Photo Of The Year 2023 - Agora Worldwide Awards

#PhotoOfTheYear

#PhotoOfTheYear is one of Agora Awards’ most important awards, since it recognizes the most outstanding photographers of the year worldwide. This award consists of two prizes of $3000 each: The People’s Prize and the Jury’s Prize . All photographic styles and disciplines are welcome: we will reward to both the aesthetic proposal and the message of the creation.

Our mission is to empower people from around the globe through art. Participate and take advantage of being part of the Worldwide Awards: each of the two winners receives $3000, and their work will feature on our App’s Top Creators’ section and our social media channels.

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Photos (from left to right) by: Followmypath, Mohammadreza Rajaei, Gerard Nartey, Joe Shelly, Bilal Asm and Nika Pailodze.

Past award finalists and winners

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 the winner

People’s Prize

The winner artwork will get $3.000

Jury’s Prize

The winner artwork will get $3.000

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 the Guess and become a Jury member

We will choose a winner from all our Guess participants to serve as a jury member for an Agora Award.

Win 1 credit when complete your votes

Every time you use all your votes in each round of an award, you will receive 1 credit. The more times you vote, the more credits you will earn.

Win the Guess and be interviewed

At every award we will interview and showcase one Guess winner on our social media channels.

Professional Jury

Michael Aboya

#PhotoOfTheYear2019 winner. Fine art and fashion worldwide awarded photographer based in Ghana, West Africa

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Hanaa Turkistani

Featured photographer by Nikon middle east and Nikon school. First prize winner of the RTA, HIPA AE photography competition 2021

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Diego Herrera

Photojournalist and documentary photographer. 2022 Xposure Festival first prize winner for his series “Ukraine, the last war in Europe”.

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Iryna Vlasiuk

#PhotoOfTheYear2022 winner. Fine art photographer based in Ukraine

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Octavi Royo

CEO and Co-Founder at Agora: The Worldwide Awards

J. Tomas Lopez

Fine Art Photographer, Professor and Cooper Fellow in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami

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Laetitia Vançon

French freelance photographer based in Munich. Her work appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Geo Magazine, and Vanity Fair, among others

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Agora awards: How it works

The Agora Awards are free for everyone to participate in through our app or website.
This is all you can do in Agora:

Participate

Upload your best creations, ideas or actions and share your unique point of view. Everyone can participate!

Discover

Video, Music, Photography, Digital Art and everything you can imagine. All creations have a place in the agora awards.

Vote

Vote for the best creations and empower people around the globe. Help others sharing their talent.

Always win

Worlwide recognition, new opportunities and amazing prizes because of your unique talent.

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

Giving hearts is the best way to help the creations participating in an Award to become finalists. In fact, a percentage of the selection of finalist works has to do with the number of hearts that each work receives.

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 thank you’s given will accumulate in your profile as a representation of the help you are giving to the Agora community. By the way, thank you very much! 🙏

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Do you have any doubts?