Launch Street Photography Contest

Announcing the New Street Photography Contest: Capture the heart and soul of our cities!

Capture the Essence of Urban Life: Submit to AAP Magazine’s 44th Issue on STREET Photography

AAP Magazine’s 44th printed edition is set to celebrate the best in street photography. This issue will focus on the theme STREET, showcasing projects that capture the dynamic and unpredictable essence of urban life. Street photography, as defined by Encyclopedia Britannica, is a genre that records everyday life in a public place, offering a unique perspective on the world around us.

Since the invention of photography, artists have used the medium to document their environments. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's 1838 image, View of the Boulevard du Temple, is a prime example, capturing a Parisian street scene. As cameras became more portable and accessible, street photography flourished, with iconic photographers like Charles Nègre, Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus documenting the urban experience. Their work helped shape street photography into the powerful artistic medium it is today.

The fast-paced rhythm of street life offers endless opportunities for creativity. In this issue, we invite photographers from around the world to submit their best projects that explore the raw energy of city streets, capturing both the everyday and the extraordinary. Whether through digital or analog methods, in color or monochrome, we’re looking for cohesive portfolios that communicate the heart and soul of urban environments.

Why Enter AAP Magazine's Street Photography Contest? Winners will receive extensive global recognition, cash prizes, and the chance to have their work published in AAP Magazine, Vol. 44. With a prize pool of $1,000 and features in both print and online galleries, this contest offers a platform for rising and established street photographers to showcase their talent. Here’s what the winners will receive:

Just British © Giedo van der Zwan, Winner AAP Magazine #8

1st Place Winner
Cash Prize: $500
Exclusive interview and winning portfolio published in AAP Magazine, Volume 44: STREET
One free copy of AAP Magazine (distributed on Blurb.com)
Featured in the online Winners Gallery on All About Photo

2nd Place Winner
Cash Prize: $300
Portfolio published in AAP Magazine, Volume 44: STREET
One free copy of AAP Magazine (distributed on Blurb.com)
Featured in the online Winners Gallery on All About Photo

3rd Place Winner
Cash Prize: $200
Portfolio published in AAP Magazine, Volume 44: STREET
One free copy of AAP Magazine (distributed on Blurb.com)
Featured in the online Winners Gallery on All About Photo

Merit Mentions
Photographers ranked 4th to 20th will have their best image or portfolio published in AAP Magazine, Volume 44.

Sicario from the series 'Straight out the hood' © Brice Gelot, Winner AAP Magazine #36

How to Enter Submit a cohesive body of work that captures the moments of life unfolding on the streets around you. The subject matter is up to you, and all formats—whether digital or analog, color or black and white—are welcome.

Don’t miss your chance to have your work featured in one of the industry’s most prestigious street photography magazines. Submit now for the opportunity to win cash prizes, global recognition, and be published alongside the best in street photography!

For more details on how to submit, visit our official contest page and join the ranks of iconic photographers who have captured the pulse of urban life. Note: Images previously published in AAP Magazine are not eligible for submission.

This competition is an incredible opportunity to have your work seen by a global audience of photography enthusiasts and professionals. Participating can be a pivotal moment in your career, providing exposure to editors, book publishers, gallery owners, festival directors, creative directors, curators, and online media publishers.

Don't miss the chance to be featured on All About Photo, a leading platform in the photography industry showcasing the work of both famous photographers and new talents. Share your work with the world and catch the attention of diverse media outlets through our promotion on our website and social profiles.

Submit your best photographs centered on the theme of street and become part of the illustrious AAP Magazine Vol.44. Elevate your craft, gain exposure, and join the ranks of celebrated photographers.

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

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