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ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

Application Deadline: 19 June 2025. 

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The Royal Society of Biology’s annual photography competition invites amateurs to submit photographs on a particular theme. The theme of the 2025 Photography Competition is Restoring Biodiversity and Habitat.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Organiser of the competition is the Royal Society of Biology, 1 Naoroji Street, London, WC1X 0GB. The competition is open to anyone except those involved in its organisation, employees of the Society and their immediate family, sponsors of the competition, judges and their immediate family.

The competition is free to enter and is open to Society members and nonmembers. Entrants must not be professional photographers. For the purposes of this competition, a professional photographer will be considered to be someone who makes more than half their annual income from photography-related work.

Entrants to the Young Photographer of the Year category must be under 18 years of age at the time of the closing date (19 June 2025).

Entrants under 13 years of age must seek consent from a parent or guardian in order to take part in the competition. Details for the entrant’s parent or guardian will be requested when they submit their photograph(s). The Royal Society of Biology will contact the parent or guardian to confirm details of consent are correct.

Prior to submission, entrants must not have offered any of their entries for sale, been paid for any publication of their entries, or won or been runner-up in any other photographic competition with any of their entries.

At the time of submission, entrants must declare to the Organiser whether they have entered their images in any other photographic competition. Such submissions will be accepted for entry into the RSB Photography Competition at the judges’ discretion.

BENEFIT:

The Photographer of the Year (18 and over) winner’s prize will be £1,000 and the Young Photographer of the Year (under 18) winner’s prize will be £500.

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TRANSVERSALIDADES PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

Application Deadline: 24:00 pm on April 21st, 2025 (Lisbon time).

LOCATION: Portugal

The call for submissions that portray spaces beyond and beyond borders, scattered across the various continents, aims, by documenting the diversity of Territories, Societies and Cultures, to read and interpret the multiplicity of natural, economic, social and cultural landscapes that are scattered across the vast geographies of the planet.

Themes: The pictures collected under this contest should portray the diversity of territories, societies and cultures of different continents in order to allow crossed looks on the changes which are taking place in different parts of the world, show different styles of social organization and space, capture signs of continuity and change, archaisms and innovations that manifest themselves in the most populous cities or rural areas, located in the most remote and distant and areas, which are facing depopulation. 

ELIGIBILITY:

There are four categories:

Landscapes, biodiversity, and natural heritage.
Rural areas, agriculture, and settlement.
The city and the urbanization process.
Culture and society: cultural diversity and social inclusion

Registration is free and universal.

Each candidate may only submit one portfolio with six (6) photos about a single subject of the contest

Applications will be submitted electronically through the http://www.cei.pt website

The application consists of:

the application form properly filled with the following fields: personal information about the author; description for each photo;

file with portfolio of six (6) photos:

Photos must be numbered from 1 to 6 according to the captions on the form;
ii. The file name must be identified by the identification the number of each contestant: identity card number, passport or other (Ex: 122258045.zip).
iii. File must be sent to the email ceibericos.transversalidades@gmail.com or via WeTransfer.

Each contestant will be assigned a code that will identify the candidate before the jury.

BENEFIT:

General Awards:

The Overall Winner (1) for the best and most complete submitted portfolio will receive a prize money of EUR 1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred euros)

The Winner of each theme (4) for the best and most complete portfolio will receive EUR 750.00 (seven hundred and fifty euros)

The Jury will also award up to 12 portfolios, each being awarded with EUR 150.00 (one hundred and fifty euros).

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