Award season is hotting up in the photography industry with many exciting opportunities open for entry this month, including the Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award, #ReunionCalling: A PhEST2021 Open Call, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Learn how they can support your work and career.

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March's Photography Awards and Opportunities
11 March 2021 - Written by Simon Hall
Award season is hotting up in the photography industry with many exciting opportunities open
for entry this month, including the Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award,
#ReunionCalling: A PhEST2021 Open Call, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Learn how they
can support your work and career.
#ReunionCalling: A PhEST2021 Open Call / Deadline: 31 March / No entry fee
#ReunionCalling. The latest open call from PhEST
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2. With outdoor festivals and events still challenging to organise, PhEST – the international festival
of photography in Monopoli, Italy – is attempting to bring the photography community together
virtually with this social open call that looks to uncover assorted stories of reunions during
times of Covid-19. “Throughout this pandemic, the various forms of lockdown and social
distancing that governments have imposed upon their citizens all around the world has stopped
any movement and has separated families, couples, friends, groups, schoolmates, teams, acting
companies, and music groups,” write the contest organisers. “The final result is separation, the
annulment of physical contact, the suspension of sociality, the disappearance of the body,” they
continue.
With no limits on language, allowing all disparate techniques from traditional collage to digital
post-production, this project invites participants to post images of reunions and a short text
detailing the story of the separation on Instagram or Facebook accompanied by the hashtag
#ReunionCalling. These images and texts will then act as a modern postcard travelling the web
that can be universally shared and used to remind us of this unprecedented moment. An
international jury will assign numerous prizes, including four vouchers each valued at €290 for
the Leica Akademie workshops, a publication on PHmuseum News, an exhibition at PhEST
2021, and €1,000 worth of rental equipment offered by Camera Service Group to be used to
produce a personal project at the end of the pandemic. The deadline to upload work is 31 March.
To learn more about the initiative and the entry requirements, go to phest.info.
CRITICAE / Online Documentary Photography Masterclass / Scholarship Deadline: 31 March / No
entry fee
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3. © Max Pinckers, artist and doctoral researcher, lead tutor of CRITICAE.
Documentary photography is both a significant reflection on photography itself and a way of
dealing with reality in an attempt to understand it and communicate about it. How can a
documentary express social concern while at the same time recognize its own shortcomings and
blind spots? How can we define a shared sense of realism in a hyper-individual and confusing era
of post-truth and fake news, in which there is no longer a consensus about what is real, half-
truth, fiction, or entertainment?
Guided by photographer, artist and doctoral researcher Max Pinckers, participants will
expand their projects by developing their own critical documentary strategies. The program will
be conducted online over the course of 6 months and comprise 5 studio visits with Laia Abril,
Thomas Sauvin, Mathieu Asselin, Chao Tayiana Maina and Jan Hoek plus collective and individual
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4. sessions. At the end of the program, one o more participants will be granted an opportunity
to exhibit their projects at PHmuseum Lab. Take care of sending free your portfolio with a
motivational paragraph that addresses why you would benefit from attending the program and
have the chance of obtaining a full scholarship. Learn more and send in your request before 31
March.
Yannis Behrakis Photojournalism Award (by APW) / Deadline: 18 April / No entry fee
© Dar Yasin. 2019 Yannis Behrakis Photojournalism Award winner.
Athens Photo World, following the expressed wishes of Yannis Behrakis and with the donation
of Stavros Niarchos Foundation, contributes to the promotion, support, and encouragement of
the work of photographers and photojournalists so that they can fulfil their vision and continue
to produce their work. For the third consecutive year, the festival has launched the €15,000
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