Amateur art photography

The Travel Photography Content is an independent photography competition to celebrate and highlight the creativity in travel photography. Issue 98 will be a Portfolio issue. Monochrome Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. The criteria for selection by a jury of professional in the photographic field are a height creative level, originality and a coherent personal vision. Photographers will be allowed ONE entry per exhibition.

Fine Art Photography Awards is one of the largest award giving bodies for a community of artists ushering an era of new trends in the world of photography. Created in , this competition is a melting pot for people where passion, interest, sense of beauty and openness to diversity in photography collide in intergalactic proportions. At Fine Art Photography, we seek to find artists and unique souls who breathe and live for creativity—where we provide a platform of promotion and support in their pursuit of self-realization and development. This contest caters to individuals actively attuned to experimentations and new trends in art. And yes, you can have it your own way! Delight in the crazy beautiful fusion of simplicity and complexity of the world with us!

Unlike painting, photography is a democratic medium. Anyone who takes pictures long enough, persistently enough, is entitled to their moment of grace. That one shot when everything comes together, when readiness and chance conspire with the camera to make a little marvel. Of course it does not always happen; but it happens often enough to give every amateur hope that his or her time will come. The perfect avocation for those with free time on their hands, photography allowed people who otherwise would have had no outlet for their visual gifts to create images.

In the exhibition Amateur Photography. Ever since the invention of photography, the amateur has played a key role in its development, with artists at the Bauhaus in particular recognizing the creative freedom afforded by the casual use of the camera. The democratic and political potential of amateur photography was likewise discovered in the s. Both aspects are still of great importance for the way we deal with images. Amateur photography in the early twentieth century heralded the birth of a mass phenomenon, which today takes the form of an inundation of digital images.