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 20 2026, 12.00 noon Swedish time!

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 90,000.

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

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 85,000.

COLOR

First Prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo valued at SEK 12,000.

Second Prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo valued at SEK 5,000.

Third Prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo valued at SEK 2,500.

BLACK AND WHITE,
First prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo worth 12,000 SEK.
Second prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo worth 3,500 SEK.
Third prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo worth 2,000 SEK.

COLLECTION

First Prize: Gift voucher from Sigma valued at SEK 15,000.

Second Prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo valued at SEK 5,000.

Third Prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo valued at SEK 2,500.

NORDIC COUNTRIES

First Prize: Leica D-Lux 8 – a compact camera from the legendary Leica. Focal length 24–70 mm, f/1.7–2.8. Unique design inspired by the Q series. Value approx. SEK 20,000.

Second Prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo valued at SEK 3,500.

Third Prize: Gift voucher from Scandinavian Photo valued at SEK 2,000.

Last day to enter is August 20th 2026, at 12 noon Swedish time!


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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