Chase that elusive "decisive moment" and capture the candidness of everyday life. Find poetry in the mundane with our Urban Explores challenges.

Ongoing Competitions

Lomography Awards: Street Photography Awards 2022

4,608 Submissions · In Progress · 2022-10-31 23:59

Welcome to the open submission rounds of the Lomography Annual Photography Awards: the TEN AND ONE 2022! Showcase your best street photographs and be the champion of the Urban Explorers category.

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• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Street Photography Awards 2021

  11,011 Submissions · Finished · 2021-09-30 23:59

  

  Welcome to the open submission rounds of the Lomography Annual Photography Awards: the TEN AND ONE 2021! Showcase your best street photographs and be the champ of our Urban Explorers category.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Street Photography Awards 2020

  13,988 Submissions · Finished · 2020-09-30 23:59

  

  Welcome to the open submission rounds of the Lomography Annual Photography Awards: the TEN AND ONE 2020! Showcase your best street photographs and be the champ of our Urban Explorers category.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Street Photography Awards 2019

  6,509 Submissions · Finished · 2019-12-04 23:59

  

  This serves as the Open Submissions round for the Urban Explorers category! Submit your best street photographs.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Forbidden Places

  1,782 Submissions · Finished · 2019-08-14 23:59

  

  With your camera, document the enduring appeal of seemingly forgotten and often off-limit places.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Framing the City

  1,911 Submissions · Finished · 2019-03-27 23:59

  

  Create a compelling street photograph by framing your subjects within its surroundings.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Street Photography: Urban Explorers Award

  5,495 Submissions · Finished · 2018-11-30 23:59

  

  Welcome to the "Open Submission Round" of the Urban Explorers category. Submit your best street photographs!

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Color Collision

  1,118 Submissions · Finished · 2018-08-31 23:59

  

  Summer is all about capturing vibrant colors. Take us to the liveliest part of the city where people flock to beat the heat.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Museum of London: London Nights Competition

  250 Submissions · Finished · 2018-08-31 23:59

  

  Lomography have teamed up with the Museum of London to offer you tickets to see the London Nights exhibition, a collection of over 200 works by 60 photographers that document London at night. You could also win some Simple Use Cameras and some groovy MOL merch too!

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Compétition : Jeu de Paume x Lomography

  560 Submissions · Finished · 2018-08-20 23:59

  

  French competition with cultural institution Jeu de Paume

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Shot From the Hip

  500 Submissions · Finished · 2018-07-31 23:59

  

  Go with the flow and catch that elusive "decisive moment" with your Diana camera.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: City Scavenger Hunt

  1,065 Submissions · Finished · 2018-06-30 23:59

  

  Sometimes, the city can be a weird place. Share snapshots of unusual things around urban spaces that made you second guess what you're seeing.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Lomography X [Off]set Collage (Prizes Limited to Spain)

  133 Submissions · Finished · 2018-06-30 23:59

  

  Watch the summer through 170° of fabulous fisheye distortion.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Art in Public Spaces

  1,330 Submissions · Finished · 2018-05-31 23:59

  

  Appreciate the different forms on art hiding in busy city streets.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Rush Hour

  657 Submissions · Finished · 2018-04-30 23:59

  

  Show us a glimpse of the urban jungle during its busiest hour.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Entropy

  1,644 Submissions · Finished · 2018-03-31 23:59

  

  There's beauty in everything, even in ruins. Document how derelict buildings and structures serve as a reminder of the city's past life.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Through Windows and Glasses

  920 Submissions · Finished · 2018-02-28 23:59

  

  Allow us to experience the hustle and bustle of the city through overlapping scenes reflected on glass windows and storefronts.

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Welcoming New Year

  182 Submissions · Finished · 2018-01-31 23:59

  

  How did your city welcome the arrival of a brand new year?

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Lomography X Hong Kong Dance Company - Shadows of the City (Prizes Limited to Hong Kong)

  293 Submissions · Finished · 2018-01-13 23:59

  

  Lomography has teamed up with Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) to launch "Shadows of the City" film photography competition! Share your B-side stories of Hong Kong and get a chance to win a host of prizes (limited to Hong Kong entries).

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: The Real Viennese Pearls: Your Personal Approach to Vienna

  242 Submissions · Finished · 2018-01-08 23:59

  

  Get the chance to be featured in the second issue of WIEN LEBT magazine and take home their first two issues, a Lomo'Instant San Sebastian and more!

• Lomography Awards: Urban Explorers: Lights and Sounds

  525 Submissions · Finished · 2017-12-31 23:59

  

  Translate the festive melody and colorful decors that fill the city streets into mesmerizing photographs.