Action Photography: The Adrenaline Junkies Award
A good photograph should make you feel something. The Adrenaline Junkies Award embraces what it feels like to live in the moment with its intense, action-packed photographs. Every frame, every story definitely puts everyone on the edge of their seats.
Documentary and Action Photography: The Breaking Boundaries Award
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. The Breaking Boundaries Award challenges you to venture bravely forth into the unknown – to traverse borders, go somewhere new, and try something different.
Black and White Photography: The Monochrome Award
Shooting in black and white is a practice of balancing light and shadows. Without colors to consider, it makes one mindful of composition, framing, and exposure—all essential concepts for a compelling image. The Monochrome Awards allows us to appreciate the timeless beauty of black and white photographs.
Nature Photography: The Off the Grid Award
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get lost in the tangles of high-speed cables and loud noise of ringing gadgets. The Off the Grid Award is an invitation to step back from the glowing screen—a welcome break to reconnect to the roots of nature, taste the salty air, feel the rocky terrain, and get in touch with wildlife.
Experimental Photography: The Trial and Error Award
Lomographers are notorious rule-breakers. We prefer to color outside the lines and push the limit of photography techniques. The Trial and Error Awards is all about those outrageous film soups, blurry images, and random multiple exposures.
Instant Photography: The Now or Never Award
Watching an image appear on print before your eyes within minutes of taking it brings an indescribable feeling of happiness and awe. The Now or Never Award is all about capturing moments into lasting keepsakes—a celebration of the never-fading magic of instant photography.
New Perspectives: The Game Changers Award
There are infinite ways to take photographs of a familiar scene. The Game Changers Award is an invitation to shift angles and explore perspectives that are outside the box. There is no time for strict photography rules as we try to see the world from a fresh point of view.
Portrait Photography: The Human Stories Award
A photograph can be worth a thousand words. Through the Human Stories Award, we’ll get acquainted with different personalities. Baring their souls to the camera, they tell stories that go beyond expressive faces and subtle gestures.
Street Photography: The Urban Explorers Award
Street photography is more than being at the right place, at the right time. It’s all about being aware of your surroundings and trusting your intuition. The Urban Explorers Awards urges you to capture the chance encounters, beautiful coincidences and breathtaking simplicities that make everyday life extraordinary.
Moving Image: The Cinematics Award
The Cinematics Award invites you into the world of videography. Whether you create your film with an analogue movie camera like the LomoKino, a Lomography Art Lens, or you edit images taken with a multi-lens camera into a short film, we want to see what has moved you to make a motion picture. No theme prescribed!
Special Category
To reflect our ever-changing world, we introduce one special category dedicated to current trends and contemporary global issues: Migration and Identity (2016), 25 Years of Lomography (2017), Movement (2018), Climate Change (2019), Future Generations (2020), and Every One is Everybody (2021).