The Griffin Museum of Photography hosts multiple calls for entry year-round, offering exciting opportunities within our community. Entrants are considered for unique perks, including exhibition prizes, Director’s selections, special acquisition opportunities, and exclusive partnerships with leading photography publications. Additional benefits include cash awards, online exhibitions, and featured spotlights across our digital platforms.
Explore the links below for full details on each call—and stay tuned for upcoming announcements.
Griffin Museum 15th Annual Photobook Exhibition
Juried by Karen Davis of Davis Orton Gallery, and Crista Dix, Executive Director of the Griffin Museum.
Submissions are now closed.
Prospectus: We welcome entrants who wish to display their self published and handmade photobooks in the Griffin Gallery for exhibition in the summer of 2025. Winners will be given the opportunity to donate a copy to the Griffin Library for the museum archive and collection. Submit up to three photobooks via CaFÉ.
Exhibition Dates 2025 | July 3 – September 28, 2025
Image ©Arrayah Lloynd
2025 Handmade Photobook Exhibition
Juried by Sangyon Joo, founder of Datz Press and the Datz Museum of Art, Korea
An additional five photobooks will be featured on LENSCRATCH by our 2025 Guest Critic, Laila Nahar
Submissions are now closed.
Prospectus: This year is the first year we have a unique exhibition for handmade photobooks. Unlike our self published works, this call for entry requires the hand of the artist in the manufacture and production of the book and its contents.
Exhibition Dates 2025 | July 3 – September 28, 2025
Image ©Sarah Salomon
31st Annual Juried Member’s Exhibition, 2025
Juried by Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California.
Submissions are now closed.
Prospectus: Our annual Juried Members’ Exhibition is intended for all creative artists using photography as a primary medium, highlighting still images and including moving images, installation, and public works, experimental and mixed techniques for inclusion in our summer exhibition.
Exhibition Dates 2025 | July 3 – August 17, 2025
Image ©Fernando González Camacho
Annual Scholarship & Residencies
The Griffin Museum proudly supports photographers at all stages through a range of scholarships and residencies designed to foster creative growth, community engagement, and bold photographic work. From emerging talent to mid-career professionals, our programs offer financial support, exhibition opportunities, publishing partnerships, and immersive residencies.
Explore our programs below.
The Cummings Residency Program
The three-month Cummings Residency Program is a nationwide search for artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, offering a $5,000 comprehensive stipend, dedicated studio space inside the museum, and meaningful opportunities to engage with the Winchester community.
Our residency program has supported the works of Alanna Airitam, Rodrigo Valenzuela and Ville Kansanen.
Submissions are now closed.
Prospectus: Each artist will have a three-month residency engagement and a $5,000 stipend. Using their specific skill set, work to create a photographically based exhibition as a result of their connection to the Griffin Museum, Winchester and surrounding areas, while engaging in critical dialogues about art and culture with both the youth and adult community they inhabit. Using photography as a bridge to building relationships, the Artist In Residence creates a series of community portraits opening up the pathways to multicultural understanding and acceptance. The museum and its partners are creating a visual literacy program centered around imagery, using photography as the tool, working with professional artists to talk about their communities, cultures and new and shared origin stories.
Image ©Alanna Airitam (Cummings Fellow)
The Richards Family Prize
The Richards Family Prize is a $4,000 scholarship support mid-career photographers producing work that is creative and original.
We are thrilled to announce that Aline Smithson, our 2025 Juror, has selected Izabella Demavlys as the winner of the inaugural Richard’s Family Prize for her powerful project, Without a Face.
Meet the 2024 winner and finalists here.
Submissions are now closed.
Application period for 2026 will open in October 2025
Prospectus: This $4,000 scholarship is open to professional and mid-career photographers worldwide. We define “professional” as any photographer who earns the majority of their income from photography. We define “mid-career” as any photographer with some visibility in exhibitions, gallery representation and scholarship and residency success in their photography career.
The winning submission, in addition to a cash prize to assist in production of the work, will have a catalog produced by Griffin Museum Press and an exhibition in our Winchester Museum in December 2025.
Image ©Izabella Demavlys, from Without a Face
The John Chervisnky Emerging Photographer Scholarship
The $3,000 John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship seeks to recognize, encourage and reward photographers with the potential to create a body of work and sustain solo exhibitions.
This year, the prize was juried by Arlette & Gus Kayafas, Frazier King, and Bruce Myren.
Prospectus: Awarded annually, the Scholarship provides recipients with a monetary award of $3,000, exhibition of their work at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and a volume from John’s personal library of photography books. The Scholarship seeks to provide a watershed moment in the professional lives of emerging photographers, providing them with the support and encouragement necessary to develop, articulate and grow their own vision for photography.
We are pleased to announce Bridget Jourgensen‘s project, Homeshadows, as the 2024 Chervinsky Prize Winner. See the announcement here.
Exhibition Dates | December 13, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Image ©John Chervinsky
Past and Future Projects
Discover the amazing projects by our current and previous award, scholarship and residency winners.
Stay tuned for more.
2025 Cummings Fellow Exhibition | André Ramos-Woodard
The Griffin Museum of Photography is proud to announce André Ramos-Woodard as a 2025 Cummings Fellow. We’re thrilled to honor André’s bold, resonant voice and look forward to supporting their continued artistic journey.
Announcement: The Griffin Museum of Photography is proud to announce André Ramos-Woodard as a 2025 Cummings Fellow. A photo-based artist raised in Tennessee and Texas, Ramos-Woodard (he/they) explores themes of identity, marginalization, and resistance through a queer Black lens. Their work confronts systemic racism and celebrates the richness of Black life, often blending historical imagery with personal documentation.
Their ongoing project, BLACK SNAFU (Situation Niggas: All Fucked Up), reclaims and critiques racist cartoon caricatures by juxtaposing them with powerful photographs that reflect the artist’s lived experience. Through portraits, still lives, and community-based scenes, Ramos-Woodard challenges America’s anti-Black visual legacy while affirming the beauty and complexity of Black existence.
Exhibition Dates | June 6 – September 13, 2025
Image ©André Ramos-Woodard
