The

FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2016

aims to help promote the photographic profession and to raise the level of professional standards.

There are nine categories:

•

Wedding

•

Portrait

•

Commercial

•

Fashion

•

Reportage/Photojournalism

•

Sports

•

Landscape

•

Wildlife

•

Illustration, Digital Art & Fine Art

There is also one special section:

Students and Young Photographers

, open to the students of recognized schools of photography and to photographers and assistants under 25 year of age.

The photographers may enter as many images into as many categories as they like. However, a minimum set of 3 images in the same category is required. Each submitted image must be larger than 4000 pixels on the longest side, and under 8mb in size. Submitted images must be standard

RGB

, saved in

JPG

.

The

copyright

of all images submitted remains with the copyright holder.

For photographers

not

members of a

FEP

member association there is an entry fee of 30 Euro for a first set of 3 images on each category.

FEP

members,

EPs

,

QEPs

or

MQEPs

and

students

, they are entitled to get discounts or free entries.