Monthly Call For Entry

Join the competition & win $1000, online exhibition and your work published! OPEN TO ALL types of photos: Enter NOW and gain Immediate Exposure!

The Independent photographer offer a monthly competition open to all photographers. We invite both amateur and established artists to share their work in order to promote the very best contemporary photography from all cultures around the world.
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Each month winners and finalists are rewarded with prizes and exposure. At the end of the year, images are printed and published in The Independent Photographer book of the year, and the winners are presented in our annual exhibition in Berlin.

CALL FOR ENTRIES - B&W PHOTO CONTEST

Our aim is to discover the best monochrome photographers from all over the world and deliver the best opportunities to be recognized and rewarded for their work. You can compete for $5000 in cash prizes in two categories: Black and White Photo of the Year 2020 and Black and White Series of the Year 2020.

Our annual competition is open to photographers of all backgrounds and all levels, including - professionals and amateurs. We accept all forms of black and white photography created with traditional or digital methods.

​MONOVISIONS AWARDS 2020 PRIZES

TOTAL PRIZE FUND WORTH $5,000 USD

• $3,000 AWARD - BLACK AND WHITE SERIES OF THE YEAR
• $2,000 AWARD - BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO OF THE YEAR

Join the Photo Stories Contest with the Grand Prize $1000! Prove yourself in a new genre which combines photography and cinematography!

CINE-BOOKS Platform invites photographers and filmmakers, professional and amateur, to join the Photo Stories Contest! Our Photo Stories are of a photo-comics format with a dynamic plot, charismatic characters, and an unpredictable outcome. The plot is built according to the rules of dramaturgy: the setup – the opposition – the climax – the resolution. The best-suited genres for stories are focused on the young adult (YA) audience. Your story must be unpredictable and out of the ordinary.

Deadline: December 31, 2019. The winner of the contest will be announced on January 15, 2019. Participation is free of charge. The copyright is reserved for the participant. Create your own Photo Story!

Nominations: Grand Prize – $1000 The best work according to the Jury’s choice.
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ALL THE WORKS selected by the moderators, with the consent of the authors, will be added after the contest for a paid Premium Channel. Additionally, their authors will get passive income from the views of channel subscribers.

The competition was launched in memory of Julian Gardner, a Sussex farmer and lifelong supporter of the GWCT, who was tragically killed while defending his property in October 2010. A very kind donation from Julian’s family and friends enabled the GWCT to buy the two trophies, which are presented to the winners to display for the next year, as well as prints of their award-winning photographs.

The standard of the competition proved incredibly high this year. The winners and runners-up were decided by the GWCT’s three regular judges: James Swyer (Press and Publications Manager), Joel Holt (Communications Officer) and Dr Jen Brewin (Writer and Research Specialist).

The GWCT would like to congratulate the winners and runners-up, and to thank all the entrants for making it such an outstanding year for the Julian Gardner Awards.

The competition is open to all amateur photographers, not just our members, and is related to our research and advisory work – taking in all aspects of the UK countryside, including the people who live and work there, game, wildlife, all the various habitats and of course landscape.

There are two categories:

• Adult section – The winner will be awarded the GWCT Julian Gardner trophy - a sculpture of a hare
• 16 and under section - The winner will be awarded the GWCT Julian Gardner junior trophy - a sculpture of a leveret

The top three winning photos from each section will be printed in our membership magazine Gamewise and featured on our website. The images will be judged by James Swyer (Press and Publications Manager), Joel Holt (Communications Officer) and Dr Jen Brewin (Writer and Research Specialist).

The Julian Gardner Award Trophies

The trophies awarded to the winners have been designed by Claire Abbatt. Both winners get to keep their trophy for 12 months.

Photography 4 Humanity is an international initiative that calls on photographers around the world to bring to life the power of human rights through their images. Highlighting the most compelling imagery – illustrating courage, despair, hope, injustice, hate, compassion, human rights failures or victories in ways small and large – the images will serve to inspire people to personally get involved and to take a stand for human rights. 

Seeking The Best Human Rights Photography​

Our esteemed jury is looking for compelling, dynamic and impactful images that tell the story of the challenges facing those people living in human rights crisis zones as well as photos of hope that depict the heroes working to deliver solutions to the difficult realities in their regions.

For more information about human rights and to reference the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the milestone United Nations document outlining the fundamental human rights to be universally protected by every nation, visit: www.ohchr.org

The Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, granted by Médicos del Mundo Spain recognizes the work of professional photographers who, through their images, denounce inequities, injustices and abuses, or testify to the situations that propitiate them or that fight.

By giving this prize the proper name of the photographer and cooperator Luis Valtueña, tribute is paid to his memory and that of three other cooperating members of the association who were murdered in Rwanda (1997) and in Bosnia (1995) when they were carrying out actions humanitarian.

This award also wants to highlight human values and evidence all kinds of violations of people's rights. Doctors of the World is firmly committed to documentary photography to raise awareness among the general public and promote social mobilization, in order to contribute to the eradication of the worst of diseases: injustice.

Prize

A unique prize will be awarded. The winning person will receive a work grant of 6,000 euros  to make an in-depth report consisting of at least 50 photographs and how many pieces of video and / or audio it considers pertinent, around some of the lines of work of Doctors of the World, being able to be carried out in any of the countries in which the organization develops programs of humanitarian action and / or cooperation to the development.

What does an award-winning photograph look like? It can range from an captivating portrait of a family member to a moon-drenched landscape to movement captured at just the right time. Our 17th Annual Photo Contest is now open for submissions, and we're looking for the best of the best.

What category should I select for my photograph?

Use your best judgment, but here are the guidelines we suggest you follow when selecting the category:

• Natural World: Animals, plants and landscapes; geological or climatological features; and scientific processes and endeavors.
• Travel: Locales, peoples or activities in the United States and abroad that convey a sense of place.
• People: Portraits and photos of groups or individuals.
• The American Experience: Events, objects or activities connecting the American people to their history or their cultural heritage; photographs that tell us what it means to be an American and provide a sense of what it is like to live in this country.
• Altered Images: Photographs manipulated for artistic purposes by applying digital and/or traditional special effects.
• Mobile: Any photograph taken with a mobile device (phone or tablet).

​What are the prizes?

• Grand Prize winner: $2,500, plus a trip to Casa Ybel Resort on Sanibel Island sponsored by The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel.
• Category winners: $500
  
• Readers' Choice winner: $500
  

​For full details, see our rules.

Water may be the oldest and the perfect companion of humankind. Not only is our bodies predominantly made of water, but water is a necessity within our daily lives. From nature to nurture to science and discovery; water is central to our universe.

Photography not only photographs the present, but in time creates a rich archive of the past and even inspires the imagination for the future. Water as a theme provides an endless and provocative subject that captures the photographer’s imagination and inspires an opportunity for photographic brilliance and storytelling.

Prizes

• The Grand Prize (USD $120,000) will be chosen from any category this season.
• Last day of participation will be on 31 October 2019 at 11:59 pm (UAE local time)
• There are THREE Special Awards for the Ninth Season - ‘The Photography Appreciation Award’, ‘The Photography Content Creator Award’ and the ‘Emerging Person/Organization in Photography Award’.
• Other categories are: General, Portfolio and Mobile photography
• The General Category will have two sub categories ‘Colour’ and ‘Black and White’.
• Participants are allowed to submit a Black and White photograph in all categories except the ‘General – Color’ sub category.
• Submitted Photo(s) must be in JPEG format, with high quality and resolution, of a minimum 5 MB in size, the minimum of the longest edge should be no less than 2000 pixel and the quality no less than 300dpi except the Mobile category where the photo must be no less than 2 MB and to be suitable for publication.
• Participants are requested to submit the RAW/original camera files at the same time of submitting their photographs.

Our esteemed jury is looking for compelling, dynamic and impactful images that tell the story of the challenges facing those people living in human rights crisis zones as well as photos of hope that depict the heroes working to deliver solutions to the difficult realities in their regions.

For more information about human rights and to reference the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the milestone United Nations document outlining the fundamental human rights to be universally protected by every nation, visit: www.ohchr.org

ExhibitionIn 2019, the Top 10 finalists' photos will be exhibited at the United Nations General Assembly Gallery in New York City. An opening reception will be held for artists, UN dignitaries and media to announce the winner on December 10th — Human Rights Day.
United Nations Gallery NYCThe winner of the Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize will be announced on UN Human Rights Day in conjunction with the opening reception for the Photography 4 Humanity Exhibition at the United Nations Headquarters. The winning photographer, who will be selected by an eminent jury of photo editors, journalists and human rights champions, will receive a $5,000 USD cash prize and will have their photo promoted in all relevant media worldwide.