Experimentation is the cornerstone of the Lomography movement. After all, it's part of the fun film photography brings: Getting desirable when you least expect it. From DIY redscale rolls to film soups, get ready to take on our Trial and Error competitions.
Ongoing Competitions
Latest Submissions
Finished Competitions
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Experimental Photography Award 2019
3,193 Submissions · Finished ·
This serves as the Open Submissions round for the Trial and Error category! Submit your best experimental photographs.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Lomography x Mono No Aware: Film Manipulation
1,072 Submissions · Finished ·
Lomographers are almost always synonymous to being huge risk-takers when it comes to photography. Think outside the box and let's all be rule-breakers!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: LomoWall at the Festival Cortos Psicoactivos in Bogotá
858 Submissions · Finished ·
Submit your psychedelic photographs for a chance to be part of a LomoWall exhibition at the Festival Cortos Psicoactivos in Bogotá!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Color Spectrum
1,936 Submissions · Finished ·
Forget about your go-to color negatives or black and white films. Step out of your comfort zone and try out an experimental roll of film for a change!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Experimental Photography: Trial and Error Award
2,728 Submissions · Finished ·
Welcome to the "Open Submission Round" of the Trial and Error category. Submit your best experimental photographs!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Sprocket Showdown
660 Submissions · Finished ·
Add a gloriously analogue touch to your snapshots by exposing those sprocket holes!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Unpredictable Experiments
781 Submissions · Finished ·
Nothing says "happy accidents" better than getting a desirable result from a failed experiment.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Lomography X Siren Festival (Prizes Limited to Italy)
68 Submissions · Finished ·
Are you looking forward to breathing in the magical air from one of the top independent rock scenes in Italy?
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Day and Night
95 Submissions · Finished ·
Sunrise or sunset? No need to be torn in between these two spectacular sights, we want to see them intersect in your double exposure shot.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Scenes from a Dream
1,314 Submissions · Finished ·
Create surreal scenes using different experimental photography techniques.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Phosphene
1,101 Submissions · Finished ·
Recreate the sensation that "phosphene" brings through your sun-soaked snapshots.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Alternative Prints
195 Submissions · Finished ·
Which do you prefer: digital copies or printed photographs? If you're one of those who prefer having tactile copies of your favorite photographs, this competition is for you!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Take Two
806 Submissions · Finished ·
A film swap is not just an intersection of two ideas, places, or images—it's a celebration of shared love for film photography! Share your best double exposure snapshots done with a fellow lomographer.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Through A Pinhole
477 Submissions · Finished ·
Slow down and take it easy this brand new year. Shoot with a pinhole camera and show us the surreal, dreamy side of the world!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Tactile Images
816 Submissions · Finished ·
Prepare those blindfolds and let your sense of touch guide you in taking the perfect photograph!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: B Mode
796 Submissions · Finished ·
Switch your camera to B-mode and show us the wonders that the long exposure technique can do!
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Experimental Photography: Trial and Error Award
3,720 Submissions · Finished ·
This competition serves as the "Open Submission Round" for the Trial and Error Award. Submit your best experimental photos.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Lomography X Brian May - A Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell Competition
486 Submissions · Finished ·
Brian May is offering a signed copy of his Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell 3D book to one lucky reader. You can also win a Fisheye 2 Vibrant Orange edition to get you in the Halloween mood! Submit your spooky themed analogue shots here.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Mash-ups
706 Submissions · Finished ·
Combine two contrasting photographs to create an unlikely scenario.
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Lomography Awards: Trial and Error: Seeing Double
694 Submissions · Finished ·
Allow us to meet your doppelganger with your well-crafted double exposure and splitzer photographs.