Register Now for a Worldwide Photography Competition

An international photography competition inspires positivity and preserves tradition.

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Register Now for a Worldwide Photography Competition — “Wind’s Child” by Chen-Hung Lin (Taiwan). Nature & Landscape category Outstanding Technique Award winner at the 4th NTD International Photography Competition. Courtesy of the NTD International Photography Competition

3/8/2025Updated: 3/8/2025

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We seem to live in an edited world. Photographers often distort and manipulate the natural state of their subject matter to fit the fashion or agenda of the day.

American photographer Ansel Adams (1902–1984) said, “I believe that there is beauty in everything, and that nature has the ability to inspire us all.”

Refreshingly, there’s an international photography competition that celebrates nature and the craftsmanship of photography—outside the editing suite. The NTD International Photography Competition (NIPC) focuses on photographers’ technical skills and manual dexterity, including hand-eye skills when setting up a shot.

The NIPC is one of a series of international art and cultural competitions hosted by NTD Television, The Epoch Times’ sister media. All these events celebrate time-honored traditions.

The NIPC’s mission is to “preserve traditional aesthetics,” so each competition entry must be free of digital editing, although photographers can adjust the brightness, sharpness, and the color balance of their images.

Now in its fifth iteration, the NIPC invites photographers around the world to enter uplifting images of “beautiful moments.”

Amateur and professional photographers can compete for the $5,000 gold award or $5,000 worth of photographic products and equipment.

Capturing Goodness

The competition encourages entrants to shoot luminous, naturalistic images that depict beauty and kindness.

English philosopher Roger Scruton said that “The photograph is transparent to its subject, and if it holds our interest it does so because it acts as a surrogate for the represented thing. Thus if one finds a photograph beautiful, it is because one finds something beautiful in its subject.”

Entrants can submit images in two competition categories: Social Relations & Humanity and Nature & Landscape. They can include themes of culture, the natural world, and traditional values. The 4th NIPC finalists’ photographs included portraits, people at work, family moments, and wilderness and wildlife.

Accomplished English photographer Michael Kenna said, “Landscape photography is the most transcendental way of capturing the quiet beauty and energy of the world.” Kenna has captured landscape photographs in a “traditional, non-digital, silver photographic medium” for over 50 years.

The competition judges will evaluate each entrant’s technical skill and artistic vision of their positive, meaningful images.

The fifth NIPC finalists’ photographs will be featured online and in an exhibition in New York City, from Jan. 25 through 31, 2026 (the location is to be confirmed).

Competition entrants might take inspiration from Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank (1924–2019) who once said: “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”

Photographers have until July 31, to register for the fifth NIPC.

To find out more, visit Photo.NTDTV.com