COMPETITIONS
OPEN FOR ENTRIES
The award is made up of 12 monthly competitions – each judged by an industry leader with a wealth of experience and expertise.
CLOSING SOON
YOUTH
Judge: Karolin Klüppel
Deadline: 31 May 2024
THE BRIEF:
“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
We don’t arrive fully formed. From birth to toddler to child, teen and pre-adult – life is an exploration and we’re moulded in our youth. Dreams, fears, freedom, experimentation, play… The theme is as broad as you want it to be. The only limitation is to capture a scene or a detail that shows habits, experiences or behavior of the young.
Portraiture, studio, candid, conceptual, documentary, street. All genres welcome. Show us youthhood, from any perspective!
YOUTH INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © GIEDO VAN DER ZWAN, LARS JUST, JUSTIN KEENE, VIKRAM KUSHWAH, MITCH CULLIN, STEFFEN JUNGHANβ, KRISTIAN LEVEN, PIOTR CHROBOT.
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © GIEDO VAN DER ZWAN, LARS JUST, KRISTIAN LEVEN, VIKRAM KUSHWAH, MITCH CULLIN, STEFFEN JUNGHANβ, JUSTIN KEENE, PIOTR CHROBOT.
COMPETITION JUDGED BY KAROLIN KLÜPPEL
Karolin Klüppel is an in-demand photographer and Women Photograph member whose sensitive and striking work regularly returns to themes of gender, family and motherhood.
She first rose to prominence in 2015 with the series and subsequent monograph Kingdom of Girls – a project that blended documentation and composition to explore the indigenous people of Meghalaya in India who live in a unique matriarchal structure. Since then she has turned her lens onto herself and fellow mothers, exploring the profound experience of motherhood in her series No Room of One’s Own.
She has held solo exhibitions in the US, Switzerland, France, Colombia and her home country of Germany, and has produced editorial works for esteemed publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Spiegel.
IMAGES © LENA GIOVANAZZI / KAROLIN KLÜPPEL
THE HUMAN BODY
Judge: Siân Davey
Deadline: 30 June 2024
THE BRIEF:
A home for the brain, the heart and the soul. Let’s look at the image of the human body… from the head to the toes; its quirks, uniqueness and beauty. Freeze a detail or a scene that captures our human nature. With over seven billion bodies to choose from, show us the ones that count.
Portraiture, candid, studio, conceptual, documentary… any genre, new or from your archives. Open to all types of photography with any type of camera. Tasteful nudity welcome.
THE HUMAN BODY INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © KAT MILLER, MARVEL HARRIS, JAMES CONWAY, LAURENT CASTELLANI, ANA LAZAREVA, ALINA EMRICH, MACIEK JASIK, DARIJA JELINCIC.
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © KAT MILLER, MARVEL HARRIS, MACIEK JASIK, LAURENT CASTELLANI, ANA LAZAREVA, ALINA EMRICH, JAMES CONWAY, DARIJA JELINCIC.
COMPETITION JUDGED BY SIAN DAVEY
Siân Davey is a celebrated British photographer who draws on her experiences as a psychotherapist and mother to investigate the psychological landscapes of both herself and those around her.
Much of her work centers on family, community, youth and love – topics she first combined in her intimate and personal project Looking for Alice, in which she documented the growing up of her daughter Alice who has Down’s Syndrome. The series and subsequent monograph won her numerous accolades, culminating in the Paris Photo-Aperture Best Book Award and a shortlisting for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award in 2016, and positioned her as a sought-after portrait photographer and storyteller. Her most recent work The Garden furthers these themes – using her family garden as a metaphorical device to explore the complexities of community.
Her work is held in collections at the Science Museum and V&A in London, The Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol and The French National Collection in Paris, and she has won prizes including the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize, the Prix Elysée, the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal Award, and the Arnold Newman Award for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture.
IMAGES © SIAN DAVEY
PLANET EARTH
Judge: Melissa Farlow
Deadline: 31 July 2024
XAVIER ORIGNAC
THE BRIEF:
From icy polar snowscapes to vast and arid deserts; from sweeping agricultural plains to dense tropical rainforest; the earth has always provided an awe-inspiring backdrop to our short stay.
This month we want you to capture the beauty of our shared planet – nature’s landscapes and man’s influence on them. The land, our cultures, and the myriad of species with which we inhabit planet Earth. Let’s step out into our world and capture its majesty! Whether on your doorstop or the other side of the world. Landscapes, conceptual, aerial, documentary…. All types of photographer welcome with images of any genre, new or from your archives.
PLANET EARTH INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY
PLANET EARTH INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © KIN CHAN, ALEX OELOFSE, JATENIPAT KETPRADIT, LUCA RENNER, MARC LLEWELLYN, MARCO DEL ZOTTO, MIKE LOUAGIE, JOSUÉ SILVA.
PLANET EARTH INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © KIN CHAN, ALEX OELOFSE, MARC LLEWELLYN, LUCA RENNER, MIKE LOUAGIE, MARCO DEL ZOTTO, JATENIPAT KETPRADIT, JOSUÉ SILVA.
COMPETITION JUDGED BY MELISSA FARLOW
Melissa Farlow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer who has worked extensively for National Geographic magazine in the American West telling stories of public lands, the environment and wild horses.
Having studied and later taught photojournalism, she is known for her personal approach when photographing people, with features in renowned publications such as Smithsonian, LIFE, Marie Claire, GEO, Sierra, and The Nature Conservancy. Her passion for animal advocacy and in-depth storytelling led to the acclaimed book Wild at Heart, in which she documents the plight of courageous young people working to protect wild mustangs in the Western United States.
Passionate about helping others develop their photographic voice, she has lead workshops in Italy, Switzerland, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, taught at Nat Geo Photo Camps, and served on the faculty of the renowned Missouri Photo Workshop.
IMAGES © MELISSA FARLOW
PRIZES &
BENEFITS
Win cash prizes, global exposure and professional feedback
Monthly |
Monthly |
Other |
All |
|
---|---|---|---|---|
$2,000 monthly cash prize | ||||
Your image exhibited in three global exhibitions | ||||
Your image in the Life Framer Photobook | ||||
Online exposure | ||||
Personal feedback | ||||
Submission to The Collection | ||||
Submission to #lifeframerstories |
Life Framer Profiles
– Share your favourite body of work far and wide
– Add a link to your website and social accounts
– Feature your profile in The Collection
Feedback
Over the past few years we’ve helped hundreds of photographers to improve their technique and find their style. Discover some of their happy testimonials here.
UPCOMING COMPETITIONS
YOUTH – May 2024
THE HUMAN BODY – June 2024
PLANET EARTH – July 2024
PORTRAITS – August 2024
COLORS II – September 2024
HUMANS OF THE WORLD – October 2024
BLACK AND WHITE II – November 2024
URBAN LIFE – December 2024
EXHIBITIONS
TBA – January 2025
TBA – February 2025
TBA – March 2025
TBA – April 2025