Calling all photographers! The Booooooom Photo Awards are back for a third year and officially open for submissions! We have 5 award categories to submit to: Portrait, Nature, Street, Colour, Fashion. Our friends over at Format are on board again to help us bring this to life. We’ll be awarding each category winner a $1,000 USD cash prize, editorial and social coverage, a feature in a printed publication, and some goodies from some of our friends (gift cards, bags, slings, cases). We also have 3 Format websites with lifetime subscriptions up for grabs.
Format is the online portfolio builder for photographers, illustrators, artists and designers. Recognized internationally for their award-winning website templates, they offer over 90 themes with thousands of design variables so you can customize your site to look as unique as your work. You can also sell your work commission free through the Format store. If you want to learn more about Format, check out their website here or start a 14-day free trial.
Everyone is welcome to submit one image to these awards for FREE. Members enjoy unlimited submissions and unlimited images for all award categories. If you want to submit more than one image or compete in multiple categories, consider becoming a member here!
Don’t miss out! This is your chance to get your work seen – and not just by our own Booooooom community! In addition to the $5,000 USD in cash prizes and bragging rights, all 5 winners (and 20 shortlisted photographers) will be featured in a special photo awards publication. Designed specifically to showcase your work, this zine will not be for sale but will be sent to all the winners and shortlisted photographers as well as curators and editors we respect. Winners and runners-up will also receive editorial coverage on Booooooom and promotion across all our social channels.
That’s not all, we also have fantastic prizes this year thanks to KEH, who are hooking up each of the category winners with a $500 gift card, and WANDRD, who are providing products for each of the 5 category winners, ranging from a selection of bags to lens and memory card cases!
AWARD CATEGORIES
- PORTRAIT – Human subjects are the focus here.
- NATURE – Images related to land, sea, sky, the natural world.
- STREET – Street photography is generally understood to be candid unposed moments of everyday life in public spaces. Images may spontaneous and chaotic or they may be more quiet observations.
- COLOUR – Images may feature one colour or an explosion of many. Or maybe they capture a few that feel in perfect harmony with one another. How can you make the viewer notice the colour first?
- FASHION – Whether these images are editorial, lookbook, shot in studio or not, we want to see your most striking work.
It is FREE for anyone to submit 1 image to 1 award category.
Submit 10 Images to 1 Category
$15 (early bird) – Submit up to 10 images to 1 award category for consideration.
Submit Unlimited Images to all Categories (MEMBERS)
If you are currently a member, log in to enable the submit button unlimited submissions (unlimited images + unlimited categories). If you are not a member, you can learn about becoming a member here.
Deadline for submissions: 11:59PM PST January 10, 2025
If you are an agency or gallery representing photographers and want to submit on behalf of someone else (with their permission), please complete this form.
Have a look below at the 5 winning images from last year’s awards and make sure to check out our feature interviews with each of them!
WINNER: 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards “PORTRAIT”
Wilhelm Philipp is a self-taught photographer from Australia. He uses his camera to highlight everyday subjects and specifically explore the Australian suburban identity that he feels is too often overlooked or forgotten about. Read our interview with him here.
WINNER: 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards “STREET”
Riac Oseph is a fashion designer and visual artist from India, born and raised in Kuwait. His work explores his own psyche, diving into specific memories to understand their psychological truths. Read our interview with him here.
WINNER: 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards “SHADOWS”
TJ Martin is a self taught filmmaker from Seattle who won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2012, making him the first film director of African-American descent to win an Academy Award for a feature-length film. He is currently working on his first photo book. Read our interview with him here.
WINNER: 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards “COLOUR”
Jannell Adufo is a British-Ghanaian photographer from South East London. Her portraits draw on the beauty of her subjects’ essence, seeking to simply present each person as they choose to be. Read our interview with her here.
WINNER: 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards “NATURE”
Jas Leonard is a photographer and mother of three living and working in Cleve, South Australia. She works mostly with film photography documenting the passing time of motherhood and childhood. Read our interview with her here.
You can also see the images by the 2023 shortlisted photographers here.
It is FREE for anyone to submit 1 image to 1 award category.
Submit 10 Images to 1 Category
$15 (early bird) – Submit up to 10 images to 1 award category for consideration.
Submit Unlimited Images to all Categories (MEMBERS)
If you are currently a member, log in to enable the submit button unlimited submissions (unlimited images + unlimited categories). If you are not a member, you can learn about becoming a member here.
Deadline for submissions: 11:59PM PST January 10, 2025
Below are a few images of last year’s zine which was made possible by the folks at Format. This year they are also generously providing 3 “Lifetime Subscriptions” websites. To enter, complete a submission of any kind and opt-in to their newsletter. We will randomly draw 2 winners from all of the submissions at the end of the Photo Awards deadline, and also award 1 winner or runner-up with one of the three Lifetime Subscriptions.
The 2024 Booooooom Photo Awards are FREE to enter. Anyone can submit one image to one category. If you would like to submit multiple images and multiple categories, consider becoming a member here!
5 Winners will receive:
- $5000 USD in cash prizes (5 x $1000 USD prizes)
- $2500 USD in gift cards (5 x $500 USD) from KEH
- Interview Feature published in Photo Awards zine, a copy of the zine
- Editorial coverage on Booooooom + promotion across all social channels
- Editorial coverage in Format Magazine
Each winner will also receive their choice of one of the following items, in their preferred color, courtesy of WNDRD:
20 Runners-Up will receive:
- Image published in Photo Awards zine, a copy of the zine
- Editorial coverage on Booooooom + promotion across all social channels
It is FREE for anyone to submit 1 image to 1 award category.
Submit 10 Images to 1 Category
$15 (early bird) – Submit up to 10 images to 1 award category for consideration.
Submit Unlimited Images to all Categories (MEMBERS)
If you are currently a member, log in to enable the submit button unlimited submissions (unlimited images + unlimited categories). If you are not a member, you can learn about becoming a member here.
Deadline for submissions: 11:59PM PST January 10, 2025
If you are an agency or gallery representing photographers and want to submit on behalf of someone else (with their permission), please complete this form.
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