Fine Art Photography

Dear Artists and Photographers,

We are thrilled to extend an invitation for you to participate in FINE-ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2024, hosted by Agora: The Worldwide Awards. This event celebrates photography as an art form, emphasizing the photographer’s vision as an artist and using photography as a medium for creative expression.

Fine-art photography transcends simple reality capture, aiming to express ideas, messages, or emotions through the photographer’s lens. Unlike representational photography, such as photojournalism, which documents reality objectively, or commercial photography, whose primary goal is to advertise products or services, fine-art photography focuses on the subjective intent of the artist and their ability to convey a unique perspective of the world.

For this edition of the awards, only photographs of high technical and artistic quality will be accepted. Each submitted image must be accompanied by text, including a title and a detailed description, which will play a crucial role in its evaluation. This approach highlights the importance of narrative and conceptualization behind each work, allowing for a deeper and more meaningful connection with the viewer.

We would like to emphasize that, for this call, the participation of images created by artificial intelligence (AI) will not be allowed. Our commitment is to deep art and fine-art photography, disciplines that celebrate human authenticity and creativity. We understand and respect the place of AI in the modern artistic world and recognize that there are numerous awards that accept or specifically focus on works created with this technology. However, the FINE-ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS seek to honor and preserve the essence of the human creative process in photography.

This is an opportunity for professional photographers from around the world to present their most significant works and join a community that values artistic depth and personal expression through photography.

Power to fine-art photography and to the deep art.

We encourage you to share your most personal and creative visions with the world. We eagerly await your submissions and wish you success in your creative process.

Sincerely,

Octavi Royo

CEO, Agora: The Worldwide Awards

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Prizes for the winners:

Jury’s Choice Winner

+500 credits for normal users

+1000 credits for PREMIUM USERS

People’s Choice Winner

+500 credits for normal users

+1000 credits for PREMIUM USERS

PRIZES FOR THE FINALISTS

Share your talent

Being a finalist in an Agora Award is already an amazing achievement and always has great visibility and recognition worldwide. This is the best prize!

Be discovered

Many people vote and discover new talented work. Congratulations to all finalists!

The finalists will win credits

After the voting rounds, depending on the final ranking position, finalists will earn credits that they can use to:

– To give power to their favorite creations ⚡

– To participate with more submissions in future Awards.

The credits the finalists will win for each position are the following:

Prizes for everyone

Every single person can win in Agora Awards. Find out how:

Guess the Jury Winner and win credits

The Guess feature allows you to speculate on who will win the jury vote. You can wager credits and, in return, win more credits:

Win 30 credits for a free bet
50 credits if you spend 5 credits
100 credits if you spend 10 credits
500 credits if you spend 50 credits

Win 20 credit when complete your votes each round

Every time you use all your votes in each round of an award, you will receive 20 credit. The more times you vote, the more credits you will earn.

About Agora

Agora is “The Worldwide Awards.” A tool to give visibility to the best worldwide creations, ideas, and actions. Everyone, everywhere, can participate for free in The Worldwide Awards and win recognition and prizes for their unique talent.

Agora is a system to create a better world with the most inspiring human activity. Because everyone is different, but together we win. Thanks for your collaboration.

Frequently asked questions

What are the Agora Awards?

The Agora Awards are The Worldwide Awards. Awards to give recognition, grants, and prizes to the best-talented people around the planet.

Each award has two winners:

Jury’s Prize: A professional jury invited specially to be the jury of a specific award.
People’s Prize: People worldwide vote in a fair and secure system, and the most voted creation will win the People’s Prize.

How can I participate?

The Agora Awards are free for everyone to participate through our app or website. You can participate with your creations, ideas, or actions, and win worldwide recognition and opportunities because of your unique talent. Also, you can vote and empower talented people around the globe!

What are the rules of participation

Requirements that the participating creation must meet:

Be an original creation of the author submitting it or the person submitting it owns the rights of the work.
That fits the theme of the award.
That has quality.
That does not contain explicit sex or violence.
That is respectful of human rights and the dignity of people, animals, and nature.
That is suitable for all audiences.
That respects cultures and differences.
Racism, xenophobia, sexism, speciesism, fascism, homophobia, and any form of intolerance are not welcome at Agora, a place for all those who respect the differences of each person and community.

Can I participate several times in an Award?

Yes, you can participate as many times as you want. However, you will have to use credits to upload more than one creation or wait until the indicated time when the first participation process is over to participate again. We have implemented this method to improve the quality of the participating works, it's an effective way to pre-curate content while providing opportunities for everyone.

How are the finalists chosen

Agora's curators' team chooses the finalist works from among all the participating creations. To make this selection, we take into account several criteria, such as quality, diversity, originality, beauty, the concept behind the creation, the message it conveys, technique, artistic quality, difficulty, social-political-cultural impact, the context and moment of creation, the global interest it has, the cultural value, the author's work, and other specific elements of each Award.

How do I know if I'm a finalist?

If Agora's curator team chooses you among the 25 finalists, you will receive an email from us informing you of this.

What are the prizes?

All awards have two prizes: People’s Prize (whose winner is chosen by Agora users from all over the world) and Jury’s Prize (whose winner is selected by a professional jury specialized in the theme of the award). Each award has a specific prize, which you will find in the information about each award.

How do the People’s Prize voting rounds work?

Once Agora's curator team selects the 25 finalists, they will show them to the public in 5 rounds of 5 finalists each. Each Agora user has 1 vote to choose their favorite creation in each round. In the last round, the 5 most-voted creations of each round (top 5) are submitted to a popular vote. From this final votation, we get the award's winner.

What are the credits for?

The credits are used to participate in the awards with more than one creation without having to wait for the time limitations to be removed. They can be purchased by clicking on the “credits” icon in your profile.

Terms & Conditions

Requirements

The user who uploads the photo must be the author of the photo or have the intellectual property rights of the photo.
The author of the photo must have the image rights or consent of all the people who appear on it.

Terms and conditions

Agora may use any material that is added to the contest for promotional purposes.
Stolen photos, third parties, pornographic content or that violate human rights or the dignity of people are not allowed.
Uploading photos that are not allowed may result in the deletion of the user account and, if the law is violated, the complaint to the relevant authorities.
Agora reserves the right to remove any image that does not comply with the terms and conditions.
Neither AGORA nor the application has any relationship with Apple Inc. or any other company. Apple Inc. and any other company are completely released from any responsibility for the creation and computer development of the Application.

LOVE

The number of hearts received is important (although not decisive) for a submission to become a finalist in the Worldwide Awards. In the case of becoming a finalist, the number of hearts determines the starting position in the voting system.

Every time you get +1000 hearts, Agora gifts you +5 credits.

Support the best creations with your love ❤️

GRATITUDE

Thanking is wise. You can thank all those people who help you with their hearts in your creations. The number of thanks you’re receiving will accumulate in your profile as a representation of the help you are giving to the Agora community.

Every time you get +1000 ThankYous, Agora gifts you +5 credits.

By the way, thank you very much! 🙏

POWER

Empowering a creation you love means increasing its visibility internationally. With this, it will receive more hearts and recognition. Every empowered creation will appear at the top of the Home Feed, in your profile as a “powered by me” and also in the ‘following’ wall of all the people who follow you

Your power is very powerful, use it to help the works that deserve it ⚡

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Do you have any doubts?

Contact us at support@agoraawards.com; it will be a pleasure to answer all your questions!