This competition is aimed at young photographers in the UK and worldwide.

Categories:

• Category 1:
  “Vision 2010 - The World As You See It” is open to interpretation and is designed to encourage younger photographers - It is STRICTLY limited to young photographers who are 16-25 at the time of the competition closing date for entries.
  Prize: £300. An exhibition of winning entries will take place at the Pixel and Grain gallery space in Loughborough Town Hall in 2011.
  Closing date for entries 30th October 2010.
• Category 2:
  ‘At the Heart of Three Cities’ is a category aimed at residents and visitors to the borough of Charnwood in the months of May and June 2010.
  Closing date for entries 30th July 2010.
• Category 3:
  ‘Photo Essays’ –  In six images we want you to tell a story, develop an awareness of a context and produce a consistency of quality that will make us sit up and take notice!
  First Prize: £400. We will be exhibiting winning entries at Charnwood Museum next year.
  Closing date for entries 30th November 2010.
• Category 4:
  ‘ClickIt! Open – The Art of Photography’ – an open category for all ages to send a single image on any subject – landscape, portrait, urban, event, abstract, sport, performance just bear in mind the venue for the exhibition of winning entries is family viewing.
  First prize: £300. The winning entrant will also be invited to submit a solo exhibition later in 2011.
  Closing date for entries: 30th September 2010.

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Submit photographs of portraits and landscapes under non-daylight conditions, and to make people reflect on the role of the sky as a backdrop (or, at times, a protagonist) of the scenes in which we move. Photos identifying in a creative way outstanding cases of light pollution will be highlighted.

Theme: photography under non-daylight conditions, exploiting as much as possible natural light sources.

Categories:

• Sunset
• Moon and stars
• Dawn

 Prizes:

• Winning images will be displayed at the exhibition.
• The images receiving the highest score for each category will receive an in-kind prize.

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Theme: CITY LIVING

Enter three photos (or drawings) to express their feelings on the following three briefs:

1. What does ‘city’ mean to you?
2. Growing up in the city as a boy or a girl
3. Country to city, city to country - people on the move

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:

All ages:

1. Best Overall Photo Worldwide
2. Best Overall Photo UK only
3. Best Overall Drawing Worldwide

Best Photo per Brief in each age group, 11 - 16 and 17 - 25

1. What does ‘city’ mean to you?
2. City living as a boy or a girl
3. Country to city, city to country - people on the move

• The UK Winner will receive an all expenses paid trip to New York for the launch of the Shoot Nations exhibition on 12 August at the United Nations Secretariat building.

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The MMS Gallery is a mobile phone photography contest that aims to celebrate the use of mobile phones to create art, and showcase the creativity that lives within all people.

Photos can be of any subject matter for this show. The point is to capture a moment or emotion that you may not want to forget.

Award:

• Your image will be displayed at the exhibition. All photos will be printed and displayed on 5"x7" postcards around the room. Each image will be made to fit withint the 5"x7" space with a surrounding white border.

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Submit photographs of the Gulf Coast as you have composed it through your lens and through your words to be included in a photo book.

Theme: Photos for the Gulf

Prize:

• Approximately 60 images will be selected for the photo book.
• Prizes will be awarded for the 1st, 100th, and 500th photographers to submit their photograph. The prize will be a free copy of the photo book.

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Summer is finally here and Photostockplus is looking for the best ‘Summer Fun’ shot!

Theme: Summer Fun

Prize: $100.00

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Whether you’re a budding photographer, garden enthusiast or just someone who likes taking snap shots of the outdoors, there is a category and prize waiting for you.

From a close-up detail of a leaf to a sweeping panoramic garden view, from people working in their gardens to the wildlife living in them, we want to celebrate the diversity of gardens through photography.

Categories:

• Garden Plants Study
• Abstract
• The Seasonal Garden
• Garden Wildlife
• Gardening and Gardeners
• Fruit and Veg

• Young Photographer (under 18)
  Up to five photos can be entered on anything from the above subjects.
• Children’s Photograph (under 11)
  Up to five photos can be entered on anything that interests you in your garden from a frog in a pond to super tall sunflowers.

Prizes:

• RHS Photographer of the Year: £1,000
• RHS Young Photographer of the Year: Digital camera

Adult

1. First prize £350
2. Second prize £200
3. Third prize £100

Children and Young Photographers (under 18)

1. First: Digital camera
2. Second: Photographic vouchers
3. Third: Photographic vouchers

• The Medici Cards Award Image made into a greeting card and the winner will receive 200 copies of their card to keep.

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Theme: SELF-SEARCHING: The Art of Self-Portraiture

Within the photographic genre of self-portraiture, some of the most probing, surprising, and thoughtful images have been made in the history of the medium.  For "Self-Searching" we seek self-portraits that go beyond surface appearance to comment on the hopes, dreams, fears, and identities of the individuals pictured. 

Juror Aline Smithson will choose forty photos for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. She will select an addiitonal thirty-five images for inclusion in the "On-Line Gallery Annex." All seventy-five photographs will be reproduced in a full-color exhibiiton catalogue that will be available for purchase. We offer free matting and framing for accepted photographs that fit our pre-cut mat sizes for the duration of the exhibition.

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This International Photo Contest represents an opportunity for photographers worldwide (professionals, students and amateurs) to submit and exhibit their works in the United States and internationally.

Theme: "A dream in color"
Artists should feel free to interpret this year’s theme in the broadest sense to allow full range of their creativity.

Prizes:

• 1st prize - US$ 1,250.00
• 2nd prize - US$ 900.00
• 3rd prize - US$ 550.00
• Two honorable mentions will be chosen from the remaining finalist photographs

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The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non- professional, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the contemporary world of photography. The IPA is determined to recognize and award photography’s leading talent who are creating, shaping and changing the world of photography today.

THE WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR WILL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING:

• Lucie Statue
• $10,000 cash prize Provided by AtEdge
• Show in an esteemed gallery
• Two free tickets to the Lucie Awards
• Work screened at the Lucie Awards
• Published in the IPA Annual
• Certificate of Achievement
• Press release and newsletter announcements to over 50,000 IPA members

THE WINNER OF DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR WILL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING:

• Lucie Statue
• $5,000 cash prize Provided by Blurb
• Show in an esteemed gallery
• Two free tickets to the Lucie Awards
• Work screened at the Lucie Awards
• Published in the IPA Annual
• Certificate of Achievement
• Press release and newsletter announcements to over 50,000 IPA members

THE WINNER OF DEEPER PERSPECTIVE OF THE YEAR WILL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING:

• Lucie Statue
• $5,000 cash prize
• Two free tickets to the Lucie Awards
• Work screen at the Lucie Awards
• Published in the IPA Annual
• Certificate of Achievement
• Press release and newsletter announcements to over 50,000 IPA members

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Professional, non Professional and Students will compete separately in three different sections in this second edition. There will be 25 categories in each section, and each category will have two genres: single image, and series or portfolios. Each genre will be judged as a different category to encourage a broad spectrum of submissions.

Categories:

• Portrait
• People
• Culture and Daily Life
• Self Portrait
• Wedding
• Children
• Figure and Nude
• Fine Art
• Landscapes
• Citiscapes
• Animals and Wildlife
• Nature Architecture
• Abstract
• Macro and Micro
• Still Life
• Sports
• Performing Arts
• Fashion
• Advertising
• Editorial and Current Affairs
• Humanitarian Documentary
• Environmental Issues
• Alternative Processes
• Digital Manipulation

Prizes:

• Professional: WPGA 2010 Professional Photographer of the Year, US$ 5,000 cash prize
• Non Professional: WPGA Amateur Photographer of the Year, US$ 3,000 cash prize
• Students: WPGA 2010 Emerging Talent of the Year, US$ 1,500 cash prize
• Additionally one photographer will receive the WPGA Humanitarian Documentary Grant 2010 and US$ 3,000 cash prize.

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Theme: "Water and Cities"

The aim is to raise awareness on the many water facets in urban area. You are invited to submit a contribution capturing the essence of water and daily city life.

The photos in competition should tell a news story about water in cities from around the world. They should capture the essence of a critical moment linking water and daily city life. The photos can convey action or passiveness, success or failure, urgency or progress but should be centered around how urban life interacts with water.    

• Water in urban life – Turn on your tap and the water flows… or not. Where does your water come from, which cycle does it follow from its source to our toilets, what happens with it once it’s flushed?
• Water and Climate Change – floods, droughts, pollution and scarcity are just some of the challenges millions of people experience in the face of climate change. What are their solutions or recurrent problems? What does climate change mean in small versus mega cities?
• Water for Health and Development – From the poorest and marginalised populations to leaders and experts developing solutions, what are the efforts to reach a universal access to water and sanitation?

Prizes:

• 1st Prize   1500 Euros
  The first-prize winner will be invited to participate in an award ceremony during the Expo 2010 Shanghaï China (incl. flights and accommodation for 2 nights).
• 2nd Prize   1000 Euros
• 3rd Prize   500 Euros
• Special Shanghai Prize   1000 Euros
  Best picture taken in Shanghai
• In addition, honourable mention will be given to 5 pictures.

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