Photography Contest

TDM Awards 2025

TDM Awards 2025

Deadline |

CLOSED

Theme |

Street Photography

Territory |

Worldwide

Eligibility |

Open to all

Entry Fees |

$15/image or $25/5 images

Prizes |

Cash Prize
TDM Awards 2025 shines a light on the boldest voices in contemporary street photography — offering a global platform for photographers who push the boundaries of visual storytelling in public spaces. This year’s competition invites emerging and established talents to share their most compelling street moments with an international audience.

A distinguished panel of four world-class judges — Siegfried Hansen, Melissa O’Shaughnessy, Kiran Karnani, and Mark Makela — will review all submissions and handpick the most outstanding works. Winners will receive international recognition, valuable cash prizes, and exposure through TDM’s global network.

Our goal is to elevate underrepresented voices and provide a meaningful showcase for artists who see the world in striking and unconventional ways. The contest welcomes all forms of candid street photography, from vibrant urban scenes to quiet, contemplative moments — as long as they capture the essence of life in public spaces.

Join us in celebrating the power of photography to document, provoke, and inspire.

Awards will include:

- 1st $1,000 US
- 2nd $600 US
- 3rd $400 US
- Finalists (4th–14th): €100 + Certificate + Global Exposure

Finalists, winners, and editor’s choice will be published in the TDM Awards 2025 Photobook.

Photo credit: Helen Levitt

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Best Photography Contests in 2025

Each year, there are hundreds of photography competitions all over the world, so we've decided to select for you the best of the best! Our selection of the best photo contests in 2025 is thoroughly curated to help you, whether you are a professional photographer or an amateur, to help find your next creative breakthrough. These all-star competitions offer the greatest opportunities for international exposure and/or incredible financial benefits. Some of them are closing soon, so get your photo submissions in!

ENDS 09/01/25
The Ian Parry Scholarship is divided into two categories: The Sunday Times Award for Achievement and The Canon Award for Potential.
ENDS 09/01/25
TIFA connects photographers from around the world with the creative community in Tokyo, Japan, providing them with an excellent platform to present their work to a new market.
ENDS 09/01/25
The winner receives a €25,000 cash award to develop the project within ten months
ENDS 09/05/25
The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrate the photobook's contribution to the evolving narrative of photography
ENDS 09/05/25
This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to prototypes, hand-made books to zines
ENDS 09/15/25
Exhibition Dates: Oct 18 - Nov 8, 2025
ENDS 09/15/25
Winners and finalists will be part of a group exhibition at Las Fotos Project in Los Angeles this October.
ENDS 09/16/25
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ENDS 09/23/25
Be Featured in our September 2025 Online Juried Solo Exhibition! Juror: Aline Smithson, Photographer, Founder of Lenscratch & Curator
ENDS 09/30/25
Send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio - capturing the weird and wonderful moments unfolding around you! The subject is completely up to you.
ENDS 10/01/25
The Center for Photographic Art (CPA) is excited to announce the 2025 International Juried Exhibition with $5,000 in awards!
ENDS 10/06/25
For 2025, the amount of the W. Eugene Smith Grant is $30,000 and two additional $10,000 Finalist Grants will be awarded.
ENDS 10/06/25
For 2025, the amount of the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant is $5,000. The grant provides two students with the opportunity to complete a photographic essay.
ENDS 10/07/25
Now in its 12th year, the International Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards is allowing all landscape photographers to share a total of 12,500 USD in cash prizes.
ENDS 10/19/25
Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition.
ENDS 10/31/25
Selected by a jury composed of five professionals from the fields of photography and publishing, the winner of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published PhotoBook Award will receive a prize of €8,000.
ENDS 01/06/26
First place receives Sony Digital Imaging equipment and inclusion in the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition and book
ENDS 01/06/26
Dedicated to young photographers under 19 years-old - first prize is top Sony digital imaging equipment plus benefit from global exposure
ENDS 01/06/26
Rewarding the best single images! Enter for free and you could win $5,000, top Sony digital imaging equipment plus more!
ENDS 01/13/26
Rewarding the best photo series worldwide! Enter for free and you could win $25,000, a range of Sony digital imaging equipment plus more!
ENDS 02/15/26
Art is born out of passion. Fine Art photography is a perfect instrument, which allows a person to communicate with the world and share their vision. It results from the author's deep sensitivity, a need to express feelings through image.
ENDS 05/17/26
MonoVisions Photography Awards are an international open call for photographers using black and white medium to express their visual language.