Awards, Grants, Competitions. This month's deadlines:

Awards

Martin Kantor Portrait Prize @ Ballarat International Foto Biennale — 1 May 
FotoNostrum Portrait Award — 2 May
PHMuseum Days 2021 — 6 May
International Photography Competition @ The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts — 10 May
Best Photography Book of the Year Award @ PHotoESPAÑA — 10 May
Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize Award (for ongoing work combining images and words) — 15 May
The Snider Prize @ Museum of Contemporary Photography (students in their final graduate year) — 15 May
World Report Award (documentary photographers and photojournalists) — 17 May
Documentary Family Awards — 18 May
Photojournalist of the Year @ Leica Magazine & BarTur Photo Award — 22 May
Global Peace Photo Award — 23 May
The Guardian Project @ Lucie Foundation (documentary photographers and photojournalists) — 31 May
Urban Photo Awards — 31 May
Foam Talent Call — 2 June

Grants

Jerwood/Photoworks Awards (UK only) — 12 May
Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award @ Les Rencontres D’Arles — 12 May
Women Photograph Grants — 15 May
The Hopper Prize — 18 May
Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award (women photographers) — 24 May
Howard Chapnick Grant (editors, researchers and educators) — 30 May
W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography — 30 May
W. Eugene Smith Grant for Student Photographers — 30 May

Competitions

Fantasia @ Revista Balam — 1 May
Discovery Awards @ Encontros da Imagem — 3 May
YES TO ALL @ Der Greif — 2 May
Exposure Award @ PHOTOFAIRS — 7 May
Multiplicity @ Images Gibellina — 10 May
Obsessions @ Photographic Exploration Project — 13 May
FotoFilmic JRNL 9 — 15 May
Open theme @ F-Stop Magazine — 15 May
The Makeable Mind @ Noorderlicht Festival (students) — 17 May
Meeting Point @ Photo Israel — 17 May
Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change @ Humble Arts Foundation — 20 May
Gallery proposals @ PHOTOFAIRS — 21 May
Inheritance @ Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film (Asian female photographers) — 21 May
Emerging 2021 @ BFOTO Festival — 30 May
BBA Photography Prize — 31 May
The Pupil Sphere Graduate Showcase (students) — 31 May
OFF Bratislava Festival — 31 May
On Multiplicity, Difference, Becoming and Heritage @ Rencontres de Bamako — 31 May
Open Call @ Fotograf Festival and Magazine — 31 May
Matters of Touch @ Verzasca Foto Festival — 1 June

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