Photography Contest 2025: Submit Your Best Color Images to Win Cash and Get Published

Now Accepting Submissions for the 2025 Edition

AAP Magazine 51: Colors

Color is more than a visual component in photography—it’s emotion, symbolism, and structure. From the bold reds of a city street to the soft pastels of a summer sky, color has the ability to transform a photograph into something deeply memorable. That’s the focus of AAP Magazine #51: Colors, the upcoming themed issue from All About Photo, which invites photographers from around the world to submit their most compelling color-based work.

Unlike fleeting trends in image-making, color remains one of the most versatile and timeless elements in photography. Whether capturing candid moments in vibrant cityscapes or crafting fine art compositions built around a specific palette, color is often what draws the viewer in—and keeps them looking. With this in mind, AAP Magazine’s latest call for entries seeks images where color is not merely present, but essential to the photograph’s impact.

The competition is open to all genres: street, portrait, documentary, fashion, conceptual, landscape, and more. But what truly matters is the photographer’s ability to use color intentionally—whether as a compositional tool or a narrative force. This issue is not about saturation for saturation’s sake; it’s about how hues, tones, and contrasts can shape the way we experience the world through photographs.

Over the years, AAP Magazine has carved out a space as a respected platform for discovering both emerging and established talents. Each issue is carefully curated, offering selected photographers the opportunity to reach a global audience through print, digital features, and dedicated online exposure. In addition to publication in the print edition of AAP Magazine #51, selected winners will receive cash prizes and be featured in the magazine’s Winners Gallery on all-about-photo.com.

There’s also a strong incentive for photographers looking to build visibility. Beyond the $1,000 in total cash prizes, awardees benefit from exposure to editors, curators, gallerists, and photo lovers who turn to AAP Magazine for fresh perspectives and curated excellence.

For photographers working on a cohesive series—or even just one powerful image—this competition is an opportunity to explore color not as an afterthought, but as the subject itself.

Whether you're documenting everyday life through a chromatic lens or constructing visual worlds where color takes the lead, AAP Magazine #51 wants to see your vision.

Lone Light in the Blue Abyss from the series Finding Blue © Gabriel Wong

All photographic genres are welcome, including but not limited to:
Street photography
Photojournalism
Fine art photography
Portrait and nude photography
Urban and architectural photography
Fashion and conceptual imagery
Landscape, nature, and wildlife photography
Documentary projects

Cinderellas from the series Sanctuarium Domesticum © Verônica Alkmim França

Awards and Exposure
Selected photographers will:
– Be published in AAP Magazine #51 – Colors (print and digital)
– Compete for $1,000 in cash prizes
– Receive a free copy of the printed magazine
– Be featured in the AAP Winners Gallery on all-about-photo.com
– Gain international recognition and press coverage
– Have their work promoted across All About Photo’s global platforms and social media

A Typical Day In The Caribbean From the series Warm Tones © Nicola Balestrazzi

Judging Criteria
Entries will be evaluated on:
– Creativity
– Originality
– Visual and emotional impact

Our editorial team is committed to discovering and celebrating new talent, and our contests are known for launching careers and connecting photographers with industry leaders including editors, curators, publishers, gallery directors, and festival organizers.

Be Seen by a Global Audience
All About Photo is a respected voice in the photography world, known for showcasing both emerging artists and established masters. This is your chance to share your vision and reach a wider audience through one of the industry’s leading platforms.

How to Submit
Visit all-about-photo.com to submit your portfolio. The deadline for entries is August 26. The Early Bird Deadline is August 15.

Don’t miss this opportunity to have your work published in a prestigious photography magazine, win cash prizes, and elevate your career. Share your best color images and join the ranks of celebrated photographers in AAP Magazine #51 – Colors.

Note: Previously published work in AAP Magazine is not eligible for submission.

Todd Hido: Intimate Distance, Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album

By Todd Hido

Publisher : Aperture

2025 | 320 pages

An expanded chronology charting Todd Hido's career, with ten years of new work.

Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing, and for his use of detail and luminous color, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded, Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album includes ten years of new work since the book's first publication, including breathtaking new images from his travels to Iceland, Norway, and Japan, where he brings both a familiar eye and an expansive new vision.

Though Hido has published many smaller monographs of individual bodies of work, this gathers his most iconic images, along with many unpublished works to provide the most complete and comprehensive monograph charting his career. The book is organized chronologically, showing how his series overlap in exciting ways. David Campany introduces the work and looks at the kind of cinematic spectatorship the work demands. And Katya Tylevich muses on the making of each of Hido's major monographs, "The photographs lead as far as human-made roads go. They reach the periphery of utility wires, footprints, and paths already taken." From exterior to interior, surface observations to subconscious investigations, from landscapes to nudes, from America and beyond, this midcareer collection reveals how his unique focus has developed and shifted over time, yet the tension between distance and intimacy remains.

All About Todd Hido

Nick Brandt: The Echo of Our Voices: The Day May Break, Chapter Four

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Skira

2025 | 128 pages

The fourth chapter of the celebrated series The Day May Break by the renowned photographer Nick Brandt, featuring Syrian refugee families, displaced by climate change in water-scarce Jordan

This is the fourth chapter of The Day May Break, photographer Nick Brandt's global series portraying people and animals impacted by climate change and environmental degradation. The series was photographed in Jordan, one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. It features rural Syrian refugee families currently living there, whose lives have been seriously impacted by droughts intensified by climate change. Living lives of continuous displacement, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year, moving to where there is available agricultural work, to wherever there has been sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow. The photographs show the families' connection and strength in the face of adversity, that when all else is lost you still have each other. The boxes on which the families gather aim skyward, pedestals for those in our society that are typically unseen and unheard.

All About Nick Brandt

Ed Kashi: A Period in Time: Looking Back while Moving Forward, 1977-2022

By Ed Kashi

Publisher : Briscoe Center for American History

2025 | 344 pages

Photographer Ed Kashi’s passion is long-term documentary projects that immerse him in issues that need attention or people’s lives whose struggles warrant concern. He has had a lengthy and varied career with National Geographic and other major magazines, traveling around the world to tell visual stories.

Kashi’s archive, now housed at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, houses many of his personal memories and the experiences attached to the creation of those images. More than a simple repository of images, the archive is a growing, thriving, and continually evolving organism, a living library with immense value.

Through his photography, Kashi has had an intimate, front-row seat to witness and record major events in history. His work has been a passport to worlds unseen, unveiling issues that need illumination, documenting history in the making, and capturing the human experience and the many awe-inspiring places in our fragile world. A Period in Time is a testimony to some of Kashi’s most memorable stories—people he has been privileged to observe and learn from and the places and narratives that have shaped his life, all captured one moment at a time.

All About Ed Kashi

Bruce Davidson: The Way Back

By Bruce Davidson

Publisher : Steidl

2025 | 144 pages

Nearly four decades of unpublished works from a master of documentary photography

Consisting solely of previously unpublished photographs, The Way Back is a deep dive through Bruce Davidson’s more than 60-year career. The book chronologically presents photos made between 1957 and 1992, showcasing Davidson’s exceptional versatility―from his earliest assignments to later seminal bodies of work including his yearlong study of teenage members of a Brooklyn Gang (1959), his extensive coverage of the American Civil Rights Movement in Time of Change (1961–65) and his breakthrough portraits of the residents of a single block in Harlem in East 100th Street (1966–68). Series such as Subway (1980) and Central Park (1992) confirm Davidson as a quintessential chronicler of New York City.

What emerges through this retrospective is Davidson’s overt sensibility and empathy for his subjects and his commitment to documenting them in depth over time. Unlike his peers who photographed historical events, Davidson focused on the people within these histories. Now, drawing near the end of his long career, Davidson offers this book as a parting look at his artistic passage, an elegiac goodbye as well as a requiem.

Bruce Davidson (born 1933, Oak Park, IL) became a member of the Magnum Photos agency in 1958; since then his photographs and photo series have been widely published to great acclaim. At Yale University, he studied under photographer Alexey Brodovitch and artist Josef Albers, the latter of whom encouraged him to pursue his work among marginalized people and communities. His artistic influences include Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Photography Contest 2025: Submit Your Best Color Images to Win Cash and Get Published

Now Accepting Submissions for the 2025 Edition

AAP Magazine 51: Colors

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