National Photography Competition

National Photography Competition feature images created by photographers from around the world, sharing visions that inspire, inform, and awe. Photography contest is a powerful medium of expression that can be used to communicate strong positive messages about a subject. This open and free photo competition seeks to inspire the creation and dissemination of such positive imagery, which conveys the beauty of Pakistan.

Youth For Pakistan invites explorers, adventure travelers, professional photographers to submit their photographs in the photography challenges and competitions for the themes mentioned below;

Themes

Timelapse
Hometown Pride
Generations
Seasonality
Mood or Emotion
Sporting Event
Night
Lighting
Motion
Pets
Concert or Event

Benefits

• Celebrating Talent: Photography competitions offer the ideal opportunity for the photographers to highlight their creativity, individualism, and innovation in photography.
• Building community: Online photography contests tend to bring photography professionals in and out of different backgrounds, bringing a sense of community and members in the world of photography. The participants often connect each other, share experiences, and learn from one another.
• Recognition and Exposure: Winning or even just taking part in some photography competition can lead to recognition and exposure. Exposure, as such, can bring opportunities for collaboration and exhibitions and even professional opportunities.
• It sets standards: Photography competitions often come with specific themes or guidelines that help in setting standards and trends within an industry; this in turn can influence people’s perception of and appreciation for photography.
• It encourages innovation: Competitions often challenge photographers to think out of the box and explore new techniques, styles, and technologies, and sometimes even create breakthroughs.
• Documenting Moments: Photography competitions can serve to document and preserve historic moments in time. Themes or categories may focus upon a specific issue, event, or social issue, and the camera lens turns to focus upon the subjects themselves.
• Educational Opportunities: Many photography competitions include educational components, such as workshops, lectures, or critiques. These opportunities make learning a very integral part of the events for those in attendance and the participants themselves.
• Awareness creation: Through their themes and subject matters, photo competitions can cause awareness about particular social, environmental, or even cultural issues. Photographers have power to focus through their photographs on an important matter or issue.
• Cultural exchange: By bringing together different photographers from a different part of the world into one platform that is an international photography competition allows for a larger understanding and acceptance of other persons’ views.

Rules & Regulations

1. The entries are to be accompanied with a caption not longer than 20 words. There must not be any watermarks, copyright marks, or any text/graphic on the picture.
2. The photo should not have been previously entered in any competition/exhibition. Plagiarism should be strictly avoided and such photographs shall be immediately disqualified from the competition.
3. The minimum resolution of the pictures should be 2000 pixels on the shorter side. However, images should not exceed 8 MB in size. Please limit your adjustment to minor changes of cropping, sharpening, and contrast. Avoid significant over or under color saturation. Dodging (to brighten shadows) or burning (to darken highlights) is allowed, but the alterations should enable the photograph to closely resemble what you see. Please avoid any extensive manipulation.
4. By entering the contest, the artist agrees with the rules mentioned above and the decisions of the Selection Committee. Their decision shall be final and is not subject to appeal.