We help you use the massive power of photography to do good in the world.
Our team looked at how traditional photography competitions work and shaped The American Photography Awards on these 7 core values:
100% of the competition proceeds go directly to US charities.
We don’t Touch your image rights.
We publish a yearly report of all our competition financials.
Find out how many people entered each category and supported which charities.
We don’t play kingmaker.
All our judging is fully independent and performed by experts.
We run a Huge yearly public vote.
Selecting our People’s Choice Awards to make the competition more objective.
We encourage project work,
Allowing submission of images taken at any time, not just in the past 12 months.
Open to All photographers resident in the United States (of any nationality),
As well as US passport holders anywhere on the planet…
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