Every participant will have one free entry submission into the EXIFs World Photography Awards per category from the open call dates across five diverse subject genres, you may enter each and every category for free with one image, once only. Read the Rules of Entry
Each of the five categories will have one winner voted by the community via the EXIFs WPA website from the Ten shortlisted entrants judged by a juried panel of photographers and leading photographic experts after the individual category closing dates. In the event of any tied voting of equal amounts, then the judge and jury panel will decide and select a category winner. See Rules of Entry 5.2
Each of the five categories will have ten selected shortlisted photographs judged by a professional jury panel. The photographs will then be voted for by the community once released to the public on this website after each category closing date. The image with the most votes after a one month period will be named the winner of the category.
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Digital Certificate stating the photographers name, image and title, EXIF Data and category
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Invitation to create a live auction of their winning entry 1/1 on the Gamma Marketplace, a Web3 creator platform on the Stacks Blockchain the leading layer 2 for Bitcoin, with 100% of the proceeds credited to the photographer.
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Exclusive printed physical wearable personalised merchandise.
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Sponsored prize TBC and or Stacks STX Cryptocurrency amount TBC
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One overall winner will be chosen by community voting from the selected five category winning entries. In the event of any tied voting of equal amounts, then the judge and jury panel will decide and select a category winner to be named EXIFs Photographer 2024. For more details See Rules of Entry 7.2
EXIFS WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS THE PHOTOGRAPHS DNA
FIVE DIVERSE CATEGORIES TO ENTER SHOW US WHAT'S IN YOUR DNA
ABOUT EXIFs
EXCHANGEABLE IMAGE FILE FORMAT
In today's digital age, every photograph made with any type of camera device carries with it a wealth of information beyond pixels. This hidden treasure trove is recorded and known as EXIF Data, an acronym for Exchangeable Image File Format.
Photographers, both Professional and hobbyist can embed Copyright details, information and usage rights directly into EXIF Data. This serves as a digital watermark, helping to protect intellectual property.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS DNA
The EXIFs 2024 competition awards will feature five distinct categories: Portrait, Landscape, Wildlife, Street and Creative Photography. Over a five week period, photographers will enter their work into one of these categories. The Winning photographers from each category will be
selected by community choice through public voting. Alongside category winning awards, their 1/1 work will be minted and auctioned on Gamma, a web3 Bitcoin and Stacks blockchain creator marketplace for artists, with all proceeds going directly to the chosen winning photographers. Our aim is to enhance the visibility of photography and its creators embracing lens based artists in merging and building bridges from web2 through web3 technology. By offering free entry and leveraging a platform, the awards will democratise access to prestigious recognition and provide financial benefits directly to photographers through this exposure to a global audience and new collectors of their work.
CELEBRATING PHOTOGRAPHERS
EXIF Data was born in October 1995 created by the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association *"JEIDA" and was developed and has paved the way in storing a wealth of useful metadata for photographers globally.
The standard format for RAW "large lossless files capturing data without compression", JPEG "Joint Photographic Experts Group" and TIFF "Tagged Image File Format" are the most common types of storage for photographers from their camera's image capture, all containing EXIF Data, in our eyes and words, "The Photographs DNA". Therefore and because of this, we want to celebrate with photographers for embracing this digital information of how their images have been created technically and artistically.
We aim to do this by uniting and rewarding photographers globally through this awards competition.
*EXIFs WPA is not associated nor affiliated with "JEIDA".
BUILDING ON NEW FOUNDATIONS
EXIFs World Photography Awards itself is already a winner in securing an awarded grant from the Stacks Foundation, the leading Layer 2 for the web3 Bitcoin Blockchain.
You're in good company, an award winning photography awards in its inaugural year and launching from concept to reality, kickstarted and supported by the Stacks web3 ecosystem, through their DeGrants program from the cohort 2 season.
We already have great big plans for 2025 but for now we will fulfil our obligation of being awardees of this grant to implement the format of the competition as proposed and agreed with the Stacks Foundation. To award lens based artists in celebrating photographers through, exposure, mentorship and an insight and introduction to nurture artistic talent as we navigate the process of success.
SOME FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
We are a photography competition awards, celebrating The Photographs DNA and it's creators alongside photographers from around the world to participate and submit entries to be showcased and rewarded for their art, embracing traditional photography and digital image capture, combined with blockchain immutable technology of web3. EXIFs World Photography Awards have been awarded a grant by the decentralized Stacks Foundation, through its DeGrants program, whom work to build a central hub of resources to connect with talent.
The Stacks decentralized ecosystem with its own cryptocurrency STX, is the leading layer two for the Bitcoin blockchain and the Foundation is organised with a range of valuable players, including exchanges. infrastructure providers, agencies, custody solutions, market makers and digital wallets plus much more, supporting founders and builders on a mission to activate the Bitcoin economy through broader adoption. Take a look here for more information. Stacks Foundation
In relation to gamma.io a seamless web3 user interface launchpad allowing artists to create with no code, manage and sell digital assets, so creators, in particular photographers, can focus on what they do best, that is to create high quality work and etch their mark in the art world through blockchains, earning revenue streams from auctions, editions and royalties. Whereas gamma in digital imaging, photography and correction terms, is a measure of how smoothly a display transitions from black and white for balanced tones between highlights and shadows. It's the straight line portion on the slope of a characteristic curve, relating exposure to density of an image in development. The correction process adjusts the distribution of tones for a more natural look and feel.
Not exactly, although we are embracing web3 technology for a better way to reward photographers for their work in producing photography as an art form, expression and for documenting important events from around the world. There is no better record or proof than that of a photograph that has been captured in a moment of time, with EXIF Data built in for verification to be recognised and safely stored on chain. In fact, as well as onboarding photographers from so called web2 backgrounds we recognise the importance of and value photography as a medium and see web3 blockchains as the future for lens based artists, combined with and utilising the demand for traditional physical prints. We have big plans for the EXIFs WPA 2025 format, which will be unveiled after this, our inaugural competition, be a part of it.
Our founders backgrounds are made up of professional photographers, ambassadors of photography and industry experts themselves, so we know how much hard work goes into producing imagery and getting recognition. We salute you and want to celebrate your wins, in fact we want to celebrate all lens based artists through this awards whom participate and submit their photographs, we would love to see what's in your photographs DNA. This is why we've made EXIFs WPA free to enter and open to all photographers.
No, we invite all photographers from all backgrounds to enter and submit their work to EXIFs WPA, whether you're a professional or hobbyist, we just want to see and award great photography. That's also why we've made a fair selection process for all shortlisted category entries and community voting to decide their favourites, which in turn will decide each of the five category winners and overall winner by way of the most public votes. The overall winner will be crowned EXIFs Photographer 2024 please review the Rules of Entry.
Absolutely yes! Just because you make your photography solely on film, it doesn't mean that you cannot enter EXIFs WPA. Obviously we understand that negative or positive film does not contain the EXIF Data from the analogue camera it was made with but of course you can add the necessary required information of The Photographs DNA to the scanned image when saving it as a TIFF/JPEG File for submission.
Yes of course, photographers can submit entries regardless of the brand or type of camera used to make their photographs, after all, the camera is merely a recording device tool. However, unfortunately EXIFs WPA does not currently accept panoramic format due to the nature of its elongation, nor should you enter images made with a mobile phone due to only limited devices being able to produce RAW capture, which are not accessible to everyone, for submissions. We will consider both of these options for future EXIFs awards. See Rules of Entry.
