V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography 2024

The Prize is produced in partnership with Peckham 24, south London’s innovative three-day photography festival.

The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is thematic and artists must respond to the theme accordingly. A new theme is set annually with each new edition of the Prize.

Theme

• 2024 Theme is ‘Histories’
  • This theme invites broad submissions which evidence the relationship between history and photography; from the use of historical processes and their position within contemporary photographic practice, to the documentation of historical events or revisitations of the past.
  • It creates space for artists interested in the notion of the archive, including photographers working with family albums, vernacular photography and historic or institutional collections. ‘Histories’ invites artists to consider how photography can be used to interrogate and challenge existing history, fact and circumstance, allowing for reimagined or speculative futures.

Prize Information

• Four winning artists will have their work included in a group exhibition at Peckham 24, alongside accompanying events and public programming.
• International travel and two night’s accommodation expenses for exhibiting artists to attend the festival in London.
• Networking event with Prize selection committee and industry experts.
• Bursaries of £2,000 for each exhibiting artist.
• Winning artists will be featured on the V&A and Peckham 24 social media channels and communications.

Criteria

• Entrants must be over 18 years old.
• One entry per person.
• The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is open to all women and is trans-inclusive.
• Applications are welcome from international artists, both professionals and amateurs.
• Submissions must be photographic or lens-based media.
• Work submitted must have been created in the last three years or since 2020.
• Work submitted should not have previously been exhibited in London.
• Images submitted can be shot using any camera model or electronic device.
• Entrants should be singular artists. Applications from photographic duos, groups and artist collectives are currently not eligible.
• Entrants grant the V&A and Peckham 24 a non-exclusive license to reproduce their artwork for use in the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography exhibition, and related online, social media and printed media publicity. Entrants will be credited.
• Winners must be able to supply high-res files for press and production requirements.

For more information, visit Victoria and Albert Museum.