**We are happy to announce that we will be giving two separate awards.**

1. **ZEKE Award for Systemic Change**
2. **ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography**

  
**ZEKE Award for Systemic Change**

SDN is proud to partner again with the Foundation for Systemic Change for the fourth year. SDN will award one photographer the ZEKE Award for Systemic Change and a $2,500 honoraria to recognize their outstanding visual stories documenting systemic changes leading to sustainable solutions to important issues affecting the world today. We are particularly interested in issues related to the threat to democracy, human rights, global health, climate change, migration and refugees, conflict, race and gender, reproductive rights, sustainable farming practices, and others. We look to photographers to educate us as to what issues are most pressing and the change that is being done.

**ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography**

SDN will award one photographer the ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography and a $2,500 honoraria to recognize their success in documentary visual storytelling about any subject matter with an emphasis on themes that affect the global community. Jurors will look at quality of the photographic images and accompanying text and how well the combination adds to our understanding of the issue. 

It is not necessary to indicate which award you are applying to. The jurors will award one of each based on the work submitted.

**Two First-Place Winners will receive**

* **$2,500 cash prize**
* Featured in ZEKE magazine.
* Featured in exhibitions of ZEKE Award winners at Photoville in Brooklyn, NY in early June.
* Featured in in SDN's email Spotlight sent to SDN's 8,500 members and on SDN's home page, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram feeds.

**Honorable Mentions**

* Presented in ZEKE magazine.
* Featured in exhibitions of ZEKE Award winners at Photoville in early June.
* Featured in in SDN's email Spotlight sent to SDN's 8,500 members and on SDN's home page, X (Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram feeds.

**Other benefits of submitting your work to the ZEKE Awards**

* Even if you don't win, your work will be eligible for publication in ZEKE magazine.
* Select work is featured in SDN's social media feeds.
* All entries remain live on the SDN website for one year and can be renewed.
* SDN periodically does other special online publications, including InFocus, that your work is eligible to be featured in.

  

2025 ZEKE Awards

The South Arts Southern Prize acknowledges, supports, and celebrates the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The program is open to individual artists living in the South Arts region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. 

  
South Arts is committed to practices and funding that create greater cultural equity, represent the diversity of artistic expression of our region, are inclusive of diverse voices and artistic expression, and are accessible to everyone. The cohort of nine-state fellows will be selected through a two-tiered selection process by a national jury. A second national jury will select the Southern Prize Winner and Finalist. Jurors will make their selections based on artistic excellence that reflects and represents the diversity of artistic expression of the region. This program is open to visual artists in several categories.

  

The $25,000 Southern Prize will be awarded to the artist whose work demonstrates the highest artistic excellence, and a runner-up will be awarded a $10,000 Prize.

2025 Southern Prize 

CIBC's C2 Art Program (C2 Art) is a Canadian national art competition which supports emerging artists in launching their careers. Two artists will be selected to create and curate their art to be presented in a solo exhibition inside our new headquarters, CIBC Square South Tower, Toronto, Ontario.

  

* Finalists awarded $25,000, paid out over Phase 1 and Phase 2 — a period of 6 months.
* Each finalist will create a body of work and curate it in a solo exhibition in one of the gallery spaces at CIBC Square.
* The CIBC art team will collaborate with each artist throughout this process, funding all exhibition materials including framing, plinths, shipping and installation.

C2 Art Program

IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art has awarded an artist prize every three years since the institution’s beginnings. 2019 was the first time the award was given an explicitly feminist focus. With the 2025 edition of the Feminist Art Prize, we are proud to look back on the past two editions but would also be remiss not to note that the global situation regarding gender-based discrimination has only worsened.

  
We are facing a rampant wave of political revanchism and right-wing populism worldwide, forcing us to question the widespread assumption of linear and inevitable progress. A feminist art prize is therefore more important than ever. And there is no reason to hang our heads in defeat, because feminist art practices are resilient and future oriented. They offer alternatives and a safe haven for alternative way of living. We want to promote and strengthen these positions in contemporary art - especially those that confront us with the complexities of the body, identity and society and are not satisfied with simple answers. Utopia, eroticism, community, energy, resilience: together we want to embark on a journey in search of a better future.

The IKOB team will invite a group of finalists to take part in the prize exhibition after evaluating the applications. Artists will have the opportunity to show existing work(s) and will be featured in an accompanying publication. IKOB will pay each participating artist a fee of 500€ excl. VAT.

  
The prize jury will meet at IKOB ahead of the exhibition opening on 13th April, 2025 and select three winners, awarding a first, second and third prize endowed with €3000, €2000 and €1500 respectively. The third prize is awarded to an artist in East Belgium. The jury consists of: Caitlin Hennen (independent art consultant and curator), Jemima Kulumba (curator and founder of the “Biennale of Women in Art”, Brussels), Noor Mertens (director, Bochum Art Museum), Stilbé Schroeder (curator, casino luxembourg and of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2026) and Marnie Slater (artist and winner of the IKOB – Feminist Art Prize 2022).

Feminist Art Prize 2025

John Glover was a successful British painter and contemporary of Turner and John Constable. Glover painted in the picturesque style advocated by Claude Lorraine, taking the Grand Tour of Europe and wandering the moors and mountains of Britain in search of inspiration.

  
Celebrating the legacy of John Glover, The John Glover Art Prize (Glover Prize) has become one of Australia’s most significant awards for landscape painting, open to artists from anywhere in the world. It is awarded annually by The John Glover Society Inc. for the work judged the best contemporary landscape painting of Tasmania. Landscape painting is defined in its broadest sense. The aim is to stimulate conversations about the meaning and possibilities expressed in the words landscape, painting and Tasmania.

The winner receives $80,000 plus a bronze maquette of colonial artist John Glover, designed by Peter Corlett and valued at $5000.

  
The Glover Prize is acquisitive, selected from around 40 works chosen by a panel of eminent judges. All other exhibitied entries are eligible for the (non-acquisitive) People’s Choice Award of $3000, the Children’s Choice Award of $500 and the Hanger’s Choice Award of $500.

  
The exhibition of finalists’ paintings is held over the March long-weekend in the historic Falls Park pavilion in Evandale, a village on the beautiful northern plains of Tasmania.

  
The John Glover Society Inc. shall be entitled to and will retain 30% commission on all works sold. The net sale proceeds will be paid to the Artist within thirty-five (35) days of sale, provided settlement has been made in accordance with the conditions of sale. Payment will be made by cheque in Australian dollars.

John Glover Aquisitive Prize

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize has gone from strength to strength with many shortlisted and winning authors securing publishing deals and furthering their writing.

  
Founded in 2010, by Professor Janet Todd OBE and now going into its 15th year, DBE, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is renowned for championing and launching the careers of exceptional women writers. With a prestigious legacy spanning 15 years, the prize attracts a wealth of literary talent and is actively seeking submissions that seamlessly blend literary merit with captivating storytelling – the "unputdownable" novel.

The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors will benefit from a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent at prize sponsor WME, including editorial feedback and invaluable publishing advice.

Fiction Prize 2025

We are excited to announce that entries to the 2025 National Photographic Portrait Prize are now open. It is free to enter the Prize.

  
Entering its 18th year, the National Photographic Portrait Prize (NPPP) is one of the Gallery's most popular annual events. The prize provides a powerful visual record of the year that was - a celebration of identity, both collective and individual.

The Gallery is committed to supporting artists, so each selected finalist will receive:

  
* a total artist/s fee of $1200 (ex GST) to exhibit your work at the NPG
* an additional artist/s fee of $700 (ex GST) if your work is included in the NPPP 2025 National Tour
* a total copyright and image licensing fee of $1000 (ex GST)
* the NPG will organise transportation of your photograph to the NPG and the return to you (within Australia,) and the NPG will cover associated costs
* an allowance, to be determined by the NPG, for return domestic, economy travel and meals for each Artist, up to a maximum of 3 Artists, and to the NPG for the Exhibition launch
* one night’s accommodation for the Artist in Canberra for the night of the Exhibition launch

  
In 2025, the winner will receive a prize of $30,000 and $20,000 worth of equipment courtesy of Imaging Partner Canon Australia, and Highly Commended will receive a prize pack from EIZO. The Art Handlers’ Award winner will receive $3000 courtesy of IAS Logistics and the People’s Choice Award winner will receive $10,000 courtesy of the Calvert-Jones Foundation.

  
All finalist artworks will be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 August 2025.

2025 National Photographic Portrait Prize

With the support of the NEW TALENT AWARD, photographers can turn their "images in their imagination" into reality. The search is not for finished projects on a given theme, but for image ideas that arouse curiosity for more. All winning entries will be published by the German photographers magazine ProfiFoto and will be part of a group exhibtion.

  
Part of the Jury are editors of ProfiFoto magazine as well as representatives of Canon, WhiteWall, laif agency, Hahnemühle as well as independent photo curators.

A jury of experts will award prizes to five photography projects. The jury will also select the three best works from the total of ten winning works in the two competitions of each year. These will receive cash prizes totaling 3,000 euros (1st place 1,500 euros, 2nd place 1,000 euros, 3rd place 500 euros). All winning entries will be published in ProfiFoto and be part of group exhibitions.

ProfiFoto New Talent Award 25/1

With the transfer of the JACQUELINE DIFFRING FOUNDATION's assets to the city of Koblenz in 2022, the Mittelrhein-Museum will be responsible for its administration as the JACQUELINE DIFFRING COLLECTION. This also means that it is responsible for awarding the DIFFRING PRIZE FOR SCULPTURE. Since 2008, this prize has been awarded to an artist in the genre of sculpture or plastic art in accordance with the statutes. 
  
  

 The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros. The award ceremony will take place in June 2025 at the Middle Rhine Museum and will be accompanied by a cabinet exhibition.

Diffring Prize for Sculpture 2025

Since its launch in 2008, the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Photography Award has provided support for contemporary photographic creation. Each year, the museum funds the works of three laureates, selected on the basis of an original project, in coherence with their personal aesthetic path. It also supports the final production of a selection of these works towards their entry into the museum's collection.

  
The award is open to non-European photographers or artists using photography, with no age limit. It aims to promote the diversity of photographic practices and forms in international contemporary creation. Preference will be given to projects that demonstrate an original artistic approach and are not limited to traditional forms of documentary or reportage. The prize has no theme. Although this call for entries does not require a recommendation, it is not aimed at novice photographers. Particular attention will be paid to the quality of references and experience.

Each winning project will receive €30,000\. This is a lump sum to cover expenses incurred in carrying out the project (travel, accommodation, technical costs, etc.) as well as the transfer of rights granted by the author for the photographic work to be included in the museum's collections.

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