The sixth edition of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) will be held under the photographic theme ‘The Challenge’. The competition, which is open to photographers from all around the world, is the highest paid photographic prize in existence.
There are also three new categories this year: Portfolio, which allows photographers to submit entire bodies of work; Digital Manipulation, which celebrates the new wave of creative ways to use digital tools to manipulate photographs and lastly a new general category for black and white images.
Ali Khalifa Bin Thalith, the Secretary General of HIPA said: “Following last year’s emotive and heart-warming theme of happiness, we now hear a strong call in the new theme of ‘The Challenge’, which seeks to mobilise our mental skills, visual memory and creativity to produce powerful and effective visual expressions that go beyond the single photo format.”
Bin Thalith also announced that the submission process begins now and will finish at the end of October, giving judges more time to consider the applications - something that is necessary given the complexity of the new categories.
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