The procedure is simple and easy.

Go to https://gphotoawards.com/participate/ and follow these steps

Α. Fill in personal details,

Β. Select one or more categories

C. Upload photos

D. Complete payment.

The Grand Winner, all five category winners and a selection of distinguished and highly ranked photos (10 in each category) will be included in Virtual Gallery and will published in a special supplement of print edition of Photographos magazine. As well as that, they can take part in a prominent photo exhibition in Athens (venue and details to follow) in the steps of the very successful Photovision Art event (recently organized in Athens, Zappeion, Oct.11-13, 2024 ).

The first winner in each of the five categories receives: €1.250 award in cash and 2. The following prize package from Retouch4me award value 427€: A) 3 AI-based plugins from the plugin suite of his/her choice & B) 500 in-cloud retouches with the Retouch4me Arams/Photoshop Panel
On top of that the Grand Winner earns the free hotel accommodation prize in Greece. Winners of categories and runners up win participation in the Virtual Gallery. Short listed photographers can take part in the Photo Exhibition in Athens (*details to be announced shortly) upon payment of small fee.
Selected winning photos will also be included in special feature in Photographos printed magazine (Greece), as well as the organizer’s social media. Certificate of participation will be sent to all distinguished participants. An online portfolio and interview of Grand winner will be uploaded to www.photo.gr and www.gphotoawards.com.
Notice: Local prizes, sponsored by Greek companies, can only be claimed by participants who reside permanently in Greece.
Finally Retouch4me offers the opportunity to try their AI plug-in with a 20% discount, to all photography enthusiasts and Great Photo Awards participants.

Your photos can be in color or black and white. Each image must be in JPEG file format (not Raw), with 2Megabyte maximum file size and preferably between 2000 up to 2500pixel longer side.

For the preliminary stage of submitting photos to the competition, low/medium resolution JPEG files up to 2 MB are accepted.
Selected and Shortlisted participants will be notified at a later stage to provide Raw file of original or high resolution JPEG with EXIF if requested.
In case of analog prototype (i.e. film or print), proof of authenticity can be requested.
High resolution images in Raw, JPEG etc. of the winning and distinguished works will be required for final evaluation and / or use in publication, exhibition or other purpose. For the high resolution images, the EXIF data may be required for purposes of authentication. The same high resolution files will be used for the ones who will choose to be part of the Art Exhibition.

Yes, in order to preserve jury neutrality during judging no watermarks are allowed. Photos should not be readily identifiable and attributed to specific photographer.

No limitations apply to the means of creating your photos. So YES, digital images from smartphones are welcome.

For technical and copyright reasons, each entry can be attributed to only one photographer. So no joint entries are accepted.

No such restriction applies.

Though no such formality applies, it is clearly stipulated in the rules (Terms and Conditions) that by submitting images which include recognizable and identifiable persons, you are at the same time assuring and admitting that you have the explicit and full permission of these persons to use their image without limitation and no incurred fees or other claims and demands for compensation.

Please carefully read section USAGE RIGHTS in Terms and Conditions. Submitted photos will be used exclusively for any means of fulfilling the promotion of Great Photo Awards contest (virtual gallery, physical exhibition, the organizer’s site, social media tec.) free of charge, and always with credit line. Under no circumstances can these photos be sold, donated, loaned, allocated for other use or transferred to ownership and use of other entities with payment or free of charge.

Deadine for Early Bird money saver is 20/01/2025. The final deadline for submission of participating works is 23/02/2025 Deadlines may be amended at the organizer’s discretion.

Great Photo Awards team will contact the winners and runners up at the email address provided in the participation form before going public. Date of official announcement of results will be notified at a later stage. A formal announcement will be made in www.gphotoawards.com and all other media of the organizer..

Yes, the costs for participation are as follows: SuperSaver EARLY BIRD only €25 for each category (up to 10 photos) | €40 for each category (up to 10 photos) after EARLY BIRD deadline.
However, you can enter for free if you submit only one photo per category – exclusively for the duration of Early Bird period.

Participation in the Photo Exhibition (the date, and the venue will be announced soon) at a prominent Athens venue is optional and open to participating photographers who are specially chosen by the organizer’s editorial committee. All interested photographers will be contacted from Jan.20 to Feb.28.2025. A token sum per exhibited printed photo will charged and has to be paid by March 14.2025, along with supplying High Resolution files for exhibition quality printing. In case of any problem, technical, copyright or other, paid monies will be refunded without any other claim for compensation..