JUNE DEADLINE

 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Deadline:  12 June 2024

Entry fee: AUD25

Theme: conceptual photographic works

Why Enter: AUD30k for the acquisition of your work. Exhibition.

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Hariban Award 2024

Deadline:  15 June 2024

Entry fee: USD50

Theme: work that will look great at collotypes.

Why Enter: Residency in Japan, work published as collotypes and book.

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JUNE DEADLINE

Deloitte's Photo Grant 2024

Deadline:  1 July 2024

Entry fee: no cost

Theme: photographers under 35

Why Enter: €20,000 towards the execution of their project idea. The resulting work will become an exhibition when the next edition of the Award is held. Trip to Milan.

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SEPTEMBER DEADLINE

Graphis Photography Award

Deadline:  6 August 2024 / 10 September 2024

Entry fee: USD45-140

Theme: Published work by Professional Photographers

Why Enter: Published in Graphis Photography Annual, as seen in most advertising agencies, big design firms and anyone else commissioning photography. This is historically one of the most important books to get into and it is juried so it is respected.

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CONTEST for BOOKS

PhotoESPAÑA Best Photobook 2024

Deadline:  26 April 2024

Entry fee: no cost

Theme: Photo Books in categories of Research, Creation, bibliophilia and first publication.

Why Enter: prestige

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Snap Collective, Art Book Publishing for free 2024

Deadline:  11 April, 2024

Entry fee: Euro 25

Theme: Material for a book

Why Enter: Money and your project published.

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2024 Lucie Photo Book Prize

Deadline:  15 September 2024

Entry fee: EUR32-50

Theme: Books published/prototype/hand-made books

Why Enter: Chosen by an interesting jury. USD2-3000 and exhibition with the book at Los Angeles Centre for Photography.

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without DEADLINE

GRANTS

Ilford Community Photography Grant

Deadline:  quarterly

What is available: £500 of Ilford product.

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GALLERIES OPEN CALLS

XYZ Photo Gallery 

What: We would like to know about all considered photography in Victoria

Deadline: open

Cost: no initial costs (options if selected)

Theme: open 

Why Enter: This is a gallery set up to provide to local photographers/artists working in photo-media, a gallery experience that the director would have liked when he started out. 

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Wolfhound Gallery

Open call for exhibiting photographs.

Wolfhound is on Brunswick Street Fitzroy and has high ceilings and big spaces. The whole gallery costs AUD750 with individual Walls at AUD150 for 3 weeks including 3 weekends. The gallery keeps restaurant hours.

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Off the Kerb

Open call for exhibiting for the first 6 months of the new year. Link

HOTA - Gold Coast

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RESIDENCIES

Presartis

Artist Residencies Around the world

Ongoing as opportunities happen.

Why: because living in another culture adds to your work.

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XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands 

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In Echoes of The Perfect Moment in Cincinnati

Main Gallery: Brian Sergio, Arthur Tress

Director’s space: garrie maguire

to 28 April 2024  1:00 - 5:00pm, Wed - Fri & Sun

Sergio’s work of his life in Manila, the rough, tough and unflinching in gritty black and whites.

A group of sex Tress’ printed photographs submitted for a magazine article in 1980.

male//chair is over two venues, the Pride Centre in St Kilda with a 13 work annex at XYZ.

Magnet Gallery - Docklands

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Anzac Days Exhibition   

Collin Abbott

25 April to  25 May 2024

A collection of photographs by Collin Abbott of Anzac Day parades in Melbourne during the 1970s. Abbott's interest was to record the last of the World War I diggers, as well as their families and friends, for whom the parade was a way of commemorating those who served and fell..

CCP - Fitzroy

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Only the future revisits the past

Marta Bogdańska (PL), Omar Victor Diop (SN), Nikki Lam (AU/HK), Tace Stevens (Noongar/Spinifex/AU), Stephanie Syjuco (US).

To 12 May 2024

It is well established that photography and film record the past, but these types of documents can also transform and dictate the future. Through deep engagement and considered intervention, these artists disrupt received structures and narratives. In doing so, they explore ideas of agency and the limitations of representation.

Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick 

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Hillvale Photo Trophy

Many many people.

5 April to 12 May 2024

The Hillvale Photo Trophy serves as a means to continue pursuing our passion for photography and providing a space for photographic and lens-based image makers to experiment with their practice in an accessible, generous, and open environment. By offering paid opportunities for artists to showcase their work in new and innovative ways, we hope to foster a vibrant and supportive community while furthering the boundaries of photographic art.

Melbourne Museum - Carlton 

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Unfinished Business

Belinda Mason Knierim OAM, v Dieter Knierim, and Uncle John Baxter.

To 21 April 2024

Unfinished Business in an exhibition of photographic portraits revealing the stories of 30 First Nations people with lived experience of disability from across Australia.

Through their involvement in the project, each participant’s self-narratives which accompany their portraits contextualise and draw much-needed attention to critical issues that impact on their lives.

Wolfhound Photographic Gallery - Fitzroy 

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AI : The end of the Lens ?   

Karen Bryant, Alison Faigniez, Mark Harper,, Jonathon Harris, Michael Hubel, Nic Kosher, Marg Leddin, Sarina Lirosi, Ronan Mummery, Craig Reynolds, Rob Senior, Agata Mayes

to 7 April 2024

AI has arrived as a controversial technology just at the time when we have entered ‘The Age of The Image’ where visual images dominate human communication and social media. But does this really mean that photography IS dead? With AI developing a rate none of us can keep up with, is it the end of the lens?

GallerySmith

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SANCTUARY

Valerie Sparks

to April 13

The immersive Floral wallpaper installation Sanctuary Series 3 by Valerie Sparks resonates with the beauty and intricate details of native flowers blooming in a dark garden against a background of moody skies. We are transported into an expansive and theatrical environment that celebrates the power and remarkable beauty of Australian flora. Populated with radiant images of Red Flowering Gums, Pink Proteas, White Waratah, Magnolia Grandiflora and other native plants, the Sanctuary 3 series blurs the boundaries between fantasy and reality.

Arc One - Melbourne 

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Future Past Present Tense   

Anne Zahalka

To 6 April 2024

Artificial truths are Anne Zahalka’s preoccupation. Drawn to the constructed aspect of dioramas, she has spent many years working with the airless logic of museum displays. In her exhibition Future Past Present Tense, Zahalka inserts the original diorama-makers—scientists, assistants, and illustrators—into the scenes themselves.

NGV International - Melbourne 

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Triennial    

Various artists

To 7 April 2024

100 Projects 120 Artists, some using photo-media at the forefront of global contemporary practice.

RMIT Gallery - Melbourne 

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execute_photography   

Memo Akten, Amrita Hepi, Max Pinckers and Dries Depoorter, Rosa Menkman, Sara Oscar, J. Rosenbaum, Sebastian Schmieg and Alan Warburton

To 1 March to 4 May 2024

Photography is constantly dying and being reborn. AI represents the latest stage of photography’s transformation into a software output, cannibalising the camera and even transforming it into a set of executable text prompts. If it is now clear that photography is a kind of ‘program’, and that images are operational, actionable and scrapable, what does this mean for the future of the medium? Both an exploration and a provocation, this exhibition features work by Australian and international artists speculating on the social and political ramifications of photography’s afterlives.

Wanderings About History – The Photography of Ulrich Wüst

Ulrich Wüst

1 March 2024 to 20 April 2024

Ulrich Wüst’s photographic work captures his wanderings through German history, portraying the social and urban transformations from the GDR and its disintegration, through the German reunification to the present day. Wüst revives the German history in a new static way, where the past and present clash in a dynamic and ever-changing environment.  

Wanderings About History – The Photography of Ulrich Wüst shows a selection of nine suites taken between 1978 and 2019. Ulrich Wüst’s photographic work can be contemplated from different perspectives. While the observations captured here are rooted in Germany’s division and its mending, at the same time they always relate to universal phenomena of social change and its material manifestations. The seemingly terse images, extremely precise in their composition, are the fruits of lengthy visual wanderings through present sites of recent history.

State Library of Victoria - Melbourne 

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Melbourne Out Loud:
Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis

Rennie Ellis

to 28 January 2025

If there was ever a photographer to take Melbourne’s portrait, it was Rennie Ellis.

Rennie had an uncanny ability to slip into all kinds of social circles and his photographs are the ultimate story of life on the town.

He roamed our places: St Kilda Beach, the MCG, Swanston Street, Sidney Myer Music Bowl. He met superstars: Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones. He stood with crowds on the biggest days of the year: Melbourne Cup, the AFL Grand Final, the Boxing Day Test. He befriended people from all walks of life: athletes and celebrities, punks and protesters, beach goers and party lovers. And he captured it all on camera.

Hellenic Museum - Melbourne

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ONEIROI

Bill Henson

Indefinately

ONEIROI sets out to inspire discussion about what it means to be custodians of an ancient past and captures the way in which our history, culture and art shape the way in which we make sense of our own world.

VOID_MELBOURNE 

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Senja di Panjalu (Dusk in Panjalu)

Val WENS 

04 - 27 April 2024

Tolarno Galleries

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Swanswongs

Rosemary Laing

to 6 April 2024

Rosemary Laing is a photo-based artist. Her projects are most often created in relation to cultural and/or historically resonant locations throughout Australia. With interventions undertaken in situ or through the use of choreographed performance work, she engages with the politics of place and contemporary culture.

Pride Centre - St Kilda 

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male//chair   

garrie maguire

to 27 April 2024

A simple set up, each male sits stripped of conventional gender or status signifiers, with a red kitchen chair. The camera serves as the audience, capturing the essence of each participant’s raw presentation. No names, no identities—just pure expression.

Museum of Australian Photography - Monash 

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Melting icescape / black landscapes

Lingam.K

to 26 May 2024

Global warming is universal, and melting icescapes are one of the most visual indicators. As humans continue extractive and consumerist industries, our behaviours permanently affect the landscape, resulting in significant ecological impact – leaving an ineradicable ‘human signature’. Melting icescapes/black landscapes is a response to the glacial melt due to climate change. Using the alternative photographic processes of salt printing, the project captures the impending ecological collapse and encourages reflection on our relationship and impact on the landscape. It visually articulates the passing of time through the fading of the salt print and the effects of climate change on glacial landscapes.

Extraction

Edward Burtynsky

to 26 May 2024

Over the last forty years, Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky has photographed landscapes all over the world, documenting how human systems and industry are reshaping our planet. Through photographs of urbanisation, deforestation, and mining extractions, Burtynsky’s images are simultaneously sublime and terrifying, chronicling the insatiable demand for finite resources from a rapidly accelerating population.

In 2022, Burtynsky photographed Ravensworth Mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, an open cut mine producing coal for export.

Tears of dust

Janet Laurence

to 26 May 2024

When encountering these familiar and yet otherworldly environments, we become profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms and the alchemical wonder of plants' ability to regenerate.

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Corben Mudjandi

to 26 May 2024

This exhibition features works by Mirrar Traditional Owner and visual artist Corben Mudjandi. The photographs capture his perspectives on Mirrar Country and his own community, displayed alongside images of the former uranium mining site at Jabiru.

Renaissance: A Journey of Transformation

Sonia Payes

to 26 May 2024

In this site-specific installation across MAPh’s sculpture park, Sonia Payes embraces the sculptural possibilities of the photographic medium. Payes’ interpretation of possible futures examines the impact of human intervention on the planet.

These otherworldly and yet familiar landscapes may seem apocalyptic but they illustrate Payes’ unwavering faith in our species’ capacity to adjust and persevere.

Heidi Museum of Modern Art - Bulleen 

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Surrealist

Lee Miller

to 14 April 2024

Shining a light on a ground-breaking woman artist, Heide will present the first Australian survey of photographer Lee Miller. A surrealist before she even knew of the movement, Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the twentieth century. Defying the expectations placed on her as a woman and an artist, she was as unconventional in her life as in her work and captured the intensity of her experiences in unforgettable images.

Wyndham Art Gallery - Werribee 

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The New Pre-Raphaelites

Sunil Gupta 

27 January - 14 April 2024

Presented in partnership with Autograph London, The New Pre-Raphaelites is a series of thirteen photographs merging Victorian era aesthetics with contemporary Indian queer culture. The series portrays individuals and families affected by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalised homosexuality. This law, instituted by the British in 1861 and not overturned until 2018, led to the arbitrary arrest and exploitation of LGBTQ+ Indians.

The Main Shed at Seaworks - Williamstown

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Steve McCurry

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This is photography as event. Experience the best photos from Steve McCurry, an award winning and well renowned photographer that has traveled the world to capture moments across cultures and traditions.

Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East 

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Pennsylvania Home

Gregory Soltys

to 5th May 2024

“I grew up in the Laurel Highlands region of Southwestern Pennsylvania in a small town called Latrobe.  The Laurel Highlands is a popular area for hiking, fishing, camping, mountain biking, downhill and cross-country skiing, and other outdoor activities.  It’s also an area of stunning natural beauty.

I’ve not lived there for 35 years.  At 18 I left for college and then lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years before moving to Melbourne 5 years ago.  I’d wanted to go back to visit my mom in June 2020, but the pandemic put a pause to that.  Thankfully I had the opportunity to go for six weeks in June/July 2022.  I was keen to capture the landscape of my youth with my Chamonix 4×5 camera.

Castlemaine Art Museum - Castlemaine 

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Surrounding

Julie Millowick

to 16 June 2024

Millowick’s photographs show us the devastating effects of mining, drought, flood and invasive plants, but also remind us of the interconnectedness that links all parts of this ecosystem including its human occupants. This is a terrain which the artist loves, and which she sees with acute perception. It is a landscape full of complexity, a region with a terrible past, but in its capacity for renewal is also a place that offers a spark of hope for the future.

20/70 (Terrace Projection)

Michael Wolfe

to 26 May 2024

In the 1970s they were in their 20s, and now in the 2020s they’re in their 70s and beyond. Unlike some traditional professions, where a defined age often marks the end of a career, artists tend to continue creating as long as they’re able.

In photographic portraits by Castlemaine artist Michael Wolfe, featuring 21 visual artists over age 70 from Mount Alexander Shire, this exhibition projection 20/70 explores how an artist’s practice is both dynamic and in constant evolution. Just what does creativity, character and commitment count for across a lifetime as an artist?

Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat 

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Hai Kot Tou   

Scotty So

to 2 June 2024

Scotty So is a Melbourne-based artist who works across media, using painting, photography, sculptures, site-responsive installation, videos and performance. Driven by the thrill of camp, he explores the often-contradictory relationship between humour and sincerity within lived experience to offer a glimpse of a future society that embraces difference. 

The exhibition features the premiere of a new video work paying tribute to the Begonia Queens who were a feature of Ballarat’s Begonia Festival from 1953 to 1993. Images from So’s series Hai Kot Tou will also be exhibited for the first time in Australia, in which the artist is photographed dressed in all fake items inspired by high-fashion brands, with matching grocery trolleys, echoing the head-to-toe monogram trend in Asia. 

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency   

Nan Goldin

to 2 June 2024

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a defining artwork of the 1980s. Nan Goldin’s extended photographic study of her chosen family – her ‘tribe’ – began life as a slide show screened in the clubs and bars of New York where Goldin and her friends worked and played. The slide show was then distilled to a series of 126 photographs, which has recently become part of the National Gallery’s collection.

Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham 

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AUSTRALIAN FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHERS
FROM THE COLLECTION

Various

to 16 June 2024

Women photographers in Australia have made significant contributions to visual storytelling through the camera lens. They capture diverse landscapes, insights into cultures and social dynamics; acquiring the essence of their subject matter from a unique perspective.

Yava Gallery & Arts Hub - Healesville

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Thru the Lens, My Place, My People

James Hughes, John Bodin, John Christie, Kate Baker, Khoi Bui, Ryan Tews

to 7 April 2024

The photographers in this exhibition present us with their own interpretations of “My Place, My People”. Each work is beautifully balanced, rich in compositional detail, depth and mystery. Some images are almost abstract in nature, but leave the viewer with the sense that there is more…. just out of reach.