The 2025 EISA Maestro Photography Contest is open for entries! This year’s competition is themed ‘Street Life’.
How to enter the EISA Maestro Photography Contest 2025
The EISA Maestro Photography Contest is open to Amateur and Professional photographers, and is FREE to enter!
The competition has two categories
Single: You may submit one picture based on the theme of ‘Street Life’.
Series: You may submit a total of 5-8 pictures as part of a portfolio based on the theme of ‘Street Life’.
Email your entry (single image OR series) to: ap.Maestro@kelsey.co.uk. Images must be JPEG and a minimum of 2,000 pixels on the longest side. AP will choose the winners and publish them in July. The first-placed winners will receive a one-year digital subscription to AP and go forward to the International round.
Rules
Photographers may compete in one category only. All entries must be in digital format (camera or scanned film originals) and must not have won a prize in any other competition. AI-generated images and pictures older than 2022 are excluded.
Photographers entering the UK National round of this competition must be UK residents.
Check out our complete guide to street photography
National Deadline: 15 May 2025
The top three will be chosen by the team at Amateur Photographer magazine and published in a June or July 2024 issue of AP. The winner will receive a one-year digital subscription to AP and will go forward to the International round of the contest.
International Judging: June 2024
The winning entries from each of the 15 participating EISA countries will then be judged together at the Association’s General Meeting in June 2025. The final results of the International Maestro contest will be celebrated at the EISA Awards Gala in September 2025 and revealed, online, alongside the EISA product Awards on 15 August 2025.
Prizes
- SINGLE picture: €1,000 & EISA Maestro Trophy
- PICTURE SERIES: €2,000 & EISA Maestro Trophy
The winning international photographs will be published in the Sept or Oct issues of all 15 EISA photo magazines/websites. Circumstances permitting, winners will be invited to the EISA Awards ceremony in Sept 2025
Tips for creating your EISA Maestro portfolio:
- Your portfolio should be formed of a coherent set of 5-8 images responding to the theme of ‘Street Life’.
- Consider how you use colour, light and composition within your photographs – as well as the subjects and sports included within the photos.
- For the best results we recommend not mixing colour and B&W images.
For guidance on how to create a portfolio, see our guide.
EISA – Expert Imaging and Sound Association
Amateur Photographer is a founding member of the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) which was formed in 1982 by the editors-in-chief of five European photo magazines came together to select a European Camera of the Year.
Since then it has grown to become a unique association or 59 special interest magazines and websites around the world covering the fields of photography, video, hifi, home theatre, in-car and mobile electronics. Every year EISA presents the EISA Awards for the best products in each of these fields, as voted for by the members.
For more information on EISA visit www.eisa.eu
Further reading:
- The law around street photography
- How to be an ethical street photographer
- How to use smartphones for street photography
- How to photograph low light urban landscapes
- Photographing urban nocturnal wildlife – red fox
Featured image credit: Ratapan Anantawat, Unsplash
