Deadline:
November 28, 2025
Location(s)
Online United Kingdom
London
Overview
The Student competition is one of the world’s leading programs for photography students. Each year, all registered universities are given a unique 1st challenge, with a time frame for their students to respond and submit a series of between 3-5 images per institution
Details
Providing a platform for photography students worldwide. Prizes include top Sony Digital Imaging equipment, inclusion in the London exhibition and the annual book - plus more!
For photography students worldwide
- Free to enter for anyone aged from 18 to 30 years-old undertaking a photography programme*
- Students answer a set brief with 5 to 10 images
- Up to 10 shortlisted photographers
- One overall winner receives the Student Photographer of the Year title
- Deadline for entries is 28 November 2025 at 13:00 (GMT)
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2026 Brief: Together
Togetherness can take many meanings, shapes and forms. It is a subject rich for exploration. Throughout history photographers have looked at life in communities in both the human and the natural world, considering the ways that individuals exist as members of a group.
For this year’s brief, we invite students to explore the theme of togetherness from any angle they choose, looking at the concept in its broadest sense. From intimate stories of camaraderie, to big and small communities working towards shared goals, to places and spaces that bring us together, and patterns of connection in the natural world - we invite you to consider the innate need for sociality in all living beings.
Your images can be taken on any device, shot in any style, and approached from any angle you feel is best. While creative responses are encouraged, photographers must stick to the brief.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
- The Competition is open to all students of photography from World Photography Organisation’s selected Universities.
- All Entrants must be aged between 18 and 30 years of age at the time of Competition’s deadline. All entries must confirm, on application, their acceptance of the rules of the Competition and these Terms and Conditions.
- Entries must be submitted by 13.00 GMT on 28th November, 2025.
- By entering the Competition, each Entrant agrees and acknowledges that World Photography Organisation is permitted to receive his/her registration data. All personal information will be used by World Photography Organisation in accordance with its privacy policy.
- Students are required to submit three (3) - five (5) images responding to a brief. To enter, institutions must be registered and you must give your images to your tutor.
Images from all participating universities will then be judged by the selected World Photography Organisation judging panel to choose ten (10) universities that will win their place in the final. The selected images will be announced after being deemed suitable by the World Photography Organisation after February 1, 2026.
Dates
Deadline: November 28, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Prizes
- Student Photographer of the Year receives €30,000 worth of Sony digital imaging equipment for his or her institution and inclusion in the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London.
- 10 shortlisted photographers receive lights and accommodation to the Awards ceremony in London, a range of Sony digital imaging equipment, publication in Sony World Photography Awards book and inclusion in the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London.
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