The next Competition 2025
Hobby Photography Competition by WPH n.e.V.
- The next Competition will be open from January 1st, 2025 to March 30th, 2025.
- Participation is free.
- The winner will be communicated on May 1st, 2025
- Please read the rules of the Hobby Photography Competition before you submit your photo.
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Rules of HPC
Step 1: About the Competition
- The Hobby Photography Competition is organised by our organisation "World Photo History - The World in Progress!". The Competition takes place once a year and the participation is free and open to each person who enjoys taking photos as a hobby.
- The aim of the competition is primarily to recognize the photography art of people who don't take photos professionally but with passion and determination. In addition to this, through this kind of photos we celebrate the art of self teaching that can be mastered as if it was a profession.
Step 2: Entire Agreement
- By submitting your photo to the competition you agree with the terms and conditions of the competition and you also confirm to have read the entire statute of our organization World Photo History - The World in Progress! (WPH n.e.V.)
Step 3: Enter the Competition
- To enter the competition you have to fill in the form on your left.
- The competition will be opened on January, 1st, until it will be closed on March, 30th of every year.
- The competition is free.
- The Hobby Photography Competition has no theme. You can find your own subject for the competition. Therefore every photo is welcome and can be chosen as the winning photo.
Step 4: Submitting
- Only one photo per participant is allowed to be submitted.
- The photo that you send in must be taken by the person who submits it.
Step 5: File Requirement
- The file of your photo must not exceed 5MB and it has to be uploaded in JPEG format.
Step 6: Ethical Requirements
- You must not do anything to breach the ethical norms of society to take your photo. That is why you are responsible to ensure the accordance to national and international legal conditions for taking photos wherever in the world you are.
- Photos with any kind of violence, force or pressure on others or animals are not accepted.
- You are responsible for the agreement of a person whose photo you take by yourself
- Your photo must be taken in the natural world and you must not put the animals, people or vegetation in danger in order to take the photo.
- The photo that you submit must remain unedited according to the moment you took it.
Step 7: The Jury
- The Jury who will select the winning photo consists of both founders of the organization World Photo History - The World in Progress! (WPH n.e.V.).
Step 8: Selection
- After viewing and checking the entries, the best candidate will be chosen.
- If we need further information about you and your photo, we will contact you via the Email you provided.
- The winner will be communicated on May, 1st every year.
Step 9: The Winner's Prize
- Due to the fact that we organize the competition for free, our prize will be symbolic in the sense that we put the winning photo and its title on our website, together with the name and nationality of the winner, in order to promote his or her talent and to show the artistic photo as winner of our current Hobby Photography Competition.
Step 10: Copyright
- By submitting to the competition you give full right over your photo to our organization World Photo History - The World in Progress! (WPH n.e.V.).