ILoveQatar.internet | Doha Photography Award 2025

The Doha Photography Award is a testomony to Qatar’s vibrant function within the artistic arts, with a particular deal with highlighting the artwork of pictures. Photographers of all ages and expertise ranges are welcome to take part. Participation within the award is free. 

Submission deadline: 2 October 2025 at 7 pm.

Contest classes

Qatar Category

The Qatar class of the Doha Photography Award welcomes submissions from all photographers, each inside and out of doors of Qatar. This class goals to focus on the aesthetics of the State of Qatar by means of artistic and distinctive inventive works throughout numerous fields.

This class presents three prizes:

• First Place: QR 300,000
• Second Place: QR 200,000
• Third Place: QR 150,000

General Category (Colors)

The “Colors” part inside the basic class of the Doha Photography Award is an open house for all photographers to unleash and use colours as a robust inventive medium to convey a message or create a novel visible affect. We welcome submissions that show a deep understanding of colours and their numerous makes use of, and we invite all photographers to submit artistic and distinctive works in numerous fields that spotlight the ability of colours in storytelling and documenting moments.

Prizes for every part are as follows:

• First Place: QR 150,000
• Second Place: QR 100,000
• Third Place: QR 75,000

General Category (Black and White)

The “Black and White” class within the Doha Photography Award is an open house for all photographers to unleash their creativity. We welcome images that use black and white as a creative medium to create a novel visible affect.

Prizes for every part are as follows:

• First Place: QR 150,000
• Second Place: QR 100,000
• Third Place: QR 75,000

Photographers are invited to submit artistic and distinctive works in numerous fields that show a deep understanding of the usage of black and white and its energy in storytelling and documenting moments in an genuine inventive type.

General Category (Under 18)

We imagine that creativity is aware of no bounds, which is why now we have devoted a basic class for younger Qatari photographers underneath the age of 18. This class is an area for younger skills to showcase their inventive creativity throughout all pictures themes. We have made certain to create this part to offer a good alternative for younger folks, permitting them to compete solely amongst themselves, which inspires them to develop their abilities in a wholesome setting that helps the gifted.

This class presents three prizes:

• First Place: QR 30,000
• Second Place: QR 20,000
• Third Place: QR 10,000

Special Category (Emotions)

Launched to honor and showcase the best native and worldwide expertise, the Doha Photography Award’s first version is a robust ode to visible creativity and the timeless artwork of photographic expression. In this particular “Emotions” class, we invite photographers to make clear real human moments that contact the soul and specific a variety of human feelings corresponding to love, unhappiness, pleasure, loneliness, hope, worry, nostalgia, anger, triumph, awe, and lots of extra.

Participants are to make use of their lenses as instruments for storytelling, the place the picture is greater than only a snapshot—it is a window into the depths of the human soul. We imagine that each scene carries a sense, each face tells a narrative, and each {photograph} has the ability to the touch the spirit.

This class presents three prizes:

• First Place: QR 150,000
• Second Place: QR 100,000
• Third Place: QR 75,000

Story Category

The “Story” class is an area to showcase a photographer’s ability in telling tales by means of a novel visible type. This class requires photographers to submit a collection of 6 to 10 cohesive images that inform a transparent and well-defined story with a selected theme. It is a creative problem that mixes the ability of the person picture with the flexibility to construct a sequential narrative, highlighting the photographer’s capability for documentation and affect by means of visible storytelling.

Prizes for every part are as follows:

• First Place: QR 150,000
• Second Place: QR 100,000
• Third Place: QR 75,000

Terms & Conditions

1. Registration for participation opens on August 10, 2025, and submissions should be made by means of the Prize’s official web site (www.qpc.qa).
2. The deadline for receiving submissions is nineteen:00 (7:00 PM) Doha time on October 2, 2025.
3. Shortlisted candidates shall be notified and requested to ship high-resolution information in TIFF or RAW format. These information shall be used for affirmation functions earlier than the ultimate announcement of the winners.
4. A most of three photographs could also be submitted for every class of the Prize, except for the Story class which permits for six to 10 photographs. Each picture should embody a title and outline, together with an outline for the whole set of photographs within the Story class.
5. Submitted photographs should be in JPEG or JPG format, of excessive decision and high quality appropriate for publication, with the longest facet of the picture being no more than 3000 pixels and a decision of at least 300 DPI.
6. Black and white photographs are permitted in all competitors classes, aside from the coloured sub-category underneath the final class.
7. Video submissions could be in any language, however whether it is in a language apart from English, an English translation should be supplied.
8. The movie period should be at least 5 minutes and not more than 20 minutes. Any movie lower than 5 minutes shall be disqualified. The video file should be in MP4 format with a most dimension of 900 MB.
9. All submissions should be taken with a digital camera; images taken with a cell phone will not be permitted.
10. The identical picture might not be submitted for participation in a couple of class. Any picture submitted for participation in a couple of class shall be fully disqualified from the competitors.
11. Submitted photographs should not comprise any logos, signatures, names, frames, borders, symbols, different marks added by the participant, or date/time stamps. Basic technical changes to the photographs are allowed, supplied they don’t have an effect on the credibility and/or authenticity of the picture. Advanced changes used so as to add methods, visible illusions, or manipulations, together with composites and artistic modifications, are prohibited. The Prize Committee reserves the best to judge and disqualify any photographs it deems, in its sole discretion, if the above guidelines are violated.
12. Any photographs that symbolize or comprise inappropriate and/or offensive content material, together with nudity, violence, or another content material deemed inconsistent with the general public morals, customs, and non secular and cultural traditions of the State of Qatar, shall be disqualified.
13. Images generated solely or partially utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) instruments shall be instantly disqualified from the competitors with out stating causes. Participants should declare that they haven’t used AI applied sciences and instruments within the photographs they submitted.
14. Submitted photographs should be a single work consisting of authentic materials captured by the photographer himself/herself and should not comprise any materials owned or managed by third events that has not been licensed to the photographer.
15. Submitted photographs should not infringe upon the copyrights, mental property rights, emblems, entities, ethical rights, privateness rights, or publicity rights of any individual or entity. The participant should receive all vital waivers and consents to permit the show and use of the picture within the method stipulated in these guidelines with out extra compensation, previous to submission.
16. If your photographs attain the ultimate stage of the Prize, you comply with grant the Prize a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, and sub-licensable proper and license to make use of, publish, reproduce, show, modify, create by-product works from, distribute, sublicense distribution of, print, and promote these photographs or any half thereof in any type and by any means for any goal associated to the competitors and for publication within the Prize’s printed and digital promotional supplies, corresponding to Prize magazines, brochures, printed newsletters, the Prize’s web site, different publicly accessible web sites, promotion of subsequent competitions, and basic promotion of the Prize’s work.
17. In the occasion a participant commits any violation concerning the competitors, and their violation of those guidelines is found after they’ve acquired the prize, we will have the best to withdraw the prize and demand that the participant reimburse all prices incurred concerning the photographs submitted by you and your participation within the competitors. Our choice on all issues associated to the competitors is ultimate and binding, and no negotiations concerning these selections shall be thought-about. We is not going to interact in any future or subsequent correspondence associated to those selections.
18. This Prize is topic to the legal guidelines and rules of the State of Qatar, and the courts of the State of Qatar shall have unique jurisdiction to listen to any issues or disputes arising out of or regarding the competitors and/or submissions.
19. By accepting these guidelines, the participant undertakes to indemnify, maintain innocent, and launch the Prize, its companions, subsidiaries, associates, and their staff, officers, and representatives from all liabilities, claims, judgments, calls for, disputes, agreements, damages, actions, and causes of motion of any type in anyway, arising out of or in any manner associated to the competitors or the conduct of the competitors, or the acceptance, use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded, whether or not underneath legislation or rules of fairness. You additionally waive any claims that could be introduced or raised by you in opposition to the Prize in reference to the competitors or any accompanying, associated, or ensuing actions, even when the hurt or declare arises wholly or partially as a consequence of negligence or gross negligence dedicated by the Prize. You additionally comply with indemnify and maintain innocent the Prize in opposition to any declare arising out of your participation within the competitors, together with – with out limitation – all claims introduced, raised, or asserted by third events primarily based on any breach or hurt which will happen to you or them in connection together with your participation within the competitors.
20. Under no circumstances shall the Prize be answerable for:
    1. Any error, omission, defect, malfunction, or delay in any operation or transmission, or malfunction in communication traces, or theft, harm, unauthorized entry, or modification of submitted photographs.
    2. Any issues, damages, or technical malfunctions which will have an effect on any community, phone traces, pc techniques, web servers, pc tools, software program, electronic mail, operators, or web browsers, ensuing from technical issues or elevated web visitors on any web site, or from any synchronization of greater than one of many issues talked about above.
    3. Any incorrect or inaccurate info arising from any tools or software program associated to or used within the competitors, or which will come up from any technical or human error in the course of the processing of photographs and/or submissions.
21. The proper to cancel or droop the competitors if, for any motive, the competitors can’t be accomplished as deliberate, as a consequence of pc viruses of all types, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical malfunctions, or another trigger past the management of the organizers that will have an effect on or corrupt the administration, safety, equity, integrity, or correct conduct of this competitors. The Competition Committee reserves the best to disqualify any particular person(s) who tamper with the submission course of, in its sole discretion, and/or to cancel, postpone, modify, or droop the competitors.

Source and canopy picture credit score: Doha Photography Award 2025

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