Current Photo Contests

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The competition is  Entries are welcome from any country in the world. There are no restrictions on the type of camera you use, or the techniques you use […]

• Copyright: If your image is short-listed you will be contacted and invited to grant permission for your image to be used to promote the Competition and exhibition only. For avoidance of doubt, no free usage of any photograph is permitted by International Garden Photographer of the Year, or any of its partners or sponsors outside the scope of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition and exhibition. There is no plan envisaged by International Garden Photographer of the Year, or any of its partners or sponsors, to create a general commercial archive of photographs entered into this competition.
• Eligibility: open to everyone, amateurs and professionals alike.
• Entry deadline: 31 January 2009
• Entry fee: £10 for single image and £20 for portfolio

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Filed under: International, Outdoor, Animals, Professionals, Amateur, Current, Nature, Contests

 
BJP is calling for entries to its fourth International Photography Awards – a juried competition with a total prize fund worth more than £13,000 ($25,000/€16,500).
This year you have TWO chances to win a Canon EOS 5D camera kit – each worth £3250 – because we’ve added a new single-image category.
The BJP International Photography Award has […]

• Copyright: We may use entries to promote and publicise the contest (this year and in future versions), but we will not use images for any other purpose. No copyright is transferred to the BJP or AOP in respect of any works entered or accepted.
• Eligibility: Anyone can enter, amateur or professional, from the UK or abroad.
• Entry deadline: 25 September 2008
• Entry fee: £5 fee (also payable in Euros or US dollars, priced €7 or $10)

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Filed under: International, Professionals, Amateur, Current, Contests

Announcing a new program that will award 100 photographers worldwide a Westcott accreditation of being named Top 100 Westcott Endorsed Pros.
Be recognized as the professional that you are.
Winners will be accredited and may attach the official logo to their name, work, print materials and web site for a period of one year. All winner‘s will […]

• Copyright: Contestants will retain the rights to their photographs. However, contestants grant Westcott and its agency unlimited usage rights. Every time an image is showcased, the photographer's name will appear somewhere next to or on the image.
• Eligibility: We'd prefer you submit photographs taken using Westcott products, though not mandatory.
• Entry deadline: 10 October 2008
• Entry fee: Free

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Filed under: International, Professionals, Free, Current, Contests

Submissions are now being invited for this prestigious international photographic portrait competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography.
The Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery has established a reputation for its diversity of photographic styles, encompassing editorial, reportage and fine art images submitted by a range of photographers, from […]

• Copyright: The Gallery may reproduce and or license the reproduction of any entries featured in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition without any payment to the photographer, model or any third party for any sales, marketing, educational and publicity use on, and in, all media worldwide including catalogues, posters, postcards, the Internet and within a television documentary related to the exhibition. However, such free use shall only be in connection with the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and where practicable the photographer, and if appropriate the agency, will receive credit for such use.
• Eligibility: Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over.
• Entry deadline: all photographs, whether delivered in person or by post/courier, must be received between 21 and 25 July 2008. Proof of posting will not be accepted as proof of receipt
• Entry fee: a registration fee of £16 for each photograph entered
• Restrictions: No online submission. Only by post.

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Filed under: UK, Portrait, Art, International, Current, Professionals, Contests

The IYP World Photography Contest, Focus on a global food, supports two key objectives of the International Year of the Potato: to increase awareness of the importance of potato as a food in developing nations, and to promote research and development of potato-based systems as a means of contributing to achievement of the United Nations […]

• Copyright: By entering the International Year of the Potato 2008 World Photography Contest, Focus on a global food, the photographer gives permission to FAO to use the material submitted to the contest in eventual exhibitions resulting from the contest and in all promotional material relating to the International Year of the Potato. FAO hereby reserves the non-exclusive right to publish the entries of category winners and of short listed nominees in brochures or materials directly related to the International Year of the Potato 2008 for a period of no more than 12 months from the date of the announcement of the winners without any remuneration being due to the photographer.
• Eligibility: All entrants must be over 18 years of age.
• Entry deadline: 1 September 2008
• Entry fee: Free

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Filed under: Professionals, International, Amateur, Free, Current, Contests