Expressions 2017

expressions photography competition 2017

Welcome to Ireland’s largest dedicated art photography portrait competition and exhibition.

What Are We Looking For?

The emphasis of our competition is on art photography. Rather than technically competent renditions of images of family, friends or pets we are looking for portraits of a high technical standard that are also creative and express an identity.

For example; the portraits that we are looking for should communicate or express a concept. They may be imaginative interpretations of, or re-workings, of traditional norms of portrait photography. They may be images that demonstrate the deconstruction of, or innovative application of, the technical rules of photographic portraiture.

The purpose of the Description of Work section on the entry form is for you to convey the concept of your portrait. We highly recommend you give appropriate time to this section as the judges last year expressed it made a significant impact on their choice of the 50 finalists.

Exciting Exhibition Space

With huge success in the past two years we are excited to change our exhibition space and we are making Longford Town our Gallery.

Finalists pieces will be enlarged to 1 metre by 2 metre and hung outdoors around the town.

Some Rules

The winning entry will be awarded a prize of €500.00.
Closing date: Wednesday 5th April 2017
Entry fee is 10 euro.
Only images attached on this entry page will be accepted, we do not accept entries by post.

View the full list of rules

Keep in Touch

Contact us at info@longforddigitalarts.ie if you have any queries about the competition, or if you have problems submitting your entry.

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Keep the Entries Coming!

We are loving seeing your entries so far, for the 2017 Exhibition and we can’t wait to see more from you, so we have decided to give away a few free entries. You may get a free entry because it’s a Tuesday or it may be because the sun is shining so keep an eye out, the only requirement is that you have already entered the 2017 Exhibition. The reason for this photographer’s free entry is because she was the first to enter the 2017 Exhibition. Congratulations Laura Hoban.

Guest Judge

Expressions would like to introduce our guest judge for 2017 Mateusz Kowalski – Warsaw-based photographer and book designer. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Mainly working with a large format camera and black and white film – with a focus on analog photography his work is both intriguing and haunting.