$75,000 in Total Awards • Your Own Gallery Exhibition in NYC
A Feature in PDN Magazine • Exposure to a Global Audience • and more
Images that illuminate your perspective, your community, what you love, your travels - anything that exhibits your world and experience. Select your best work, submit your photos and have a chance at over $75,000 in awards.
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Through photos, projects, cell phone photos, old Polaroids or even a roll of film from a rediscovered disposable camera. Upload your shots and you will be featured in the "Day in the Life" exhibition in New York City.Every participant is guaranteed a place in this special show.
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A Solo Gallery Exhibition in NYC + a Showcase at PDN 30th Anniversary Bash at PhotoPlus Expo
A $25,000 Cash Grant for You to Spend However You Like
A Feature in PDN Magazine Distributed Internationally
Category, Early Entry Awards Including Cash Grants + a Group Show Inclusion in NYC
A gorgeous online portfolio, a package of exclusive gifts and discounts from our sponsors ($75 value), and a free digital copy of PDN Magazine.
A Gallery Exhibition in NYC + a Showcase at PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2013
A Trip Around the World + $10,000 Cash Grant for You to Spend However You Like
A Feature on See.Me Sent to Over Half a Million People Worldwide
GUARANTEED inclusion in a globally promoted exhibition in NYC with official documentation, a gorgeous online portfolio, a package of exclusive gifts and discounts from our sponsors ($75 value).
This project is presented by PDN Magazine and powered by See.Me. For over 30 years PDN Magazine has been a leading photography publication with global distribution. See.Me is the fast growing social network for creatives and has awarded more than $1.5 million in awards and grants.
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Braden Summers
Robert Utrecht
Ling Cheong
Jason Travis
Alexia Sinclair
Natalia Shaidenko
Hua Bai
Mark Gooch
Kourtney Katanich
Flavio Sarescia
Desiree Pfeiffer
Gerald Forster
$75,000 in cash grants and awards.
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We’ve worked to build a system for entry that is easy and fluid. Below is a brief overview of how the competitions works. For more detailed information, see our Frequently Asked Questions, read the Official Contest Rules or Contact Us with any questions you have.
One Life is open to photographers 18 and older from anywhere in the world! We are looking for all types of digital and film photography, including (and definitely not limited to): Fashion, Landscape, Travel, Candid, Digitally Manipulated, Artistic / Conceptual, Self-Portrait, Wedding and more! We are looking for compelling images that tell stories as you envision them.
One Life only accepts submissions through our quick and easy online form. All applicants will receive a gorgeous online portfolio and will be eligible for the Story Award (does not affect the selection of the Grand Prize winner). Portfolios are fully editable (you can change/add images and modify your bio) until the deadline.
The Basic entry is $29, and the Professional entry is $69. The Basic Entry makes you eligible for the Story Award and the Early Entry Award; The Professional entry makes you eligible for all of those awards, plus the Grand Prize award.
Every photographer who submits to One Life will be given an online See.Me portfolio to view and share with your social network and use as a professional resource. After you complete your submission, you will be sent a confirmation email with your username, password, and direct link to your portfolio, which you will be able to start using immediately.
Upon entering you are invited to self-select what category your portfolio belongs to. This will only affect the Category Awards, the Grand Prize Award and Story Award is open to every category. This will only affect the Category Awards; the Grand Prize Award and Story Award are open to entries in any category. Every type of photography is welcome for entry.
People: Includes: Portraits, Self-Portraits, Conceptual & Candid photos, any image with a person as its central character.
Places: Includes: City Imagery, Landscapes, Travel Photography, any image with a place/location as its central theme.
Things: Includes: Still Life, Studio Images, Macro Images, Micro Images, any image with an object as its central theme.
Ideas: Includes: Conceptual and Artistic imagery, Narrative Series, anything that expresses an idea.
The Grand Prize:
This award is selected by our panel of esteemed judges from all the categories. The Story Award collections have no influence on the Grand Prize selection.
The Story Award award focuses on the story you tell (more so than the technical aspects of your photography). Viewers will collect their favorite photographers and help decide who will win the Story Award, so share your portfolio with friends, family and colleagues using e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools, and get your fan club to collect your works today! The highest collected artists will have their submissions reviewed by Artists Wanted to determine the Story Award winner, who will win a feature presentation on the new See.Me (formerly ArtistsWanted.org), a feature in the One Life Photography Annual Catalogue, and $7,500 in cash.
Our jury panel will choose four Category Award winners in these People, Places, Things, Ideas.
Category Award Winners will be featured in PDN Magazine and on the new See.Me (formerly ArtistsWanted.org), exposing your work to tens of thousands of the most influential eyes in the photographic and arts communities.
One potential Grand Prize Winner will be determined from among all eligible entries received by a panel of qualified judges, based on a rating system that considers uniqueness, skill, and ambition. The entrant who submitted the entry receiving the highest score, as determined by our judging panel, will be the Grand Prize winner.
Eligible visitors to the site will have a chance to collect their favorite entries during the Online Voting Period. The entrants with the the highest number of collections will be reviewed by Artists Wanted, and one will be chosen as the Story Award Winner (pending rigorous vote validation). Public voting and collecting has no influence on the formal judging for the Grand Prize Award.
Artists Wanted and PDN will not resell your work, or use your images for any commercial purpose outside the terms of the contest and the New York Reception. Every image you submit is yours and you retain all rights to your images.
Your images will be hosted on our web server for viewing via your public portfolio and your images may be selected for special promotion in PDN Magazine, Artists Wanted, See.Me and other press/partner outlets. For example, in the past major magazines and television outlets have run features on our photographers and we have facilitated that connection. If a major press outlet approaches us to feature your work, we will contact you and work with you to craft the story to the highest benefit for you and your career.
Your images will never be sold to a 3rd party.
Submit your photography to the One Life Competition & A Day In the Life Awardn and have a chance at life changing awards including:
Your work will be reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges, including some of the top minds (and eyes) in the worlds of photography, culture and art. Click Here to have your work judged by our panel:
Photo Editor
The Fader
Art Director of Marketing
New York Media / New York Magazine
Photo Editor
National Geographic
Photo Editor
Mother Jones
Photo Editor
Reader's Digest
Art Producer
Arnoldnyc / Arnold Worldwide
Contests & Events
PDN
For the A Day in the Life Award, we are looking for photos that tell a photographic story of a day in your life whether it be a special day, a fantastical day, a day in the future, or just plain old today. Whether they are technically skilled photographs or snapshots taken in the moment on whatever device was available, any portfolio is eligible to win this prize.
Portfolios will exist in a public browsing forum. Viewers from around the world will create browse and vote for their favorite photographers. Finalists for the A Day in the Life Award will be determined by the number of vote they have received. From among the list of top-covotedinalists, our team will select a winner.
Additional awards will be given in four categories: People, Places, Things, Ideas. Our jury panel will determine which category your portfolio falls into and mark you for the award you are eligible for. Click here. for your shot at one of the following category awards.
We will review early entries to be featured on our social media channels and awarded the $1,000 Early Entry prize. To be eligible for this award, complete your entry by: Midnight, June 28th.
Every weekday, we will feature photographers on our home-page and in our social media channels, seen by Hundreds of thousands of viewers. Follow us on Facebook and see if your entry is featured. For a chance to be one of our featured photographers click here .
Photography is our way to capture moments as we experience them. Everyone has a story - the One Life Photography Competition is your opportunity to show the world your story captured in images. Click Here to Enter.
Photo District News (PDN) is an award-winning monthly magazine for the professional photographer. For 30 years, PDN has delivered unbiased news and analysis, interviews, and portfolios of new photographic work. Every month, PDN gives photographers the information they need to survive in a competitive business—from marketing and business advice to legal issues, photographic techniques, new technologies, and more.
PDNonline covers breaking news stories and delivers in-depth features on the photo industry, including interviews and profiles, reports on new products both analog and digital, and information on useful resources for professional photographers. PDNOnline's photo essays and galleries explore the work of photography's masters and today's emerging talent.
Artists Wanted is a collaborative project between several New York City artists and creative organizations working to build new lasting opportunities for emerging talent. Over the past five years Artists Wanted has provided over $1.5 million in cash grants and awards to artists and photographers.
Our goal is simple: find great talent like yours, and expose it to the world. We've done this through gallery exhibitions visited by thousands of viewers and online features viewed by hundreds of thousands of art enthusiasts around the world.
Photographers, artists, designers, and musicians: we invite you to show the world your creative vision and connect with other inspired people via See, a new web and mobile app to be released later this summer.
By entering One Life, you will have exclusive early access to the free mobile app for showing your profile and connecting with other photographers from around the world.
