NCJ Media Solutions is hosting the Black and White Photo Awards 2025 contest, open for professional and amateur photographers worldwide. Black & White Photo Awards 2025 continues its mission to recognize and reward outstanding talent in monochrome photography. It offers international recognition and the opportunity to display the prestigious Black and White Photo Awards hallmark. The 2025 contest brings you the chance to win one of the almost 30 prizes, including the €1,000 for the absolute winner. There are over €8,500 in prizes, including exclusive gear and more.

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Creatives For Future invites you to take part in the 1st edition of their international poster competition about human-caused climate change. The intention is to raise awareness and cool down our carbon footprint (as well as our handprint). The motto “Green For Good” only specifies the colors. Explore new ideas! It’s up to you: Come up with your own slogans, let the illustration take centre stage, allow a photo to say more than 1,000 words. The only limits to your creativity are those set by the printing process of risography. 50 winning posters will be printed and assembled into one giant poster and exhibited in several locations across Germany.

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Submissions have started for the 5th International Bolu Poster Design Competition. This year’s theme is Disabled Individuals in Society. The competition’s theme is aimed at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals titled “Good Health & Well-being” and “Reduced Inequalities“, adopted by the United Nations. 10 sub-theme suggestions are available to participants regarding the competition theme. For the first time this year, BIAH (Bolu International Art Hall) will crown the event with a physical exhibition. On 3 December 2024, World Disability Day, the posters of the selected designers will be exhibited in Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University’s art gallery.

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Communication Arts is calling for entries to its 2026 Illustration Competition, open for new work — first published or produced between January 2025 and January 2026. The Communication Arts Illustration Competition is the most prestigious competition for creativity in illustration. CA’s Award of Excellence is one of the most-coveted awards in the industry. If chosen, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession.

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Fotofestiwal – International Festival of Photography in Łódź, the largest and the oldest photography festival in Poland, is calling for projects within Fotofestiwal Open Call 2026. The competition is open and does not impose any thematic, age or geographical limitations. The organizers are looking for artists with exceptional personalities and projects which present bold visions. Six (6) winners will be selected by an international Jury and exhibited during Fotofestiwal 2026, in addition to the other available prizes.

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Circulation(s), the Festival of Young European Photography is currently accepting applications for 2026 and invites all photographers of European nationality and/or resident in Europe to participate. Each year, at the Centquatre-Paris and satellite sites in France and abroad, Circulation(s) reveals the vitality of young creation and speaks for the diversity of photographic expressions through unique exhibitions and events. For the past 15 years, Circulation(s) festival promote a modern and inclusive vision of photography. The festival has more than a decade of discovering new emerging talent, and still a burning desire to make new visual writing accessible to all.

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The 7th International Poster Biennial Lublin (IPBL) 2025 is calling for entries to its poster exhibition competition. The aim of the 7th International Poster Biennale Lublin (IPBL) 2025 is to review poster art from 2023 to 2025. A total of 20,000 PLN (~4,720 Euro) will be awarded. Selected posters will be exhibited from 27 June 2025 to 17 September 2025 at the Center for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin.

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“Faust/Vizual” is an international graphic competition for posters, animated forms or other visual realizations inspired by one of the greatest works of European culture – J. W. Goethe’s “Faust”. Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre in Rzeszów and the Chair of Graphic Design of the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów invite young artists to creatively interpret that classic text – not only through posters, but also through animation or experimental graphic forms. The Competition is an integral part of the “CLASSICS 3.0” project, the aim of which is to reinterpret the canon and confront the classics with modern means of expression. Selected works will be presented at an exhibition accompanying the theatrical premiere of “Faust”, directed by Jan Nowara. 10,000 PLN will be awarded to the best works in each category — 4,000 PLN are reserved for the 1st Prize.

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The Pro Carton Student Video Award is a European competition for video storytelling about folding cartons and cartonboard. Your video should promote or explain one or more of the benefits of folding cartons (or cartonboard) in a creative way. The competition is open to students enrolled at a European school, college or university. The best video will win €3,000!

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Film submissions are being accepted for Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) 2025, scheduled for 24–28 September 2025. Short and feature animated films, completed after 31 May 2024 are eligible to enter the Festival’s competition programs. This year, the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) will award a total of seventeen (17) different prizes across four (4) main competition categories.

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