The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest 2018

Call for Entries: 2018 Andrei Stenin Photo Contest is now open.

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The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo contest was established on December 22, 2014. The contest is run by Rossiya Segodnya under the auspices of the Russian Federation Commission for UNESCO.It is an annual contest for young photojournalists aged between 18 and 33 years old. It is Russia’s only platform for discovering new photojournalists and for allowing them to make a name for themselves on the world photojournalism stage.

In 2017, around 5000 entries by young photojournalists from 76 countries were submitted to the contest. The winning entries were exhibited around the world. In 2017 the exhibitions were run in Moscow, Istanbul, Cape Town, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Beijing, Mexico, Madrid, Budapest, Athens, Beirut etc.

The annual submission period starts on December, 22. The date marks the birthday of Rossiya Segodnya photojournalist Andrei Stenin, who died while on assignment and in whose honour the contest is named.

Applications can now be submitted to the stenincontest.com website through February 28, 2018.

Prizes:

– The Grand Prize winner – RUB 700,000 (seven hundred thousand).
– The first place winner in each category for an individual Photo Image or a Series of Photo Images – RUB 100,000 (one hundred thousand).
– The second place winner in each category for an individual Photo Image or a Series of Photo Images – RUB 75,000 (seventy five thousand).
– The third place winner in each category for an individual Photo Image or a Series of Photo Images – RUB 50,000 (fifty thousand).
Contest sponsors may also offer additional prizes.

Eligibility:

Photo Contest is open to participants aged 18 to 33 from all over the world.

Copyrights & Usage Rights:

Copyright: For the purposes of this Contest, the Contest Participants grant the Organizer the right to use the Photo Images submitted to the Contest.

A complete list of requirements and rules can be found here:
http://stenincontest.com/docs/about/index.html

Usage Right:
For the purposes of this Contest, the Contest Participants grant the Organizer the right to use the Photo Images submitted to the Contest. Contest Participants who accepted the Offer grant the Organizer a non-exclusive license to use the Photo Images for the purposes of the Contest by the means stated in the Offer. The License to use the Photo Images is granted by the Contest Participant free of charge and from the date when the Contest Participant transfers the Photo Images to the Organizer by uploading them to the Website until the end of the Contest.

Theme:

Multi-categories Photojournalism Nature Sports Portrait Wildlife Documentary