Leica Street Photo Competition 2023

Deadline: January 30, 2023

This is the twelfth edition of the Leica Street Photo competition! Once again, we invite photographers to participate in one of the largest and most important competitions dedicated to street photography. This year, the Grand Prix for the best photo is a Leica SL2-S camera and a voucher worth 1,000 EUR for the lens! The competition rules do not change – the Jury will choose 20 winners from the submitted works. You will be able to see them in Warsaw and many other cities.

Awards

1. The Grand Prix prize in the competition is a Leica SL2-S camera and a voucher worth EUR 1,000 to be redeemed at www.leicastore.pl. The winning entry will be selected based on the Jury’s vote.
2. The tax regulations in force in Poland will issue the main prize in the Competition.
3. Sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation and Belarus related to the military operations in Ukraine close the way, in the event of victory in the 12th Leica Street Photo, to honour people living in sanctioned territories with the award.
4. The works qualified for the final will participate in exhibitions at the Leica 6×7 Gallery in Warsaw and other galleries cooperating with Leica 6×7 Gallery. The Organizer covers all costs related to printing and presentation of winning works, organization of the exhibition and opening ceremony.
5. Additional cash prizes, part of the Main Prize, will be taken and transferred by the Organizer to the Tax Office service.
6. For each in-kind prize, the Participant will receive an additional cash prize of 11.11% of the value of the awarded prize. The Participant agrees to allocate the additional cash prize to cover the Organizer the flat-rate income tax on the winning prize. Therefore the cash prize will not be issued to the Participant. As the payer of the flat-rate personal income tax, the organiser will calculate, collect and pay the flat-rate income tax due on the winnings to the appropriate Tax Office before issuing the prize. (Legal basis: art. 30 ust. 1 pkt. 2 ustawy z dnia 26 lipca 1991 r. o podatku dochodowym od osób fizycznych (t.j. Dz. U. z 2018 r. poz. 200 z późn. zm.)

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Process

1. Everybody is invited to participate in the Contest (excluding employees of the Organizer). Minors will be requested to provide the consent of parents or guardians to participate in the Contest.
2. The condition for receiving a possible prize is providing real personal data.
3. Entries for the Competition will be accepted via the application form on the website: www.leicastreetphoto.pl.
4. Entries will be accepted from the date of the announcement of the Contest up till 30/01/2023, 7:59 PM (CET).
5. The Contest Participant may submit a maximum of five photos.
6. All techniques of photography are accepted. Topics should refer to street photography. The primary criteria for evaluating works are originality and quality of artistry. Photography has to be taken after the 1st of January 2022 and before 31 December 2022.
7. Photos should be added through the application form in jpg format and a maximum resolution of 2000 pixels along the long side. The contest winners will be asked to provide digital data at their highest resolution – enabling high-quality printing in the 50cm format over the long side. Suppose the Winner does not provide such files after the deadline of 48 hours from receiving the information from the Organizer about qualifying for the Final. In that case, the Organizer may refrain from awarding the prize and qualifying the work for the Final.
8. By submitting her/his work for the Contest, the Participant declares that she/he is its author and has all rights to dispose of intellectual property related to the work. Besides, the Participant declares that the submitted work does not violate the rights of institutions and third parties, in particular, all persons visible in the photograph and that these persons consented to use their images in the Contest and their dissemination. Without such consent, the Participant assumes responsibility for all legitimate claims of these persons and institutions.
9. The submitted works may not contain content intended solely for adults, including sexually explicit material, promoting alcohol or tobacco products, and other content that is not legally permitted for public display.
10. The jury takes the decision on whether the submitted photograph carries out the subject of the Content.
11. The Organizer will inform the winners about the results of the Contest via e-mail.
12. The Participant agrees to publish the submitted entries during the Competition and after completion on the Organizer’s and Partners’ electronic information platforms and social networking sites (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) belonging to Organizer and Partners. The participant also agrees to publish entries through the media, cooperating with the Organizer. Such publication may only occur in the context of the Contest, its promotion, and information about the results.

Application Registration Deadline: 30th January 2023

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