The Competition
The premier international travel photography awards
TPOTY is the photo contest that's run by photographers for photographers. It's open to photographers from all countries; amateur or professional, beginner or expert, young or old, we have categories to suit you all! And it's judged by leading photography experts and offers fantastic prizes from our very supportive sponsors, including travel adventures, photographic equipment and photography tuition.
The power of TPOTY working for photographers
But it's not just about prizes – TPOTY is about getting amazing international exposure for your work. Past winners have seen their image sales soar along with interest in their photography. The best images feature in the beautiful TPOTY 'Journey' portfolio books as well as our exhibitions.
We're often approached by picture buyers wanting to source images and our galleries are amongst this site's most visited pages on the whole Travel Photographer of the Year website.For details about how one young entrant to TPOTY secured, in addition to her prize, a five figure sum from a London Advertising agency for the rights to use her image in an international advertising campaign read the TPOTY blog.
Who can enter?
Anyone! Wherever you live in the world, whether you're an amateur or professional photographer, and whatever age you are, you can enter TPOTY. This year's competition opens for entries from the 29th of March 2012.
On the competition website click on the "competition" tab on the top menu bar to check out the submission categories and prizes. There's something for everyone!
Here to help
TPOTY has helped many travel photographers - not just the winners - to raise their profile, sell their work, get commissions or launch photographic careers. And they never forget that they are your images, which is why TPOTY features on Artists' Bill of Rights approved list list of competitions.
Categories
TPOTY 2012 has three Portfolio categories (People Watching, Wild Planet, and Journeys); two single image categories, - One Shot and First Shot; the New Talent category; the Young Travel Photographer of the Year award (with two different age groups) and the Cutty Sark Award for the overall winner and Travel Photographer of the Year 2012. There are also two new categories; the Condé Nast Traveller award and HD Video category, Travel Shorts.
Prizes:
There are a wide range of exciting prizes on offer for each of the above categories including cash up to £5,000, a 9 day safari trip to Kenya, a pro digital camera, a paid commission from Condé Nast Traveller magazine and much much more.
For further information please visit the Travel Photographer of the Year website.
Complies with the Bill of Rights
This competition meets all the standards set out in
the Bill of Rights For Artists
Competitions which meet all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights For Artists do not do any of the following -
- claim copyright
- claim exclusive use
- seek waiving of moral rights
- fail to give a credit for all free usage
- add, alter, or remove metadata from submissions
- seek usage rights other than for promoting the contest and no other purpose. Note that a book, posters, cards, or a calendar are seen as legitimate ways of promoting the contest and defraying costs
- seek free usage rights in excess of 3 years
- use the submissions commercially without the entrant's agreement, and such commercial usage is to be subject to a freely negotiated license independently of the competition.
- make it a condition of winning that an entrant must sign a commercial usage agreement
- fail to publish all documents on the competition website that an entrant may have to sign
- fail to name the judges for this or last year's competition
- fail to explicitly state all the organisations who will acquire rights to the submissions
- set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
- fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how submissions are used.
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