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Registrations are now open for Team Captains to register their Teams for the World Photographic Cup 2024 Edition. If you are a Team Captain – Go online and register your interest to partake in the only Olympics Style photography competition in the world!
If you are not a team captain and your country has never entered the World Photographic Cup – we welcome your expression of interest to register. Please click the same link and send us your contact details.
Enter a Team – World Photographic Cup
New categories announced for 2024.
The exciting news is that the NEW categories and the 2024 rules have been announced – so there are more opportunities for teams to enter their best images in a wider variety of categories.
WPC is pleased to announce for 2024 the Reportage category has been split to now include a separate Sports category and the Wedding category has been split into Wedding Photojournalistic and Wedding Open categories. These new categories have been added to the existing categories of Commercial, Illustrative/Digital Art, Nature/Landscape, Nature/Wildlife, Portrait Natural, Portrait Illustrative. In total there are now 10 categories – meaning 10 Gold medals up for grabs – showing that the World Photographic Cup is growing in strength and popularity every year.
The new rules for these categories can be found at this link: Categories 2024 – World Photographic Cup
WPC is a proud global photographic competition. It is important to read the rules as many new changes have been introduced for the 2024 Edition. These include:
The WPC is a PHOTOGRAPHIC competition, all elements used in images or composited images must be made by the submitting photographer. All images/image elements must be created by the submitting photographer. The use of stock images or image elements created using AI/CGI are not permitted.
Image Editing Tools that are based on machine learning to retouch or modify the submitting photographer’s image are allowed when using image elements created by the same photographer. No modification or use of third-party images not captured by the submitting photographer is allowed.
During the initial Validation, before judging begins, the WPC Validation Committee will screen images for relevance to Categories and rules to confirm eligibility.
The WPC Validation committee may at any time (before, during and after the competition) request original files (Raw or JPG that includes original Camera EXIF data) and an explanation of the circumstances under which the image(s) where made to confirm eligibility. Such request will always be made after the Top 10 announcement for all Top 10 and Best of Nation images to confirm eligibility.
Images created under the direction of an instructor, photography coach or at a photographic workshop are not allowed.
Join your nations call for entries and celebrate the pride and excitement of representing your country. The 2024 awards will be held the last week of April in Dallas Texas. Our host will be the Texas school of professional photography (an intense, one weeklong professional development program that is world class)
We want you!
Every image entered now receives 1 point towards your team’s total. So every image counts towards the Cup!
WPC looks forward to seeing amazing images with emotion and the passion of photography. Enter NOW!