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Technical requirements

2025 Contest technical requirements

In order to ensure fair and effective judging of the 2025 Contest we ask for the following file requirements from entries. In addition to the judging the file requirements are also necessary for production of the winning entries of the 2025 Contest for the annual exhibition and yearbook.

All categories

Photographs entered to the Singles, Stories and Long-Term Projects must meet the following requirements:

  • Only single-frame photographs may be entered to the above-mentioned categories
  • Upload photographs with the original pixel size (unless cropped). Do not scale and do not change the resolution.
  • ICC profile must be embedded. AdobeRGB, sRGB or grayscale Gamma 2.2 are recommended. No CMYK.
  • Must be uploaded in JPEG format with high-quality compression.
Please Note:
If your work is selected as a winner we will request 16-bit TIFF format files of the winning images.

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