Frame Your Moment: Enter the 2023 K12 Photography Competition

National competitions like this are just one more way that K12 helps students define their own paths to success.

Categories

• DSLR Lens Master
  • Submit a photo that best demonstrates your technical and artistic skills with a DSLR camera.
  • Ideal for: Students experienced in photography.
  • Judging Criteria: Composition, lighting, technical quality.
• Smartphone Shots
  • Share that perfect snap, selfie or shot that you took with your smartphone that shows what makes you smile.
  • Ideal for: All students at any skill level.
  • Judging Criteria: Composition, story.
• Film Photography
  • Love old-school film cameras? Show them your best photo demonstrating your technical skills and developing style.
  • Ideal for: Students experienced in photography.
  • Judging Criteria: Composition, lighting, technical quality.

Prize Information

• 1st Place
  • $1200 value
• Choose between:
  • Canon camera kit + lens
  • Film camera kit + film
  • 3 hour photography session with a professional photographer
• 2nd Place
  • $500 value
• Choose between
  • Canon camera + lens
  • Film camera + film
  • 2 hour photography session with a professional photographer
• 3rd Place
  • $400 value
• Choose between
  • Canon camera
  • Film camera
  • 1 hour photography session with a professional photographer.

Eligibility Criteria

• Contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.
• Contestants must be enrolled in grades K–12 at time of entry (“Entrant” or “You”) and must reside in the U.S. at the time of their entry to be eligible for the Contest.
• Parents or guardians of students under the age of 13 must submit entries on behalf of their student(s).
• Employees of Sponsor and its respective parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, retailers, distributors (collectively, “Contest Entities”), and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are eligible to enter or win.
• Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law. Sponsor’s decisions are final and binding on all matters.

Guidelines

• Entries must comply with the following content guidelines to be eligible:
  • Content cannot be sexually explicit or suggestive, unnecessarily violent, or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious, professional, or age group, profane or pornographic, or contain nudity.
  • Content cannot promote alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any political agenda or message.
  • Content cannot be obscene or offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group.
  • Content cannot defame, misrepresent, or contain disparaging remarks about other people or companies.
  • Excepting that of the sponsor, content cannot contain copyrighted materials owned by others (including photographs, sculptures, paintings, and other works of art or images published on or in websites, television, movies, or other media) without permission.
  • Without permission, content cannot contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead.

For more information, visit K12.