About Smartphone Photography Competition
Applications are now open for the 2024 Smartphone Photography Competition. The fifth SPC Smartphone Photography Competition invites you to share your thoughts and perspectives on the world through the lens of your mobile phone.
They believe you can capture the world’s ultimate beauty in every way.
Your world recording can begin at any time and from any location; simply embrace the art of photography and leave the world with some phenomenal shots that will impress the world with each and every picture.
Smartphone Photography Competition Categories
- People: Photographic works that mainly express the lifestyle and living conditions of the characters, including portrait works.
- Creativity: Observation of the real world in creative perspectives, or a new work obtained by reprocessing of existing photographic materials. All materials must be taken by the participant him/herself.
- Nature: Photographic works ranging from various phenomena in nature (such as meteorology, walruses, and earth phenomena, etc.), to the ecology of animals and plants, or even celestial bodies.
- Documentary: Photographic works that mainly seek to record the reality of life, reflect the relationship between people and people, and the relationship between people and nature, record people’s activities, and describe the systems and customs in human social life.
- Travel: Their journey can be either near or far, you can share the unique perspectives and wonderful moments during your travels, as well as all the stories that happened on the way.
- Black and white: Black and white images of any topics are welcome, they can be both originally shot in black and white mode or made by post – processing.
- Series: A series of 3 to 9 pictures with any theme. There should be a correlation between the pictures.
Smartphone Photography Competition Benefits
- The first, second and third place of the Photographer of the Year will be respectively awarded with:
- 5000 RMB, the SPC trophy
- 3000 RMB, the SPC trophy
- 1000 RMB, the SPC trophy
- The First, Second and Third Place, and Honorable Mentions of each category will be respectively awarded with:
- 500 RMB, the SPC trophy
Eligibility Requirements
- Open to mobile photography enthusiasts around the world.
- The entries must be original works independently completed by the submitter, and the title, picture description and other required information must be indicated.
- The shooting and post-production of the entry must be done on mobile phones. The brand and model of the mobile phone are not limited. The original information of the photo must be kept, otherwise the organizer will regard it as an invalid work.
- The entries are required to be uploaded in JPG format. There is no limit to the color tone, both colored and black & white images can be submitted. The minimum length of the work is 1200 pixels. Except for the creative category, the pixel content of images competing for other categories are not allowed to be modified.
- This competition does not accept restoration of photos. All entries must not have any watermarks.
- Participants should have independent, complete and undisputed copyrights for the works they submit, and must not infringe any rights of third parties including copyrights, portrait rights, reputation rights, privacy rights, etc. Participants are deemed to agree with the content of this article. All legal responsibilities for related disputes caused by the failure of the above guarantees shall be borne by the contestants themselves, and the competition platform and event organizers have nothing to do.
- The organizer of this contest has the right to use all entries, which can be extended indefinitely and irrevocably after the submitting of the entries. The organizer can use any of the contestant’s works for publicity and promotion worldwide without any additional payment. At the same time, the organizer is obliged to respect the authorship rights of authors and copyright owners during use.
- The winners of this contest will be notified by email. All winners are required to provide information consistent with their entries as proof, within the time specified by the organizer. If failed to provide accurate information within the specified time, resulting in failure to receive the corresponding prize, it will be deemed as voluntarily giving up the award qualification, and all the consequences will be borne by the participant himself.
- The final interpretation right of this competition belongs to the organizer of the event, and the unfinished matters will be supplemented by the organizer in accordance with the principle of good faith.
- AI generated images are allowed for submission.
- Participants must read the above terms carefully. Once the entry is submitted, it is deemed to agree to and abide by the above terms. The organizer reserves the right to disqualify any work that does not meet the requirements for soliciting contributions.
Smartphone Photography Competition Deadline: January 20, 2025
Also Apply;
Vienna Bio Center Summer School 2025 in Austria
WMI Scholars Program 2025 for Students Worldwide
