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EACH CATEGORY IS OPEN TO BOTH PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS, JUDGED SEPARATELY

Documentary / Photojournalism

For images that document reality, tell true stories, and explore current affairs and major contemporary themes with an authentic gaze.

  • Coverage of recent events, crises, or developments of global or local importance.

  • In-depth stories exploring current social, political, economic, or human rights challenges.

  • Images capturing ordinary moments, traditions, and the everyday experience of people around the world.

  • Documentary-style portraits that convey the personality, context, and story of the subject.

  • Visual narratives on nature, climate change, environmental threats, conservation, or sustainability efforts.

  • Editorial or documentary stories about the natural world, including environmental reporting, conservation efforts, or human interaction with ecosystem.

  • Behind-the-scenes and front-stage stories from the world of music, cinema, performing arts, festivals, or popular culture.

  • Photo essays or documentary works developed over time, offering layered, evolving perspectives.

Architecture

Focused on photography of buildings, urban spaces, interiors and architectural details. From documentary shots to creative and geometric visions.

  • Creative takes on buildings and spaces, emphasizing geometry and form.

  • Straightforward or artistic images of architecture, exterior and interior.

  • Cityscapes, neighborhoods, and built environments conveying urban identity.

  • Photos highlighting architectural heritage, ancient sites, or culturally significant structures.

  • Imagery of factories, machinery, and utilitarian or raw spaces.

  • Compositions showing styled interior environments or architectural details.

Portraiture

For portraits taken in studio or on location, individual or group, realistic or conceptual. Faces, emotions, and connections.

  • Portraits emphasizing the individuality and essence of the subject.

  • Portraits reflecting tradition, heritage, or cultural belonging.

  • Images showing intimate family relationships and generational connections.

  • Creative portraits that use symbolism or staging to express ideas.

  • Photographers turning the lens on themselves to explore identity or emotion.

  • Artistic or documentary portraits of infants, kids, and early stages of life.

Wedding

The visual story of love and marriage. Intimate, emotional, symbolic.

  • Photographs capturing rituals, customs, and emotional moments during ceremonies.

  • Intimate or romantic images of couples in connection.

  • nergy, movement, and joy from receptions and parties.

  • Stylized and editorial approaches to wedding photography.

  • Decor, light, emotion, and the surrounding elements of the day.

  • Love stories told before the wedding day.

  • Destination wedding photos featuring memorable settings.

  • Emotionally strong wedding images in monochrome.

Advertising / Fashion

Inserire qDedicated to images created to sell, promote or advertise a product, service or individual. Commercial and creative photography.

  • Commercial photography created to visually represent and promote a brand.

  • Stylized fashion stories often published in magazines or digital platforms.

  • Close-up images or portraits showcasing beauty products, skincare, or makeup.

  • Professional imagery featuring vehicles, motorsports, or the lifestyle around them.

  • Photographs centered on culinary subjects, from still life to styled food compositions.

  • Images capturing artists, concerts, studio sessions, or the music industry at large.

  • Portraits or behind-the-scenes work with public figures and well-known personalities.

  • Commercial product compositions or object-focused imagery, often minimal and designed.

Book

For printed or digital photographic editorial projects. From reportage to artistic research, including zines and monographs.

  • Independently created photography books or zines.

  • Printed or digital books built around narrative, journalistic, or real-life themes.

  • Artist-driven publications focused on aesthetic or conceptual exploration.

  • Experimental, limited-run or mock-up photo publications.

  • Authorial books featuring a single photographer's cohesive body of work.

Sports

Athletic gesture, adrenaline, preparation, behind the scenes. Everything that tells the story of sport.

  • Photographs freezing decisive, high-energy moments in sports.

  • Stories of athletes, training, or preparation beyond the main event.

  • Focused imagery of routines, discipline, and dedication.

  • Coverage of team dynamics, interaction, and strategy.

  • Bold imagery capturing adrenaline-filled or outdoor physical challenges.

Fine Art

For works driven by the artist’s subjective vision, where form, technique, and emotion merge into a personal aesthetic pursuit.

  • Conceptual or non-representational imagery emphasizing form, texture, and emotion.

  • Compositions that merge multiple images or elements to create surreal or metaphorical visuals.

  • Landscapes captured through a creative, interpretive, or manipulated lens.

  • Clean, reductive compositions focused on shape, space, and balance.

  • Artistic representations of the nude human form emphasizing aesthetics and emotion.

  • Personal or imaginative portraits that go beyond likeness to explore inner worlds.

  • Artistic arrangements of objects designed to explore symbolism or visual impact.

Nature

A creative and profound look at nature: its beauty, its creatures, its phenomena.

  • Images of animals in their natural habitats showing behavior, interaction, or emotion.

  • Pet or livestock photography with creative or documentary value.

  • Photographs of celestial events, starscapes, or deep space.

  • Life and environments captured beneath the surface of oceans, rivers, or lakes.

  • Scenes of mountains, forests, deserts, or natural wonders.

  • Overhead or high-altitude shots offering a unique perspective of nature.

  • Close-up images revealing texture, form, or patterns in plants, animals, or minerals.

Analog

Photographs entirely created using analog techniques, film, darkroom development, and alternative processes.

  • Monochrome images captured on traditional film stock.

  • Analog photographs emphasizing tonal quality, color depth, and grain.

  • Hand-developed and printed work using traditional darkroom methods.

  • Cyanotype, tintype, Polaroid lift, and other non-standard analog techniques.

  • Unconventional manipulation of analog media for creative effect.

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