OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! Diversity is at the heart of what it means to be an artist.
Art is a powerful tool to evoke social change. Without uttering a single word, artists can enlighten, educate and affect change around the world. Embracing Our Differences invites you to participate in creating a world where differences are embraced and individuality is celebrated. Become a part of this exciting change through your visual art or creative writing submission to the annual Embracing Our Differences juried competition. Featuring 45 billboard-size images, each work of art is created by local, national and international artists reflecting their interpretation of our theme "enriching lives through diversity and inclusion." The 2019 exhibit will be displayed from January 19 through March 14, 2019, in Bayfront Park in downtown Sarasota. Prizes $3,000 (US) will be presented in the form of three separate awards — $1,000 each for “Best-in-Show Adult;” “Best-in-Show Student;” and the “People’s Choice” award.
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OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! Do you like the excitement of the players present on the field? The adrenaline, the tension, the zeal to win, the dismay of losing catches your attention and you feel like capturing it? If yes, then show your talent by participating in the Sports Photography Contest.
PRIZE DETAILS: Cover Page: US $100 Gear, If Photo is selected for Chiiz Cover. OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! The #EyeCareEverywhere Photo Competition, is the fourth photo competition organised for World Sight Day. The competition is open to Professional and Amateur photographers and is organised by IAPB.
Send us your photos with the theme #EyeCareEverywhere before 11th October 2018 Prizes Winners will be announced on 15th October 2018 and contacted by mail following the announcement on the IAPB website.
Why run a photo competition for World Sight Day? As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. This competition can be a great opportunity to highlight eye health successes and also document unmet need. The World Health Organization’s Global Action Plan (GAP) aims to ensure “universal eye health” coverage, especially to those who are vulnerable and most in need. While there is a lot more to be done, the eye health sector has been working to ensure that good quality eye care reaches the most under-served populations. OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! The Muhammad Ali Center is honored to announce the sixth annual “Shining a Light” International Photography Contest.
The goal of this year's competition is to reveal, but not exploit, women who have or currently live homeless and to educate our community about the issues, realities, and struggles they endure. The contest host will produce a documentary-style exhibition from 25 to 35 finalist photographs, which will be exhibited at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky beginning March 8, 2019. CONTEST THEME "Shining a Light: (The) Many Faces of Homeless Women" Informed by the National Coalition of the Homeless, the photographic submissions are asked to depict individuals or organizations battling one or more of the following issues as they pertain to homeless women:
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PRIZES A monetary prize will be awarded to the contestants by the Muhammad Ali Center in recognition of placing first, second, or third:
OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! s. We look forward to your participation and seeing all of your interesting memories and moments of joy captured on film this year as well.
Theme – The most memorable moment from your travels Special Category Theme - Go Beyond Extra ordinary photos that reveal new perspective on familiar attractions including aerial and underwater photography that transcends the conventional. Prizes This month CloudSpot will start offering a Free Annual Lite Gallery plan to each of our first place winners. Not just the once a year offering we received from some of their competitors in the past, they will be honoring our winner every month of the year. We are super excited to have this amazing offering added for our winners, because just like On1 it is a product we love and personally use for our own work! Simple to use, clean elegant galleries, self fulfillment sales (you can use your own printers) and no commissions were just a few of highlights that sold us. Your brand and your style with the perfect backdrop, and CloudSpot’s unlimited galleries definitely put you in full control. With just four clicks, you have a tailored experience designed to help your business grow. Create and deliver stunning online galleries in seconds! It does not matter what style of photography you shoot either, the platform has all of the features anyone will need to set up a professional, super easy to use display of their work. If you are considering selling your work online or are using a competitors product you should definitely give Cloudspot a try. You can set up an account for Free with 1GB of storage and you can even set up all of the store features with a reasonable 15% commission on your sales, but notice that with any paid plan the commission goes to 0%, unlike their largest competitors! Another feature we needed and love is having a self fulfillment sales option, this is a must have for us that none of the major competitors offer either. We use different printers to produce different types of prints to maximize our quality and profitability. Here is a more detailed overview the program from the founder, Gavin Wade.
OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! Digital Camera Photographer of the Year is back for 2019 with an amazing £30,000 prize fund up for grabs. This year the awards are free to enter thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, mpb.com and Affinity Photo.ho
OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! FREE TO ENTER. The world's most diverse photography competition. Up to $30,000 (USD) prize fund. Worldwide exposure for all winning & shortlisted photographers.
The Sony World Photography Awards is one of the most celebrated and diverse photography competitions in the world. Now in its 12th year, our goal is to showcase the best contemporary photography worldwide. The Awards are free to enter and open to all levels of photographer, from emerging 12-19-year-olds, enthusiastic hobbyists, and students, to established professionals. There is a competition and a category for everyone, from Architecture, Documentary, Landscape, Portraiture, Sports, Street Photography, Wildlife, Travel, Culture, and more. All images are judged by leading industry experts, who come together each year in London to decide the best images. A total prize fund of $30,000 (USD) plus the latest Sony digital imaging equipment is shared between winning photographers. With the power to kick-start and shape careers, photographers are provided with an unprecedented stage to showcase their work, powered by a series of tailored global press and media campaigns. Previous winners and shortlisted photographers have gone on to be represented by renowned galleries and institutions, and their work has been featured in major publications around the world. Equally, each year we recognise one of the world’s most influential photographers through the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award; previous recipients have included Martin Parr, William Eggleston and Candida Höfer. Sony’s commitment The objective of the Sony World Photography Awards is to establish a platform for the continuous development of photographic culture. The Awards do this by recognizing great contributions to photography in the past through the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize as well as finding new talents of the future and providing them with the opportunity to be promoted and exhibited around the world. This is achieved through the Awards programme and by integrating a Student and Youth competition as well as Student and Professional Sony Grants. The latter further prove Sony’s commitment to photographic culture by extending their relationship with individual winners beyond the Awards themselves and helping develop their careers. The Grants of 7,000 USD and 3,500 USD each is awarded to 4 professional and 3 student recipients respectively so they can continue developing their projects. The Exhibition Each Spring, the hugely popular Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, featuring the spectacular winning, shortlisted and commended images, is curated at the famous London landmark, Somerset House. Attracting around 30,000 visitors each year, featuring over 600 images and taking up both East and West wings of this magnificent building, the exhibition is a must-see event in London’s cultural calendar. OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography at Sakharov center is pleased to announce our fourth annual international Direct Look photo contest.
Contest theme: problems pertaining to relations between individuals, society and state, as well as ways of addressing these problems. The goal of the contest: • Facilitate growth and promotion of independent journalism. • Support authors who research issues addressing the relationship between individuals and society and state. • Support photo projects based on respect and advocacy for human dignity, fundamental principles of the Russian Constitution and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The contest is held in three distinct categories: The Problem Issues, friction, disagreements or discord that arise within society between individuals, communities, civic institutions, and states. The Conflict The most heated methods of solving issues: disagreements or discord within society between individuals, civic institutions and the state. It manifests itself in parties acting against each other and is often accompanied by negative emotions that extend beyond existing norms and rules. The Compromise Conflict resolution through dialogue, social change or reform. The Jury 2018 Jury consists of leading photo editors and curators from different countries: Svetlana Bachevanova, publisher of FotoEvidence and documentary photographer; Peter Bitzer, the CEO of laif, member of various photojournalistic juries, also he is teaching Photo Edit and Branding at University of Dortmund; Maria Mann, photojournalism consultant. She was a member of the jury of international contests, among them: World Press, Unicef, Bayeux War Correspondents, POY, World Master Master Class и CHIPP / China. She was the founding chair of the Best of Photojournalism Contest in the US; Andrei Polikanov, photo editor, Photo department head of the Moscow bureau of the "Time" magazine (1996-2007) and "Russian Reporter" magazine (2007-2015), now - visual director at «Takie Dela» project. He was a member of the jury of national and international contests, among them: "World Press Photo", "Visa d'Or" in Perpignan; Horacio Villalobos, photographer, worked as stringer for global print medias in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Middle East. Now Horacio works as Corbis/Getty photographer contributor and stringer in Portugal. Direct Look photo contest is held for the fourth year and in 2017 we received several hundred applications from photographers all over the world, this year we expect even more to expand the geography and see a host of new and interesting projects. Each photographer may submit up to three photo series (reports) per category. Each entry shall comprise no less than 5 and not exceed 15 images. All entry descriptions and image captions must be in English. Voting will be held in two periods. On the first period short-list will be defined. Projects included to short-list will be involved into photo contest printed catalog. On the second period the jury will choose three winners in each nomination, who will obtain honourable prizes of Direct Look photo contest. Thee winners who will take the first place in each nomination will get 30 000 rubles. Winners series will be exposed at the exhibition in October 2018. You can submit your digital images for preliminary consideration and Jury voting until 23:59 MSK, July 01, 2018. Applications will be accepted in English. There is no entry fee. OUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST RECOMMENDATION OF THE DAY! Bird photography is very challenging, no matter the setting, but you don't need to make life harder for yourself by travelling further afield than necessary. You can capture stunning images of birds in the confines of your back garden or local park. We want to see your best photos of birds, in flight or feeding.
Expert and Crowd winners will receive a licence to Affinity Photo professional editing software. The top 3 in the expert-judged category, and the crowd-vote winner will also be published in a future issue of Digital Photographer magazine. Win a licence to Affinity Photo professional editing software. Award-winning Affinity Photo continues to push the boundaries for professional photo editing software. Available for a one-off £48.99 on Mac or Windows, and £19.99 for iPad, its huge toolset is engineered for modern photography professionals. Whether you’re editing and retouching images or creating full-blown multi-layered compositions, it has all the power and performance you’ll ever need. Speed, power and accuracy are at the heart of Affinity Photo’s workflow, with non-destructive editing, RAW processing and end-to-end colour management as standard. Edits work in real time, so there’s no waiting to see results. Whether you’re working on iOS, Windows or Mac, the back-end of Affinity Photo is the same. This means perfect file compatibility, including shared undo history. Find out more go to affinity.serif.com/photo Expert and Crowd winners will be able to pick between Mac, Windows or iPad versions. The top 3 in the expert-judged category, and the crowd-vote winner will also be published in a future issue of Digital Photographer magazine. |