On 8 – 9 September we’re on again! Scandinavia's biggest street photography festival!
It’s the third year in a row. Gothenburg Street Photo Festival is back with a super exciting program. Buy a festival pass and experience two days of top-class Swedish and international speakers, mingling, inspiration, photo exhibitions, photo competitions, networking and personal development.
Photo prizes
Worth approx. SEK 100,000
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Lecturers
4
Competition categories
250
Visitors
Photography competitions
Participate in our photo competitions. Choose one, or several, of four categories, and submit your best pictures. Be judged by renowned photographers and win attractive prizes worth a total of SEK 100,000.
Color
Single Color
Color
In this category you may enter one to six color pictures, the choice is yours. They can be totally disconnected from each other. A prerequisite is of course that it is street photography, taken in the public space. This may be streets, squares, buses, trams, pubs, libraries etc. The pictures may not have been arranged and should not be of people you know. They must have been taken by yourself and there must be human presence in them. There is no limit as to when the pictures have been taken.
Domare: Matt Stuart
Deadline: 21 August 2023
Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon CEST Monday 21 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 8-9 2023.
Born in 1974, Matt Stuart was raised in the leafy suburbs of Harrow, North West London. He admits to a less than distinguished school career, but was called upon aged 11 to play a trumpet solo in front of the Queen Mother. Her Majesty’s reaction is not recorded. A little later, in 1986, Matt discovered skateboarding after watching the film “Back to the Future”. Skating occupied his every waking moment until 1994, when he looked up from the half-pipe and noticed that girls had got a lot more interesting. He also indulged in a brief, ill-advised affair with Kung Fu. Matt’s father, keenly aware that his son would never be the next Bruce Lee, introduced him to photography, handing over books by Robert Frank & Henri Cartier-Bresson. Ever since then, photography has been Matt’s overriding passion, although he’s still quite interested in skateboards and girls. (But thankfully not Kung Fu).
www.mattstuart.com
@mattu1
Black and white
Single black and white
Black and white
In this category you may enter one to six black and white pictures, the choice is yours. They can be totally disconnected from each other. A prerequisite is of course that it is street photography, taken in the public space. This may be streets, squares, buses, trams, pubs, libraries etc. The pictures may not have been arranged and should not be of people you know. They must have been taken by yourself and there must be human presence in them. There is no limit as to when the pictures have been taken.
Domare: Joakim Möller
Deadline: 21 August 2023
Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon CEST Monday 21 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 8-9 2023.
Joakim Möller (Born 1999) is a Stockholm based photographer who specializes in Fine art Street photography. His images are often minimalistic, experimental and mysterious.
“The idea of capturing real moments of life on the street and thus making them live on, is what got me hooked on street photography. It is truly magical to me that just by pressing a button, I can preserve the things I observe forever. What I love most is how unpredictable it is. Every day when I go out on my photowalk, I have no idea what I’m going to get, and it’s the surprises that keep me coming back.
For me, it is important not to have a clear idea of what I want to say with my photographs in advance. Photography for me is just a visual diary. I usually photograph a lot, every day. I try not to think too much, I just shoot what my impulse tells me. My favorite photography quotes are: “There is only you and your camera. The limitations of your photography are within yourself, because what we see is what we are”
– Ernst Haas.
@moller_joakim
Under 30
Under 30
Under 30
This category is open to anyone under 30 years of age. In this category you may enter one to six color pictures, black & white pictures or a mix, the choice is yours. They can be totally disconnected from each other. A prerequisite is of course that it is street photography, taken in the public space.This may be streets, squares, buses, trams, pubs, libraries etc. The pictures may not have been arranged and should not be of people you know. They must have been taken by yourself and there must be human presence in them. There is no limit as to when the pictures have been taken.
Domare: Eva Brodtkorb
Deadline: 21 August 2023
Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon CEST Monday 21 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 8-9 2023.
Why Street photography:
“After I started to focus more on Fine Art photography, I think my exhibition in 2016 was when I started finding my voice and identity, and started experimenting with a technique by using multiple layers of the same frame. Although I mostly work with one frame expression today, I love trying out new ways a photograph can be presented. With this technique I wanted to make the frame move and come to life, in an otherwise still frame.
To me though this is street, but with that extra layer of expression. It was with this series I was truly introduced to the art of street photography, and was also the gateway to how I work with street photography today.”
www.evabrodtkorb.com
@evabrodtkorb_photography
Collection
Collection 5-7 pictures
Collection
In this category you have the opportunity to submit up to three collections of five to seven images. You choose for yourself. The pictures in the collection should be connected and together create a whole. The prerequisites are, of course, that it must be a street photo. That is, photos taken in the public environment. On streets and squares, buses, trams, pubs, libraries, etc. The pictures must not be arranged and not on people you know. The pictures must be taken by yourself and contain people or clear traces of human presence. There are no time horizon requirements.
Domare: Giedo van der Zwan
Deadline: 21 August 2023
Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon CEST Monday 21 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 8-9 2022.
Giedo van der Zwan
In daily life, Giedo van der Zwan is a writer and creative consultant. As a photographer Giedo frequently roams the streets and beach of his hometown – The Hague in The Netherlands. He has received international recognition for his work through publications, awards, and exhibitions.
Giedo prefers to photograph candid scenes and works very close to people with a wide lens and often with a flash. His images are bright, sharp, and colorful showing ‘real people and real emotions’.
www.giedovanderzwan.com
@giedovanderzwan
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