FOTOFESTIWAL OPEN CALL 2024

Who: Worldwide

Deadline:  25 November 2024

Entry Fee: not mentioned.

Theme: Completed projects 10-20 images

Why Enter: Money, festival exhibition and financial help with travel and place to stay for the opening!

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The Art of the Building 2024

Who:  Worldwide

Deadline:  25 November 2024

Entry Fee: no mention

Theme: Built environment

Why Enter: Run by one of the professional bodies to high light architecture with quite a bit of money involved

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DECEMBER DEADLINE

Smithsonian Photo Contest 2024

Who:  Worldwide

Deadline:  2 December 2024

Entry Fee: no mention

Theme: Artistic, Drone/aerial, People, Travel, Natural world and the American Experience

Why Enter: it's the Smithsonian, oh and some money and publication.

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WALK OF WATER: WATER TOWERS

Who:  Open

Deadline:  7 December 2024

Entry Fee: none

Theme: Water Towers

Why Enter: The total prize fund is 15,000 EUR + feature on the Onewater website

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Rotterdam Photo 2025: Shared/Connected

Who:  anyone 16 years or older

Deadline:  21 December 2024

Entry Fee: Euro35

Theme: Shared/Connected

Why Enter: exhibition in the container during the Rotterdam Photo 2025 be there and a lot more opens up.

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COMING

Nikon Film and Photo Contest 2024-2025

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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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Off the Kerb

Open call . Link

HOTA - Gold Coast

Introduce your practice LInk

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RESIDENCIES

Resartis

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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Will be back mid January with the Midsumma Show.

Magnet Gallery - Docklands

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Another Layer

Sue O’Malley & Glen O’Malley

to 26 October 2024

This is a playful retro-style exhibition of images combining photography and collage. One of the 35 artworks we're showing at MAGNET this month in our exhibition ANOTHER LAYER. 22 artists have contributed to the exhibition, each working artistic magic on photographs by Glen O'Malley. Come and see the results - they're gorgeous! - and find out what Sue O'Malley does with little soy sauce fishies in her 2nd exhibited artwork!

Tarntipi

Nicholas Walton-Healey

10 to 30 November 2024

The photography exhibition Tarntipi takes inspiration from Nicholas Walton-Healey's nine-year connection and collaboration with Tiwi Elder Edward 'Teddy' Portaminni. Arising from their recently completed co-authored publication, this exhibition presents an extended suite of photographs showcasing their photographer's transformative experience of Country, and the bonds that the people of the Tiwi Islands share with their lands.

Centre for Contemporary Photography - Collingwood

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P.North

Kathryn McCool

25 October to 14 December 2024

Join us at 6pm on Friday 25th October 2024 for the opening of our last exhibition of 2024.

The artist Kathryn McCool will be present, and her book ‘P.North’, published by Perimeter Editions will be available for sale.

Level 2, Perry St Building, Collingwood Yards, 35 Johnston St, Collingwood.

Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick 

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Nothing Gold Can Stay.

Nothing Dark Will Last.

Starry Kong

to 03 November 2024

For the past 10 years, I’ve asked myself, what is the point for being alive if I cannot feel the joy — if I don’t even want to exist?

“Living with depression” — it’s like there is a tall, thick wall built in front of my heart, and nothing can pass through. Sunlight, happiness, and hopes are blocked out. Darkness, dread, and desperation are locked in. It’s like living in a Black Hole, and I don’t know how long I still need to stay.

At times, I begin to see the stars. Even though there are not many, and they are so tiny, they are bright and stunning, right there, shining on me. You, each one of you, are the stars in my firmament, are the stars that keep me alive.

“You can’t walk this earth forever. Someday you will have to fly”

Red Gallery - Fitzroy 

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Exodus 2024

Steven Xiao

16 to 25 January 2025

Inspired by the biblical exodus, this series captures moments of personal and collective departure. These aer journeys across deserts of isolation, through shadows of uncertainly and into the light of transformation.

Arc One - Melbourne 

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TBA

Hony Long & Prue Stent

13 November 2024 to 1 February 2025

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT are a collaborative duo who construct surreal scenes where the body serves as both raw material and haunting apparition. Dreamy, fluid and fleshy, their distinctive and highly sensual practice has garnered worldwide recognition, spanning the realms of photography, performance, installation, and sculpture.

SA Pop Up Gallery

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Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition

Various

to 18 December 2024

Ever seen a dreamy place in real life and thought, ‘That totally belongs in a Wes Anderson film’? An Instagram sensation and best-selling book brought to life, Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition is an IRL exploration of real-life locations from all 7 continents through the lens of Wes Anderson’s iconic aesthetic.

Note: This is photography exhibition as spectacle and $29 entry.

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.

Searching for Sanctuary:

A journey of survival

Barat Ali Batoor

to 28 January 2025

Double Walkley Award winning documentary photographer Barat Ali Batoor takes us beyond the headlines to reveal his personal journey as a Hazara asylum seeker.

After publishing a piece in The Washington Post exposing child exploitation in his homeland of Afghanistan, Batoor became the target of death threats. Forced to flee his country, he began a perilous life in exile – but he never stopped taking photos.

From Pakistan and Thailand to Indonesia and Australia, Batoor spent one year enduring the impossible while capturing the untold stories of what it means to be an asylum seeker. Witness Batoor’s poignant, life-affirming documentation of searching for sanctuary.

VOID_MELBOURNE 

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embedded bones

Eugenia Raskopoulos

03 to 26 October 2024

In her new series, Embedded Bones, Eugenia Raskopoulos turns the body inside out. For the first time since 1998 she is using classical Greek statuary, on this occasion inserting X-rays of her feet, spine, pelvis and skull into the corresponding sculptural fragments. Her internal bodily structure becomes both exoskeleton and is clothed in stone. There are complex conjunctions and disjunctions here, as there are with the two neon works, both titled Self-portrait.

RMIT University - Melbourne 

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School of Art Photography

Graduating Students

03 to 08 December 2024

With projects by emerging artists and photographers the RMIT School of Art Graduate Exhibition celebrates the innovation and technical expertise of BA Photography, Honours and Masters Coursework students. An accompanying website with profiles of our graduates will document the making and thinking behind their work.

VCA / Victorian College of the Arts - Southbank

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School of Art Photography

Graduating Students

TBA

One of Melbourne’s landmark cultural events, the VCA Art Grad Show features new works of art by over 160 graduates from Photography, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing and Printmaking, Honours, Master of Contemporary Art and Master of Fine Art.The VCA Art Grad Show is spread across the Art Studios, VCA Artspace, the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, the Stables and the Martyn Myer Arena.

Museum of Australian Photography - Monash 

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Bowness Prize

Various

to 10 November 2024

The finalists from the most important prize in Australian photography.

Bad Sports

The Huxleys

to 10 November 2024

Bad sports reflects upon the ostracisation you can feel when growing up in a country that values sporting achievement above all else. It can be a real struggle especially for a creative, shy queer kid searching for kindred spirits. A love of music, art, fashion and the dark underworld is perceived to offer eventual artistic salvation.

500 Strong

Ponch Hawkes

23 November to 16 February 2025

In 2018 curator and arts professional Jane Scott approached Ponch Hawkes to embark on an epic project to photograph 500 Victorian women over the age of 50. Across a dozen photo shoots, over 500 volunteer participants modelled nude in celebration of the diversity and reality of older women’s bodies. Photoshoot weekends were organised in Melbourne at Ponch’s studio and at the regional galleries of Shepparton, Horsham and Geelong..

Mångata

Amos Gebhardt

23 November to 16 February 2025

Drawing on the Moon as a symbol of illumination, Amos Gebhardt's Mångata weaves sound and moving image with photographic portraits lit entirely by moonlight. Mångata is a Swedish term describing a pathway towards the horizon created by the Moon’s reflection on water – a metaphorical road into the unknown. Interlinked with lunar studies, the series features visionaries in their fields who imagine liberated and collective futures in these dystopian times.

Snakes and Mirrors

Petrina Hicks

23 November to 16 February 2025

Permeated with a sense of magical realism, animals and females often appear together to represent aspects of psyche and identity, alluding to the complexity of female identity and the sentience of animals. The porous boundaries between human and animal states and the affinity of females and animals are central to her work.

Melbourne Camera Club - South Melbourne 

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Interesting Times

MCC members

17 October and 19/20 October 2024, 11am-3pm

26-27 October 2024, 11am-3pm

An exhibition of conceptual images looking to ask questions rather than just be pretty.

Come celebrate the thought-provoking work of 10 talented members of the Melbourne Camera Club's Conceptual Photography Group.

Victorian Price Centre - St Kilda 

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TransTrans: Transnational Trans* Histories

Various

to 3 November 2024

The exhibition delves into the interactions among German and European, North American, and Australian trans communities, as well as their collaboration with scientific researchers on gender diversity. These researchers include those associated with institutions such as Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, and communities like the queer subcultures of Weimar German

You Looking At Me, Looking At You

Emma Armstrong-Porter

6 November to 8 January 2024

Memories of intimate shared experiences taken in moments of life, love and loss. These unrefined portraits by artist and educator Emma Armstrong Porter are technically inconsistent because they were shot at a decisive moment, guided by emotion, not photographic convention. These photos capture moments that lean towards the vernacular, but hold a striking private emotion within the returned gaze. Moments veiled through mirrors and glass and immortalised in silver.

Heidi Museum of Modern Art - Bulleen 

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Portrait of an Artist

Michel Lawrence

to 30 October 2024

Portrait of an Artist takes as its starting point Michel Lawrence’s photographic series Framed, for which he documented Australian artists in their studios over a ten-year period during the 1980s and 90s, and recently expanded with three new images commissioned specifically for the exhibition. The portraits, many of which are held in the Heide Collection, offer not only a compelling visual record of the individual artists, but also a rare glimpse into their private creative spaces and processes. The photographs are contextualised in the exhibition by artworks of each practitioner.

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

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Water

Featured artists include: Aunty Gwen Garoni, Hayley Millar-Baker, Shannon Smiley, Darren Trewin, Charles Troedel and David Wadelton. (Not only photos)

to 23 November 2024

Water is life. This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Darebin Art Collection that talk to the ways in which water inhabits our lives and sustains our livelihoods. Water is also complex, the politics of water guides the way we move through the world. From Darebin’s surrounding creeks to the Pacific Ocean, these artworks tell the story of the ways in which water has shaped us.

Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East 

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Throught the Looking Glass

Danielle Edwards

10 November – 26 January 202r

Peering through the looking glass offers surprise and intrigue. When we look at things differently, we often see what was right in front of us in a new and exciting way. 

Inspired by nature, invisible radiation and visible light underpin this collection of handcrafted silver gelatin images.

Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham 

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Leave only Footprints

Tamara Dean

to 24 November 2024

This first survey exhibition of the critically acclaimed photomedia artist Tamara Dean. Dean’s career began as a photojournalist for the Sydney Morning Herald (2001–2014). She was renowned for finding the quieter, more introspective moments between subject and photographer. Dean’s practice transitioned from documentary to conceptual photography after the arrival of her first child. It transformed her practice into one that explores the primacy of nature and our connectedness to it and to each other.

Neverlasting

Ian Kemp

to 24 November 2024

Neverlasting explores the timeless quality of the photogravure process, a technique renowned for its rich tonal depth and intricate detail, elevating fleeting moments into enduring visual narratives. Through each of Kemp’s meticulously crafted photogravure works, the exhibition invites viewers to engage with the tactile richness and historical resonance of the medium, appreciating how it can preserve the ephemeral with both precision and poignancy.