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This month the we’ve been working really hard on our global event calendar. A calendar of all things World Photography Day from across the world. Our goal is to encourage photographers, community groups and businesses to celebrate what’s great about photography on August 19th, 2013. If you’re planning on hosting an event for World Photography Day 2013, we would love to see [...]

We’re sorry for the delay finalising all our 2012 gallery winners. We are very excited to have finalised our 45 Honourable Mentions and the full list is now available on our website. Congratulations to everyone. Our photo book will be finalised over the coming months with 50 incredible images showcasing World Photography Day 2012.

Congratulations to Lauri Laukkanen, a 20 year old fine art/conceptual & sports portraiture photographer from Finland. Lauri has been awarded WPD 2012: Photographer of the year for his submission below, ‘A deep gaze‘. We will feature Lauri and more of his work in a separate post!  

Congratulations to our High Distinction Award winners! We will feature each photographer independently over the coming weeks! Clockwise from top left: “Big world, tiny me“ by Will Cho, “Nemoralis Plumatus“ by Elise Lidgett, “Keep walking“ by Richard Sammour and “Peaceful Monk Lighting an Incence Stick“ by Stephanie Borcard & Nicolas Metraux.

World Photography Day is all about celebrating photography. Part of our goal at worldphotoday.org is to give every passionate photographer the opportunity grow in their passion. This year, we gave photographers an opportunity to be part of World Photography Day though Facebook and Twitter and want to congratulate Laura Lupascu for getting involved in World Photography [...]

World Photography Day is all about celebrating photography. Part of our goal at worldphotoday.org is to give every passionate photographer the opportunity grow in their passion. This year, we gave photographers an opportunity to be part of World Photography Day though Twitter and want to congratulate Stuart Cripps for getting involved in World Photography Day! [...]

Firstly, I want to thank everyone for getting involved in World Photography Day 2012. It has been phenomenal to see so many people support us as we celebrate photography on a global scale. World Photography Day has been an event that’s grown over the last 4 years into what we see today. This is the first year [...]

Hey Everyone! We’re excited to announce our World Photography Day Top 200 Gallery. This is a gallery of photos voted by you. There was a lot of concerns from our participants  about the quality of images that would make it into the top 200. Looking though the gallery, I have been very encouraged by the images [...]

This World Photography Day has been quite eventful for both our participents and the team behind the scenes. The most important feedback that we’ve received this year is to improve communication. This blog is one of the steps we are taking in order to ensure you’re all receiving the right information at the right time. This year, [...]