Welcome to PICZ competition pages!
Breaking News!
Since 1st of October 2021, we have reopen our competition with not only one contest but 2 contests.
The theme for this quarter is “Q4 2021 – Make us hungry (or thirsty)!” but following the technical issues we faced over the last few months, we also decided to exceptionally reopen submission for the “Q3 2020 – Long Exposure” submission (only until the end of November for this last contest).
Make sure you take the chance to submit your best shots.
Frequency
Each quarter PICZ (the International Photo Club of Zurich) organise a new competition.
Themes
The themes vary and try to cover a broad scope of subject, style, influences and techniques. Our competitions aim at stimulating your photography skills and interest. It also gives you the chance to compare your subjects interpretation with the one of the other participants.
Prizes
2 prizes are granted for each quarterly contest:
The PICZ Jury prize: an external jury composed by professional photographers (jury composition available here) evaluates the submissions and awards a “jury prize”. Our jury evaluation criteria are : respect of the theme, creativity, message/genuineness, technical quality of the picture.
The public prize: based on the image that has gathered the highest number of votes from our members. The voting process is fully manage online and the live result can be observed in real time
Fee
The participation is free for all registered PICZ members. A participation of 5CHF is requested for non-member to participate (contest payment page available here)