The Sony World Photography Awards
Free Photo Contest:
The Sony World Photography Awards are proud to be completely international, welcoming photographers from across the globe to enter into both professional and amateur competition. Offering 21 concentrated categories across both levels, the SWPA strives to provide appeal and motivation for the entire photography industry to participate in the hopes of winning one of many sought after prizes.
Copyright:All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by WPA, and its Event Partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the event only, for a maximum of three years after the awards ceremony on 16th April 2009. You hereby grant WPA a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence in each Entry throughout the world in perpetuity in all media for any use directly or indirectly connected with the Competition but solely connected to the event, including, but not limited too:
(a) judging the Competition
(b) displaying the winning entries and runners up at public exhibitions promoting WPA and organised by WPA
(c) inclusion within the Website, a World Photography Awards book, magazine or similar
(d) inclusion within any materials promoting of the Competition and / or any exhibition organised by WPA in the promotion of the WPA
(e) inclusion on Competition- and exhibition-related products to be sold by the WPA or any third party following the individual agreement by the author
(f) sub-licencing the Entries to the press for reproduction in connection with the Competition and any exhibition
(g) allowing viewers of the Website to view images on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on a PDA or mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for their personal, non-commercial use only. Please also refer to clause 9.
Eligibility: For Professional and Amateur
Entry deadline: 22nd September 2008 - 31st December 2008
As an entering professional photographer, you will be judged by the World Photographic Academy in the hopes of being recognized by leading industry figures and taking the stage in Cannes to receive one of the 12 prestigious category awards and, the most coveted prize, L’iris d’Or, given to The Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year, with the recipient taking, amongst other things, prize money of $25,000.
Submitting your images: There are 12 categories in the professional programme, spread across 3 main photographic genres; to view the categories please click on the link to the left. Each photographer may submit up to a total of 10 images into a single professional category. Professionals will be judged on a body of images representing a photographic series or story. Professional photographers may enter bodies of work in more than one category.
The Judging Process: Your images will go through critical rounds of selections by the official 2009 Judging Committee, comprising selected World Photographic Academy members.
A shortlist of 7 photographers in each of the 12 categories will be selected and announced on 24th of February, 2009.
Of the 7 short-listed photographers in each category, three finalists will then be selected and named as either the first, second or third place winners of each category given. The announcement of the 36 total winners will be made on 17th of March, 2009.
For the final stage of judging, one single photographer will be chosen by the Honorary Judging Committee from the 12 First Place category winners. This photographer will be announced and awarded in Cannes as the recipient of the 2009 L’iris d’or.
The awards: All 36 Category finalists, will be showcased as part of the official 2009 Finalists exhibitions in Cannes and announced to the worldwide press as Sony World Photography Awards Category Finalists. These finalists will also be part of an annual SWPA Global Tour, have the opportunity to be represented and promoted by the World Photography Gallery, showcased on the SWPA website for all of 2009 and much more.
The first place winner of each category will be flown out to Cannes, receive 2 nights accommodation in a luxury hotel on the famous Croisette and receive VIP tickets to attend the evening gala awards ceremony, taking place on the 16th of April, 2009. The winner will also receive week-long passes to attend the World Photography Festival screenings, workshops, exhibitions, talks and other events taking place throughout the city of Cannes from the 14th – 19th of April.
Official Website: The Sony World Photography Awards
Competition Rules (for Professional entries)
Competition Rules (For Amateur Entries)
free photo contest
Read more!
The Sony World Photography Awards are proud to be completely international, welcoming photographers from across the globe to enter into both professional and amateur competition. Offering 21 concentrated categories across both levels, the SWPA strives to provide appeal and motivation for the entire photography industry to participate in the hopes of winning one of many sought after prizes.
Copyright:All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by WPA, and its Event Partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the event only, for a maximum of three years after the awards ceremony on 16th April 2009. You hereby grant WPA a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence in each Entry throughout the world in perpetuity in all media for any use directly or indirectly connected with the Competition but solely connected to the event, including, but not limited too:
(a) judging the Competition
(b) displaying the winning entries and runners up at public exhibitions promoting WPA and organised by WPA
(c) inclusion within the Website, a World Photography Awards book, magazine or similar
(d) inclusion within any materials promoting of the Competition and / or any exhibition organised by WPA in the promotion of the WPA
(e) inclusion on Competition- and exhibition-related products to be sold by the WPA or any third party following the individual agreement by the author
(f) sub-licencing the Entries to the press for reproduction in connection with the Competition and any exhibition
(g) allowing viewers of the Website to view images on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on a PDA or mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for their personal, non-commercial use only. Please also refer to clause 9.
Eligibility: For Professional and Amateur
Entry deadline: 22nd September 2008 - 31st December 2008
As an entering professional photographer, you will be judged by the World Photographic Academy in the hopes of being recognized by leading industry figures and taking the stage in Cannes to receive one of the 12 prestigious category awards and, the most coveted prize, L’iris d’Or, given to The Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year, with the recipient taking, amongst other things, prize money of $25,000.
Submitting your images: There are 12 categories in the professional programme, spread across 3 main photographic genres; to view the categories please click on the link to the left. Each photographer may submit up to a total of 10 images into a single professional category. Professionals will be judged on a body of images representing a photographic series or story. Professional photographers may enter bodies of work in more than one category.
The Judging Process: Your images will go through critical rounds of selections by the official 2009 Judging Committee, comprising selected World Photographic Academy members.
A shortlist of 7 photographers in each of the 12 categories will be selected and announced on 24th of February, 2009.
Of the 7 short-listed photographers in each category, three finalists will then be selected and named as either the first, second or third place winners of each category given. The announcement of the 36 total winners will be made on 17th of March, 2009.
For the final stage of judging, one single photographer will be chosen by the Honorary Judging Committee from the 12 First Place category winners. This photographer will be announced and awarded in Cannes as the recipient of the 2009 L’iris d’or.
The awards: All 36 Category finalists, will be showcased as part of the official 2009 Finalists exhibitions in Cannes and announced to the worldwide press as Sony World Photography Awards Category Finalists. These finalists will also be part of an annual SWPA Global Tour, have the opportunity to be represented and promoted by the World Photography Gallery, showcased on the SWPA website for all of 2009 and much more.
The first place winner of each category will be flown out to Cannes, receive 2 nights accommodation in a luxury hotel on the famous Croisette and receive VIP tickets to attend the evening gala awards ceremony, taking place on the 16th of April, 2009. The winner will also receive week-long passes to attend the World Photography Festival screenings, workshops, exhibitions, talks and other events taking place throughout the city of Cannes from the 14th – 19th of April.
Official Website: The Sony World Photography Awards
Competition Rules (for Professional entries)
Competition Rules (For Amateur Entries)
free photo contest
Read more!
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