All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by Sony World Photography Awards, for the sole purpose of promoting the competition and the photographers themselves.

Please read the full list of rules for the Single Image and Series competitions for details.

Shortlisted winners will be individually notified by email prior to the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony. The winners will all be announced at the ceremony.

We would be delighted to hear from you! Please do not hesitate to drop us a message and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

In the Series competition, you can enter a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 images per category. You may enter as many categories as you wish.

In the Single Image and Youth competitions, you can enter up to 3 images in total for free. These images may be entered across any of the categories. You may enter more images by buying our bundles. There are two image bundles available: the 10 images bundle, 20 Image bundle and the 50 images bundle (You will need to be a registered user in order to access the bundle page)

A series of five(5) to ten(10) images.

The Sony World Photography Awards are FREE to enter.

Please ensure that your images are above 1MB size and are in Jpeg format.

It may be that your images are too large for the local Internet connection and we suggest that you resize all the pictures and try again.

If you continue to have problems, please do not hesitate to contact us.

These will need to be scanned into a digital file and then uploaded online via the website. Please state in the image description that the images have been scanned from negatives.

Your institution should be teaching higher education photography – a minimum of one module/course in photography as part of a degree course or similar.  Students entering the competition should be studying an element/module of photography. 

The competition is for all students studying an element of photography within a higher education course.