Drone Photo Awards 2020

DRONE PHOTO AWARDS 2020 - The Oscar of Aerial Photography

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Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video. It’ a project of Siena Awards, dedicated to a different photographic genre deliberately separated from being compared to traditional photography.

The competition is opened to the aerial photography and videos whose platforms also include fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloons, blimps and dirigibles, rockets, kites, and parachutes.

Exhibition & Gala
All winning photographers for this award will be exhibited in November in Siena (Italy) alongside Siena Awards Festival! An opening reception will be held for artists, invited media, photo editors and industry insiders for a night of art appreciation and networking during one of the world’s largest international ceremonies dedicated to photography.

Press exposure
Award winners receive press coverage from publications and media outlets around the world - the kind of exposure that can lead to viral, global recognition of your work. Winners and selected entrants of Siena Awards have been featured in major publications including The Guardian, El Pais, Internazionale, Corriere Della Sera, The Times, The Sun, CNN, Spiegel Online, Daily Mirror. Share your work with the world.

Artist's rights
All photographers retain full copyrights for their own work.
Winners and Finalists grant Drone Photo Awards limited and restricted use of winning photos only to promote the photographers themselves and in connection with marketing the Drone Photo Awards competition itself.

Prizes:

Drone Photographer of the Year
€ 500,00 worth of photography equipment
Pangea Prize christal statuette
Special Guest at the Awards Ceremony and the Gala Dinner
Showcased at the “Above Us Only Sky” exhibition
Advertising on international press and on main online media
Publication in our online gallery

Drone Category Winner
Pangea Prize christal statuette
Special Guest at the Awards Ceremony and the Gala Dinner
Showcased at the “Above Us Only Sky” exhibition
Advertising on international press and on main online media
Publication in our online gallery

Drone Highly Commended
Parchment delivered on the stage of the “Teatro dei Rinnovati” theater
Special Guest at the Awards Ceremony and the Gala Dinner
Photo showcased at the “Above Us Only Sky” exhibition
Advertising on international press and on main online media
Publication in our online gallery

Drone Commended
Parchment delivered on the stage of the “Teatro dei Rinnovati” theater
Special Guest at the Awards Ceremony and the Gala Dinner
Photo displayed on a screen during the “Above Us Only Sky” exhibition
Advertising on international press and on main online media
Publication in our online gallery

Eligibility:

Drone Photo Awards competition is open to professional and amateur photographers. Anyone over 18 years of age can enter the competition.

Copyrights & Usage Rights:

Drone Photo Awards recognizes participants retain full ownership of the copyright in each photograph that you have submitted.
Any photograph used by Drone Photo Awards shall carry a credit line. Any failure to provide such credit line shall not be deemed to be a breach, as long as Drone Photo Awards uses its reasonable endeavors to rectify such failure within a reasonable period from the date of notice of such failure.

Theme:

Aerial Architecture Nature Other People Sports Urban Wildlife