The competition is open.

Compete with your best images and have the opportunity to win amazing prizes. You can compete in four different categories. Pick one or compete in all. Send us your images today! The last day to submit competition entries is the August 14 2022.

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 Important! Mark your pictures according to instructions, upload your images and create your personal GSPF account.
  • 3 Choose your payment option and make your payment. 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.

Domare: Polly Rusyn
Deadline: 14 August 2022

Competition entries must have been received no later than Monday 14 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 2-3 2022.

Polly Rusyn
Polly Rusyn is an award-winning street photographer whose work has been published and exhibited internationally. She is also a street photography teacher and speaker, and created the Department of Street Photography to focus on providing street photography education that includes portfolio reviews as well as workshops and digital resources. She is best known for her bold colour work, and believes photographs that are in colour should also be “about” colour — in that colour is another subject. Polly’s former careers include being a graphic designer and a travel industry professional, and she continues to enjoy both design as well as travel — especially with a camera in a sunny European city! Polly has previously been a judge at LSPF (London Street Photography Festival).

www.dostreetphotography.com
@pollyrusyn

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: Malin Jochumsen
Deadline: 14 August 2022

Competition entries must have been received no later than Monday 14 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 2-3 2022.

Malin Jochumsen
Malin Jochumsen lives in Stockholm where she freelances as a photographer. In 2018, she won the prestigious Picture of the Year award in the Sports Picture category.

In addition to her role as a professional photographer, she is also a qualified and experienced street photographer. Not least from her twelve years in Moscow, about which she gives a lecture during the festival.

Malin’s street photography often has a more artistic character, she likes to look for motifs in reflections and likes to play with double exposures.

Malin’s profile picture was taken by Magnus Fröderberg.

@malinjochumsen

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: Magnus Fröderberg
Deadline: 14 August 2022

Competition entries must have been received no later than Monday 14 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 2-3 2022.

Magnus Fröderberg

Magnus Fröderberg is a journalist and a photographer, who spends his free time doing street photography. He has been editor-in-chief of the site Fotosidan.se and the photo magazines Kamera & Bild, Proffsfoto and Fotosidan Magasin.

www.flickr.com/froderberg
@roderberg_streetphotography

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: Niklas Lindskog
Deadline: 14 August 2022

Competition entries must have been received no later than Monday 14 August.
All nominated photos will be exhibited during the Gothenburg Street Photo Festival September 2-3 2022.

Niklas Lindskog

I’m a 58 year old man from Sweden. I’m married to Anna-Lena and we have two grown kids, who have both flown the nest. When I was young I did athletics, mostly I ran 200-400 meters. At 19 I started coaching and at 27 I became a professional coach.

This is still my job, even though during the 2010s I did mostly admin duties at the school for 16-19 year old athletes where I work. Now I’m back at coaching again! I’ve been into photography for over 40 years by now. In the beginning, I shot everything, with my friends and athletes as the most common subjects. But when I look at my old negatives, I realize I shot something similar to street photography right from the start.

I’ve always liked to travel and always took a lot of photos when I did. Since 2010 I’ve traveled extensively and combined my longing to discover the world with a growing passion for street photography.

Niklas’ profile picture was taken by Urban Bäcklund.

niklaslindskog.art
@lindskogn

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 90.000

When you enter any of our four categories you have the chance to win top prizes.

First prize in each of the four categories is a Fujifilm X-E4 silver with a XF27mm F2.8 R WR lens, worth SEK 12.000.

Second prize in each category is a gift card from Scandinavian Photo worth SEK 7500.

Third prize in each category is a gift card from Scandinavian Photo worth SEK 3500.

Total worth of the prize sum is approximately SEK 90.000.
The last day to submit competition entries is August 14!

Rules

  • It has to be street photography.
  • You can only enter with pictures which you have taken and of which you own the copyright.
  • The pictures must be digital and in JPG format.

Naming

  • The files should be named as follows: lastname-mobilenumber-imagenumber.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 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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