Xposure International Photography & Film Awards

THE AWARDS

A FREE to enter International Photography & Film Awards with a prize pool value of over $50,000 USD across multiple genres. Photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience are eligible to enter the Xposure International Awards. We have also included a category for filmmakers. The panel of judges are looking to award an Overall Winner from the photography categories and a winner and runner-up from each category, including moving images & short films. The Jury is looking for unique, exceptional, and high-quality images.

Architectural Photography
Drone Photography
Junior* (Special Rules & Conditions Apply)
Mobile Photography**
Nature & Landscape
Night Photography**
Photojournalism
Portraiture
Short Film & Moving Image
Street Photography

In each category, there will be:
1 Winner
1 Runner-up
5 Additional Nominated Entries (Nominees)

In addition to the category winners, an overall winner will be determined from the highest single image score achieved, regardless of the category entered.

Prizes & Benefits

  • Overall Winner  – $6,000 (USD) / Flights and accommodation to the Awards Ceremony in Sharjah UAE / Included in the Xposure festival exhibition
  • Category Winners – $3,000 (USD) / Flights and accommodation to the Awards Ceremony in Sharjah UAE / Included in the Xposure festival exhibition
  • Category Runner-up – $1,500 (USD) / Included in the Xposure festival exhibition  / Flights and accommodation to the Awards Ceremony in Sharjah UAE
  • Nominees – Online Exhibition/image displayed during the Xposure Festival
  • Junior Category for under 18 – UAE Residents. This is a restricted “Junior” category for residents of the United Arab Emirates under 18. non-cash prizes of digital camera equipment, and included in the Xposure festival exhibition.
  • Junior Category under 18  ‘Winner & Runner-up’ non-cash prizes of digital camera equipment and included in the Xposure festival exhibition.
  • This category is sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, who are providing supplementary prizes in addition to the main cash prize provided by Xposure.”

Competition Entries

DEADLINE  – 30 OCTOBER 2023 at 23:00 GST – Gulf Standard Time (Standard Time) is (UTC +4)

* Nominees will be notified the week commencing 25 November 2023

RULES

Who may enter?
This competition is FREE to enter and open to all nationalities over the age of 18. There is a Junior Category for under 18’s residents in the UAE. Employees of Sharjah Government Media Bureau, and each of their affiliates, subsidiaries, and agents, are not eligible to enter or win a prize in the main categories, however, there is a restricted category for Sharjah Government employees.

How to enter

For the photography categories, images must be submitted through our online awards platform at XPOSURE AWARDS  The images should be suitable for public display, printing, and publication in the Xposure Year Book. The JPG file format should be used and the preferred resolution is 300 dpi and preferably in a ratio of 3:2. IMPORTANT: Image and film filenames for upload should only use normal western characters & numbers. Special characters or symbols may prevent a successful upload.

For the film category, you can upload your file in MP4 format with a maximum file size of 900MB and running time between 3 minutes and 20 minutes. Scripts together with other information may be referenced. Uploads are accepted through the awards platform in the respective category.

More detail for photo submissions… https://awards.xposure.net/international-photography-awards/

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