Apply for Sony World Photography Awards 2022. There are four competitions

• Professional Competition
• Youth Competition
• Student Competition
• Open Competition

Professional Competition

• Free to enter
• Open to anyone submitting a series of 5 to 10 images per category
• Ten diverse categories to enter
• Awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place photographers plus up to 7 shortlisted photographers per category
• One overall winner receives the Photographer of the Year title
• Deadline is January 14, 2022 at 13.00 GMT

Open Competition

• Free to enter and open to anyone submitting single images taken in 2021
• Ten diverse categories to enter
• Awards for category winners plus up to 15 shortlisted photographers per category
• One overall winner receives the Open Photographer of the Year title
• Deadline is January 7, 2022 at 13.00 GMT

Student Competition

• Free to enter for anyone aged from 18 to 30 years-old undertaking a full-time photography programme
• Students answer a set brief with 5 to 10 images
• Up to 10 shortlisted photographers
• One overall winner receives the Student Photographer of the Year title
• Deadline is 30 November, 2021 at 13.00 GMT

Youth Competition

• Free to enter and open to all 12-19 year-olds submitting single images taken in 2021
• Monthly competitions with a changing theme running from 1 June to 31 December, 2021
• Photographers can enter up to three images per month
• Judges will select a shortlist of 10 images per month, including one winner
• Monthly winners compete to be Youth Photographer of the Year
• Overall winner receives The Youth Photographer of the Year title
• Deadlines for each monthly competition is the last day of the month

How can images can I upload?

• In the Professional competition you can enter a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 images per category. You may enter as many categories as you wish.
• In the Open and Youth competitions, you can enter up to 3 images in total for free. These images may be entered across any of the categories. You may enter more images by buying our bundles. There are two image bundles avaliable: the 8 images bundle and the 20 images bundle (You will need to be a registered user in order to access the bundle page)

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