CCP Photo Comp - July - September 2025

Street photography is that of everyday life captured mostly as candid moments. These images help define us and tell stories of how we live, who we are. It’s history in a photo.

Charles Nègre was the first photographer to register people in movement on the street in Paris in 1851, though Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered the Father of Modern Street photography. Diane Arbus is another considered a great of the genre. Two of my favourites are Eugène Atget from France and English photographer Bill Brandt.
We encourage you to research these early photographers and once you've done that check out the work of Martin Parr, another English shutterbug who still works today and Australian Trent Parkes, a noted Magnum photographer.

Once you've soaked up the work of these greats, and others you like, chose your images and make us feel you are in this club.

Take new images or choose from your archive.

All details and upload button can be found using this link:
https://www.charingcrossphoto.com.au/photo-competition

Please make sure you add the title and your name to the file you submit. Without this it makes our job very hard to know whose image is whose. If we can’t work it out we can’t judge it.

Deadline - 21stSeptember 2025 [11:59pm]

PLEASE READ & FOLLOW GUIDELINES OF HOW TO NAME YOUR FILES.

Rules: You can shoot new images or choose photos from your archive

Please read details about file size and naming the image to make it a valid entry.

Deadline: Deadline for submissions 11:59pm, on 21st September 2025

Number of entries per person: UNLIMITED

Entry Fee: $15 per entry

[all fees are non-refundable]

Entry file: File type = jpg

File size = 2400 pixels on the longest side

Resolution: 72 dpi

Profile = Adobe RGB

File name = Your name, image name, comp month [eg: jules smith_title_May 2025]

With your submission: Please supply a brief statement [100 words or less]

+ website and/or Instagram address if you have one

Judges:Owner & staff at CCP that includes a professional photographer [+ occasionally a guest judge]

UPLOAD IMAGES: Via our website: www.charingcrossphoto.com.au

Winner Prizes:

$1000 [fixed amount] + an extra amount calculated on number of entries per monthly competition submissions fees.

Entry fees are pooled and allocated as follows:

50% - to winner

30% - CCP will be donating to a verified charity of the winners choice

20% - CCP administration

+ The winning image will be printed on archival paper, framed and hung in the window at Charing Cross Photo lab/shop in Waverly for the duration of 1 month. [approx. value $250] After this, the winner can take home their framed photo. [size, paper and frame style is at the discretion of CCP unless the photographer can come to the lab and discuss this in time]

+ 1 copy of a photo book [title TBC]

+ Gift from Neighbourhood Cellars [Bottle shop across the street from CCP]

+ Tell us your favourite charity and we will make a donation on your behalf

General FAQS:

~ There are one section in each bi-monthly competition:

1. Open [professionals and amateurs]

~Your entry must be your original work

~ Images can be taken on any device or camera

~ Only works submitted electronically will be accepted

~ Your entry can have been taken at any time, there is no limit but please tell us the year taken if you can.

~ All Photographers retain their own copyright

~ By entering the competition you grant CCP the right to use your image in any promotion and marketing campaigns

~ You MUST provide files and information as in our terms & conditions

~ If you are a winner you must confirm that any people sitting purposely for your photograph give their consent, or provide reason why this was not possible.

~ CCP have the right to refuse the original winning image if it is not to a printable standard or the photographer can’t supply their file for print in time with the competition timetable.

~ Please remember that CCP attracts families and young people to our lab, as well as having the general public walk by our shopfront so please be mindful when choosing your subjects. Do not submit content that is unsuitable for under age people. CCP reserves the right to refuse unsuitable images.

~ Images made by AI programs not accepted in this competition.

Please read the full Terms & Conditions

Get clicking… good luck!

Thanks - CCP Team

SHOP/LAB

263 Bronte Rd Waverley

www.charingcrossphoto.com.au