— 5th Edition —
LIFE FRAMER PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
NEW YORK – TOKYO – MILAN – ARLES
A unique photography competition and a renowned platform for discovering and exhibiting contemporary photography. Gain widespread exposure, your work exhibited around the world, and win cash prizes along the way. Judges include Martin Parr, Steve McCurry, and David Alan Harvey!
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Life Framer is a photography award that sources and showcases outstanding work from amateur to established artists. Every Edition we run 12 monthly call for entries, each overseen by a world-renowned photographer or industry professional.
Each month winning photographers receive feedback, online exposure and $2,000 in cash prizes, and at the end of each Edition the winners are exhibited in curated shows at gallery spaces in New York, Milan and Tokyo, and at Arles Photo Festival (prizes outlined in full in the table below).
$24 000
in Cash
Prizes
4
Global
Exhibitions
12
Prestigious
Judges
12
Monthly
Themes
Showcase your photography in our major touring exhibition
Interact, Discover, Engage
Monthly |
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Other |
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$2,000 monthly cash prize | . | |||
Your image exhibited in New York, Tokyo and Milan | . | . | ||
Your image in the Life Framer annual | . | . | ||
Online exposure | . | . | ||
Personal feedback | . | . | . | |
Submission to the Life Framer Collection | . | . | . | . |
Submission to #lifeframerstories | . | . | . | . |
Your image exhibited at Arles Festival (as chosen by our editors) | . | . | . | . |
A CREATIVE NETWORK
Life Framer is also an independent community that promotes and champions creative culture on and off line. We celebrate our favourite series from the community in our Collection, publish interviews in our Journal, and share daily the stories behind submitted images in our social feeds. You can also build and share your own ‘my LF’ profile.
Across 6 years of past editions we have presented the work of artists in three photobooks and exhibitions in London, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Milan, Switzerland and at Arles Photo Festival.
Trending in the community
The exhibitions around the world gave my work massive exposure. And I loved getting feedback from the judge – not many competitions do that
Sophie Gamand, past winner
A prestigious judging panel

Photography department manager at MoMA

Chair of Documentary Photography Program
A prestigious jury, 4 international exhibitions and $24,000 in cash prizes.