Deloitte
Photo Grant 2026

CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN

© Atefe Moeini, winner of the 2025 Open Call

Deloitte Photo Grant, established in 2023, intends to become one of the world’s most important awards for photography within the contemporary art arena.

Photography plays a central and key role in contemporary artistic production.
Deloitte’s Photo Grant, under the artistic direction of Denis Curti, aims to stimulate social reflection and, through intellectual awareness, promotes the theme Proximities, offering two grants totaling 75,000 euros.

With this initiative, Fondazione Deloitte seeks to provide concrete support for contemporary cultural production and establish itself as an observatory of the emerging artistic landscape.

Deloitte’s Photo Grant aims to visually document the daily struggles for the advancement of human rights (for everyone, with no exceptions) and, at the same time, the rejection of all forms of discrimination.

Through the photographic language, the goal is to give a voice to those who are often unheard, laying the groundwork for the creation of a free space dedicated to dialogue, where images can significantly contribute to fostering a constructive discussion on an urgent and relevant issue.

The winner of the 2025 edition is Carlos Idun-Tawiah with his project Hero, Father, Friend.

The exhibition at Triennale Milano for the 2025 edition took place from November 27, 2025 to January 25, 2026.

Look what happened

open call

Open Call
2026
Proximities

An open call for all photographers under 35. Participants are invited to submit an original project idea on the theme of the award, Proximities, describing both its content and costs. It may also be an ongoing project in need of financial support to be completed or expanded.

candidature

Nominations Section

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© Atefe Moeini, Go Live, 2025

For this section, 10 referrers, personalities working in the world of international cultural production, have been identified: Alberto Negrin, Stephen Bulger, Brendan McCleary, Dimitri Beck, Pancho Saula, Karin Kauffman, Davide Monteleone, Arianna Rinaldo, Eric R. Johnson, Todd Hido.

These subjects will be asked to nominate each n° 2 works, each created by a professional photographer at their discretion. The professional photographers nominated will have to try their hand at developing an unpublished work with a photographic corpus of at least 25 images on the theme of the call, that is, the personal interpretation of the Proximities theme.

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© Atefe Moeini, Go Live, 2025

The grant,
the exhibition and
the catalogue.

An exhibition at the Triennale Milano, in october 2026 and a catalogue.