Photo Competitions & Photography Contests

[ July 31, 2012; ] This year is going to be all about London. With the Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee all taking place in the next 12 months, 2012 will be a spectacular, and memorable, one for the capital. To reflect this, we are looking for photographs that celebrate London in all its diversity. From a [...]

[ June 30, 2012; ]

This year Snowden has included four new categories for the competition as a way of providing additional options and inspiration in  ’celebrating the mining industry’.
Overall winner: $10,000

Category prizes:

Significant achievements in Mining: $1,000

Technology and innovation in Mining : $1,000

Environmental or sustainability successes in Mining : $1,000

People in Mining and their stories: $1,000

People’s Choice winner: $1, 000

Each year, amateur photographers from around [...]

[ June 29, 2012; ] Trainspotting: the Powerhouse Museum International Photo Competition 2012 is proudly presented by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, commonly known as the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences also includes the Sydney Observatory and the Powerhouse Discovery Centre and is Australia’s leading cultural institution dedicated to celebrating human ingenuity. Now [...]

[ March 31, 2012; ] Ready for a new round: The EuroNatur photo competition starts off again! For the 19th time already, EuroNatur, in cooperation with Deutsche Lufthansa AG, “natur+kosmos” and NaturVision, arranges the major nature photo competition.

Brown bears in the boundless Finish Taiga, colourful bee eaters in the unique landscape of the river Drava, stunning waterfalls framed by the [...]

[ May 31, 2012; ] This contest is sponsored by Kenko Tokina Co.,Ltd. and is open to photos that have been taken with the aid of a filter with the aim of expanding creative possibilities. Kenko Tokina Co.,Ltd. looks forward to receiving your entries that explore the full expanse of the unknown possibilities of filters.

Period during which applications are accepted:
Wednesday, [...]

[ February 29, 2012; ] The London School of Photography announces the first LSP AWARDS coinciding with the launch of its Part Time Professional Photography Course starting in February 2012, an addition to the school’s existing short courses and workshops.

The central theme of LSP Awards is LONDON and its lively multicultural diversity. Photographs can be entered into 4 different categories: [...]

[ October 8, 2012; ]  

DRT Show Underwater Photo Competition 2012 (FotoWettbewerb, Concurso de fotografia, 写真コンテスト, 摄影比赛

DRT Show 2012 will feature the largest underwater photo competition in northern Asian region. If you have great underwater photo, please submit your underwater images online to join our competition, you will got the chance to win over US$30,000 in world class prizes.Event Hosted [...]

[ January 2, 2012; ] Charity photography competition to help improve the lives of Impoverished Peruvian children. Judges include, David Clarke Director of Photography at the Tate, Steve Davey, David Noton and John Beatty. Many prizes including professional workshops.

We are looking for images that reflect your world expressed through the lens of your camera. Maybe a serene English country landscape, [...]

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 call for entries, photographer may submit the work online between January 16 and March 1, 2012. The Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award is for 25 and under age photographers, entry is free and Leica Oskar Barnack Award winner will get Leica M9-P camera with lens, and Leica Oskar Barnack [...]

[ March 31, 2012; ] Panasonic Europe announced the launch of the 2011/12 LUMIX Award digital photo competition, with the theme “Life is a stage”. Amateur and semi-professional digital photographers are invited to submit digital images that best capture the world around them including the interesting people, unique places and extraordinary events that make everyday life a stage. The most [...]

[ May 18, 2012; ] Originally named the’ Kodak Wedding & Portrait Awards’ and more recently sponsored by Fujifilm, they are administered by the Master Photographers Association, entry open for 2012 Wedding & Portrait Photography contest, only UK based Professional Photographers can participate, entry fee is £2 per picture and the winners of the contest will get £1000 cash prize [...]

[ February 7, 2012; ] This competition is open to photographers worldwide – professionals, amateurs, and students. (Non-Italians welcome – isn’t there some Italian in all of us!). Multiple entries welcome.

Subject
Submissions must “capture an Italian moment” anywhere in the world, but can otherwise be about anyone and anything.

Submission Criteria
• Submissions must be original photographic works.
• Submissions must be in [...]

[ January 20, 2012; ] Registration deadline
January 20, 2012

Juror
Jeff Curto, Professor of Photography, College of DuPage and producer of the History of Photography podcast series. Curto is on the board of the Society for Photographic Education.

Exhibition
March 3 – March 24, 2012

Location
Michelle O’Connor Gallery, San Francisco, California

40 outstanding photographs will be chosen for the March 2012 Gallery Photographica Exhibition in San [...]

[ January 31, 2012; ] Photo Contest  2012 – Google thinks great art deserves great exposure. So they are teaming up with Saatchi Gallery, London to offer student photographers around the globe a chance to showcase their work on the worldwide stage.

If you are a student aged 18 years or older then this contest is for you. Pick from one [...]

[ February 23, 2012; ]

The 2012 Veolia Environnement Wildilfe Photographer of the Year competition is open for entries from 5 December 2011 to 23 February 2012. Whether you are an enthusiastic amateur, emerging talent or leading professional, the competition is open to all photographers.

All the information you need to prepare and submit your entries, including the rules, digital guidelines [...]

[ February 28, 2012; ] Architecture Photo Contest – this is your chance to win the Samsung NX11 Camera Kit or other prizes with a total value of over £600. The Samsung NX11 is a new mirror-less compact digital camera with a large image sensor, electronic viewfinder and interchangeable lenses and is intended to bridge the gap between a small [...]

[ July 31, 2012; ] Images Of Lake District Life and Landscape
We’re looking for digital photos which capture the essence of the Lake District and the people living there: not necessarily the obvious beauty spots or tourist attractions, though these are very welcome, but images which capture the daily life of the Lakes in all its flavour and variety. Try [...]

[ February 28, 2012; ] The 2012 International Conservation Photography Awards is a continuation of Art Wolfe’s vision and has become a biennial (every two years) international event. Each year the ICP Awards strives to increase its reach and influence to photographers from around the world as well as to diverse audiences who will be inspired by the work – [...]

[ January 26, 2012; ] Win up to £200 in photography vouchers with…

[ November 23, 2011; ] Each week at the Telegraph we offer you the chance to win a nikon camera simply by sending as your holiday snaps.

Send your picture, which must be at least 1Mb in size, along with a brief description, your name, address, telephone number, the date and location of the photo to thebigpicture@telegraph.co.uk.

Deadline: Weekly

Website

[ December 31, 2011; ] Burrard-Lucas Photography has launched a travel photo competition……

[ January 4, 2012; ] Are you an amateur photographer and a keen photography enthusiast, with an eye for capturing that perfect moment?……

[ January 31, 2012; ] It’s inescapable – it’s in our closets, our restaurants, our cars and our parks. It’s looking us in the eye, looming above us, stretched below us and around every corner. We often don’t think long and hard about color – but all that’s about to change.

The theme of our new MINI Space Background Design Competition [...]

[ December 5, 2011; ] The Life’s Treasures Photo Contest encourages you to capture the visual & emotional treasures in your life for the chance to win! Enter up to 5 images by the 5th of December to be in the running for our media prize pool – Edit, Share, Store and Print with $2000 worth of photo prizes!

Deadline: 05 [...]

[ April 30, 2012; ] The Nikon Small World Competition is open to anyone with an interest in photography through the microscope. The subject matter is unrestricted and any type of light microscopy technique is acceptable, including phase contrast, polarized light, fluorescence, interference contrast, darkfield, confocal, deconvolution, and mixed techniques.

Entries submitted to Nikon are then judged by an independent panel [...]