Photography Contest

Fine Art Photography Awards 2025-2026

Fine Art Photography Awards 2025-2026

Deadline |

CLOSED

Theme |

Open

Territory |

Worldwide

Eligibility |

Open worldwide to amateurs and professionals alike, over 18 years of age.

Entry Fees |

Between $19 and $34

Prizes |

Cash Prize
Fine Art Photography Awards is one of the largest award giving bodies for a community of artists ushering an era of new trends in the world of photography. Created in 2014, this competition is a melting pot for people where passion, interest, sense of beauty and openness to diversity in photography collide in intergalactic proportions. At Fine Art Photography, we seek to find artists and unique souls who breathe and live for creativity—where we provide a platform of promotion and support in their pursuit of self-realization and development.

This contest caters to individuals actively attuned to experimentations and new trends in art. Fine Art Photography delights in providing an avenue for talented souls to brandish the world’s eccentricity, variety, beauty, and even ugliness from the artist’s lens. And yes, you can have it your own way! Delight in the crazy beautiful fusion of simplicity and complexity of the world with us!

In a world dominated by a traditional approach to photography, we know how difficult it is to break the great divide between two seemingly polarizing styles, with modern approach on one hand and traditional on the other. But take heart, for this is what Fine Art Photography is all about—it’s about you showing your own vision of the subject. At Fine Art Photography Awards, you can take center stage and allow the judges to get a glimpse of how you dissect beauty in the harmony of your photographs. In this competition, everyone is free to use any technique. Obligatory devices and other coercive methods is not how we roll. Only the final effect counts. We break all the rules, and we want you to break them with us by creating new trends in art.

Fine Art Photography Awards is made up of 20 categories divided for professional and amateur level of expertise: Abstract, Architecture, Experimental, Conceptual, Fashion, Fine Art, Landscape, Nature, Night Photography, Nudes, Mobile, Open Theme, People, Photojournalism, Portrait, Seascape, Street Photography, Travel, Wildlife/Animals.

Prizes:

Total prizes : 5000$ :

Professional category:
- Grand Prize Winner will receive $3000
- Title: Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year
- Individual certificate
- Digital Statue

Amateur category:
- Grand Prize Winner will receive $2000
- Title: Amateur Fine Art Photographer of the Year
- Individual certificate
- Digital Statue

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