Running alongside the

Sony World Photography Awards

, the world's largest photography competition, the

ZEISS Photography Award

invites photographers from all over the word to submit works responding to the brief ’

meaningful places

’.

Photographers are asked to see beyond ordinary places and document the importance of a particular place or collection of places that somehow bear significance to each other.

Bodies of work should include a

minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 images

and particular attention should be given to the edit of your work. A brief description of your place and inspiration, may accompany the submission.

Un-published

work entered into the competition must have been taken between the dates of

January 1st 2012

and

February 5th 2016

.

Published

work instead may have been taken at any point in history, but must have been commissioned or acquired or first published between the dates of

January 1st 2015

and

February 5th 2016

.

Images should be no smaller than 800KB and no larger than 5MB. Images should be either

JPEG

or

TIFF

files. All images must be saved in the

RGB

colour model and

EXIF

data must be left in the image file.

All entrants must be able to supply a high resolution image suitable for printing in exhibitions should the image be required.

There is no entry fee

.