Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2019

Now in its 11th year, the

continues to engage the global photographic community with the

.

remains committed to promoting international contemporary portrait photography from South East Asia and the rest of the world, by rewarding some of the top photographers in the portraiture genre.

As in previous years, it seeks fresh and innovative photography from new, emerging and established photographers from around the world. There are two categories:

• Single Image (

)

• Single Image (

)

In recognising diversity and rewarding effort, this edition of KLPA chooses specifically to highlight the importance of good storytelling in photography, within the contemporary portraiture genre where so many emerging photographers have been photographing recently - project work or the photo story. Special emphasis will also be given to photographers who push the boundaries of conventionality, to producing imaginative, fresh, visually arresting portraits and personally driven and well-researched stories.

Portraits may be interpreted in its widest sense, in relation to photography concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals in relation to their surroundings, status and humanity.

As photojournalism-inspired portraits, a meaningful title and a caption are to accompany the portrait image, detailing the photographer's standpoint and the back-story behind the photograph.

All photographs must have been taken in

and

or part of an on-going project. Basic darkroom techniques (

) are permissible. Photographs can be

or

, in any format. Photographers may enter one or both categories, separately, up to three times per category.

The Photographer

of all submitted images at all times.

Early bird rates from 1 to 28 February, 2019. Standard entry fees (

) start at 15 USD per image.