Photography Contests
2025 Looking Back – Looking Forward
Submissions accepted thru October 31, 2024
Following on the great popularity of our broad-based Single Image and Portfolio contests, we created this reader-inspired competition comprised of four tightly focused sub-contests that blend old and new processes—both analog and digital—and imagery that spans the past, the present and the future.
Vintage Images
Alternative Printing Processes
Digital Manipulation
Pinhole/Plastic Camera Imagery
The specific focus of each contest narrows the competitive field and thereby increases the chance that your image will be chosen. The winners are not featured in a standalone Special Issue. They instead receive prominent representation in one of the four regular issues of Black & White in 16-page contest sections. The added pages not only provide a showcase for your award-winning images, but also represent an added bonus for our readers.
2025 Black & White Portfolio
Submissions accepted thru January 15, 2025
MORE WINNERS!
24 Spotlight winners will be featured photographers in regular
issues of Black & White in 2025 and 2026
20 Excellence winners will have their work featured in four-page
spreads in the August 2025 Portfolio Contest Special Issue.
80 Merit winners will have their work featured in two-page
spreads in the August 2025 Portfolio Contest Special Issue