Amateur Photo Contests

Ksystof Mozyro (United Kingdom) has been announced as the overall winner of the professional category, winning the title of Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2020 and earning $2000 prize money. His winning image, entitled Opponents, documents a both significant and emotional situation during the BLM protests.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #15: Streets". They come from 12 different countries and 4 continents!

Earth Photo, an international competition and exhibition created by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), rewards photographs and videos that document the natural world, its breath-taking beauty, and its ever-growing fragility.

Now in its 6th year, All About Photo Awards are an authoritative voice in the industry, celebrating the best contemporary photography from around the world, and giving vast exposure and opportunity to talented photographers. All About Photo supports the Awards to help the continued development of photographic culture by giving a global platform to today's talent. Photographers are judged anonymously by a panel of industry-leading judges.

With entries received across Africa, the Africa Photo Awards 2020 awards ceremony recently took place at the Keyes Art Mile in Johannesburg, South Africa. Local photographer and graphic designer, Hanli Smit walked away with the award for Photographer of the Year for her image Homage-to-Tretchikoff. Smit's images won two main categories: Fashion for Avant-Garde-Fashion-The-New-Normal, and Portraiture for Homage-to-Tretchikoff, with this image securing her the main prize

The photograph's power as a narrative tool is derived from the impression that what is captured within the frame is an accurate representation of what actually occurred at a specific moment in time. As complete or comprehensive as any narrative may appear to be, it will always be subject to a process of including some elements and excluding others. These inclusions and exclusion are a crucial part of what photographic storytelling is all about - What is being presented within the frame to the viewer - and what is being left out or left to the viewer's imagination.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #14: Colors". Life is a stream of colors. Red, blue, yellow, and all the possible combinations in between surround us everywhere.

Despite the cancellation of the exhibition of the Rencontres d'Arles Awards in Paris, due to the current health restrictions, Kering and les Rencontres d'Arles were determined to go ahead with the second edition of the Women In Motion Award for photography. With November being traditionally dedicated to photography, they are now delighted to present the 2020 Women In Motion Award to the outstanding photographer Sabine Weiss for her life's work.

The 2020 International Photography Awards has received more than 13,000 submissions from some of the most important photographers from around the world. The many mind-blowing entries in the Nature categories open windows to observe the Earth's unmitigated force with breathtaking photos.