THE 2022 PHOTO CONTEST BEGINS JANUARY 1, 2022. Upload your photos any time between January 1, 2022 - March 1, 2022. Previous winning photos are posted at jostens.com/photocontestwinners.
The Jostens Photo Contest is a premier student photography competition with the best prizes in the industry. Enter and you could win up to $1,000 and more! See PRIZES & JUDGING menu for details.
Upload photos any time between Saturday, January 1, 2022 – through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 (“Entry Period”). A team of industry professionals will judge all photo submissions to select the winners of the Jostens Photo Contest. Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions will be announced in April 2022.
To be eligible for the contest, entrants must be a legal resident of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, or a legal resident of the provinces or territories of Canada (excluding Quebec) AND a current middle school, junior high school or high school student. All entrants must also be 13 years of age or older.
Each individual photo will need its own model release form signed by all individuals who are personally and substantially identifiable in the photo (including crowds, landscapes and illustrations). Photos submitted without a completed model release will not be accepted in the competition.
ACADEMICS & COMMUNITY SERVICE
GRADUATION
LANDSCAPE
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION & MANIPULATION
PORTRAIT
SPORTS: ATHLETES IN ACTION
SPORTS: SIDELINES & SCHOOL SPIRIT
STUDENT LIFE & TRADITIONS
YEARBOOKERS IN ACTION
MIDDLE SCHOOL & JUNIOR HIGH
Academics & Community Service - Show students learning, in or out of the classroom.
Graduation - Capture the emotion, color and vibrancy of graduation day. Photos can be from the 2018 graduation as long as the photographer is or was enrolled in high school for the 2018–2019 school year.
Landscape - Reveal spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
Photo Illustration & Manipulation - Pose or electronically enhance a topic or idea. Examples of electronic enhancement include using filters, altering colors, adding/removing objects or people or combining photos.
Portrait - Use effective lighting, backdrops, and poses of a person or group of people that captures the personality of a subject.
Sports: Athletes in Action - Look for athletes in action wherever they are.
Sports: Sidelines & School Spirit - Show moments of school pride in all its forms.
Student Life & Traditions - Showcase school culture and tradition.
Yearbookers in Action - Go behind the scenes of making your yearbook. Photos of staff selling yearbooks, engaging in team building activities, and traveling to workshops, in addition to working in the classroom, are all welcomed.
Middle School & Junior High Category - Choose any school-related topic. Must be taken and entered by a middle school or junior high student (Grades 6-8).
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of the United States who are age 13 or older and who are middle school, junior high or high school students as of the date of entry. Contest begins 01/01/2022; ends 03/01/2022 (11:59 PT). See RULES menu for further details.
U.S. GRAND PRIZE WINNER
$1,000 check (ARV: $1000) and an Interchangeable Lens Camera (ARV: $750)
Check presented by Jostens
Camera presented in partnership by The Pixel Connection
U.S. CATEGORY PRIZE WINNERS
Each of the ten categories as outlined on the homepage of the contest website will award 1st-5th Place Prizes
1st Place - $500 Check (ARV: $500) and Photography Accessories (ARV: $90)
Checks presented by Jostens
Photography Accessories presented in partnership by The Pixel Connection
2nd - 5th Place - Photography Accessories (ARV: $60)
Photography Accessories presented in partnership by The Pixel Connection
CANADA GRAND PRIZE WINNER
$1,000 Check (ARV: $1,000)
Check presented by Jostens
CANADA CATEGORY PRIZE WINNERS
Each category (Student Life, Open/Creative, Sports) will award 1st Place Prizes
1st Place - $250 Check (ARV: $250)
Checks presented by Jostens
WHAT ARE THE JUDGES LOOKING FOR?
STORYTELLING
The photo should tell a story or make the viewer curious about the events surrounding the moment of the photo.
QUALITY
Winning photos are free of problems with exposure, sharpness or noise.
SHOWSTOPPERS
Judges will be stopped by powerful images. Look for pictures with good actions, reactions and emotions, interesting lighting, peak action, unusual and different situations and storytelling moments.
ORIGINALITY
Photos that are only slightly different from previous winners won't be chosen.
THOUGHTFULNESS
Sending multiple copies of the same image or similar images is not a successful technique. Send us your single best image of a subject. Crop your photo for maximum impact before submitting.
