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12TH INTERNATIONAL CVCE PHOTO CONTEST

Application Deadline: March 31, 2026.

LOCATION: Spain

CVCEPHOTO is the International Mountain Activity Photo Contest organized by Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea, a mountaineering club from San Sebastian. The participants authorize CVCEPHOTO the rights to the reproduction of the submitted works for expositions, catalog printings, web publishing, and any other media outlet that the CVCE considers to be of interest to promote the contest.

ELIGIBILITY:

The contest is open to all amateur or professional photographers around the world. Participation is free. It’s understood that underage participants have parent or tutor authorization to participate. If they should win the contest, such authorization will be required.

Categories: “MOUNTAIN ACTIVITY”: Any image related to sport activities (non-motorized) that take place on mountains. (For instance: alpinism, climbing, ski, trekking, speleology, paragliding …)

Each participant may submit a maximum of 3 photographs. There won’t be accepted any photos previously submitted to this contest. Only pictures taken by digital cameras are accepted.

The RAW digital format of the submitted images must be available. Participants must warrant that the submitted photographs are an original work created solely by the entrant and that he or she owns the copyright of the work that is being presented.

CVCEPHOTO takes as granted that the participant has the authorization and/or the permission of the persons that appear in the photographs submitted to the contest.

Works must be submitted in JPEG format and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide, converted to sRGB color space with the profile being embedded in the file. All digital images must be 2 megabytes or smaller. Works must not include frames or footers. Works must be submitted exclusively through the ENTRY FORM.

CVCEPHOTO will contact participants through the email they provide in this entry form.

BENEFIT:

CVCEPHOTO Grand Prize: €1,500 + Exclusive and unique trophy created by Iñigo Arístegui, artist.

“BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia Poster” Prize: € 800 and BBK MENDI FILM Poster.

“EITB Prize”: €800. – “EMF Prize”: €800

”Special Jury Prize”: €500

17 Honorable mentions: DIPLOMAS.

All the cash prizes will be subject to the corresponding retention according to the law.

CVCEPHOTO will contact you by email: info@CVCEPHOTO.com o cvcephoto@gmail.com.

Please make sure you include it in your email list in order to avoid communications being blocked by anti-spam or security systems.

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İSTANBUL PHOTO AWARDS 2026

Application Deadline: 9 Jan. 2026 at 23:59 (UTC+3) İstanbul time.  

LOCATION: Turkey

The İstanbul Photo Awards is open for application. All professional photographers and freelancers are encouraged to apply.

ELIGIBILITY:

The contest is open only for professional photographers.

The contest is open for photographers both freelancer and under the name of a company / agency. Freelancers can add company name for each submission at the INSERT IMAGE tab.

Applications are free and open between 13 Nov. 2025 – 9 Jan. 2026 at 23:59 (UTC+3) İstanbul time.

Photographs contain the relevant and correct information. Submitted photos must be taken in 2025 (between 1 Jan. 2025- 31 Dec. 2025).

The photographer has the liability for providing accurate personal information like name, age, company etc. besides the image info like date, location etc..

All submissions must have necessary information embedded into photographs IPTC like: title, description, creation date, city, and country. The info and category of the photographs can be updated until the deadline.

Photography captions must be written in English. Kindly check the caption limits before upload your photos.

No signatures, stamp or any other identifying mark is allowed anywhere on the entry. Photographer’s name or company should not be mentioned in the captions.

Digital manipulation and any kind of photoshop effects are not allowed, only basic color corrections are allowed. It is not allowed to add signatures on the photo or in the caption.

Photographers must be the copyright owner of the submitted photographs.

Photographs must not violate any third-party rights.

Photographers are invited to apply all categories at the same time, both with published and unpublished photos. 

Photographers can apply 4 different photos in single categories and 2 different stories in story categories.

Same photo cannot be submitted into two different categories. Story category applications should include 10 photos.

Kindly note that this contest is for professionals only, and İstanbul Photo Awards’ jury may ask for proof of the source of the photo or publications in newspapers, magazines, or websites.

BENEFIT:

2026 PRIZES: Single News 1st prize winner will be nominated as “Photo of the Year”, the laureate receives 6.000 USD in total.      

CATEGORIES  FIRST SECOND THIRD

SINGLE NEWS*6,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY NEWS3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE SPORTS3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY SPORTS3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE NATURE & ENVIRONMENT3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY NATURE & ENVIRONMENT3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE PORTRAIT3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY PORTRAIT3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE DAILY LIFE3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY DAILY LIFE3,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
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