2026 Photo Review 41st Annual International Photography Competition

The Photo Review's 41st Annual International Photography Competition is now open for entries. This long-running competition — established in 1976 — is a prestigious opportunity for photographers at any stage to have their work seen by a distinguished juror, serious collectors, and curators worldwide.

This year's juror is Dr. Sarah Kennel, the inaugural Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. Kennel is a leading photography scholar whose curatorial work spans nineteenth-century French photography, European modernism, historic photographic processes, and understudied women photographers.

What you could win:

• Exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia (prizewinners)
• Reproduction in The Photo Review journal and website (all accepted entries)
• Feature in Photo Review web galleries (Editor's Selections)
• $1,000 purchase prize from Haverford College
• $500 gift certificate for printing at Booksmart Studio
• A Wacom Intuos Pro medium tablet
• $200 gift certificate from Digital Silver Imaging
• $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper
• $100 and $50 gift certificates from Red River Paper
• Two $100 gift certificates from PhotoLounge
• Gift certificates for Think Tank photo bags
• Two $50 gift certificates from PhotoFlashDrive
• Features on the Laurence Miller Gallery and Peter Fetterman email blasts

How to enter:

Entry costs $40 USD for up to three images, plus $8 for each additional image. Every entrant receives a full-colour catalogue. Entrants may also subscribe to The Photo Review at a 20% discount ($40/year; higher rates outside the US).

All entries are submitted digitally through Smarter Entry. The deadline is 20 May 2026.