Photocompete

• Copyright: All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by Sony World Photography Awards, for the sole purpose of promoting the competition and the photographers themselves.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 6th January 2022
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

Prizes:

• Professional Photographer of the Year receives $25,000 (USD)
• Open Photographer of the Year receives $5,000 (USD)

Sections:

• Professional – 10 categories, judged on a body of work
• Open – 10 categories, rewarding the best single images. Entries submitted to the Open competition are automatically entered into the National Awards based on nationality
• Youth – for all photographers aged 12-19, a single image responding to one brief
• Student Focus – for those studying photography

Categories: Architecture, Creative, Motion, Documentary, Object, Landscape, Natural World & Wildlife, Portraiture, Street, and Travel.

A shortlist of up to fifteen photographers from each category and category winners will be selected and announced prior to April 2022; the overall winner will be announced in April 2022.

Image requirements: no smaller than 1MB and no larger than 5MB. Images should be JPEG files; RGB colour profile.

Online submission of digital photographs via the website. Each Entrant can submit up to three images for free.

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