Deadline: 30-Jan-23

Applications are now open for the twelfth edition of the Leica Street Photo competition.

Themes of the Contest.

The subject of the submitted works should refer to street photography.

Awards

• The Grand Prix prize in the competition is a Leica SL2-S camera and a voucher worth EUR 1,000. The winning entry will be selected based on the Jury’s vote.
• The main prize in the Competition will be issued in accordance with the tax regulations in force in Poland.
• Sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation and Belarus, related to the military operations in Ukraine, close the way, in the event of victory in the 12th Leica Street Photo, to honor people living in sanctioned territories with the award.
• The works qualified to the final will take part in exhibitions at the Leica 6×7 Gallery in Warsaw and other galleries cooperating with Leica 6×7 Gallery. The Organizer covers all costs related to printing and presentation of winning works, organization of the exhibition, and opening ceremony.
• Additional cash prize which is part of the Main Prize will be taken and transferred by the Organizer to the Tax Office service.
• For each in-kind prize, the Participant will receive an additional cash prize in the amount of 11.11% of the value of the awarded prize. The Participant agrees to allocate the additional cash prize to cover by the Organizer the flat-rate income tax on the winning prize and therefore the cash prize will not be issued to the Participant. The organizer, as the payer of the flat-rate personal income tax, will calculate, collect and pay the flat-rate income tax due on the winnings to the appropriate Tax Office before issuing the prize.

The course of the Contest

• Everybody is invited to participate in the Contest (excluding employees of the Organizer). Minors will be requested to provide the consent of parents or guardians to participate in the Contest.
• Condition for receiving a possible prize is providing real personal data.
• Entries for the Competition will be accepted via the application form on the website.
• The Contest Participant may submit a maximum of five photos.
• All techniques of photography are accepted. Topics should refer to street photography. The primary criteria for the evaluation of works are originality and quality of artistry. Photography has to be taken after the 1st of January 2022 and before 31 December 2022.
• Photos should be added through the application form in jpg format and a maximum resolution of 2000 pixels along the long side. The contest winners will be asked to provide digital data at their highest resolution – enabling high-quality printing in the 50cm format over the long side. If the Winner does not provide such files after the deadline of 48 hours from receiving the information from the Organizer about qualifying for the Final, the Organizer may refrain from awarding the prize and qualifying the work to the Final.
• By submitting her/his work for the Contest, the Participant declares that she/he is its author and has all rights to dispose of intellectual property related to the work. Besides, the Participant declares that the submitted work does not violate the rights of institutions and third parties, in particular, all persons visible in the photography and that these persons consented to the use of their images in the Contest and their dissemination. In the absence of such consent, the Participant assumes responsibility for all legitimate claims of these persons and institutions.
• The submitted works may not contain content intended solely for adults, including sexually explicit material, promoting alcohol or tobacco products, and other content, that is not legally permitted for public display.
• The decision, whether the submitted photograph carries out the subject of the Content, is taken by the Jury.
• The Organizer will inform the winners about the results of the Contest via e-mail.
• The Participant agrees to publish the submitted entries during the Competition and after its completion, on the Organizer’s and Partners’ electronic information platforms, social networking sites (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) belonging to Organizer and Partners. The participant also agrees to publish entries and through the media cooperating with the Organizer. Such the publication may only take place in the context of the Contest, its promotion, and information about the results.

For more information, visit Leica Street Photo.