Doha Photography Award opens with over QR2 million in prizes

Doha, Qatar: The Qatar Photography Center, affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, has introduced the launch of submissions for the primary version of the Doha Photography Award, a landmark cultural and inventive initiative geared toward supporting visible creativity and selling Qatar’s photographic id.

Submissions shall be accepted from August 10 to October 2.

The award provides knowledgeable platform for photographers from inside and out of doors Qatar, no matter age or expertise, throughout six foremost classes: the Qatar class, which highlights the nation’s landmarks; the General – Colors class; the General – Black and White class, the Special Theme – Emotions class, a Storytelling class for a collection of images narrating a whole visible story; and a Special Theme class for rising Qatari photographers underneath the age of 18.

The whole worth of the prizes exceeds QR 2 million, with a grand prize of as much as QR 300,000 awarded for first place within the Qatar class. Other classes will provide prizes of QR 150,000 for first place, QR 100,000 for second, and QR 75,000 for third.

The award requires that every one photos be taken with skilled cameras and never generated utilizing synthetic intelligence applied sciences. It additionally prohibits the usage of logos or watermarks, and requires that submissions adhere to technical requirements that guarantee the standard of the submitted work.

On this event, Director of the Qatar Photography Center Jassim Ahmed Al Buainain expressed satisfaction within the launch of the primary version of the Doha Photography Award, via which the middle seeks to supply a worldwide platform that embraces native and worldwide expertise, giving photographers the chance to showcase their creativity and doc particular moments that mirror the great thing about Qatar.

The award is predicted to draw broad participation from all over the world, due to the variety of its themes and the worth of its prizes, along with the distinctive alternative it supplies photographers to showcase their work on a platform that enjoys each native and worldwide consideration.