HIPA - Hamdan International Photography Award: The Moment 2017-2018

HIPA - Hamdan International Photography Award: The Moment 2017-2018 now is over!

CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Hamdan International Photography Award continues its 7th season opening a new award building on a six-year tradition of inspiring artistic and intellectual talents to propagate the true spirit of photography and highlight its crucial role in the creation of a culture, as well as giving recognition to innovators worldwide.

After six seasons of competition, and over a quarter of a million visual photographic masterpieces, HIPA has once again set out to inspire photographers from all walks of life to attain greatness through forward thinking and creativity.
They request that photographers, for a short while, forget the past and ignore the future to be fully immersed in ‘The Moment’. Photographers must delve deep into the madness and spontaneity of the present when capturing their photographs for HIPA’s Seventh Season main category.

"The Moment" will be the main theme of the Seventh Season of competition.

The biggest surprise of this season is the launch of video submissions for the 7th Season of competition.
The new ‘Time-lapse’ category, introduces an exciting phase in the competition which targets a new segment of the creative community.

Categories have been chosen which will inspire some of the world’s finest and most committed photographers. The Award encourages photographers to share their craft and demonstrate excellence in what is now one of the most coveted Awards in the world.

The four categories are:

• The Moment (main theme for this edition)
• Portfolio (story-telling)
• General
• Time-Lapse (video)

Think of them as the catalyst for your ideas and your springboard to creative excellence, to capturing the people, the places, and the colours of life that make our world such an exciting place to live. Guidlines:

• Participants are allowed to submit a black and white photograph in all categories except for the ‘General Colour sub-category’.

• You can submit a maximum of 1 photo for each categoryJPEG format, with high quality resolution, of a minimum 5 MB in size. The minimum of the longest edge should be no less than 2000 pixel and the quality no less than 300dpi. The same photo must not be submitted in more than 1 category. Any photo submitted in more than 1 category will be discarded from the competition.
You must also provide a title and description for each photograph submitted.
You are kindly requested to upload the original photograph (RAW) or the photograph without any editing on the time of submitting the photograph to the contest.
Some form of editing and digital manipulation in submissions is permitted but this must be kept to a minimum and not affect the authenticity of the photograph.

• For the Portfolio category
• Finalists in the ‘Time-lapse’ category will be required to provide sample photographs/video material to prove the authenticity of their submissions.

Accepted video format is MP4, not exceeding 300 MB in size and must be between 30 - 60 seconds in length.
The video should be a high quality HD quality, 1920 X 1080 with an aspect ratio of 16:9. The format must be MP4 H264 and 25 fps.
This does not apply the ‘Time-lapse’ category which may require you to send over some original frames of the video at a later date.
In this category you are allowed to enter only 1 video submission.

You cannot participate with a photo that has already won in a competition, or already used for commercial purposes.

There are now THREE Special Awards for the 7th season and they are; The Photography Appreciation AwardThe Photography Content Creator Award and the Emerging Person/Organisation in Photography Award
There is no entry fee to partecipate.