Celebrating the world’s best nature photographers, as they highlight the wonders of our planet, When great science and great art combine, amazing things can be achieved. That’s the philosophy behind the World Nature Photography Awards, now in its fourth edition, a global nature and wildlife photography contest for planet Earth.

  
The mission of the World Nature Photography Awards is to celebrate the world’s best nature photographers whilst showcasing nature’s beauty to a wider audience. And, what’s more, to show their commitment to the planet, the organiser commit to plant a tree for every time someone enters the competition.

  
There are 14 categories, so there’s plenty of opportunity to share your amazing work. From landscape photography, to animals in their habitats, photojournalism and humans’ interaction with nature, the stage is set for you to share your vision of the natural world.

  
There is no limit to the number of individual images each artist may submit. There is no time or date restriction on when the image was taken. In entering the WNPA, entrants agree that their images do not feature captive or restrained animals.

he jury awards gold, silver and bronze titles in 14 categories and one photographer takes home the overall title of World Nature Photographer 2023 and prize money of 1,000 USD.

World Nature Photography Awards 2023

Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) is an international art competition giving artists the opportunity to exhibit their work in Wells Cathedral and receive a wide range of prizes.

  
Now in its 13th year, WAC’s next exhibition will take place in August 2023\. This annual showcase is a highlight of Wells cultural life and attracts thousands of visitors each summer. Selected artists’ works will be seen by a significant and attentive audience.

  
The competition draws artists from around the world, wishing to show in such an inspirational, prestigious and unusual space. Its international reach and reputation has grown significantly in recent years through the exhibition’s online platform and WAC’s ongoing association with eminent artists.

Howden Art Award: 2,000 GBP

• People’s Choice Prize: 500 GBP

• Student Prize: 1,000 GBP awarded to a current fine art student aged under 26 

• NG Art Creative Residency: The Prize Winner will receive a free two-week placement at the NG Art Creative Residency in Eygalieres, Provence.

Wells Art Contemporary Awards 2023

The **Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC)**, the **National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC)** (hereinafter MNCN-CSIC) and The **Catalan Association of Science Communication** (hereinafter ACCC), organize this award known as, “**ILLUSTRACIENCIA, International Award on Scientific and Nature Illustration”**. This year, as a novelty, ILLUSTRACIENCIA joins the celebration of the Cajal Year, promoted internationally as an Event of Exceptional Public Interest ‘Santiago Ramón y Cajal Research Year 2022’ (Cajal Year).

  
Participation in this competition implies the automatic acceptance of the following rules. By participating, the author authorizes, not exclusively, the organization to use, reproduce or publicly broadcast their works and his/her name in all activities and publications related to the Award or those in which it is mentioned, without the participant receiving any compensation for their concept. The organization is committed not to commercialize or sell the works independently.

The participants assure and warrant to the organization that they are the soleowners of the copyright in the work submitted to the contest and that they are fully responsible for third party rights in their submitted works and any claims of third parties to image rights.

  
The CSIC, MNCN-CSIC and the ACCC are exempt from any obligation or compensation to the Award participants if the award would had been cancelled or suspended due to force major or law. In this case, the organization would conveniently inform the participants. In the broadest interpretation of law, the participants exonerate the ACCC of any liability, penalty, claim, demand or civil commercial, criminal or administrative cause, including compensation of any nature, expenses and costs for any complaint it may receive as a result of a breach by the participants of any of their obligations which arise from these terms (expressly including attorney and court fees).

  
**CATEGORIES**

Scientist Scientific

Naturalist

Cajal Yea

The **10th edition** of Illustraciencia will award one illustration from each category. The author of the winning illustration of the **10th edition** of Illustraciencia will receive **1000** euros, while the author of the work selected by the audience will receive a diploma. The given Award will be subject to the tax provisions that are applicable.

  
On **April 18th de 2023**, the 40 selected will be published. The notification will be made by email. The 40 selected have to send the illustration adapted to be printed size A2 (420 x 594mm) 300 DPI in CMYK.

Illustraciència Illustration Award 2023

The Against The Grain Artistic Scholarship provides financial assistance and promotion of Asian American college students pursuing a major in the performing, visual arts, journalism and/or mass communications.

  
Must be either a high school senior or a college student currently enrolled fulltime at an accredited U.S. vocational, junior college, or four-year college/university and must be a full- time, associate/bachelor/master degree seeking student by the upcoming academic calendar year and pursuing a major in the visual/performing arts (film, theatre, fashion, photography, graphic design, dance, music, journalism, mass communications, etc.)

  

The scholarship awards $1,000 to be applied toward school tuition and fees. 

Against the Grain Artistic Scholarship

The Burke Prize is a biannual contemporary art prize for a new generation of artists working in a world of expanded media with a foundation in glass, fiber, clay, metal, or wood. Selected by a diverse and distinguished jury of curators, artists, and scholars through an open-call application process, the Burke Prize winner receives an unrestricted award of $50,000.

  
One Burke Prize artist will also be selected for the biannual Burke Residency at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. The Burke Residency artist will receive a one-month to five-week residency with all the benefits and opportunities awarded to artists selected for The Studio's Artist-in-Residence program.

Inspired by the disciplines that shaped the American studio craft movement, the Burke Prize is named for Marian and Russell Burke, two longtime supporters of MAD and passionate collectors of craft. Established in 2018, the Burke Prize honors exceptional artists, 45 or under, working in the United States whose highly accomplished work is conceptually rigorous, relevant, and pushes the boundaries of materials and creative processes.

The Burke Prize winner receives an unrestricted award of $50,000.

  
One Burke Prize artist will also be selected for the biannual Burke Residency at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. The Burke Residency artist will receive a one-month to five-week residency with all the benefits and opportunities awarded to artists selected for The Studio's Artist-in-Residence program.

  

The Burke Prize

The evaluation of the "OPEN CALL" which is open to all themes, is carried out by the IMA editorial team. 

The grand prize winner will have their work featured on IMA ONLINE and in the magazine "IMA," and those nominated for the grand prize and shortlist will have the opportunity to receive individual portfolio reviews by the IMA editorial team. 

As we did last year, we look forward to encountering new talents in the second "OPEN CALL". We invite you to submit your confident work, whether it's one piece or a series, with free-spirited ideas and rich expression.

Open Call for Photography - Theme #41

Ithra Art Prize is an annual leading art initiative launched in 2017 by the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra). This 5th edition continues to extend its geographical reach to include established contemporary artists from or residing in the 22 Arab countries.

Submissions will be evaluated by a renowned jury of international and regional experts from the contemporary art scene. 

The winning artwork will receive $100,000 and be unveiled at Ithra’s 5th year anniversary grand event.

Ithaca Art Prize 2023

Casa África announces its XIII Photography Contest «Objetivo África», which will reward the photographs that best publicise the positive aspects of the African continent in the field of Public spaces in Africa, this year's theme. 

Public spaces in Africa, community life and shared environments have the weight of the idiosyncrasies of African communities. 

African communities. They are central and vital spaces for citizenship. They are meeting places for the whole community, places for cultural transmission, for celebration, for debate, for making decisions that affect the community, places also for trade, for the informal economy, fundamental for economic development.

Public spaces have become important for cities and towns all over the world, but they have always been important in Africa. They are unique spaces where opinions, ideas and identity are shared, freely debated and celebrated. Now, public spaces can help urban centres achieve the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals, such as Goal 11: "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable". 

 In the face of the new mega-cities, these spaces run the risk of disappearing, of not being integrated into the new city models, and that is why we consider it necessary and interesting to focus on these spaces of interaction, diversity and integration of communities on the African continent.

The awards for this 12th edition of Objetivo África are:

1. First award: 1000€
2. Second award: 500€
3. Third award: 300€

  

Photography Contest 'Objetivo África'

Photographing intimacy requires trust between the photographer and the subject, as the camera becomes an intrusive object breaking that very moment it intends to capture. 

This year's theme seeks portraits that depict the concepts of a much-photographed genre - the closeness of space and time, the weight of memory we fall back to, and the subconscious desires which set off an emotional response. Intimacy can be many things to many people and yet in photography, we see it as a vital ingredient or requirement as to what is an engaging portrait. Intimacy means stepping into unknown and unfamiliar territory, allowing instinct and beauty to take over. 

Self-portraits are in essence the ultimate in intimacy portraits where the roles of the creator and the created are one and the same.

This year we will be awarding the following prize monies to 7 photographers decided by the panel of judges :

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1ST PRIZE $2,000.00

2ND PRIZE $1,000.00

3RD PRIZE $500.00

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$250.00 x 4 JUDGE'S CHOICE PRIZE

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40 photographers including the winners will have their portraits printed and exhibited at TEMU HOUSE, an intimate gallery space on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur from 8 September to 1 October, 2023 and will be part of the [_Exposure+ Photo_](http://www.exposureplusphoto.com/) festival schedule.

  

Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2023

Since 1975, the Senefelder Prize has been awarded in honor of Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography. It is one of the most coveted awards for artistic prints.

For the year 2023, the International Senefelder Foundation (ISS), with the support of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK), is once again announcing a competition to honor special achievements in the field of artistic lithography and its further development in planographic printing. In addition to prize money totaling € 2,000, an exhibition of works by the prize winners is planned in Offenbach am Main and - if suitable partners can be found - at other locations. 

The jury management consists of members of the board of the ISS, as well as representatives of artists of the BBK.

* Prize money totaling € 2,000
* an exhibition of works by the prize winners is planned in Offenbach am Main and - if suitable partners can be found - at other locations.

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