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Playbook is calling all photographers to submit their work for the 2025 Playbook Photo Competition. This year’s theme is “Hidden in Plain Sight”. A total of $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to standout submissions. To enter, photographers must submit a series of at least eight photos that align with the theme. You must submit an original portfolio. One entry per person.
Awards and Deadlines
🥇 1st Place: $5,000 🥈 – 2nd Place: $2,500 – 🥉 3rd Place: $1000
Submissions open 4/7/2025 – Submissions close on 5/9/25 – Voting ends 5/9/25 @11:59 pm EST – Winners announced 5/16/25
About Playbook
Playbook is a dynamic creative hub: a clean, beautiful space to store, share, and collaborate. We host competitions and grant funds to support artist from all around the world. You can see our previous competitions at playbook.com/s/community.
FAQS
What is Playbook?
Playbook is a cloud storage tool made for creative files. Playbook stores, automatically tags, and organizes your visual assets to make it super easy for you or your team to browse and find what they want.
Why is Playbook doing this competition?
We’re creatives ourselves and started Playbook to support and uplift creative people. We want to bring our community together, get inspired, and (of course) spread the word about Playbook
Why should I enter the competition?
Get your work in front of 1M+ other photographers and creatives on Playbook. All submissions will also receive free access coupon codes to Playbook’s powerful suite of creative miniapp tools to supercharge your workflows.
Who is eligible?
Are you at least 18? Are you creative? If the answers are yes & yes, you’re eligible to enter the competition.
How many submissions can I enter?
You may only enter one submission (a single photo series and caption). If you need to update the photo or caption later, you can do that from the Playbook interface after you submit.
Do I retain all rights to my photo?
Yes, you retain ownership of all your work and ideas.
Playbook will have a limited right to use your work to promote or share information about the competition. We won’t use your work in any other way, and we definitely won’t train AI models on it or share it with anyone who does.
Are AI-generated images allowed?
No, not for this competition.
How is the competition judged?
Judges will be asked to pick winners using criteria of Creativity and originality, Technical excellence, Storytelling and emotional impact, and Interpretation of theme Hidden in Plain Sight. See the Judging section of the Official rules page for more details.
Do community votes decide the winners?
No, community votes don’t directly decide the winners. However, they can influence our judges’ decisions and help bring attention to the most amazing photos (and their creators).