RPS Postgraduate Bursary
As part of The Society’s remit as an educational charity we offer an annual bursary of £3,500 in support of a postgraduate student studying in the UK or abroad.
Closes 30th June 2017→
Monthly Competition: Reflections
Open to all members, submit your images which focus on the theme reflections to the monthly competition during June. Open for entry: 1 - 30 June.
Closes 30th June 2017→
Documentary Photographer of the Year 2017
Want to put your documentary skills to the test? The 2017 RPS Documentary Photographer of the Year competition is now open for submissions. The competition is open and free to all RPS members.
Closes 30th June 2017→
Documentary Group bi-monthly competition
A competition for DG members.
Closes 30th June 2017→
Short Film Award
The RPS is delighted to be working with Watershed and DepicT! in offering an award for the best cinematography amongst its shortlisted films.
Closes 3rd July 2017→
Hall Marriott Essay Competition
The Royal Photographic Society Historical Group is pleased to announce the 2016/2017 Hall Marriott Essay Competition, with prizes of £100 and £50 awarded for the two best essays in the field of the history of photography and for those under 25 years of age.
Closes 31st July 2017→
Monthly Competition: Shape
Open to all members, submit your images on the theme of shape to the monthly competition during July. Open for entry: 1 - 31 July.
Opens 1st July 2017→
IGPOTY Portfolio Competition
The International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) portfolio competition in association with The Royal Photographic Society.
Closes 31st October 2017→
The Peter Hansell Scholarship Fund
The Medical Group of the RPS administers a scholarship fund in memory of Dr Peter Hansell HonFRPS, a pioneer of the practice and teaching of medical photography in the second half of the 20th Century.
Open until total annual funding allocation reached→
Environmental Bursary
The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle offers two, one-year bursaries to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness.
Opens 2018→
Weather Photographer of the Year
Enter your images of weather and the impact of weather to stand a chance of becoming Weather Photographer of the Year 2018.
Opens 2018→
Joan Wakelin Bursary
Administered by The Society in partnership with The Guardian. The Joan Wakelin Bursary offers £2000 for the production of a photographic essay on an overseas social documentary issue.
Opens 2018→
Student Funding
There is funding available for Society Events. This funding is to enable student photographers to attend selected Society Regional and Group events that they would not normally be able to afford.
Information and applying→