Launch Colors Photo Contest

Announcing the New Colors Photography Contest: Unleash the Vibrancy of Colors

Dive into the world of color with our latest photo contest focused on the stunning and diverse uses of color in photography. Whether you're capturing bold hues or subtle palettes, color photography transcends simple technique and transforms into an expressive art form. From the deep saturation of landscapes to the delicate pastels of portraits, color brings stories to life, adding depth, emotion, and vibrancy to your images.

Our Colors photo contest invites photographers from all genres to explore the rich possibilities that color offers. Whether you're working in fashion, fine art, street photography, nature, wildlife, architecture, urban scenes, photojournalism, or documentary photography, this is your chance to showcase your mastery of color.

We are looking for cohesive portfolios or bodies of work that demonstrate a unified artistic vision. Please note that images previously featured in AAP Magazine are not eligible for submission.

The rewards are significant. Winners will receive $1,000 in cash prizes, and their winning images or portfolios will be published in AAP Magazine Vol.43. Beyond the monetary prize, winners will gain valuable press coverage and global recognition, with their work featured in the printed edition of AAP Magazine. Winners will also receive a free copy of the magazine and have their portfolios showcased in the prestigious Winners Gallery on all-about-photo.com.

Submissions will be judged on creativity, originality, and the visual and emotional impact of the images. Winning photographs will be announced on All About Photo and shared across our social media platforms, offering an excellent opportunity for international exposure.

By entering, your work will be viewed by a global audience, including influential editors, publishers, gallery owners, curators, festival directors, and creative professionals. This competition could be a pivotal moment in your photography career, putting your work in front of those who shape the photography industry.

All About Photo is one of the leading platforms in the world of photography, renowned for showcasing the work of both emerging talents and established professionals. By participating in this contest, you will gain access to our expansive online gallery, ensuring that your photography reaches a worldwide audience.

In addition to global recognition, our contest offers significant press exposure. Your work will be promoted on our website and social media channels, attracting attention from diverse media outlets. Selected photographers will be featured in our international press campaigns.

Our mission at All About Photo is to discover and celebrate new talent. We invite photographers from around the globe to share their passion for color photography in our upcoming issue. Each edition of AAP Magazine is themed around a specific concept, and our Colors issue will celebrate the most inspiring and visually captivating images submitted by talented photographers.

Submit your best color photography now and seize the opportunity to join the ranks of celebrated photographers featured in All About Photo. This is your chance to showcase your work to a global audience and gain the recognition you deserve.

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The Rainbow Headquarters © Eric Seidner

Iridescence N.5 © Pawel Pilch

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

All About Michael Joseph

I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

By Pauline Vermare

Publisher : Aperture

2024 | 440 pages

I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in Japanese society. Editors Pauline Vermare and Lesley A. Martin, curator and writer Takeuchi Mariko, and photo-historians Carrie Cushman and Kelly Midori McCormick provide a critical historical and contemporary framework for understanding the work in three richly illustrated essays. Additional context is provided by an in-depth illustrated bibliography by Marc Feustel and Russet Lederman, and a selection of key critical writings from leading Japanese curators, critics, and historians such as Kasahara Michiko, Fuku Noriko, and others, many of which will be published in translation for the first time. While this book does not claim to be fully comprehensive or encyclopedic, its goal is to provide a solid foundation for a more thorough conversation about the contributions of Japanese women to photography—and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in a more robust history of Japanese photography.

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

All About Lisa McCord

João Pina: Tarrafal

By João Pina

Publisher : GOST Books

2024 | 284 pages

João Pina draws upon his family history to tell the story of the Portuguese concentration camp at Tarrafal, Cape Verde which operated between 1936 and 1974. The visual history of the camp is told through the only known photographs taken inside the Tarrafal camp, combined with correspondence, archives, objects and Pina’s own contemporary photographs. Collectively these materials create a new dialogue about the Portuguese fascist regime of the past—and the resistance to it—on the 50th anniversary of its demise. In 1949, Pina’s grandfather Guilherme da Costa Carvalho—a young communist militant— was sent to the camp. Later that year Guilherme’s parents were granted unprecedented permission to visit their son and using a Rolleiflex camera they photographed all the living prisoners and the graves of the ones who had died in the camp. This extensive visual record—the only one ever made inside the concentration camp—was created with the intent of reporting back to the families of the other prisoners held in the camp or had died there. Seventy years later, in 2019, Pina began investigating a box in his family archive containing the negatives, contact sheets, vintage prints of these pictures made inside the camp, along with related letters and telegrams sent from his grandfather.

Launch Colors Photo Contest

Announcing the New Colors Photography Contest: Unleash the Vibrancy of Colors

Enter Colors Photo Contest 2024

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