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Life Framer Monthly Photography Competition

LIFE FRAMER MONTHLY PHOTO AWARDS
Deadline:
Entry Fee:
From $20
Age Limit:
Over 18 Only
Experience:
Any Experience
Open to Entries:
Worldwide
Other Requirements:
(or of the age of majority in jurisdictions in their respective country),
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Competition Details

The Life Framer award is made up of 12 monthly competitions – each judged by an industry leader with a wealth of experience and expertise.

UPCOMING COMPETITIONS:

  • PORTRAITS – September 2025Life Framer’s “A Portrait” competition is a global call for photographers to submit work that captures the complex and profound nature of portraiture. Inspired by a quote from Charles Baudelaire, the contest seeks images that offer a glimpse into another life and form a connection across distance, culture, and age.The competition welcomes all types of photographers and cameras, inviting submissions of studio portraiture, candid street shots, self-portraits, as well as conceptual and fine art photography. The goal is to find faces—whether individuals or groups, iconic or unknown—that celebrate diversity, creativity, honesty, and self-expression.
  • BLACK & WHITE – October 2025 For October, Life Framer is celebrating photography in its purest form with a competition dedicated exclusively to black and white images. The contest invites photographers to submit work that strips away distraction, allowing the viewer to focus on form, contrast, light, and emotion.Open to all genres—including street scenes, portraits, landscapes, and documentary—the competition welcomes both film and digital submissions, whether they are new works or from an existing archive. The goal is to see how photographers use the timeless medium of monochrome to distill the essence of a moment and showcase the power, simplicity, and beauty of black and white.
  • CITIES – November 2025
  • HUMANS – December 2025
  • WINNERS EXHIBITIONS
  • ANIMAL KINGDOM – January 2026
  • COLORS – February 2026
  • STREET LIFE – March 2026
  • FACES OF LIFE – April 2026
  • BLACK & WHITE – May 2026
  • OPEN CALL – June 2026
  • PLANET EARTH – July 2026
  • HUMANS – August 2026
  • BLACK & WHITE – September 2026
  • TRAVEL – October 2026
  • YOUTH – November 2026
  • SOLITUDE – December 2026

ENTRY FEES: $20: 1 Image, $30: 3 Images, $40: 6 Images, $100: Membership  – Submit up to ten images in every monthly themed competition for the next 12 months

Winners Are:
Judged
Judging Process Published:
Yes
Judging Anonymous:
Yes
Winners Announced:
Prize & Judging Details

1st Prize:

  • $2,000 monthly cash prize
  • Your image exhibited in three global exhibitions
  • Your image in the Life Framer Photobook
  • Online exposure
  • Personal feedback
  • Submission to The Collection
  • Submission to #lifeframerstories

2nd Prize:

  • Your image exhibited in three global exhibitions
  • Your image in the Life Framer Photobook
  • Online exposure
  • Personal feedback
  • Submission to The Collection
  • Submission to #lifeframerstories

Other Winners:

  • Online exposure
  • Personal feedback
  • Submission to The Collection
  • Submission to #lifeframerstories

All Entrants:

  • Submission to The Collection
  • Submission to #lifeframerstories

 

Judging Process

Within 3 days of each competition end, Life Framer’s editors will screen entries and submit selected entries to the judge for his or her review. The judge will then select the shortlist and 1st, 2nd Prize entries based on the photographic skill, artistic sensibilities, emotion, impact and originality. The decisions of the judge are final.

In the event that a judge has to withdraw their involvement for any unforeseen reason, Life Framer reserves the right to find an alternative judge. All entrants will be notified.

Images submitted will be treated completely anonymously throughout the whole process to ensure total fairness. The judge will have sole discretion of his or her selection and attempting to contact any judge directly in order to influence them will result in disqualification of the Entrant.

Life Framer aims to announce the shortlist and winners for each contest within fourteen days of the submission close date. The winners and shortlisted photographers will be notified by email and published on the Life Framer website and associated social media. The 1st Prize Entrant will have 90 days from the email date to claim their cash prize (they will be notified of their prize and any further instructions in the email). Failing to do so will result in loss of the prize. Winners are accountable for costs associated with the award acceptance, such as any applicable federal, state, provincial and local taxes.

Retain Copyright:
Yes
Retain Moral Rights:
Credit Only
License Duration:
For the duration of the Award.
Photo Use Term:
Promotional Only
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Usage Rights, Copyright & Moral Rights
Terms & Conditions Notes

By entering the Award, you (as an Entrant) warrant to Life Framer that you created your competition entries, that you are the author of your work, you own all of the copyright in those entries, that it does not include trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any other third person or entity. You warrant that the use by Life Framer of the entries in accordance with these terms and conditions will not infringe any person’s intellectual property rights or other legal rights, and that publication or exhibition by Life Framer will not contravene restrictions set by any other entity (for example exclusive representation arrangements with a gallery). You must not submit to the award any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

You will be responsible for any claim made by any third party in respect of your entry and to fully indemnify Life Framer and its sponsors in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person or entity by reason of your breaching any of the foregoing. Life Framer reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entry that does not comply with any of the above, even after the entry is submitted on the competition website.

Copyright Policy

We respect your rights and do not claim copyright for photographs or text submitted to the Award. You will retain full copyright in each entry.

Usage License

In addition, your moral rights are respected. Whenever your work is published on this website you will be credited. Failure to publish a credit due to error or oversight shall not be deemed a breach of this condition. We will seek to correct any errors or oversights as soon as we are notified.

By entering the Award, you agree that any work you submit may be used by Life Framer (and our print and gallery partners) solely for purposes in connection with the Award or future Awards, and for no other purpose. These uses are as follows:

  • Judging the competition
  • Displaying entries on the Life Framer website and social media outlets, and those of its gallery partners
  • Displaying entries at the gallery exhibitions
  • Using the entries on posters, postcards, adverts both online and offline to promote the Award
  • Cropping and re-sizing the work as necessary to fit pre-defined formats to promote the Award and any related exhibitions
  • Sub-licensing the entries to the press for reproduction in connection with announcements regarding the Award
  • Inclusion within any materials promoting the Award or any exhibition organised by Life Framer
  • Displaying the entries in a book, magazine or exhibition catalogue, or similar

You hereby grant Life Framer a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence in each entry throughout the world in all media for the uses described above for the duration of the Award.

You acknowledge your responsibility for protecting your entry against misuse by third parties, through means such as the embedding of metadata. Life Framer (and its partners) can assume no responsibility and is not liable for any misuse of your work by third parties.

Any reproduction of entries outside of the uses listed above will occur only after receiving the Entrant’s express permission. The Entrant will be contacted and given the opportunity to negotiate any such usage with the parties concerned independently of the Award. We will never sell your work.

Life Framer uses the social media platforms Facebook, X and Instagram. While Life Framer guarantees that photographers will be fully credited when posting images on social media and through any of the other channels listed above, Life Framer cannot guarantee that others who copy or re-post images will do the same.

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Our goal is to help photographers make informed choices and to support organizers in building trust. This report details our assessment of this competition’s adherence to our Photo Competition Standards, highlighting its strengths and areas for potential enhancement.

★☆☆☆☆ 1.0 Stars ->: Significant Issues

★★☆☆☆ 2.5 Stars ->: Basic Compliance

★★★☆☆ 3.5 Stars ->: Meets Expectations Well

★★★★★ 5.0 Stars: Exemplary Standard

Key Principles of Fair Usage.

  • Respect for copyright: Organizers should acknowledge and respect the photographer’s ownership of their work.
  • Limited use: Usage rights should be limited to purposes directly related to the marketing/promotion of the competition, photos and photographers.
  • Specific Usage: Detailed information regarding where the images will be used for the promotion of the competition, this should include websites, social media, partners website, media outlets, books & calendars etc.
  • Moral Rights: Photographers should be credited whenever their images are used. This includes publication and Media not owned by the organiser. Editing and manipulation of the images should be kept to a minimum.
  • License Duration: The usage license should be limited in time with a maximum of 5 years, but ideally less.
  • Compensation: Photographers should be compensated for commercial use of their images beyond promotional purposes. This can be detailed in the terms or by a separate agreement.

In essence, fair usage in a photo competition balances the organiser’s need to promote the competition, its winning entries and photographers, with the photographer’s right to control their work and receive any appropriate compensation.

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