Rules for Gothenburg Street Photo Festival contests

The competition is open to participants over 16 years old from all over the world.

Entries must not have been exhibited in any street photography festival before.

Registration fees are non-refundable.

You may only participate with images that you have photographed yourself and own the copyright of.

Gothenburg Street Photo Festival has the right to use the images for promotion of the festival and its competitions on the website, on all social media platforms, as well as in printed materials.

Gothenburg Street Photo Festival does not have the right to sell or use competition entries in contexts other than those mentioned above.

About the pictures

Entries must have a street photography theme and be taken in public spaces. This means images from streets, squares, buses, trams, pubs, etc.

The images should contain people or clear traces of human presence.

There are no time horizon requirements.

Images must not be staged and/or taken of people you know.

Images with offensive or defamatory content or that are sexually explicit will not be accepted.

Image processing and cropping are allowed. However, adding or removing elements from the image through cloning is not allowed.

Images must not be watermarked or signed.

Images must not have any form of border.

Images should be digital and in .jpeg format.

If your image is nominated, you will be asked to submit a high-resolution copy of the image.

Further information

Image size: Images should be 821 pixels high (on the vertical/standing size) and a maximum of 4MB in size.

The entries will be anonymously judged by a jury in each category

Nominated entries will be announced on the homepage approximately two weeks ahead of the festival. Nominees will also be informed by email.

Nominated pictures will be printed and exhibited as part of the festival exhibition.

The winners will be announced during the festival on Saturday 14th of September 2024.