Section A

• 1.1. To qualify to enter the competition, you must be over 18 years of age.
• 1.2 Entry fee is £5.00 per category. This automatically includes 3 images
entry to that category. You can enter as many categories as you want. You only need to pay the fee for each category you are entering ONCE and you can enter 3 images. If you want to enter more than 3 photos you will have to pay an additional £5.00
• 1.3. By entering the competition you hereby accept these competition rules.
• 1.4. Entries must be submitted no later than the 60 days before the start of the LIF Festival.
• 1.5. The competition is open to EVERYONE, 18 years and older, professional and amateur photographers alike.
• 1.6. By entering the competition, you agree and acknowledge that LIF is permitted to receive and review your registration data. Participants agree that personal data including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used for the purposes of conducting and administering this photo competition.
• 2.1. To enter the competition, you must submit your entries to the competition URL Participants must also pay the entry fee(s) and complete the submission form in order to be considered for the competition.
• 3.1. All entries will be reviewed and pre-screened by LIF’s editors. The decisions of the jury are final.
• 3.2. Winning photographs may be included in the future in travelling group gallery exhibitions and/or screenings and projections at arts institutions and festivals worldwide. LIF will always notify the owner of the photograph before such an inclusion is made. Each photographer retains copyright of his or her images, and proper credit lines will be attributed to each photographer when exhibited or screened anywhere by LIF
• 3.3. The full name of each entrant whose work is selected as a winner or finalist will be published online.
• 3.4. No cash alternatives will be offered for any prizes.
• 3.5.The LIF will award one single winner taken from the finalists.
• 4.1. LIF reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify and remove any photograph that does not comply with the following requirements, even after the photograph appears on the website. You warrant, in respect of the photographs submitted by you, as follows:
• 4.1.1. You are the sole copyright owner and creator of the photographs.
• 4.1.2. You have the right to enter your photographs in this competition.
• 4.1.3. To the best of your knowledge, the photographs do not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane content.
• 4.1.4. To the best of your knowledge, the photographs do not contain any material that could constitute or encourage conduct which would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.
• 4.1.5. The photograph does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity, or violate any person's rights of privacy or publicity, and your photograph does not include:
• 4.1.5.1. trademarks owned by third parties.
• 4.1.5.2. copyrighted materials owned by third parties.
• 4.1.5.3. names, likenesses or other characteristics identifying celebrities or other public figures, living or dead.
• 4.1.5.4. entries in which you have purchased or secured the rights to use stock images.
• 4.2. You agree to fully indemnify LIF in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person by reason of your breaching any of the foregoing.
• 5.1. LIF recognizes you retain full ownership of the copyright in each photograph that you have submitted.
• 6.1. All entrants agree that all photograph(s) submitted to the competition may be reproduced (with photographer copyright credit) and used to conduct and promote LIF competitions. You hereby grant LIF with a right to use submitted photographs in the framework of such promotional activities.
• 7.1 You acknowledge that LIF and its event partners assume no responsibility and are not liable for any image misuse.
• 7.2 LIF has the right to change the date of the exhibition without prior notice.
• 8.1. LIF assumes no responsibility for any incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the competition, and LIF assumes no responsibility for technical, hardware or software failure of any kind, for lost network connections, garbled computer transmissions, other problems or technical malfunctions with regard to the competition. LIF assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, corruption, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of entries. LIF is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail addressed to LIF on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the competition. If for any reason a contestant's photograph cannot be viewed or is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failures, LIF assumes no responsibility.
• 9.1. In no event will LIF, its members, event partners or its officers, directors, employees, be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising out of any contestant's access to and use of the website and participation in the competition. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose or use or non-infringement.
• 10.1. You agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of your name and winning images for the purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity for LIF and the competition without additional compensation. CATEGORIES Either Amateur or professional Abstract Architecture Conceptual Fashion/Beauty Fine Art Landscapes Nature Nude Photomanipulation Phototojounalism Wildlife Portrait Phone/android photography All finalists will have their photos exhibited in the LIF photographic exhibition however there will be only one winner selected from all the finalists. There will not be an award for each category but taken from all submissions. To enter the competition go to the Login page on the home page and follow the instructions. There is no date restriction on when the photo was taken. Images that have won prizes at other competitions are eligible for entry. The finalists selected will be exhibited in the LIF exhibition. All decisions about selection will be final.

Section B

Submission Guidelines

• Entries must be submitted no later than the 60 days before the start of the LIF Festival.
• The use of original music or royalty-free music is mandatory for LIF submissions. Please ensure that you send copies of all necessary releases.
• Applicants shall indemnify and hold harmless London Image Festival from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to legal fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered.
• LIF will only select films for the festival showcase outstanding visuals in film. Submission tape and DVDs will not be returned and the applicant permits LIF to retain files, DVDs and promotional materials as part of its Festival library.
• Submissions accepted for exhibition may be screened one or multiple times at various LIF events (whether online, in-theatre or in other forms) prior to, during and after the Festival.
• Applicant hereby grants LIF the non-exclusive rights to use all or part(s) of the film for promotional purposes; to use stills, biographical material, names and likeness from the film for promotional purposes and in Festival program and merchandise, to provide copies of the film for journalists to review, to show the film at press screenings, to include in festival compilations and to exhibit the film during the Festival and at any time before and after the Festival.
• Festival programmers and judges shall determine selections and award winners at their sole discretion.
• All non-English language films must have English Subtitles.

Submit Your Film to LIF:

Filmmakers submit their films to LIF using this online submission form and by sharing their film files with us via Withoutabox or FilmFreeway.