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Share Your Photography, Support A Charity

Professional Photography

March/April 2017

A new photography competition for positive social change.

Share Your Photography, Support A Charity

PHOTOVOICE is an award-winning, UK based charity that works across the world to harness the power of participatory photography for social change.

Now PhotoVoice has teamed up with Professional Photography to promote an exciting photography competition.

Every two months, photographers worldwide will be invited to submit images based on a theme inspired by PhotoVoice’s projects, past and present.

The winner will have their images featured in the pages of Professional Photography, in PhotoVoice’s quarterly publication Photo Voices, and on PhotoVoice’s website, as well as receiving a small cash prize. All winning images will be showcased at an exhibition in 2017.

THE THEME

This story is from the March/April 2017 edition of Professional Photography.

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