Rules of photo competition

The annual international photo competition is open to citizens from every country aged 18 and older. The works will be accepted for the competition in professional or amateur nominations.

Stages of Photo Competition

The works will be accepted from 09:00 on August 1, 2014 till the midnight of January 31, 2015. The works sent after the specified time (GMT Kiev) will not be accepted for consideration.
Till the 15th of February – the evaluation of works by jury will be held.
The 14th of March, 2015 – awarding of the winners and opening of the exhibition of photo competition. 

Submission • Entry fee 

1. All images are submitted online on our website. To submit images visit our home page, create an account or Login to your existing account to begin. Before uploading the competition works a participant have to fill in the registration form and read the User Agreement.

2. All images are submitted online on our website using the interface of user’s profile. Entry fee may be paid from a user’s profile – $10. One may pay the fee using Viza, MasterCard (on-line system of payment LiqPay) or WebMoney. There is a limit to the number of images that may be submitted. You may upload up to 6 works.

3. After the 31st of January, 2015 all uploaded and paid photographs will be available for the jury’s assessment.

4. For the nominations «Photograph of the Year • professional» and «Photograph of the Year • amateur» there shall be accepted the works published for the first time not earlier than 2014. Published for the first time shall mean that the photograph submitted for the competition might have been taken earlier than 2014, but due to the various reasons it could not be demonstrated to the public. The works under consideration have not participated in any other photo competition yet. This rule does not apply to other nominations.

All loadable photographs and image elements shall be original. The author of the image shall have full rights to such image. The organizer shall have the right to backup withholding of the competition work in case of the first suspicion of plagiarism.

On 31st of January, 2015 there ends acceptance of works. The jury shall define the preliminary list of works (long-list). After that there takes place the repeated selection stage, as a result of which the list of finalists (short-list) is formed. The winners and award winners of the competition will be selected exactly based on the works of finalists.

In February, 2015 the jury will announce the list of finalists of the photo competition. Awarding of the winners and opening of the exhibition of photo competition will be held in March 14th, 2015. Upon the demand of organizers, the finalists of photo competition shall present their works for print in high resolution for the display at the exhibition and memorial catalogues.

Technical Requirements to Uploaded Works

Upload the file of photograph in JPEG format (the colour model sRGB)

  • Length – no more than 1600 pixels
  • Height - no more than 900 pixels
  • Maximum size of one file shall not exceed 2 MB.

Delete frames, signatures, logotypes, water-marks and any other marks, identifying the author of work, on the photograph.

Presentation of File by Finalists of Photo Competition 

The finalists of competition will be sent the electronic inquires with the request to send the HQ works, which won, within 3 days. The original files shall be sent in TIFF or JPEG formats with the resolution, being sufficient for graphic arts printing of А2 format and larger. Wide-format printing will be performed by «Diagonal» company. 

Nominations of Competition

«Photograph of the Year • professionals» – the author of the most memorable and outstanding work, which would be selected by the jury among the numerous pretenders in the professional category.

«Photograph of the Year • amateur»  the most interesting and special photograph, selected from «amateur» category. The work shall be taken in 2014.

«Spirit of Freedom»shall be awarded to the author of the most interesting (in the sense and artistic relation) reportage photography. This nomination is mostly for those photojournalists and photographers who made documentary shots of mass protests or people's fight for their rights and justice.

«Discovery of the Year»– the national award. The special award for the young authors from Ukraine (the age oа participant shall be to 30 years) from the amateur category, whose works would be considered by the jury as the most interesting and perspective. The task of this nomination is to help novices and promising photographers from Ukraine to start their own creative development.

«People's Choice Award» – is awarded based on the open vote. The work of award finalist, which gathers the highest number of positive responses on the Award`s site.

Genres of Competition:

  1. Architecture: buildings, bridges, industrial facilities, interiors, urban landscapes and elements thereof.
  2. Scenic photography: man in living environment, family, culture, lifestyle.
  3. Journalistic story: reportage, political storylines, sport, war and conflicts, environment, photo essay.
  4. Flora and fauna: macro photography, underwater photography, wild nature, animals.
  5. Portrait: man, woman, child, and group portrait.
  6. Landscape: sunsets-sunrises, seasons, air-photography.
  7. Fine art: still life, collage, nude, abstract.
  8. Сonceptual photography.

Prize Fund and Awards

The Grand Prize «Photograph of the Year 2014 • professional» Shall be chosen by the competent jury among the finalists of the competition. All finalists will be invited to the official awarding ceremony in Kyiv, where all the winners of «Golden Camera» would be announced.

  • Statuette “Golden Camera”.
  • Money prize in the amount of $ 2000*.
  • Lense TAMRON SP 24-70 F/2,8 Di VC USD (1300 $)
  • Guaranteed participation in the catalogue of award.
  • Participation in the final exhibition of the photo award.
  • Participation in the online gallery of the winners of photo competition.
  • Publications in the leading photo periodicals.

Grand Prize «Photograph of the Year 2014 • amateur»

  • Statuette “Golden Camera”.
  • Money prize in the amount of  $1000*.
  • Guaranteed participation in the catalogue of award.
  • Participation in the final exhibition of the photo award.
  • Participation in the online gallery of the winners of photo competition.
  • Publications in the leading photo periodicals.

Grand Prize «Spirit of Freedom»

  • Statuette “Golden Camera”.
  • Camera Fujifilm X-T1 + Lense XF 18-55 F2.8-4 (2100 $)
  • Guaranteed participation in the catalogue of award.
  • Participation in the final exhibition of the photo award.
  • Participation in the online gallery of the winners of photo competition.
  • Publications in the leading photo periodicals.

Grand Prize «Discovery of the Year»

  • Statuette “Golden Camera”.
  • Money prize in the amount of $500*.
  • Camera Fujifilm X-E2 + Lense XF 18-55 F2.8-4 (1500 $)
  • Guaranteed participation in the catalogue of award.
  • Participation in the final exhibition of the photo award.
  • Participation in the online gallery of the winners of photo competition.
  • Publications in the leading photo periodicals.

People's Choice Award

Will be awarded to the pretender among the finalists, whose work gathers the highest number of votes on the Award`s site.

  • Money prize in the amount of $ 500*.
  • Honorary diploma of the participant of competition.
  • Participation in the online gallery of the winners of photo competition.

* Cash prizes will be paid according to the National Bank of Ukraine dollar rate at the time of Award launch – August 1, 2014. What is the reason? From the begining of 2014 Ukraine came into difficult period of social and political rearrangements. And the currency rate is quite unstable (check the dynamics of the USD-UAH rate on the gov.bank site). It means that up to the date of winner's awarding the summs of cash prizes will be redused. 

First, Second and Third Places: will be presented to the winners of competition, who take the first, second and third places in each of the genres of competition. The company «Cyfrolab» will give as a gift photobooks to Grand Prix winners and contest finalists of the 1st places.

  • Honorary diploma of the participant of competition.
  • Catalogue award for the winners of the 1st places
  • Guaranteed participation in the catalogue of award.
  • Participation in the final exhibition of the photo award.
  • Participation in the online gallery of the winners of photo competition.

The money prize can be transferred to the winner only upon availability of the identification document (passport) or power of attorney, attested and certified by a notary public for the winner’s representative.

The winner shall pay all taxes, connected with receipt of the money prize and imposed by the legislation of Ukraine.

    Work of Expert Jury

    The jury shall make decision by a majority vote. The jury’s decision shall be final and shall not assume discussion and revision.The members of jury can change the nomination for the sent works upon their decision.The jury may make decision concerning absence of winners in one or a few nominations.The jury may award the individual works beyond the nominations.The jury shall reserve the right to refuse to accept the works for consideration subject to presence of at least one non-conformity with the competition terms and conditions of or subject to suspicions of plagiarism (pending investigation) without notification of the author of such photograph.

    We insistently recommend abstaining from contacts with the representatives of jury within the period of holding the Photo competition. This can result in the decisions to disqualify the participant.

    Use of Images and Copyright

    The authors of photographs shall reserve all rights to the sent images. The photographs of winners and award winners of the Photo competition will be transferred for the competition Archive and will be permanently available for the web-site visitors in the online gallery.

    The organizer shall reserve the right to use the photographs of winners for the further advancement of photo award: in the printed catalogue of photo award, electronic and printed mass media, on exhibitions and other events. At the same time the organizer shall always mention the author of work either in writing or orally and the organizer's logotype as well. The official partners of photo award may organize the exhibition of the winner's photographs on their own territory till the end of calendar year.

    The organizer shall not bear liabilities of any kind of money compensation for using the author’s image for the above mentioned purposes. Uploading the works for the competition, thereby you confirm your consent to these rules.

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