Going beyond social boundaries, standard techniques and established rules, the 2012 Emerging Photographers competition showcases the freshest ideas and trends in today’s photography.

THE AWARDS

Nominees vie for 48 title awards representing the best work of the year. Receiving a Global Photo Awards is a mark of distinction judged by the most trusted names in the business.

WHY ENTER?

Global Photo Awards will put your work in front of the most influential people in the industry. Winning photographers see visible results including international exposure and worldwide career opportunities with winning photographs showcased on this website, in a worldwide traveling exhibition and published in a Global Photo Awards Book for 2012

This contest is open to photographers from any country, but you must be over the age of 18 years.

You retain the copyright to your photos and we ask for limited usage rights. We believe in fair terms and conditions.

FREE TO ENTER
$100 IN CASH TO BE WON!
WINNER CHOSEN FROM LIKES & JUDGING

THE THEME IS OPEN SO YOU CAN SUBMIT ANY PHOTO YOU WISH

Getting into CQ means your work measures up to the best work being done today. Check out the major design firms, top illustrators and photographers who have been winners on our site. And the top universities and art schools whose student’s have been featured. You’ll see why we’re quickly becoming a leading art and design competition.

Why enter Creative Quarterly?
More immediate notice. Our publication comes out quarterly so we’re on top of who’s doing the top work. Less expensive entry fees. A flat $10 per entry.

Eligibility
All art directors, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists in all countries. Separate categories will be judged for professionals and students. Work must have been completed during the last six months.

Categories
Graphic Design—advertising design, books, branding, brochures, editorial, environmental, identity, packaging, posters and web.
Photography—both fine art and commercial.
Illustration—print and animation.
Fine Art—painting, drawing, printmaking, multi-media, pottery, sculpture.

Awards
See our current list of winners
If you’re a winner you’ll get great exposure in the next issue of Creative Quarterly due out in Summer 2012 distributed in the US, Canada, UK, Europe and parts of Asia. And your work will be featured in our online gallery. Runner-up entries will also be shown in our online gallery.

With a collective Jury of the world’s most recognized experts from National Geographic Channel to Hasted Hunt Kraeutler in New York, the Masters Cup is the industry’s most authoritative and important photographic event for color photography and brings to light the best work of the year as nominated by members of the esteemed international panel.

Photography Masters Cup is open to professional and non-professional photographers shooting in all forms of color photography using traditional or digital methods. We encourage classic styles, new creative ideas and photographers who are driven by their artistic eye and a desire to excel in this classic art form.

All prints will be on 13″x19″ premium luster paper. The prints will be pinned up with small chrome pins, no frames for this show. Again, it is more of a salon style show, it should be a fun show.

No theme. No juror. Everything is accepted. Cut off is at 100 photos.

An exclusive party will be held in May 2012 celebrating the winners. Judges, select industry creatives and photographers are among the invited guests. Photo Annual 2012 Winner’s SealUse your Photo Annual win to promote your photography business. Winners will recieve an official winner’s seal.

Categories

ADVERTISING
MAGAZINE/EDITORIAL
PHOTO BOOKS
PHOTOJOURNALISM/
SPORTS/DOCUMENTARY
CORPORATE DESIGN/
PHOTO PRODUCTS
PERSONAL
STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
WEB SITES
STUDENT WORK
VIDEO

With over $4000 in cash and prizes this is our biggest contest to date and everyone who enters will have at least 1 piece of art published in our 1 Year Anniversary Issue of Artist Portfolio Magazine.

Our Arist Portfolio 1 Year Anniversary Art Contest is open to all artists from around the world – regardless of your age or skill level in the art world. The Theme is “Open” and all types/genres of art are acceptable.

This year’s AMAZING panel of judges:

Greg Garry – Photo Director, Complex Magazine
Kimberly Brooks – Art Editor, Huffington Post
Guy Oseary – Co-Founder, Rock Paper Photo
Justin Tyler Close – Creative Director, The Lab Magazine
Matthias Vriens McGrath – Photographer
Davis Factor – Photographer
Stephen Kamifuji – Creative Director, Genlux Magazine
Ettore Zuccarelli – ezProductions
Brian Bowen Smith – Photographer
Albert Kodagolian – Director/DP, Bueno Films
Rocky Morton – Director, MJZ Productions
Jeremy Power Regimbal – Creative Director, The Lab Magazine
Rick Callahan – CEO, Copious Management
+MORE TO COME!!!

Keeping things simple is often the best way to handle complex scenarios, and this year’s competition will be kept as straightforward as possible. It will be hosted on the Professional Photographer (PP) website, and each issue of PP, from next month to February 2012, will feature some of the judges’ favourites that have been uploaded so far. In April 2012 we will host an official prize giving ceremony and party for the winners, judges and sponsors. More on the party in future issues.

The May 2012 issue of PP will include a PPOTY Special Edition showcasing images from the winners and runners-up in a 24-page section, including interviews, comments from the judges and images from the winners’ party. The Competition This year we are having 13 categories, with a winner and a runner-up in each. There will then be a final judging to select the Professional Photographer of the Year. You don’t have to enter all of them; you may pick just the ones where you feel strongest.

Category 1: The wild world – Show Mother Nature’s true character

Category 2: Sporting action – Show us your perfect timing, amazing lens control and how you capture the passion

Category 3: High fashion – From a head shot to a full length, we want to see images oozing style.

Category 4: Street photography – Raw, candid, colour or mono, a visual comment

Category 5: Commercial clients – From abstract, architecture to industrial Britain

Category 6: In the studio – Show us your mastery of light

Category 7: On location – From gritty urban scenes to polished city portraits, we want to see you show skill at using the surroundings to enhance your image

Category 8: Reportage weddings – Are you the next Jeff Ascough?

Category 9: Still life – Let the judges see your control of lens choice, depth of field and composition

Category 10: Student of the year – An open category for anyone in full-time education studying a photographic discipline

Category 11: Editorial/News – From hard to soft, show us your skills at interpreting a brief and responding to events as they unfold

Category 12: Breaking the mould – Another open category for everything weird, wacky and avant-garde – have some fun!

Category 13: The Portfolio Award – This goes to the photographer with what the judges consider the strongest overall portfolio of three images. The category and subject matter are open, and we encourage you to submit new images from one or more shoots.

Open Categories: People and Portrait, Sport, Landscape, Science and Nature, Commercial, Advertising & Fashion, Abstract/Illustrative, Photo Journalism/Press, Wedding

Amateur Categories: People and Portrait, Landscape, Abstract/Illustrative

A group exhibition of the top five finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery during the month of October 2011. Awards will be for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. In addition, 2 artists will be recognized with Honorable Mention awards. Depending on the amount and the quality of the entries these categories may be expanded and there may also be Special Recognition awards posted as well. The theme for the September art competition is “All Photography” and the submission process and the deadline will end on September 28, 2011.

Winners of the “All Photography” Art Exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, 70+ press release announcements, 65+ event announcements, social media marketing and website traffic in order to make the art world aware of the artist’s accomplishments. There will also be links back to the artist’s website as part of this achievement.

Photographers, give us your best art now. Apply Online at http://www.lightspacetime.com

Categories: Photos may be entered in any of four categories including:

Portrait
Weddings and Events
Commercial / Advertising
Open

Photography styles are up to the person behind the camera. Traditional photography, digital photography, photos of nature, studio photography, photos of your car … you get the picture! Anything related to taking a picture by you, the artist, goes.

Selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and photographers, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Photography Annual and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work. As a service to art directors, designers and art buyers, a comprehensive index will carry contact information of the photographers represented.

CA’s Award of Excellence is one of the most-coveted awards in the industry. If chosen, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession. Ask any creative director which competitions rank as the most influential and they’ll place Communication Arts at the top of the list.

Categories include: Nudes & Boudoir, Wedding, Pets, Travel, Landscape & Nature, Architecture & Design, Portrait & People, Commercial & Journalism, Wildlife, Sports, Fine Art, Mobile Photos, and Fashion

from documentary / photojournalism to cutting-edge commercial work, and will provide an unprecedented opportunity for peer review of your work by professional photographers, museum curators, art critics and influential editors

Entrants can submit images in any one of Seven (7) categories: “Architecture”, “Portraiture”, “Photojournalism”, “Landscape”, “Personal Work”, “Commercial”, and ”Fine Arts”. All entrants will automatically be entered into the “People Choice” category.