THE AWARDS

The connection of Black and White Photography with tradition and timeless values is beyond contestation. Since its infancy, black and white photography was not only the craft but primarily the art, where ideas conjured in the artist’s imagination is immortalized through the lens of their camera.

The Monochrome Awards is primarily aimed at people of whom photography is a passion and a way of life. It is a platform where professionals and amateurs can enter their shots amongst a sea of ambitious and creative community of photographers from around the world for a chance to win $3000and an opportunity to show their work to an international audience.

Over a dozen categories allow entrants to specify definitions of photographic specializations and their large diversity allows adequate representation of photographers in several key areas. As a pillar and cradle of photography, Black and White photography is evidently a product of a great tradition. It requires experience, ability to discern dependencies and subtleties of tone, and most of all, imagination.

With Monochrome Awards, you can show your skills in traditional photography relying on plates and papers, or in the technique of wet collodion, as well as in digital technology. The creative process in black and white photography is extremely flexible. It allows you to present a single image countless times, often showing it in a different way. Only the ability to use a variety of shades of black and white, spreading from the confines of these two tones while enclosed in the perfect frame, allows the artist to achieve mastery.

© Thomas Vijayan

OUR MISSION

Monochrome Photography is arguably a difficult but fascinating art form. Gaining extensive theoretical knowledge and rich experience is often not enough to rise above other equally good, competent and creative artists.

Our mission is to search for talent while promoting photographers, both professionals and amateurs alike, to present their work among the best monochrome photographers on earth. In addition to the financial rewards, our winners also get full support in the area of promotion and furthering down one’s career path.

As a community, we at Monochrome Awards collectively share our knowledge, educate, and nurture the best artists. With us, you will learn to recognize intricate facets in the industry that most photographers dismiss and render unnoticed such as textures, shapes, forms, light and the most signifficant of all — interactions that interplay between them.

© Carmine Chiriaco

WHY ENTER

Your valuable participation in our competition is a great way to earn extra money while pursuing your passion and enhancing your portfolio at the same time. At Monochrome Awards, professional entries can count on a prize of $2000while winners for the amateur category can bag a total of $1000.

Aside from the generous cash prize, winners will also receive a certificate and the right to use the official logo as an incident thereof. Featured works will also be published in the book of winners as well as on the pages of magazines and online portals of our media partners.

The works of winners and honorable mentions will likewise be presented in the annual post-contest gallery. On top of that, the wide latitude and reach of our Monochrome Awards allows the laureates to appear in media and art galleries all over the world.

HOW TO ENTER

Create your online profile here, upload your images and pay entry fees. Your entry is submitted when entry fees are paid. You will receive an entry confirmation e-mail upon payment of entry fees.

PREPARING FILES FOR UPLOAD

Photographs must be resized to 1100 pixels on the longest side. They must be saved as JPEG file (JPG).

Prepare your files with the following specifications:

• sRGB or Adobe98 colour space, 8-bit,
• longest dimension equals 1100 pixels,
• saved as a JPEG at a setting of 10 (100%) or higher,
• no watermarks / copyright units / logos on images,
• only bleed photographs without borders,
• do not include any characters such as @, $, #, as a part of the file name.

CATEGORIES

Categories are in two sections – Professional and Amateur.

CATEGORY LIST

• Abstract
• Architecture
• Conceptual
• Fashion / Beauty
• Fine Art
• Landscapes
• Nature
• Nude
• Photojournalism
• Photomanipulation
• Portrait
• Street
• Wildlife

PRIZES

The winners of the Professional and Amateur sections will receive the titles: Monochrome Photographer of the Year and Monochrome Discovery of the Year and cash prizes.

MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ANNUAL BOOK

The work of the first, second and third place winners (together with further entries that the judges feel are worthy of commendation) from both the professional and amateur categories will be published in the Monochrome Photography Awards annual book. All names of the Honorable Mention winners will also be included in the book.

OVERALL WINNER OF PROFESSIONAL SECTION WILL RECEIVE:

• $2,000 cash prize
• Title: Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2022
• Showcased at the online Winners Gallery
• Your work included in the Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book.
• Winners logo and certificate

OVERALL WINNER OF AMATEUR SECTION WILL RECEIVE:

• $1,000 cash prize
• Title: Monochrome Discovery of the Year 2022
• Showcased at the online Winners Gallery
• Your work included in the Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book.
• Winners logo and certificate

WINNERS OF 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD PLACE OF EACH CATEGORY WILL RECEIVE:

• Showcased at the online Winners Gallery
• Your work included in the Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book.
• Winners logo and certificate

EACH PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

• Title: Category Photographer of the Year
• Showcased at the online Winners Gallery
• Your work included in the Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book
• Winners logo and certificate

EACH AMATEUR CATEGORY WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

• Title: Category Discovery of the Year
• Showcased at the online Winners Gallery
• Your work included in the Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book
• Winners logo and certificate

HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

• Showcased at the online Winners Gallery
• Your name included in the Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book.
• Winners logo and certificate

ENTRY FEES & DEADLINES

Here are the details about entry fees and deadlines for 2022 edition of Monochrome Photography Awards.

FINAL DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 13TH, 2022

Entry Fees:

• Professional: 25 USD/Single Entry
• Amateur: 20 USD/Single Entry

WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT: JANUARY 8TH, 2023

MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS JUDGES

Your photographs will be judged by a panel of renowned photographers.

Meet ours judges:

ANGÉLIQUE BOISSIÈRE angeliqueb.com	GABRIEL STANCIU focuslight.ro	AUSRA OSIPAVICIUTE aography.com	ASH GEVORKYAN @gevorkyanshot
OLIVIER VALSECCHI oliviervalsecchi.com	KAZUAYA KATO photo.kazuyakato.net	FADWA ROUHANA fadwarouhana.com	CARLOS NAVARRO navarro.photo
LENA WEISBEK lenaweisbek-fineart.com	FEDOR VERCAMMEN fedorvercammen.com	ANNA-MARIA VASKOVSKAJA @wearefromforestland

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Monochrome Awards competition is open to professional and amateur photographers using all forms of black and white photography.

Anyone over 18 years of age can enter the competition with the exception of employees of the Monochrome Awards, their associated companies and employees of any company chosen to sponsor prizes for the competition.

Judges are not permitted to enter into the competition.

To enter, you must upload your Entry at the following website: www.monoawards.comfollowing the on-screen instructions carefully.

By entering the Competition, you agree and acknowledge that the Monochrome Awards is permitted to receive your registration data.

Monochrome Awards may publish any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to it or to the website at its sole discretion and it shall be entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication.

Any image submitted to the competition may be used by the Monochrome Awards, and its media partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the competition only. You hereby grant the Monochrome Awards a non-exclusive, irrevocable license in each Entry throughout the world in all media for any use in connection with the competition.

Winners and Honourable Winners will be published online on www.monoawards.com

GENERAL CONDITIONS

Only black and white photographs will be accepted to the contest. Toned images (like sepia, selenium, etc.) will be also accepted.

Images may be captured using film or digital.

There is no limit to the number of individual images each artist may submit.

Images that have won prizes in other competitions or that have been submitted in other competitions currently underway are eligible.

There is no time or date restriction on when the image was taken.

Files must meet the following specifications:

• sRGB or Adobe98 colour space, 8-bit;
• Longest dimension equals 1100 pixels;
• Saved as a JPEG at a setting of 10 (100%) or higher.
• No Watermarks / Copyright Units / Logos on images
• Only bleed photographs without borders

Winning Entrants must be able to provide a high resolution digital file (minimum 3000px wide@300dpi). This file will be used only to prove the ownership of the image. Winning Entrants who do not fulfill these eligibility criteria will be deemed ineligible and disqualified without the right to appeal.

Winning Entrants must be able to provide a high resolution digital file (minimum 3000px wide@300dpi) to be included in the Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book.

All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party. The entrant must be the sole copyright owner of all photographs entered and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries (or their parents/guardians if children under 16 are featured). Further, the entrant must not have breached any laws when taking their photographs.

Winners’ names will be published online.

COPYRIGHTS & USAGE RIGHTS

Copyright of the images will remain at all times with the photographer.

For awarded images, copyright holders grant the Monochrome Awards unlimited non-exclusive use of high-resolution images for activities in all media, including social media, online and print, in relation to the contest and all promotional activities without any remuneration being due.

Copyright holders of all awarded images grant the Monochrome Awards non-exclusive use of low-resolution pictures on our website, without any remuneration being due.

Images will be used strictly in connection to the awards and will not be used for any other marketing purposes other than to promote the Monochrome Awards. Images will not be resold or used by any other third party. If there is a request for such, we will forward that request to the photographer via e-mail.

To promote winners of the Monochrome Awards is granted the right to display images on social network websites (on our official profiles) including: Facebook.

You agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of your name and images for the purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity in connection with the competition without additional compensation.

Monochrome Awards and its media partners assume no responsibility and are not liable for any image misuse by external third parties.

Any photograph used by the Monochrome Awards shall carry a credit line.

PRIZES

Cash prizes will be paid in USD by PayPal. Any fees incurred for foreign currency transfers will be deducted from the winning amount. There are no alternatives available for prize winners.

JUDGING CONDITIONS

Entries will be judged by nominated judges.

Images will be judged on artistic merit, originality, subject and style.

The decision of the Monochrome Awards is final.

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