Winner announced!

Congratulations to Zay Yar Lin for winning the 5th edition of our international photography competition!

Zay Yar Lin wins the competition with his aerial picture of the Inle Lotus Fabric

© Zay Yar Lin

The honourable mentions go to: Yosifov Svetlin, Azim Kahn, Bence Máté and Sourav Das

Congratulations to all our finalists

These photos will access the second round of judging and the winner will be declared by November 15

The winner will be able to choose a Nikon Z7, a Canon EOS R, a Sony Alpha 7III R

Prizes

or $3000 cash!

The photos will be judged by our international jury

Matteo Vegetti

Matteo Vegetti

Matteo is a travel and documentary photographer and videomaker whose passion for distant cultures has pushed him to seek adventures in remote locations. He's been published, among others, by National Geographic. He is one of the founding members of Flabbergast V.

Tewfic El-Sawy

Tewfic El-Sawy

Tewfic El-Sawy is New York City-based freelance travel photographer. He organises and leads photo expeditions/workshops for photographers and is the founder of The Travel Photographer blog. He just completed publishing the book “Hau Dong: The Spirit Mediums of Vietnam”, and is currently working on a new book on Chinese Opera.

Diane Durongpisitkul

Diane Durongpisitkul

A traveller and self-confessed serial people-watcher, Diane has a hunger for documenting the ordinary moments of daily life among societies across the globe. She has an innate wanderlust and is constantly searching for a deeper understanding of the subjects with whom she engages. She often seeks communities not consumed by tourism or the homogenisation of global mainstream culture to survey the social condition in its purest form.

Jing Chen

Jing Chen

Jing is an independent travel blogger that writes extensively about China, its culture and its traditions. Attracted by nature and secret places she's always willing to share her discoveries with her western readers.  

Kim Hak

Kim Hak

Kim Hak is an award winning Cambodian photographer, whose works include survivor stories, the funeral of King Sihanouk, architectural documentation and the changing landscape of his homeland.

Probal Rashid

Probal Rashid

Probal is an award winning documentary photographer focusing on people at the edges of society. He is a long time advocate of the people of Bangladesh, Nepal and India. His photographs explore the relationship of humanity and environment in a simple manner.

1000for1 is run by photographers for photographers, this is why this contest is run according to the Artists’ Bill of Rights: there will be no other uses of the submitted pictures other than the ones strictly related to running the contest. A gallery of the winning pictures along with the shortlisted ones will be published on this site. Please note that that we will fully credit each picture which is published.

Important dates

  • 15th of June 2019

    Competition opens, submit your photos!
  • 20th of October 2019 OR as soon as 1000 participants are reached

    submissions close Do you know that the average photography competition has way more than 1000 participants? By limiting the number of entrants you have a higher chance of winning the competition. 
  • 1st of November 2019

    Finalists announced
  • 15th of November 2019

    Winner nominated

Check out our previous editions

2018: The Human World

Supriya Biswas, who joins the jury for the next edition of 1000for1, has been nominated as the absolute winner of “The Human World”, the fourth international travel photography competition organised by 1000for1.com.

Congratulations to him and to the four honourable mentions: Thigh WannaShoeb FaruqueeRobin Yong and Edoardo Agresti.

© Supriya Biswas

2016: New Eyes

Get amazed by the winning photo taken by Gunarto Gunawan and the honourable mentions by Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman, Marcin Ryczek, Zay Yar Lin and Louis Montrose.

© Gunarto Gunawan, Myanmar

2015: All of Asia

Below are the winning picture of Roberto Fenanti and the honourable mentions by Jakub Rybicki, Chee Keong Lim, Neil Herbert and Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman

Myanmar, © Roberto Fenanti

Myanmar, © Roberto Fenanti

2014: India!

Here you can see the winning photo by Javier Arcenillas and the honourable mentions by Massimo Ferrero, Laurent Nicourt and Matteo Imbrianti

1000for1-international-photography-competition-contest-image-copyright-by-Javier-Arcenillas

India, © Javier Arcenillas

From the blog

The old Tsaatan. Mongolia
INSPIRE is open for submission Posted 14 June 2019
The Human World: deadline extended Posted 12 March 2018

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