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All About Photo Competitions

What best way to showcase your work than photo competitions? Successful photographers from around the world are discovered by submitting their work to photo contests. Magazine editors, gallerists, curators, book publishers, festivals directors and photo agencies are always eager to discover new talents that are highlighted by major competitions.

Our photo competitions were created so that the known or less known photographers can express all their talent and let the whole world discover their most beautiful images. All About Photo thrives to feature the best projects and gives photographers visibility on an international level. Our renowned jurors endorse talent and creativity. Here you can discover the winners and other highly-rated submissions from each photo competition. Enjoy!

AAP Magazine #7 - Wild

Our seventh printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme 'Wild'. Wild animals, inhabited lands, unruly emotions or behavior, stormy weather... Take your pick! Send us your images - series preferably- illustrating your understanding of the theme 'Wild'.
Apr 9, 2019  |  May 1, 2019
Status: Open
© Jackson Patterson - First Place Winner

AAP Magazine #6 - B&W

Our sixth printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme 'Black and White'. Mysterious, intense, timeless, at times nostalgic, black and white photography is the cornerstone of photography. Send us your images - series preferably- both where B&W may not just influence the pictures, but where it may also be the subject solely.
Feb 15, 2019  |  Mar 18, 2019
Status: Closed - Results Published
© Mustafa Hassona - First Place Winner

All About Photo Awards 2019

The fourth edition of All About Photo Awards welcomed submissions from all over the world. The winning images were selected by John Rankin, Elisabeth Avedon, Henry Horenstein, Laura Geiser, Tariq Zaidi, Anna Van Lenten, Maxim Panés, Ann Jastrab, Alex Cammarano and Sandrine Hermand-Grisel. Thank you to all the amazing photographers who submitted their work and who continue to support All About Photo! You will be able to see all the winning images and much more in the upcoming AAP Magazine Special Edition "All About Photo Awards 2019" stay tuned!
Nov 1, 2018  |  Feb 8, 2019
Status: Closed - Results Published
© Vicky Martin - First Place Winner

AAP Magazine #5 - COLORS

Our fifth printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme 'Colors'. Life is a stream of colors. Red, blue, yellow, and all the possible combinations in between these primary colors without forgetting black and white surround us everywhere. Send us your images - series preferably- both where colors may not just influence the pictures, but where it may also be the subject solely.
Oct 5, 2018  |  Nov 4, 2018
Status: Closed - Results Published
© Monica Denevan - First Place Winner

AAP Magazine #4 - SHAPES

Our fourth printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme 'Shapes'. A shape is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface. Look around you, observe all the points, lines, patterns or silhouettes that surround us. Square or circle, triangle or hexagon, rectangle or oval, the choice is yours!
Sep 5, 2018  |  Oct 3, 2018
Status: Closed - Results Published
© Valerio Nicolosi - First Place Winner

AAP Magazine #3 - TRAVELS

Our third printed issue of AAP Magazine features the best projects showcasing the theme 'Travels'. Travels are made of a succession of days, encounters, discoveries ... And travel images are a state of mind while also embracing a particular photographic approach since it can be similar to that of the photo-reporter or a photojournalist.
Jul 1, 2018  |  Sep 4, 2018
Status: Closed - Results Published
© Kremer Johnson - First Place Winner

AAP Magazine #2 - FACES

Our second printed issue of AAP Magazine features the best projects showcasing the theme 'Faces'. Some of the pictures are candid, others made in a studio, others montages. But all record a bit of the human condition as well as display an artistic ambition. They also illustrate a remarkably efficient means of communication transcending most language and cultural barriers. Faces no doubt reflect our inner thoughts and disclose those of our subjects.
May 15, 2018  |  Jun 18, 2018
Status: Closed - Results Published
© JP Terlizzi - First Place Winner

AAP Magazine #1 - LIGHT

Our first printed issue of AAP Magazine features the best projects showcasing the theme 'Light'. For this magazine we chose fifteen photographers for their different approach to the definition of photography itself: "drawing with light". Their work is diverse, from fine art to documentary, poetic beauty or abstraction.
Mar 28, 2018  |  May 3, 2018
Status: Closed - Results Published
© Tariq Zaidi - First Place Winner

All About Photo Awards 2018

The third edition of All About Photo Awards welcomed submissions from all over the world. Photographers driven by their artistic eye and passion will be selected by Liu Bolin, Crista Dix, Marco Gualizzini, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Michael Itkoff, Ann Jastrab, Eli Klein and Elisabeth Mouchy.
Nov 1, 2017  |  Feb 8, 2018
Status: Closed - Results Published
© Marco Gualazzini - First Place winner 2017

All About Photo Awards 2017

The second edition of the All About Photo Awards, The Mind's Eye, in reference to Henri Cartier Bresson's photo essay was juried by Beatrice Chassepot, Julien Chatelin, James and Susan Dooley, Eileen Gittins, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Ann Jastrab, Aline Smithson, Judy Walgren and Sabine Weiss. Discover the winners gallery.
When: November 2016
Status: Closed
© Julien Chatelin - First Place winner 2016

All About Photo Awards 2016

The ten international jurors Julia Fullerton-Batten, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Frank Horvat, Ann Jastrab, Ed Kashi, Jules Maeght, Klavdij Sluban, Keiichi Tahara, Ami Vitale, and Cara Weston viewed and scored nearly 5,000 images for this inaugural competition. Discover the winners gallery.
When: November 2015
Status: Closed