General Guidance:

Read both the Categories descriptions shown below and their associated Briefs carefully, to ensure that you are entering your images in the right category.

Ensure you have read and understood the Terms & Conditions of this competition, before completing and paying for your entry.

Categories & Briefs:

You can submit unlimited entries, across the following four categories, you must however only submit the same image once.

Please download and read the full accompanying Brief for each category, as these contain more details.

1 - Social Media: Animal Conservation

Single image

Create an image of an animal for use on social media for an organisation involved in animal conservation or rescue. To read the Briefs in full, please click here.

2 - Product Shots: Sense

Single image

Photograph props (clothes, shoes, books, records, etc) from a “Sense” store. Your aim is to surprise the viewer when they learn that the props came from a charity shop.

To read the Briefs in full, please click here.

3 - Brand Image: Charity

Single image

Create a single image to highlight and promote a cause or charity that is important to you. To read the Briefs in full, please click here.

4 - Sunday Supplement Cover

Single image

Photograph a sitter of your choice, for the front cover of a Sunday newspaper weekend magazine. To read the Briefs in full, please click here.

Entries

Entries opened on Monday 23rd February and closed at 1.00pm Wednesday 13th May 2015.

To find out who is judging this year's AOP Student Awards 2015, please click here.

The overall winner will receive: 

• One days free studio hire, including professional lighting at Holborn Studios.
• One year's free Open Membership
• VIP tickets to the 32nd AOP Awards Ceremony Party in October 2015.
• Hire of a Phase One IQ250 Camera system for a 3 day project or job
• A day shadowing photographer Philip Haynes.
• £250 print credit from theprintspace
• One week's online exhibition on the AOP website
• One month of their image being used on the AOP website's home page panel

Holborn Studios is a 35-year-old photographic complex in Hackney.  Used by the great and good of fashion, portraiture and still life photographers it is a premier working environment for the industry.

 “The Abbey Road of Photography”   -  Helmut Newton

The official printing partner for this year's AOP Awards is theprintspace, the UK’s leading professional photo and fine art printing service.

The AOP will also be using the thehub, theprintspace's new print sales e-commerce tool, to handle fulfilment of Member print sales. thehub allows users to store images online for easy reprints and create customised, branded online art stores to sell prints of their work directly to the public.

Click here to set up your own print store on thehub. It's super easy to use. And it's free!