AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Photography student age 18 or older can participate in a contest.

The Mountainview, California-based search giant has launched its first Google Photography Prize.

There are 10 categories: Me, Food, Travel, Fashion, Action, Street, Sport, Night, Sound/Silence, Point of View.

Each participant can send up to eight shots. Entrants can share their work on Google+ and the finalists will see their work displayed in the Saatchi Gallery, London for two months in 2012.

The exhibition will coincide with `Out of Focus: Photography' by photographers such as Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, JH Engstrom and Katy Grannan.

The finalists will also win a trip to London to attend the exhibition opening.

In addition, the winner of the contest will go on a once-in-a-lifetime photography trip to a destination of their choice with a professional photography coach.

The deadline is January 31, 2012.

For more information, click here.
http://www.google.com/landing/photographyprize/index.html

from Art4Development