American Photography Open 2020

Close on August 31, 2020

Host: American Illustration - American Photography (AI-AP)

Territory: Worldwide

Theme: Open

Eligibility: Open to all

Entry Fees: $20/ 1 image $10 each additional image

Prize: Cash Prize

Welcome to American Photography Open 2020, celebrating the best pictures submitted by world-wide photo enthusiasts taken with any device. For over 30 years American Photography has been holding a juried competition primarily for professional photographers. The AP Annual book, featuring the winners, and the launch event in New York in November continues but with the proliferation of so much great photography taken by everyone we are entering our third year of offering a competition for photo enthusiasts at all levels. You can see some of the highlights and winners from 2019 here.

New this year! In addition to the Open prizes our partner SanDisk will be awarding additional prizes for their "Share Your World" competition. To enter this part of the competition, select the "Share Your World" category and follow the instructions there. You can enter both competitions as many times as you wish.

All Open winners will receive prizes including selected products/ services from our partners. The Open Grand Prize winner will receive $5000, a Tamron SP 70-200 F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Canon or Nikon mount), value $1299, a SanDisk 1 TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD, a PhotoShelter 2 year Pro account and a 2 hour business consultation with The Photo Closer . The Open finalists will receive a choice of a Tamron SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD (Canon or Nikon mount) lens or a prime lens for a Sony FF ML camera (20mm, 24mm, or 35mm), a SanDisk 128GB Extreme Pro SD card and a PhotoShelter 1 year standard account.

The SanDisk "Share Your World" Grand Prize winner will receive a $2500 Cash Prize in return for letting SanDisk use the image in marketing with photographer attribution for 18 months. Also, a 1TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD and 3 128GB Extreme PRO SD Cards. 2 Runner Ups will receive 2 128GB Extreme PRO SD cards.

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