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The award is made up of 12 monthly competitions – each judged by an industry leader with a wealth of experience and expertise.
CLOSING SOON
PLANET EARTH
Judge: Corey Arnold
Deadline: 31 July 2025
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! Landscapes, conceptual, aerial, documentary…. All genres welcome, images new or from your archives. Show us the majesty of Earth!
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 COREY ARNOLD
Corey Arnold is an American photographer whose stark and cinematic work explored our complicated and often precarious relationship with the natural world. Working seasonally as the captain of an Alaskan fishing boat alongside his photography career, his work explores the raw, rugged beauty of life at sea and the environmental challenges faced by the fishing industry, as well as broader topics such as industry, the domestication of animals, and urban wildlife.
He has been widely featured in prominent publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times, Harpers, The Guardian and TIME, as well as garnering awards from Sony World Photography Awards and World Press Photo Awards, and numerous private and public collections. With his unique perspective, Arnold presents the beauty of planet Earth, and explores the challenges of our changing world.
IMAGES © COREY ARNOLD
SCENES OF LIFE
Judge: Damarice Amao
Deadline: 31 August 2025
THE BRIEF:
From fleeting moments on bustling streets to quiet rituals behind closed doors, life unfolds all around us—in the extraordinary and the everyday.
This month, we invite you to capture the rhythm of life as you see it. Think daily routines, family gatherings, market crowds, still-life arrangements, moments of solitude, or shared joy. Religion, sports, work, hobbies. The people, spaces, and objects that tell the stories of how we live.
All interpretations are welcome—intimate or expansive, spontaneous or staged. Street photography, documentary, still life, portraiture, or something more abstract. New images or rediscovered archive work. Show us your Scenes of Life.
SCENES OF LIFE INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © SARAH REBERT, JACK LAWSON, PHILIP COBURN, EVA VELDHOEN, ISABELA NOBELL, MATT BRAMSTON, POLGA STEINEPREIS, JASMINE POOLE.
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © SARAH REBERT, JACK LAWSON, STEINEPREIS, EVA VELDHOEN, ISABELA NOBELL, MATT BRAMSTON, PHILIP COBURN, JASMINE POOLE.
COMPETITION JUDGED BY DAMARICE AMAO
Dr. Damarice Amao is photography historian with a PhD in art history, working as associate curator at the photography department of the Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou. She has co-curated exhibitions such as Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Photography, Weapon of Class (Centre Pompidou, 2018) and Dora Maar (Centre Pompidou, Tate, Getty, 2019), and has taught photography history at the Sorbonne University. She has also contributed to the production of multiple exhibition catalogues and collective books.
IMAGES © DAMARICE AMAO / CENTRE POMPIDOU
PORTRAITS
Judge: Joakim Eskildsen
Deadline: 30 September 2025
THE BRIEF:
“A portrait! What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound.” – Charles Baudelaire
A window into the soul as the cliché goes, and yet there ’s some truth in the power of a portrait – from the history of the studio sitting to the rise of the selfie, the best portraits give a glimpse into another life, a connection formed across distance, cultures and ages. Show us faces – individuals or groups, the iconic or the unknown – that celebrate diversity, creativity, honesty and self-expression.
Studio portraiture, candid street shots, self-portraits, conceptual and fine art all welcome, images new or old from all types of photographer with any type of camera.
PORTRAITS INSPIRATIONAL GALLERY
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © SAM WRIGHT, MATTHEW NORDMAN, VLADIMIR KARAMAZOV, MINAMI IVORY, JASMIN JADE, JADA IMANI M, JESS WILLIAMS, DASHA PEARS.
IMAGES (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) © JASMIN JADE, DASHA PEARS, VLADIMIR KARAMAZOV, MATTHEW NORDMAN, JESS WILLIAMS, MINAMI IVORY, SAM WRIGHT, JADA IMANI M.
COMPETITION JUDGED BY JOAKIM ESKILDEN
Joakim Eskildsen is a Danish photographer known for his intimate depictions of the human condition, combining a documentary approach with a fine art sensibility to create visually striking and emotionally resonant images. He gained international attention and widespread acclaim with his project The Roma Journeys, in which he spent seven years documenting the lives of Romani people across seven different countries to highlight both their hardships, and rich cultural heritage. His later series, American Realities, examined poverty in the US, capturing the struggles of families affected by economic downturns.
Illuminating issues of inequality and the impact of global economic forces, often through powerful environmental portraits, his boundary-pushing documentary photography has won numerous accolades.
IMAGES © JOAKIM ESKILDEN
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UPCOMING COMPETITIONS
PLANET EARTH – July 2025
SCENES OF LIFE – August 2025
PORTRAITS – September 2025
BLACK & WHITE – October 2025
CITIES – November 2025
HUMANS – December 2025
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COLORS – February 2026
STREET LIFE – March 2026
FACES OF LIFE – April 2026
BLACK & WHITE – May 2026
OPEN CALL – June 2026
