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.

Cedric Roux: Before Rebirth

By Cedric Roux

Publisher : ODYSSEE

2024 | 96 pages

Empty storefronts dot the downtown, while massive brick tobacco warehouses stretch the length of city blocks—abandoned and awaiting creative reuse. Wilson, North Carolina, feels frozen in the 1970s. Invited by the Eye on Main Street festival, photographer Cedric Roux made several trips to this enigmatic town. For a photographer used to capturing the vibrant energy of New York City streets—his first book, My Wonderland (now sold out), vividly chronicled the bustling metropolis—his initial encounter with Wilson was a profound shock.

Expecting a town in the midst of a vibrant renaissance, Roux wandered Wilson daily, exploring its diverse areas: downtown, affluent suburbs, and struggling neighborhoods. On either side of the railroad tracks that symbolically and socially divide the city, he sought a light that might suggest an emerging revival..

In his latest book, Before Rebirth, Roux captures this sense of disconnection, using his lens to explore a promise not yet realized. With a population of just 47,000, Wilson is a far cry from Manhattan’s 1.5 million. Used to the dense human energy that fuels his photographic style, Roux found himself reimagining his approach. His work took on a more stripped-down, documentary aesthetic, yet it remains deeply rooted in place and retains the distinctive palette and framing that define his vision..

In collaboration with artistic director Jean-Matthieu Gautier, Roux drew from his imagination and visual archives to craft a narrative that stays true to his photographic roots while stepping far beyond his usual realm.

All About Cedric Roux

John Divola: San Fernando Valley

By John Divola

Publisher : Nazraeli Press

2024 | 60 pages

From the publisher: San Fernando Valley is where John Divola was born and raised, and it served as both backdrop and subject for his earliest, serious photographic explorations, made during the early 1970s. This previously unpublished body of work shows “the Valley” through the eyes of a young photographer who would soon become an internationally-recognized artist with the exhibition and publication of his much more conceptual “Zuma” series. The black and white photographs in “San Fernando Valley” comprise a series of subject groupings which, pulled together, show early manifestations of the deadpan humor and the ability to capture everyday scenes wrapped in loneliness, for which Divola is now well-known. The book is also, and not incidentally, a fascinating record of a quintessentially 1970s Los Angeles culture. John Divola’s work is the subject of numerous books and catalogues. Widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia, Divola’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of many public and private institutions, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

All About John Divola

Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters

By Cig Harvey

Publisher : The Monacelli Press

2025 | 224 pages

Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects – flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape – accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in her vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by award-winning novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalogue of pleasures and heartbreaks, and ‘an urgent call to live.’

All About Cig Harvey

Helmut Newton. Berlin, Berlin

By Helmut Newton

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 244 pages

Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated. In 1979, the newly relaunched German Vogue commissioned him to retrace the footsteps of his youth to capture the fashion moment. The resulting portfolio, Berlin, Berlin!, inspired the title of the exhibition which celebrates 20 years of the Helmut Newton Foundation. This collection includes Newton’s most iconic Berlin images, as well as many unknown shots from the 1930s to the 2000s: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs and restaurants, nude portraits in the boarding houses he knew from his youth, and the Berlin film scene, featuring Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders at the Berlin Wall, John Malkovich and David Bowie. In October 2003, only months before his death, Newton moved large parts of his archive to his new foundation, housed in the Museum of Photography beside the Zoologischer Garten station―the very station from which he fled Berlin in the winter of 1938. This publication thus closes a circle in the story of his extraordinary life and work.

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