Photography Contests and How to Prepare For Them
a talk by André Boto
Born in 1985, André Boto is a portuguese freelance professional photographer working on decoration projects, hospitality, architecture, interiors, industrial and post-production in Photoshop as well as his own conceptual/creative projects.
With strong interest in arts and design in general, he devoted much time to draw what he saw around him in his childhood. Now, he feels really challenging to create/re-create stories with
images, create his own worlds based on optical illusion, and being fascinated by Surrealism and authors like M.C.Escher, Salvador Dalí or René Magritte.
Main achievements:
- Overall winner of the European Professional Photographer of the Year 2024, 2023 and 2010, by FEP;
- Category winner (Illustrative) in the World Photographic Cup 2024;
- Winner of the “Photographic Artist Prize 2023” of the “Australian Photographic & Videography Prize”, Australia;
- Winner of the “People” category in the Global Photo Awards 2023, Austria;
- Overall winner in the IIC 8th Annual International Photographer of The Year 2023, Canada
- Winner in the Allard Prize, Canada;
- Overall winner in the Cosmos Awards 2022, Greece;
- Overall winner of the Creative Photo Awards 2022, Italy;
- Overall winner WPE Awards 2021 and 2022, France;
- Gold Medal in “Advertising” in the PX3 Awards 2022, USA;
- Overall winner of the One Eye Land World’s Top10 Still Life Photographers 2021, India.
About this talk
“Look at contests as part of marketing. What makes an image stand out in a photography contest? How to build a competitive portfolio and capture the attention of juries? I will share strategies (when it is possible to have) to increase your chances of success in photographic competitions.
I will explore the importance of the concept and the construction of images, build and manipulate objects to help build our images. In addition, I will present the make of some of my award -winning photographs, revealing the creative and technical process behind each composition.”
– André
