Photography Competitions

Description: Photo contest title: The 21 February Photo Contest 2012 - International Photography Contest celebrating the International Mother Language Day 2012 Contest theme: Languages and Cultures through the Language of Photography About the contest: The 21 February Photo Contest 2012 is an international photography contest observing the International Mother Language Day 2012. This photo contest is focused with the same goals, as obtained by the UNESCO for the International Mother Language Day, to promote the importance of linguistic, cultural diversity and multilingualism. The main objective of this photo contest is to provide a platform where people around the world could share their views and support towards this essential cause through the language of photography. Finally, this photography contest is actually less about competition and more about inspiring mutual respect, understandings and cooperation. Eligibility: Everybody is eligible. Maximum 3 photos per participant Entry fee: None Prizes: The first, second, third and fourth prizewinners will be awarded gift cards of USD 500, SEK 1000, USD 100 and USD 75, respectively, at some online stores or in other forms. The fifth prizewinner will be awarded a gift voucher of GBP 25 with free shipment at Jack the Hat Photographic. Deadline: 7th February 2012 23:59 GMT Contest website: http://www.motherlanguageday.org/

Closing Date:  07/February/2012

Contact: Ashraful Kadir
Website: www.motherlanguageday.org

Description: GM Photoes, international photo agency and event organisation, announces the 1st International Photo Contest “The Art of Image". The aim of the competition is the production of artistic works in the field of Photography, promoting "new and old" talents in order to foster the Art of Photography and at the same time we hope to give a small but important contribution to the laudable work of AIL - ITALIAN ASSOCIATION AGAINST LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA and MYELOMA, Section of Varese, as beneficiary. The competition is bound to AIL and in particular to the Section of Varese which GM Photoes will pay 5% of the proceeds from the contest, as well as other contributions from the participation of groups at the event. The contest has the free sponsorship of the city of Busto Arsizio. We thank the lawyer Ercole Mario Crespi, Councillor for Culture, Youth and the Future for his support. The competition is divided into several topics: a Free main theme, plus some specific themes that you will find listed in the rules of the competition. During the competition other themes can be added to the contest.

Closing Date:  15/February/2012

Contact: Marco
Website: www.artedellimmagine.altervista.org

Description: The Renaissance Photography Prize 2012: Win £6,000 in prizes and raise money for breast cancer The fifth year of the Renaissance Photography Prize is now open for entries from photographers across the world. Entry fee is donated in full to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care to support younger women with breast cancer. This year's eminent judges are: - Brett Rogers, director of The Photographer's Gallery - Mary McCartney, photographer - Michael Hoppen, photographer and owner of Michael Hoppen Gallery, London - Brigitte Lardinois, Magnum curator - Monica Allende, picture editor of the Sunday Times Magazine 100 images will be selected for a week-long exhibition at the Mall Galleries in the heart of London and winners in the five categories (expression/environment/memory/disorientation/perspective) win £500 with £3000 going to the overall Renaissance Prize winner. There is also a special Calumet Prize for the best image taken on film. Renaissance is run by volunteers and all your entry fee goes to support younger women with breast cancer. Prizes Renaissance Prize 2012 winner wins £3000 ($5000) Five category winners: £500 ($800) Camera equipment for the winner of the Calumet Prize for best image taken on film (see website for details) Exhibition of 100 shortlisted images in central London and shortlist certificate signed by the judges Catalogue of 100 shortlisted images. Categories Expression - Environment - Memory - Disorientation - Perspective Entry fee £15 for one image, £25 for 3, £40 for 6. Entry fee goes to breast cancer charity

Closing Date:  24/February/2012

Contact: Faith Conley
Telephone: 07738195314

Website: www.renaissancephotography.org

Description: 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 compact and large DSLR. To win this fabulous prize all you have to do is to enter your best three "Architecture" themed photos, the images can be from anywhere, any city, any country and any location. * 1st Prize: Samsung NX11 Camera Kit worth | RRP £500+ * 2nd Prize: Samsung 16GB Plus Class 10 SHDC x2 | RRP £77.98 * 3rd Prize: Samsung 8GB Plus Class 10 SDHC x2 | SRP £39.98 Submit up to x3 of your images below, the theme for this competition is: "Architecture"

Closing Date:  28/February/2012

Contact: P Nuttall
Telephone: 01624 670005

Website: http://www.picstop.co.uk/photocomp-upload

Description: 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: Street Life, Portrait, Landmark and Nature. LSP Awards website: www.LspAwards.com. Enquiries: LspAwards@yahoo.com Entry to the competition is free. Photographs must be uploaded on LSP Awards Flickr’s Photo stream into the right Category LSP AWARDS’ categories: Street Life: www.flickr.com/groups/LspStreetLife Portrait: www.flickr.com/groups/LspPortrait Landmark: www.flickr.com/groups/LspLandmark Nature: www.flickr.com/groups/LspNature Deadline: 29/02/2012 Winners announced on: 12/03/2012 Prizes: Overall LSP AWARDS Winner: Will receive an Open Date Voucher for 1 (one) Week long Photography Workshop or 2 (two) Weekend or Evening Photography workshops at LSP (includes: Digital Levels 1 and 2, Photojournalism & Street, Portrait, Studio Lighting, Food and Product, Creative Photography, Photoshop Workshops and Career Coaching / value up to £695) Winner of each Category: The winners of each individual category Street Life / Portrait / Landmark / Nature / will receive an Open Date Voucher for One (1) Weekend or Evening workshop at LSP (includes Levels 1 or 2, Creative Photography, Photoshop Workshops and Career Coaching / value up to £295) Runners up: The runner up winner for each category will receive One (1) £100 Voucher redeemable against the price of any LSP course or workshop. The winners will be announced on LSP Awards website on 12/03/2012. Winners must contact LSP on LspAwards@yahoo.com to receive Voucher. Workshops and available Dates can be checked on LSP website: www.LondonSchoolofPhotography.com Terms and Conditions: - Minimum age to entry: 18 years old. - Only photographs taken in London will be considered. Participants from all countries and nationalities are welcome to entry photographs, as long as they are taken in London. - Participants can entry up to 3 (three) photographs into each category. - Only digital images will be accepted and they must be uploaded on Flickr LSP Awards’ Photostream in the right Category. - Images received by e-mail will not be considered. Prints are not accepted. - Photographs must be in JPG format, minimum resolution 1280×1024 pixels. - Editing software (i.e. Photoshop) use is permitted but must be kept to a minimum (only cropping, contrast / saturation adjustments and black & white conversion permitted). Original file might be requested if jury suspects manipulation. Failure to provide original file if required will invalidate entry. - No cash alternative available for prizes. Vouchers are valid for 12 months. Vouchers are non-transferable and once booked can only be rescheduled once with 15 days’ given notice. - Workshops’ dates subject to availability. - LSP Awards Website: www.LspAwards.com - LSP Website: www.LondonSchoolofPhotography.com

Closing Date:  29/February/2012

Contact: Luciana Franzolin
Website: www.LspAwards.com

Description: It’s the award no budding snapper wants to win – the title of the UK’s most inept photographer. Photo experience company RedCloudDays.co.uk is asking the public to send in their nightmare snaps in a quest to crown the worst photographer in Britain. The company are so confident in their ability to train anyone to take great photos that they’ve embarked on a mission to find the UK’s most hopeless snapper and promise to train them up and transform their photography free of charge. They are inviting anyone to send in their very worse snaps – and say they are particularly interested in photos of an important occasion marred by cack handed camera handling. RedCloudDays.co.uk founder, Lee Bown, said he hoped the competition would offer a fun way of celebrating the UK’s very worst snappers. He said: “Photos matter because they are precious memories of the most important events in our lives. But if your album is filled with shots of loved ones minus their heads or with a huge thumb stuck over the lens those memories can become jaded. “We think everyone has the potential to take great photos with a little help and training. To test if we’re right we want to find the most hopeless person in the UK ever to have picked up a camera. “To make sure we find the most inept photographer in the whole country we want everyone to send in their very worse pictures. They don’t have to be taken by you – you can nominate someone else. Perhaps your mum or dad, brother or sister, or husband or wife takes the worst pictures you’ve ever seen? Feel free to show us the evidence. “All we ask is that you have the photographer’s permission to submit the pic. The ultimate idea is to train someone to be a great photographer so we need them to be willing to learn.” He said that the selected worst photographer would receive a special award along and would be offered training at one of Red Cloud Days photo centre across the UK. Shortlisted photos will be published online so other budding photographers can vote for the one they think is the worst. If you think you’ve got what it takes to win the competition then submit your snap to badpics@RedCloudDays.co.uk before the end of February. To view the pics submitted so far please visit www.RedCloudDays.co.uk/badpics.htm

Closing Date:  29/February/2012

Contact: Clare Richards
Telephone: 08444 639 689

Website: http://www.redclouddays.co.uk/badpics.htm

Description: “We’re an artist and photographer based collaborative who understand the difficulties and costs in showing your work through exhibition. Our single aim is promoting artwork, artists and photographers. Our last exhibition on London’s prestigious Embankment attracted over 2,500 visitors throughout a 2 week period, we also received a BBC feature for one of our artists and were visited by a strong selection of galleries, art collectors, celebrities and journalists at the private view evening. We work hard to deliver! We’re offering the chance for a single artist or photographer to exhibit with us at the next exhibition looking to take place in Spring/Summer 2012. The winner of our competition will receive a free space to exhibit with us at our next exhibition where you will see how hard we strive at getting work seen. We are also putting together a Photography and Art magazine for February 2012 that will be distributed to galleries, dealers, art collectors, interior designers and a 20,000 readership. You’ll also receive a premium feature on our web site of listed and recommended artists and/or photographers.” http://www.photographyandartwork.com/competition.html

Closing Date:  02/March/2012

Contact: Rupert
Website: www.photographyandartwork.com

Description: We’ve teamed up with some of the best wedding photographers from various areas of the UK, and we're giving away FIVE free engagement shoots, each including a £100 voucher, redeemable against the cost of your wedding day photography. - All you need to do is type in your details to enter!

Closing Date:  10/March/2012

Contact: Kate Sanderson
Website: http://www.theweddingsecret.co.uk/competitions/eng

Description: Win a Jorgensen Pro Bound Album worth over £660 in this creative photography competition. Load up your images directly to the site or on Facebook and get your friends to vote. The top 20 in the voting plus our sponsors choices will be shortlisted and the winner will be chosen by the judges who include Hasselblad, Professional Photography Magazine and Peter Prior. So show us your creativity and enter now.

Closing Date:  12/March/2012

Contact: Brian Murray
Website: www.winwithphotogether.co.uk

Description: Providing an amazing opportunity for experienced and new photographers alike, the RGB Awards are set to become a prestigious annual event. With exhibition opportunities, magazine articles and substantial cash prizes, the awards offer an exciting chance to reach an international audience. The RGB Awards recognise excellence in photography and the selection panel includes award winning photographers and industry figures who have a mass of experience at recognising talent. The Awards are not themed so all photographic images are welcome with a maximum of 4 per photographer. The RGB Awards are self-funding and are supported by a number of high profile sponsors; all sponsorship and submission fees will be reinvested in the Awards, the finalists exhibition and in other related activities. Prizes: Exhibition The RGB Awards selection panel will select around 50 photographs to be included in a finalists exhibition at the Grant Bradley Gallery in Bristol. The work will be exhibited for a month during the Bristol Festival of Photography ensuring huge visitor numbers. Best Single Image The winner of Best Single Image will receive £1000 and will have the work featured in Vignette magazine. Best Set of Images The winner of Best Set of Images will win £250 cash, £250 vouchers for photographic lab Photographique and a 4 page feature in Vignette. Please note to be considered for this prize, all submitted images must be from the same body of work. Other prizes In addition to the 2 main prizes there are a number of genre based awards with prizes from for valued sponsors. These include: Best Portrait, Best Landscape, Best Fine-Art, Best Documentary and Best Commercial image.

Closing Date:  15/March/2012

Contact: Philip Searle
Website: http://www.rgbawards.com/

Description: The aim of the competition is to create a library of exciting and original photography for use by VocaLink in our corporate communications, in both print and screen media. Interpretation of the themes of the competition is open to the individual, but images entered will be judged according to the suitability for use in a corporate context. The competition gives photographers a chance to see their work used in a real context. Copyright remains with the author of the image, and the author will be credited whenever their image is used. Rights to image usage reverts to the author after one year. There are three themes for the competition - Spirited, Smart and Reliable - our corporate values. Please read these terms and conditions carefully as they govern our relationship with you in relation to this competition and allow VocaLink to use your imagery in our corporate communications activities. Good luck.

Closing Date:  30/March/2012

Contact: Tom Davidson
Telephone: 0870 920 8101

Website: http://vocalinkphotocompetition.com/

Description: The winner's work will be published on gap-year.com and in the 2013 edition of the gap-year guidebook. Last year's winning entry even made the front cover. Two runners-up will also receive a free copy of the superb guidebook - a comprehensive resource tool for anyone thinking of spending some time abroad; for any duration, at any age, to any destination. We are inviting photographers to submit a single image with a strong gap-year theme. The competition is open worldwide, to anyone over 18 years-of-age, whether your work has previously been published or not. Terms & Conditions on our website. Judges will be the editorial and design staff at the gap-year guidebook, with the final winners being selected after the closing date of Friday 13th April 2012. When choosing the winners, the judges will be looking for captivating, original images that evoke a sense of what a gap-year is all about. Please visit http://gap-year.com/en/extras/photography-competition for more details.

Closing Date:  13/April/2012

Contact: Emily Cotton
Website: www.gap-year.com

Description: Join our photo competition to be in with a chance to put your photo on the cover of our 2013 brochure and win £200.00. We are looking for interesting and striking pictures that are representative of Cornwall. Use the maximum quality setting on your camera to have the best chance of your image being selected Please keep digital manipulation such as cloning and compositing to a minimum; your photograph should faithfully represent the scene as you saw it. HDR images are unlikely to be accepted Only photos deemed suitable for public viewing will be displayed. A shortlist of the best photos uploaded each month will be displayed on our Facebook page You can enter a maximum of three images Submit your photo via our website. For practical reasons please reduce your image size to 2Mb or less and ensure it is in JPEG format. CTC cannot be held responsible for problems associated with entry submission Describe the view and location of the image briefly so we can verify it's eligibility for the Competition

Closing Date:  01/August/2012

Contact: Cornish Traditional Cottages
Website: http://www.corncott.com/photo/

Description: The Photography Ashes is an ongoing competition and all amateur photographers are invited to submit their entries. The competition is free to enter and a theme is chosen every three weeks by the winner of the previous theme. The competition is relaxed, fun and has a growing following of like minded individuals who provide feedback to the entries as well as tips and tricks.

Closing Date:  31/December/2012

Contact: The Photography Ashes
Website: http://www.photoashes.com