Xposure International Photography & Film Awards 2024

Xposure International Photography & Film Awards 2024 is now open for entries!

Xposure International Photography & Film Awards 2024: Xposure International Photography & Film Awards 2024, international competition organised by the Sharjah Government Media Bureau, UAE has been recently opened for entries inviting photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience to participate.

Short description

Xposure International Photography & Film Awards 2024, international competition organised by the Sharjah Government Media Bureau, UAE has been recently opened for entries inviting photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience to participate.

There are 9 categories:

➜ Architectural Photography
➜ Junior
➜ Mobile Photography
➜ Nature & Landscape
➜ Night Photography
➜ Photomanipulation and AI
➜ Portraiture
➜ Short Film & Moving Image
➜ Sports Photography
➜ Street Photography

You may enter up to ten images or films per user distributed in any ratio across the awards categories.

To qualify, your photographs or films must be taken or produced in the past 3-years.

Note! Submissions open on 1 May 2024.

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 winner and runner-up from each category will be invited to the Xposure Festival Awards Ceremony (including flights and accommodation for the festival week), where the position’s outcome will be announced.

Submission requirements

➜ 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. 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. All submitted films and video clips will be based on a URL submission to your video clip or film hosted on Vimeo, YouTube, or any other suitable platform.

➜ The preferred image size should be close to 5,000 pixels on the longer dimension. Organiser accepts images that were not captured at this resolution as long as they are over 2,700 pixels on the long dimension.

Nominated finalists will be notified and asked to submit High-Resolution TIFF and RAW files.

Who may enter?

Photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience are eligible to enter the Xposure International Awards.

Prize

➜ Overall winner: 6,000 USD
➜ Category winners: 3,000 USD
➜ Category runner-up: 1,500 USD

Entry fees

Official website

Share on social