Tag: Self-Portrait

Since the earliest days of photography, people have turned the camera toward themselves. Not as performance, but as experiment, necessity, and curiosity. Some of the first photographic images were self portraits made through mirrors, long exposures, and carefully arranged stillness. The medium almost immediately contained this inward gesture. What continues to make self-portrait photography compelling […]

Berlin Photo Awards is an international photography competition dedicated to discovering and promoting exceptional visual talent from around the world. With a strong focus on creativity, originality, and artistic expression, the award welcomes both emerging and professional photographers across a wide range of categories, including street photography, portrait, architecture, fine art, landscape, and more. Designed […]

Home / Away, the polarity being explored in this exhibition will be that between familiarity and novelty/otherness. Photography can capture the different feelings of the familiar, love, calm and comfort that we associate with the theme of home. This may be done by creating a feel of nostalgia with use of film photography, or by […]

A portal suggests passage. It invites us to look through, step beyond, or imagine what lies on the other side. For Portals: New Perspectives, we invite photographs that explore openings, thresholds, and points of transition. Windows, doorways, mirrors, gates, archways, reflections, and frames within frames may serve as literal portals, while shifts in light, shadow, […]

Human Body: The Art of Seeing Ourselves invites photographers to look beyond surface appearances and explore how the body becomes a language of presence – where vulnerability and strength, gesture and stillness, identity and universality intersect. We seek photographs in which the body is not simply depicted but felt: a mirror of emotion, history, culture, […]

The condition of being a woman is always situated, contingent, and relational. Everyday actions, public gestures, and private moments exist simultaneously as material realities and symbolic constructs. Photography can trace these tensions and illuminate their significance. “Women” seeks work that interrogates the complexity of these conditions. Submissions may document spaces, behaviours, or social interactions. Work […]

Photography of the Year 2025 at Grid Photo Gallery invites photographers from around the world to take part in our most important annual challenge and compete with the most outstanding images showcased in our gallery throughout the year. With no thematic limitations, this open call celebrates the very best in photography. What truly matters is […]

Photography connects the World The peaceful Power of Photography unites Nations, Peoples and Continents. The Top Winners from each Category of the VIEpa Vienna International Photo Award will be awarded in the yearly VIEphoto Exhibition, which will be held during the Vienna Summer Photo Festival in Summer 2026. The selected pictures and collections will be […]

The internationally respected ND AWARDS continues to be a vibrant showcase for some of the world’s most exceptional photographic talent. Each winning submission gains immediate recognition, visibility, and prestige. Consider this your open invitation – step forward and take part in the 2026 competition! In recent years, ND AWARDS has firmly strengthened its position as […]

From our co-operation with various artists through Blank Wall Gallery, we realized that B&W Photography, both Digital and Analogue, is becoming more and more appealing to artists. As a matter of fact, there are photographers who only shot in Black & White. Wishing to support these artists in their effort, we proceed with the organization […]