The PHOTO HISTORIES listing of selected 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 preparing your entries.
To link to competition web site click relevant competition name.
COMPETITION
SUBJECT
AWARDS
CLOSE
SUBMISSION
FEE
World Press Photo
News, sport, portraits, etc.
€10,000
Register by
Jan 20133000px longest side, highest qual jpg, AdobeRGB
or sRGB, submitted onlineFree
National Press Photographers’ Association
Photojournalism
?
3 Feb 2012
20 jpgs max 2750 px @ 250dpi, quality 6 +, RGB, taken in 2011
Free
OPCA Robert Capa Gold Medal
Photojournalism
$1000
TBA
Tearsheets of overseas work published in 2011
$200
Amnesty International Photojournalism Award
Photojournalism
-
12 Mar 2012
6 300dpi hi-res published or UK exhibited images from a portfolio on CD or DVD
Free
Sony World Photo Awards
All genres
$25,000
Jan 2013
3-10 images published in 2012
Free