Life on our planet now… is not the same as when we launched the Ninth Season of our competition!

New developments and changes, spreading across all continents of the world, are forcing us to reconsider our way of thinking and our behavior. Throughout this time, humanity has emerged as the ever sustainable security blanket comforting us all; capable of inspiring positive and tangible changes.

To transform the word ‘Humanity’ from letters on a page or a word that is uttered and let it come to life through the lens of a camera brings to the surface a myriad of emotions for a photographer; challenging them to embrace and inspire through their creative eye for our Tenth Season of competition.

In addition, this season offers the photography community the creative space to combine their artistry and talent in grasping the multi-layered aesthetics of our newest category titled ‘Architectural Photography’; both modern and ancient architectural icons. This is the chance for photographers to capture the splendor of the interiors and exteriors of architecture from their own perspective.

Returning for another season will be the ‘Portfolio’ category. This category once again demonstrates its strength with some of the most fascinating submissions throughout the years of competition. Similarly, the ‘General’ category is back and is set to delve into the creative minds of photographers, allowing them to express themselves through black and white or coloured submissions.

HUMANITY

One of the most important subjects that is closely observed within the photography world is ‘Humanity’ - a message that loyally binds the people of this planet together.

Photographing the human race has both a profound and powerful impact in inspiring change such as saving millions of lives from diseases, epidemics and disasters as well as wars and its devastating effects.

A photograph details everything. It has the ability to disturb as well as convey its content to audiences around the world in order to connect to their humanity and awareness.

Can a photo impact society? Are you moved when the depth of humanity touches you and reaches her arms around the globe?

We invite you to share the human spirit through photography, and inspire the world with your story of humanity.


General

This category remains a favourite among photographers who have an outstanding eye for visual compositions that do not necessarily fall into any of the other categories.

Year after year, this category has gained quality and diversity, not to mention numbers, with over a third all entries registered in HIPA.

HIPA continues to offer participants two opportunities to participate in this category; one for black and white entries, to give deserved substance to this classic art-form, and the other for colour entries, giving participants the option to dazzle the jury and viewers with their vibrant compositions.


PORTFOLIO (STORY-TELLING)

The Portfolio category returns challenging photographers to showcase their storytelling skills through a series of photographs.

A strong photographic story delves into the heart of a subject matter and leaves no margin for misinterpretation.

A portfolio of photographs allows photographers to capture the hearts and minds of audiences in a way which may not be possible through a single photograph.


ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

This field of photography is distinguished by a special aesthetic that contributes to its increasing spread and expansion internationally. This art has a direct cosmetic influence on the subjects of photography, as it highlights the evidence of visual gravity hidden in angles that are difficult for the public to notice or capture, it translates the depth of visual manipulation and the harmony of color and concept, and it discusses harmony and contrast in the mosaic of architecture and its various schools.

We launch this category to open the horizons of creativity for those with talent and experience in grasping the aesthetics of engineering details through their lenses, and showing the splendour of interior or exterior architecture with their own perspectives.

We offer you a special opportunity to translate the relationship between the genius of the lens and the uniqueness of architecture.


ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY - A Cultural - Iconic Building

A Cultural - Iconic Building


ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY - General

General


ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY - Interior

Interior


ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY - Mobile Architectural Photography

Mobile Architectural Photography


SPECIAL AWARDS

The Photography Appreciation Award

There are many passionate people within the photography industry who are dedicated and relentless in their pursuit for excellence. These people offer their services and expertise without expecting a return on their efforts and therefore form a vital part of the photographic community.

The ‘Photography Appreciation Award’ is a special category for a person or group who has shown long-standing commitment to enhancing the art of photography. By awarding the recipient, HIPA hopes to give back a small amount of the respect and appreciation they deserve.


The Photography Content Creator Award

Service to photography is not limited to taking stunning photographs, but extends to editors, publishers, bloggers, researchers, inventors, promoters and all print and digital content creators that have had a positive impact on the industry and helped shape it to what it is today.


Emerging Person/Organization in Photography Award

This award is presented to an emerging person or organization that has shown outstanding work or vision in the photography industry on a regional, national or international level.


All winners of the Special Awards are to be exclusively selected by HIPA.

WHAT'S NEW

  • Season Theme Humanity will be the main theme of the season.
  • Grand Prize The Grand Prize (USD $120,000) will be chosen from any category available this season, and not only from the main theme.
  • Submission Deadline Last day of participation will be on 30 November 2020 at 11:59 pm (UAE local time)
  • Special Awards There are THREE Special Awards for the eighth Season and they are; ‘The Photography Appreciation Award’, ‘The Photography Content Creator Award’’, ‘The Photography Content Creator Award’ and the ‘and the ‘Emerging Person/Organization in Photography Award’.’.
  • Other categories Other categories are; General, Portfolio and the Architectural
  • General category The General Category will have two sub categories: Colour and Black and White.
  • Black & White Participants are allowed to submit Black and White photographs in all categories except the ‘General - Colour’ sub category.
  • Photo Criteria Submitted Photo(s) must be in JPEG format, with high quality and resolution, of a minimum 5 MB in size, the minimum of the longest edge should be no less than 2000 pixel and the quality no less than 300dpi and to be suitable for publication
  • Raw Photo Participants are requested to submit the raw/original camera files at the same time of submitting their photographs
  • Story Telling In the Portfolio category, participants are required to submit 5-10 photographs telling one story

GrandPrize 120000

Grand
HUMANITY
1st 20,000
2nd 18,000
3rd 16,000
4th 10,000
5th 6,000
General
Colour
1st 15,000
2nd 10,000
3rd 5,000
Black and White
1st 15,000
2nd 10,000
3rd 5,000
PORTFOLIO (STORY-TELLING)
1st 25,000
2nd 22,000
3rd 20,000
4th 18,000
5th 15,000
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY
1st 15,000
2nd 13,000
3rd 11,000
4th 9,000
5th 7,000
A Cultural - Iconic Building General Exterior Interior Mobile Architectural Photography

GrandTotal 450000

Grand

All the Prize money will be in US Dollars

Rules

This contest is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Apple Inc. The participants understand that they are providing information to HIPA and not to Apple Inc. Any questions, comments, or complaints regarding the contest should be directed to HIPA and not to Apple Inc.

Grand Prize Winner

Ary Bassous
Brazil
Duty

Dr. Juliana Ribeiro had just taken off her protective equipment for lunch, after eight hours of uninterrupted work at the Covid-19 Emergency Room. On her face, marks and lesions caused by prolonged and repeated use the of this kind of equipment. On her expression, exhaustion, commitment and resignation. Image captured at Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Hugs To Survive

85 year-old Rosa Luzia Lonardi is hugged by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza; the first hug Rosa has received in five months. In March 2020, nursing homes across Brazil closed their doors to all visitors, preventing millions from visiting elderly relatives, as authorities instructed to reduce physical contact to a minimum. But in Viva Beam, an old house outside São Paulo, a new simple innovation called the 'hug curtain' was allowed where people could see and hug their loved ones without risking their lives. For those without visitors, volunteers and staff provided that humanitarian support. As they say at Viva Beam, "Everyone deserves a good hug".

meeting

Çeviri türleri Metin çevirisi Kaynak metin 357 / 5000 Çeviri sonuçları During the Covid19 Pandemic period, the whole world remained separate from their loved ones. The victimization of the healthcare personnel, who is at the forefront of this process, is above all. The inability of the Health Personnel to go to their homes and to reunite with their loved ones, especially their children, is a scene where we all hurt our hearts. I wanted to depict such a scene under the subject of "Humanity". Covid19 Pandemi döneminde tüm Dünya sevdiklerinden ayrı kaldı. Bu süreçte en önde yer alan sağlık personelinin mağduriyeti her şeyin önündedir. Sağlık Personelinin görev süresince evlerine gidememesi ve sevdiklerine, özellikle çocuklarına kavuşamaması hepimizin yüreğini yaraladığı bir sahnedir. Böyle bir sahneyi "İnsanlık" konusu altında işlemek istedim. hakkında daha fazla bilgi Koronavirüs hastalığı (COVID-19) Son bilgileri alın Geri bildirim gönder Yan paneller

humanity

August 6th, 2020 - Beirut port. In the aftermath of the Beirut blast, a truck driver with scars and injuries, overseeing the site where he was the day before. The driver was inside the port at the time of the explosion. Although the blast was humongous due to the destruction it left behind and people it got killed, the man was lucky enough to live and witness another day.

High hopes

Mediterranean Sea. End of the day. Cold. A group of rescuers tries to save the victims of a shipwreck until the end

RESCUE

An elephant felt down in to the logged water and village people are rescuing him from the water near village of West Bengal,India

Final Destination

Migrants sit on a boat sailing in the turbulent waters between Sangat and Cap Blanc-Nez (Cape Blanc-Nez), in the English Channel off the coast of northern France. They are trying to cross the maritime border between France and the United Kingdom on August 27, 2020. The number of migrants crossing the English Channel, which is 33.8 kilometers (21 mi) at the closest point in the Strait of Dover in small rubber boats increased exponentially during the summer of 2020. According to authorities in northern France, about 6,200 migrants attempted to cross between January 1 and August 31, 2020 compared to 2,294 immigrants throughout 2019.

Last voyage

As the sea ice is disolving, a polar bear drifts on a small piece of ice out into the open ocean with an uncertain future. Svalbard, august 2020.

Social distancing

Before a concert in the time of the COVID19 pandemic. *** A famous Italian poet, Giuseppe Ungaretti, said that poetry contains itself a mystery, poetry cannot be called poetry if it does not communicate this sense of mystery. For me, photography, as for other forms of art, is above all this. Therefore, describing a mystery is not possible. The photographer, however, wants to share it with other people for the emotion he felt and transmits it through an image, hoping that it can arouse the same feeling.

lonely in old age

a grandmother who is very old lives while in her hut made of cardboard and used goods ... lonely ... lives by scavenging garbage

Weasel Moon

a moon weasel caught on camera traps while playing up a pine tree in the jungle of Yogyakarta

Above the polar regions

The Arctic and Antarctica are both facing a range of quick changes. These regions are clearly challenging place to live, but few animals that make it their home adapted to face the extreme temperature, high winds during the rough winters. The series reveals and celebrate from an aerial new point of view, the beauty of its incredible frozen landscapes and wildlife living at the edge of the ice. Powerful but yet, fragile.

TRASHUMANCE

Trashumance is to be in continuous movement. A thousand-year-old practice, a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. My project wants to give visibility to the transhumant livestock that is practiced in the province of Jaén Spain, one of the last redoubts of the Iberian Peninsula where transhumance still exists, but with the sensation of witnessing the disappearance of a way of life

In Covid 19 Unit

Since World War II we have not encountered any other important events affecting the whole world so much.The first images from China were terrible. We watched like watching movies from afar.Then we all became actors of this vague and dystopic science fiction movie and we got into it. The countries closed their borders,the economy was hit hard, people became unable to leave their homes.Strangely,everything in the world changed suddenly because of a virus. The biggest difficulty was experienced in hospitals without any doubt. I love being close to events and people that interest me as characters. For this reason, while I want to photograph Covid19, it is not for me to photograph from a distance, as I usually see.If I was going to shoot, I had to get into the closest.This was much more difficult because it would both activate the permitting process from all patients and pull me to the heart of the risk, but it had to be tried. I am married and have two children. It was therefore not easy to decide to enter Covid19 intensive care. I believe that" I can't change history but I can show it". This is why I spent 29 days in intensive care.In general, we see that the events that focus on the moment in documentary photography are away from aesthetic anxiety. But unlike the general one, I also wanted to show that aesthetic photographs can be taken in documentary photography, albeit difficult.The way to do that was to be invisible and not in a hurry by spending a long time there.I have to photograph them without haste. So I stay 29 days in hospital.I observe them.They got used to me and I start to be invisible to those there. This series consists of the photographs I took during that time.

Pareidolia

Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns. The shown collection attempts to find faces with unique characteristics under the microscope & within a tiny area that barely can be seen.

Artsakh Strong

For centuries a cycle of bloodshed and displacement has echoed through the hills and forests of Nagorno-Karabakh. In modern history, Armenian and Azeri struggle for control over the region was rendered dormant by Bolshevik invasion and Karabakh’s incorporation into the USSR. Following the fall of the Iron Curtain however, Armenia took control of the land in a four-year war that killed tens of thousands and left more than a million Azeris homeless. While the territory remained internationally recognised as Azerbaijan, Karabakh was under Armenian control for almost thirty years. Then in late 2020 Azerbaijan reignited the dispute. The 44-day war that ensued simultaneously mirrored and juxtaposed the one that took place in the 1990's. The black and white print images of the fleeing Azeris that appeared in the world's front pages were replaced by jpegs pinging across Twitter and Telegram of Armenians forced from the very same lands. Silver-haired soldiers who recounted their days of trekking through Karabakh's forests to face their enemy down the barrel of a rifle were enlisted once again, but now only to take cover from the aerial threat of drones and heavy artillery. Most never fired shot for the whole war. This time it was the Azeri throngs that erupted in jubilation through the streets of their capital, Baku, as the war was declared won by their smirking President. In Yerevan, Armenian Parliament and the Prime Minister's office were stormed by the seething wives, mothers and sons of the fallen - betrayed by the capitulation of the Prime Minister. While the war is over for now, a sustainable peace is remote. The bitter rivalry and hatred between the two nations lives on with the memories of the Azeri soldiers who remember from childhood the days when they were routed from their homes by pitiless Armenians, and in the hearts of Armenian children who may now dream to one day avenge the same brutality that they have suffered some thirty years on.

golden sun has melted down

the unique exterior that looks like the golden sun has melted down this I photograph in a building located in the city of Incheon city south korea

The Moon and The Burj Khalifah

The Moon and The Burj Khalifah

The Eye

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth . And God said , Let there be light ; and there was light . And God saw the light , that it was good ; and God divided the light from the darkness .

Spiral

The Atrium of the hotel located in the Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai.

An eye in the sky

This photo of Ain Dubai (Dubai Eye) was taken on a foggy morning in Dubai. Fog season is always a special time in Dubai especially because of the high rise buildings and structures that pop out of the fog.