A Chance to Win $2,000 at the Kuala Lampur International PhotoAwards 2021

The KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS (KLPA) announces the launch of its 2021 annual competition for portrait photography. The KLPA is an annual global portrait photography competition initiated in 2009 by Steven V-L Lee, a Malaysian photographer.

This year the Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards PORTRAIT PRIZE has three categories:

• Single Image THEME: Each photographer may submit up to 10 single portrait photographs on the theme of SENSE OF SELF.
• Single Image OPEN: There is no specific theme for this category. Participants may submit up to 10 portrait-based photographs.
• Project Grant: Each project must contain 6 to 12 images.

Sense of Self theme:

• 1st Prize: USD$2,000
• 2nd Prize: USD$1,000
• 3rd Prize: USD 500

Single Image Open Category:

• 1st Prize: USD$2,000
• 2nd Prize: USD$1,000
• 3rd Prize: USD 500

Project Grant category:

Three photographers will be awarded US$1,000 each in June 2021 to allow them to continue and complete their work-in-progress projects. Projects must be ready to be exhibited in September. 

• In the open Category, photographers may submit portraits that do not have to adhere to the theme but represent a personal vision and creativity, no matter which genre they are captured in.
• To encourage wider global audience participation, all photographers are able to submit one free entry in this Single Image Open category.
• The contest hopes to see more entries from South America, the African continent as well as the Middle East and Asia countries in particular.

Entry Fees:

Single Image – THEME and OPEN categories:

• 1 image: US$15 in the THEME category / free in the OPEN category
• 2 images: US$30
• 3-6 images: US$45
• 7-10 images: US$55

Project Grant category:

• US$45 per project (6-12 images) 

About KLPA:

KLPA is an annual portrait photography competition initiated in 2009 to award the best portrait photographers from around the world with the main objective in raising the standards and appreciation of contemporary portraiture from a southeast Asian context. Open to all levels of photographers from around the globe, entries are invited to themed and open categories and judged by a select panel of industry professionals and practitioners from South East Asia and beyond.

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