Our annual photography awards are now open for submissions. We want to recognize and celebrate the most eye-catching, jaw-dropping, stunning images you’ve taken or shown us in 2022. This competition is free to enter and open to all skill levels. The only prerequisite for submitting is you must have a 500px Profile.

There are six categories to choose from. Each category will have 1 category winner and 5 finalists. To be eligible, the images you submit must be captured or first uploaded on 500px between January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022.

• Technical: Images that consider lines, texture, color, size and depth and result in a high-quality depiction of the subject.
• Story-telling: Images that create an arch that makes viewers wonder what came before and what will come next.
• Commercial content: Images taken with the intention to sell, advertise or market a business, a product, a service, a person, or persons.
• Documentary: Images that chronicle the world around us in a realistic and honest manner.
• Fine art: Images created as a means of expression, with an undeniable imaginative and aesthetic quality to them.
• Landscape: Images that capture the spaces within the world, both vast and untouched terrains or environments.

About 500px

500px is a global online photo-sharing platform that is a subsidiary of Visual China Group. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It was co-founded by Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev on October 31, 2009. Evgeny Tchebotarev started 500px in 2003 on the social blogging website LiveJournal as a hobby, while he completed a business degree at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).Back then, 500 pixels was considered a good size for web display and was therefore the limit placed on photos submitted to the community for review