TIPA camerAmore Contest 2026 (€3,000 total prize) – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2026

Applications are open for the TIPA camerAmore Contest 2026. camerAmore is the photograph contest specializing in photographic gear and the photographer’s relationship with it. Join the 2026 version of the competitors and ship your finest shot of photograph gear, new or previous, costly or not.

The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) awards the perfect images of photographic gear in three classes.

• My digital camera and I: An exploration of the bond between photographer and digital camera. This part is devoted to self-portraits that present the photographer along with their digital camera, expressing interplay, belief, and lasting connection in any setting or temper. Whether quiet or energetic, playful or reflective, the connection between the photographer and the digital camera is the true topic of the picture.
• Camera in Action: This part focuses on cameras being actively used within the course of of creating pictures. Photographs could depict photographers at work in any context, from studio setups to outside environments, capturing moments the place cameras, lenses, and gestures are clearly engaged in motion. The photographer proven doesn’t have to be the creator of the picture; what issues is the seen vitality of pictures taking place.
• What’s in my digital camera bag: A visible stock that tells a narrative. This part invites photographers to disclose the instruments they select to hold, organized or captured in a means that displays private fashion, habits, and photographic method. From important gear to sudden objects, every picture ought to supply perception into how creativity is provided and ready.

Prizes

• Category and total winner will obtain money prizes totaling 3,000 euros (total winner 1,500 euros, class winners 500 euros every).
• All successful entries can be printed in TIPA member publications and on the TIPA web site.

Eligibility

• Participants should personal all rights to the submitted pictures.
• The organizers reserve the precise to reject entries that violate moral or ethical requirements. By registering, members affirm that they’re the only authors of the submitted conception, that they might freely eliminate the introduced works and current rights of use thereto, and that the photographs are freed from third-social gathering rights.
• The submitted ideas and ensuing works could also be used for the competitors and its journalistic analysis. The organizers have the precise to exhibit the works chosen by the jury for this objective, in addition to to publish them within the context of the journalistic analysis.
• By submitting a picture to this contest the photographer grants rights to TIPA and its affiliated magazines and internet sites for that picture utilization in print, on-line, and social media for the needs of reports tales in regards to the successful pictures and contest and publishing any picture submitted deemed acceptable for press tales and publication in regards to the competitors and its outcomes. This doesn’t grant TIPA and its affiliated magazines any copyright on the picture, however for full use of the picture as publicity for the competition and its ends in any media worldwide.
• For the usage of the awarded images throughout the framework of the competitors and their journalistic analysis, the members can’t declare a utilization price.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to TIPA camerAmore Contest.