All categories in photography and video will accept entries from any digital device, including smartphones except for Nikon 100th Anniversary Award.
Entry Categories
1. Nikon 100th Anniversary Award
Theme: “Celebration”
Entry format: single photo
Limited to Nikon equipment
No age restriction
2. Next Generation Award
Theme: “Future”
Entry format: single photo, photo story (two to five images), video
Any equipment can be used
*Entrants must be under the age of 30
3. THE OPEN Award
Theme: “Future”
Entry format: single photo, photo story (two to five images), video
Any equipment can be used
No age restriction
Eligibility
The contest is open to all, professional and amateur, regardless of age, gender or
nationality.
Entrants under 18 years of age require the permission of a parent or guardian. By entering the contest, entrants under 18 years of age indicate that they have obtained the permission of a parent or guardian.
The contest is not open to employees of Nikon (the “organizer”) or its subsidiaries or affiliates.
Submission Rules
Entry is limited to original works that have not formerly been displayed or exhibited and to which the entrant holds all applicable rights.
Works that have won prizes in other contests or that have been submitted to other contests currently underway, including similar works, are not eligible. Works that are entered in other competitions after submitting to this contest will be deemed as those having been submitted to other contests currently underway.
Entrants can submit to both photography and video.
The limit for submitted works is 10 photos, including those forming photo stories,
and 1 video. Entries can be submitted to multiple categories so long as the total
number of entries is within this limit.
Works that are identical or similar to another submitted work (the “identical or
similar works”), as well as works including identical or similar works submitted as
separate works, are ineligible for submission.
Submission deadline: Friday, January 27, 2017 (closes at 1:00 p.m. Japan standard time)