Welcome to the fourth season of the highly acclaimed HIPA photography awards. You’re invited to share your imaginative mind, your passion for your craft and push yourself to produce your best work yet.
It’s your opportunity to explore the beauty of the world that surrounds you, to distil a story, to dive into a rich pool of colour and depict an emotive moment in time. This year’s theme ‘Life in Colour’ is a wonderfully open brief that allows your creative mind to explore an array of exciting avenues –where will this journey take you?
We encourage you to unleash your lenses. To express yourself freely, and let your imagination lead you to gain the recognition you deserve.
Within this season’s Life in Colour theme there are four opportunities to showcase your eye for detail: these are: ‘Life in Colour’, ‘General/Entrants’ Choice’, ‘Faces’, and ‘Night Photography’ categories.
Find out more about these and get your creative juices flowing by reading the descriptive yet open-to-interpretation introductions that we’ve provided.
Think of them as the catalyst for your ideas and your springboard to creative excellence.
Here’s to capturing the people, the places, and the colours of life that make our world such an exciting place to live.
CATEGORIES
LIFE IN COLOUR
The beauty of life is its colour.
From fresh cooling blues, calming terracotta hues, deep rich reds to vibrant sunshiny yellows, colour has the ability to alter our psyche. They can bring a warming glow into a dull day and turn the corners of our mouths upwards.
Colour speaks of the people, places, animals, plants and consumables that play a starring role in our everyday lives.
Colour can add a splash of drama. It can be muted and emulate the calmness within. It has the ability to say so much more than just its one or two-worded name.
Bright white can speak of freshly painted walls, teeth within a tanned face, or clean laundered bed sheets blowing in the breeze – each one depicts a very different story.
But what does ‘Life in Colour’ say to you?
That’s up for your creative mind to decide.
GENERAL / ENTRANTS’ CHOICE
If you had to choose just one piece of work to reflect your passion for capturing life through a lens, which photograph would you submit?
This category gives you the opportunity to enter a truly outstanding piece of photography that best exemplifies the excellence of the HIPA awards.
It’s completely open, embraces all subject matters, removes boundaries and offers participants the chance to choose work that reflects their style as long as they adhere to the criteria and regulations of the Award.
FACES
People are a fascinating subject matter.
Laughter lines of experience, smiling shining eyes that express a moment of gratitude, a mouth left wide open in awe – the human face can speak to the soul, address your mind and captivate your heart.
We invite you to explore emotions, capture someone’s compelling story, and evoke the attitude, personality and essence of people who have inspired you to pick up your camera and record our great rich and varied lives.
In this category we encourage you to use black and white photography to maintain the authenticity of the beauty of life, and portray the finer details that make each one of us so special and unique. The use of black and white demands accomplished compositions and expert use of light: this is a true test of your ability.
NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
Night time can bring still, starry calmness, the hustle and bustle of people leaving work and heading home, a blank canvas for celebratory fireworks, roaring campfires and the shining lights of traffic.
It offers mysterious shadows to hide in.
Speaks of secrets waiting to be discovered once light arrives.
The dark veil of night provides a romantic light to capture a glimmer of beauty. There’s something truly magical about it.
This category gives you the chance to play with your creativeness, reveal the beguiling charm of the night and offers you the perfect opportunity to shine.
GRAND PRIZE $120,000
“LIFE IN COLOUR†CATEGORY
Position Prize Money
1st $25,000
2nd $20,000
3rd $15,000
4th $12,000
5th $10,000
“GENERAL†CATEGORY
Position Prize Money
1st $15,000
2nd $12,000
3rd $10,000
4th $8,000
5th $6,000
“FACES†CATEGORY
Position Prize Money
1st $15,000
2nd $12,000
3rd $10,000
4th $8,000
5th $6,000
“NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY†CATEGORY
Position Prize Money
1st $15,000
2nd $12,000
3rd $10,000
4th $8,000
5th $6,000
“SPECIAL AWARDSâ€
Photography apperciation award (Personal, Group or Team Award) $20,000
Photographic Research/Report Award $25,000
Grand Total $400,000
SUBMISSIONS
The Competition is open for online submissions only (the Submissions), through the Competition Online Registration page available on www.hipa.ae.
Submissions will be accepted from 00:01 on 18 March 2014 until 24:00 on 31st December 2014, UAE local time, (i.e. GMT +4). No Submissions made after the closing time will be accepted.
Participants must be individuals aged eighteen (18) years and over at the time of their Submission(s).
You hereby certify that you are eighteen (18) years old or older at the date of submitting your Photo(s) to the Competition. You further understand and agree that HIPA will automatically and without further notice discard any Photo(s) that are found to be submitted by a Participant that is below eighteen (18) years old at the time of its Submission.
YOUR PHOTO(S)
You may submit up to one (1) Photo in each category of the Competition. You must provide one (1) title for each Photo.
The same Photo must not be submitted in more than One (1) category. Any Photo submitted in more than one (1) category will be, subject to HIPA discretion, and without further notice, discarded from either a category or the entire Competition.
Submitted Photo(s) must be in JPEG format, with high quality and resolution, of a minimum 2 MB in size and suitable for publication.
Color and/or black and white Photos are permitted in all the categories of the Competition.
All submitted Photos must not contain any tag(s), signature(s), initial(s), frame, border(s), logo(s) or any other references and/or marks added by the Participant. Basic technical editing of the Photo(s) is acceptable, provided any such editing does not affect the authenticity and/or genuineness of the Photo(s). Advanced editing used to create illusions, deceptions and/or manipulations, including compositing and creative retouching of the Photo(s) is prohibited. HIPA preserves the right to assess and discard from the Competition any submitted Photo(s) deemed, at HIPA’s own discretion, contrary to the foregoing.
Photos that portray or otherwise include inappropriate and/or offensive conten
