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Photo Competitions 2012-13

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 2013
3000px longest side, highest qual jpg, AdobeRGB
or sRGB, submitted online
Free
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

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