Compete with your best pictures and have the opportunity to win amazing prizes. You can compete in four different categories. Pick one or compete in all. Send us your pictures today! The last day to submit competition entries is the August 18 2024 at 12.00 noon CEST.

Prizes

The winners take home attractive prices in each category in the form of camera equipment and gift cards. The total price sum is approximately SEK 100,000.

Exhibitions

Nominated entries will be shown in a printed exhibition at the festival.

Exposure

If you are nominated your entry will be shown on the website of Gothenburg Street Photo Festival.

How to enter the contest, step by step

  • 1 Choose which category you wish to enter.
  • 2 Create your personal GSPF account or log in to an existing account. Important! Label the images according to the instructions. Start uploading images.
  • 3 Pay the registration fee with Paypal, Swish, or Bankgiro. Once you have paid, you are participating in the competition.

Choose one or more categories

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. Competition entries must be received by Sunday, August 18th, at 12 noon, Swedish time. All nominated images will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival on September 13-14, 2024

Domare: Chris Harrison
Deadline: 18 August 2024

Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon Swedish time August 18.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 13-14 2024.

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Born out of a desire for personal creative expression and autonomy, Chris, a seasoned graphic design and brand consultant of 30 years, sought a break from the commercial demands of his profession. Embracing the street as a dynamic canvas of ever-changing elements, he finds allure in the challenge of crafting something intriguing from the random flux of surroundings.

www.chrisharrison.co.uk
@chrisharrison_photo

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. Competition entries must be received by Sunday, August 18th, at 12 noon Swedish time. All nominated images will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival on September 13-14, 2024

Domare: Payman Hazheer
Deadline: 18 August 2024

Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon Swedish time August 18.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 13-14 2024.

Payman Hazheer is a Swedish photographer based out of Stockholm. He focuses on street portraits and photo journalism and have shared the cover Leica Photography International alongside Mary Ellen Mark, been awarded at Paris Streetphotography awards and been promoted by Fotografiska, the Museum of Photography In Stockholm Sweden. Leica have described Hazheer ́s ability to photograph strangers in the streets as quote ”Hazheer ́s camera is an instrument that turns strangers into familiar faces”

www.paymannen.com
@paymannen

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. Competition entries must be received by Sunday, August 18th, at 12 noon, Swedish time. All nominated images will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival on September 13-14, 2024

Domare: Jens F. Kruse
Deadline: 18 August 2024

Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon Swedish time August 18.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 13-14 2024.

I was born in Germany in the 60s. In 1999 I immigrated with my family to Spain, where I have been living and working until now. My young heart has been beating for art and music and already at the age of 12, I had the dream of becoming a professional musician. But this was a bit naïve and I started an apprenticeship as a cook. After a short time I made a fast career (1 Michelin star). Then I studied art and music! . In all this time I gave many live concerts and released 4 cd albums, did a lot of art and conceptual photography.
Since 2009 self-employed as a private chef! During this time I started to photograph my views out of the kitchen windows of my clients.
Thinking about taking other food photos and also making the layout extraordinary, I borrowed a Nikon D5600 with a 35mm fixed focal length and started to take really focused photos again…I was already doing street photography without knowing it!

www.jfkstreetphotography.com/
@jfkstreetphotography

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 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. Competition entries must be received by Sunday, August 18th, at 12 noon, Swedish time. All nominated images will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival on September 13-14, 2024

Domare: Francesca Chiacchio
Deadline: 18 August 2024

Competition entries must have been received no later than 12.00 noon Swedish time, August 18.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival 13-14 September 2024.

Francesca started shooting and developing photos while studying architecture in Naples, Italy. After graduating, she took a 3-month photography course, and soon after she moved to NYC, with the desire of becoming a professional photographer. Once there, she ended up working as an architect, taking pictures in her free time. Back in Naples, in 2017 she got passionate about Street Photography, and since 2019 her work has been exhibited worldwide.

www.francescachiacchio.com
@francescawho

Prices

One picture - SEK 50

Three pictures - SEK 140

Six pictures - SEK 250

Collection - SEK 250

This is what you can win!
Total prize sum approximately SEK 100,000.

The winners in our four competition categories can look forward to attractive prizes, in the form of camera equipment and gift cards. The total prize sum amounts to approximately 100,000 SEK, distributed from first to third prize.
We will provide the exact details on prize distribution at the beginning of July.
The brands involved are Leica, Sigma, and Scandinavian Photo.

Last day to enter is August 18th, until 12 noon!

Rules

  • 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 that are mentioned above.
  • The Images

  • 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 may not be watermarked or signed.
  • Images may not have any form of border.
  • Images should be in .jpeg format.
  • If your image is nominated, you will be asked to submit a high-resolution copy of the image.

Naming

  • The files should be named as follows: lastname-mobilenumber-imagenumber-category.jpg.
  • Swap å, ä, ö with a, a, o.
  • When you compete in the collection category name as follows: lastname-mobilenumber-collection-collectionname-imagenumber.jpg.

Size

The pictures should be 821 pixels high (on the standing/vertical side) and not larger than 4Mb.

Copyright

By entering the contest you acknowledge that the pictures can be used by GSPF for marketing purposes and in connection with upcoming contests, both in printed and digital form.

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