Amateur Photographer opens Inaugural Film Photographer of the Year competition for UK residents.
The UK’s biggest-selling photography magazine is now taking free entries to their first analogue-centric competition, sponsored by Kodak, Analogue Wonderland, and Ricoh Imaging.
Deadline: 5th January 2025, 11:59 pm GMT.
Submission: 5 images shot on film in 2024 (some editing allowed).
Prizes: the winner will get a brand new Pentax 17 film camera, a year’s supply of Kodak film (I’m curious to see what they consider a year’s supply, given that we all shoot at different rates), a year’s supply of film developing and scanning with the Analogue Wonderland lab, and a limited edition Pentax t-shirt and baseball cap. There will also be two runner-ups with smaller prizes.
Another chance to get free gear and film is great news for everyone in the UK.
For everyone else, this can be read as a sign of the continuing growth of analogue photography’s popularity — an offline craft advanced by the extremely online generation of photographers. Film has been in resurgence for over a decade — almost immediately after crashing in the early 2020s — yet I don’t think its new popularity has peaked.
How well do you think you know your colour films? Can you guess if something was shot on Ektar, Portra, or Velvia?
Daren (instagram.com/learnfilm.ph…), Yvonne (instagram.com/yvonne), and I are building a game that will test your knowledge of films. It’s based on the popular “What the Film?!” game (featured on PetaPixel and 35mmc). WTF?! was made for black-and-white film. The new one will focus on colour. 🌈
Once we have enough images, we’ll build the game. Your name and profile will be featured under each photo, and we may also feature you in the videos about the game. You will also get to play the game with a slight advantage and have your name listed in the Top 100 Rankings table!
Analog Sparks has announced the winners of their 2024 International Film Photography Awards 🎉!
In its second running year, the competition received over a thousand submissions in eight categories: Architecture, Fine Art, Human, Lifestyle, Nature, Photojournalism, Technique, Zines, and Photobooks. Each submission was judged based on originality, creativity, excellence of execution, and overall impact.
This year’s awards winners will be featured at the Analog Sparks Best of Show Exhibitions in the House of Lucie Galleries in Ostuni, Athens, and Budapest. Cash prizes, up to $2000, were also awarded.
I’m attaching a few more winner photos to this thread below.
The next competition round will open this October, so you have a few days to prepare your work! I’ll post it here once I know the exact date, rules, and entry fees.
Lens Culture opened up submissions for its B&W Photography Awards 2024.
The winning entries will be shown at the exhibition in London during Photo London 2025. There are also cache prizes, up to $3,500 for the first place in the Series Prize category.
Three new calls for photography submissions have landed on my desk this month, starting with one by The Sustainable Darkroom.
The Active Image: Political Ecologies & Photographic Agency Exhibition is now welcoming submissions relating to issues of social justice and political ecology, that use low-toxicity photographic methods.
Note! This isn’t an application to become a Magnum photographer. Polaroid × Magnum Open Call is your chance to win a Polaroid I-2 with 12 packs of Polaroid i-Type BW Film, an intro session with a Polaroid representative, and three online group critiques with Magnum-represented photographers.
The submission is free. Sounds like a good deal.
This open call is an application to get a Polaroid camera to shoot your proposed project on + 12 packs of film.
You don’t need to submit a complete project. It’s a proposal; you can illustrate it with digital photos.
I’ve been feeling exceptionally busy during the past few months so I’m not confident I can show my best effort on this application. But I encourage anyone reading to give it a try. Could be fun!
