We’ve partnered with PhotoShelter for The 2019 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests. Inside, you'll get a breakdown of 28 photo contests worldwide. They look at factors like entry fees, prizes, promised exposure, and more.
For the past six years, PhotoShelter has produced an annual guide to photo contests. They've evaluated dozens of contests, spoken to winners, and made some recommendations from the list. This year, they've kept it simple and narrowed things down to the contests they think are worth considering in 2019. Among them, you can find listed the Competitions organized by Sony World Photography Awards.
The Sony World Photography Awards recognizes contemporary photography from the past year across a wide variety of photographic genres. The Awards are always free to enter. Photographers at any level of ability from anywhere in the world can submit their best work to either the Professional, Open, Youth, or Student competitions across a range of categories from landscape to portraiture to street photography to nature and wildlife.
Local photographic talent is also celebrated in the National Awards program, which runs across over 60 countries worldwide. Since the inaugural Awards event in 2007, nearly 2 million images from 200 countries and territories have been submitted for consideration. The Sony World Photography Awards have the power to change lives, as many of the showcased photographers have gone on to secure gallery representation, global press exposure, and publishing deals.
Winning photographers receive the latest Sony digital imaging equipment and a cash prize. All winning and shortlisted images are exhibited at the landmark Somerset House in London before being shown as part of a world tour.
Don’t miss your chance and enter the 2019 competitions before the January deadlines:
Professional - Best series (closes January 11, 2019 - 1300 GMT)
Open - Best single images (closes January 4, 2019 - 1300 GMT)
Youth - By photographers aged 12-19 (closes January 4, 2019 - 1300 GMT)
