the worthwhile ones from the scams and the overpriced entry fees.

Most photographers give up on this quickly because the searching eats the time they’d rather spend actually shooting. So the opportunities keep appearing, and keep closing, and the work that could have come from them never happens.

There’s a better way to do this.

A simpler way to find open calls every week

This is exactly why I started The Open Call — a weekly newsletter of curated photography and travel opportunities, delivered to your inbox every Friday.

Instead of checking dozens of sites yourself, you get one email. It’s a hand-picked list of open calls, grants, residencies, competitions, and paid travel and content work worth applying for. I do the digging so you don’t have to.

Past finds have included all-expenses-covered residencies for early-career photographers, grants worth thousands plus gear, funding towards travel projects, competitions with prize money and exhibition space, and content-creator roles for global magazines. The kind of things that are easy to miss if you’re not looking in exactly the right place at exactly the right time.

You spend your week shooting. I’ll spend mine finding the opportunities. Every Friday, the good ones land in your inbox.

Who it’s for

The Open Call is for photographers and videographers at every stage. If you shoot professionally, it’ll surface grants, residencies, and paid work you’d never find on your own.

And if you shoot on your phone but you’ve got a real eye and a story to tell, you belong here too. Plenty of the opportunities are open to anyone with a good eye, not just people with expensive gear. The list is built for both.

Start finding opportunities this week

You don’t have to keep missing deadlines. You don’t have to check twenty websites every week. You don’t have to find out about the perfect grant the day after it closed. You just have to open one email every Friday.

Sign up for The Open Call and let the best photography and travel opportunities come to you!