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Street Photographers Awards

Show us your streets

We are hereby announcing our commitment in detecting talented people with the ability to shoot astonishing, marvelous, motivating, satisfying, splendid and unsolicited instants all over the globe. The purpose of these awards is identifying talented professionals, students and even dilettantes and their individual inclinations. Do not hesitate in taking part in the annual street photographers foundation street photography.

Screen Your Greatest Street Photography

Different eyes can see different things. Every day is different since people see it from different points of view. Yet there are similar factors such as craving the capture of unsolicited instants of the daily life, the competency of bestowing order in mayhem the world is facing today. As it has already been seen, some the top photographers were originally street photographers and we are honored to say we have a part in elucidating a chance for this group. We would like to announce our will and eagerness in seeing your creativity in shooting marvelous and splendid moments happening around you in your daily life. The tools you use is not important for us! All we care about is seeing your perspective and point of view in any way you would like to present it.

All Types Of Street Photography Are Welcome

BLACK & WHITE | MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY | ‏ANALOG | CONCEPTUAL | STREET PORTRAITS | URBAN | STREET FASHION | ROAD TRIPS |‎‏ STREET ART | TRAVEL | ARCHITECTURE |ABSTRACT | GRAPHIC | LARGE FORMAT

MEET OUR INTERNATIONAL JURY

Sarah Leen

Director of Photography National Geographic

Donna Ferrato

Photographer

Melissa O’Shaughnessy

Up Photographers

Wesley Verhoeve

Photographer

Vineet Vohra

Leica Ambassador

Ruddy Roye

Ruddy Roye

National Geographic

Masoud Gharaei

Street Photographers Foundation

WE RESPECT ARTISTS’ RIGHTS

All photographers retain full copyrights for their own work. Period. Winners, Jurors’ Picks and Finalists grant LensCulture limited, restricted use of winning photos only to promote the photographers themselves and in connection with marketing the Awards competition itself. Details can be found in the Competition rules.

AWARDS & BENEFITS

Win $2000 Cash Awards, global exposure, see your work published and exhibited in our international exhibitions!

SERIES IMAGE: 1ST Place: $1000 to the winner of series image Exhibition, Massive exposure to our Global Audience, Featured Article by Street Photographers Foundation.

SINGLE IMAGE: 1ST Place: $1000 to the winner of a Single image, Exhibition, Massive exposure to our Global Audience, Featured Article by Street Photographers Foundation.

FINALISTS: 15 Finalists will be selected for the Exhibition and massive exposure to our Global Audience.

SELECT YOUR PLAN

Single

€10

Each singe photo is €10

Send 5 photos for only €40

Your single photos judged individually

10 for each additional photograph.

Series

€45

Max 10 images, judged as a series

Your submission should work as a group

thematically or aesthetically

At least submit 4 photos of your work

Deadline 1 April 2023

Sarah Leen

Sarah Leen

Director of Photography National Geographic

Sarah Leen is the director of photography for National Geographic magazine and National Geographic Partners. For nearly 20 years she worked as a freelance photographer for National Geographic magazine before she joined the staff as a senior photo editor in 2004. Sarah supervises all visual content and staff for National Geographic magazine, National Geographic Traveler magazine, the online News site, the Proof photography blog and the Your Shot photography community. She graduated with a B.A. in fine arts from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and continued with graduate studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. She was the College Photographer of the Year in 1979 and worked as a staff photographer for both the Topeka Capital Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer until 1988. She published 16 stories and had five covers for National Geographic magazine as a photographer. In 2010, Sarah curated the National Geographic exhibit “Water: Our Thirsty World” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, and in 2013 she curated “The Power of Photography: National Geographic 125 Years” at the Annenberg Space. She has won numerous awards for her photography both in the Pictures of the Year (POYi) and the World Press Photos competitions. In 2007 and 2008, she won first place Magazine Picture Editing Portfolio from POYi, and she earned second place in 2011. Her team of photo editors has twice won the Angus MacDougall Overall Excellence in Editing Award from the POYi competition.

Donna Ferrato

Donna Ferrato

Photographer

Donna Ferrato is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist known for her groundbreaking documentation of the hidden world of domestic violence. Her seminal book Living With the Enemy (Aperture, 1991) went into four printings and, alongside exhibitions and lectures across the globe, sparked a national discussion on sexual violence and women’s rights. In 2014, Ferrato launched the I Am Unbeatable campaign to expose, document, and prevent domestic violence against women and children through real stories of real people.

Ferrato has contributed to almost every major news publication in the country, and her photographs have appeared in nearly five hundred solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. She has been a member of the Executive Board of Directors for the W. Eugene Smith Fund and was president and founder of the non-profit Domestic Abuse Awareness Project (501-c3). She has been a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Plight of the Disadvantaged, the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, the Missouri Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service in Journalism, Artist of the Year at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Look3 Insightful Artist of the Year. In 2008, the City of New York proclaimed October 30 “Donna Ferrato Appreciation Day,” and in 2009, she was honored by the judges of the New York State Supreme Court for her work advancing gender equality. In 2020, Ferrato was chosen as one of the Hundred Heroines by the British Arts foundation, Hundred Heroines. In 2021, Ferrato was named Artist of The Year at The Tribeca Film Festival.

Her new book, Holy, published in 2020 by powerHouse Books, is a call to action. It proclaims the sacredness of women’s rights and their power to be masters of their own destiny.

Melissa O’Shaughnessy

Up Photographers

Melissa O’Shaughnessy is a photographer based in New York City. She is a member of UP, an international collective of 27 photographers, and her work is included in the third edition of Bystander: A History of Street Photography. Her first book, “Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs” was published by Aperture in October, 2020.

Wesley Verhoeve

International Center of Photography

Wesley Verhoeve is a photographer, creative director, and curator based in Amsterdam and working around the world.
He explores human stories with a focus on craft, curiosity, and community. He observes and documents people who are passionate about what they do.
His images have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Washington Post, Wired, New York Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Business Insider, Volkskrant, and other publications.
He has been commissioned to shoot global marketing campaigns and people-centric stories by LinkedIn, Hanes, Squarespace, Royal Caribbean, Sweetgreen, Lyft, Airbnb, Shinola, and other companies.
Every Sunday Wesley publishes Process (https://www.readprocess.co/), a weekly newsletter about photography and finding your voice.
As the founding curator of the (http://icp.org/projected) Projected (http://icp.org/projected) series at the (http://icp.org/) International Center of Photography (http://icp.org/) he was responsible for 98 exhibits featuring work by over 300 photographers from 53 countries.

Vineet Vohra

Leica Ambassador

Vineet Vohra is a Leica Ambassador born on 2nd November 1973 in New Delhi/India, with a first-class degree in fine arts from the prestigious College of Arts. He is a self-taught photographer, and street photography is a passion that he lives like a discipline.
Vohra began his professional career as a wildlife photographer for two years before turning his lens to the street in 2001. It instantly became his passion natural for him. For Vineet, street photography is a journey, and he travels every day, learning every day for which he strives to improve every day.
In general daily life, where the unexpected occurs, Vohra endeavours to be honest through his lens by harmonising between human elements and the environment focusing is how to make ordinary moments look extraordinary.