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Photo Competitions 2008

The PHOTO HISTORIES listing of major professional photographic competitions and their deadlines for the coming months.

The details below are a summary to help photographers prepare their work for multiple entries to competitions. Please ensure
that you read all the individual competition rules and entry requirements on individual competition web sites before entering.

To link to competition web site click relevant competition name.


COMPETITION SUBJECT AWARDS CLOSING     DATE SUBMISSION   FEE
Aperture Portfolio Prize
Subscribers Only!
Portfolio 1st prize $2,500,
web-site feature
11 July 08 15 square jpgs 1920×1920px (1.8MB) max, with black background, resume, CV $25
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Portraits 1st prize £12,000,
exhibition at NPG, London
20 July 08 Max six prints: A3 smallest,
1015×760mm largest
£16 per
photo
Travel Photographer
of the Year
Humaity, landscape, escape, destinations Adobe software, travel, bursaries 9 Sep 08 TBA July 08 Folio £15
Single £10
Terry O’Neill Award Reportage, documentary, portrait, landscape, art £3000, £1000, £500 10 Sep 08 Max six images: 1mb 72dpi files or 10×8” prints £8 per photo

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