What catches your eye when the world slows down?
Calling all photographers – from hobbyists to veterans! We're excited to unveil this year's Playbook's Photo Competition Theme: Hidden in Plain Sight.
Submissions close May 30th, 2025 @11:59 pm EST
📸 About the competition
Playbook is your creative hub: a beautiful place to organize, collaborate on, and share your creative work. Our competitions bring together artists from around the world, featuring different kinds of creative work and creative processes. You can see our previous competitions at playbook.com/s/community.
The theme this year is Hidden in Plain Sight.
You must submit an original portfolio. Your photo may be featured elsewhere, but cannot have been a winner of any other competition. One entry per person.
💰 Prizes
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $2,500
- 3rd Place: $1000
📌 Important dates
- Submissions open April 7, 2025
- Submissions close on May 30, 2025
- Community voting ends on May 30, 2025 @11:59 pm EST
- Winners announced Jun 7, 2025
🚀 How to participate
- Using Playbook templates, create a portfolio of photographs that best tells your "Hidden in Plain Sight" story. We recommend including 8-15 images in your series curation.
- Submit via https://www.playbook.com/community/drop
- We’ll let you know within 48hrs if your submission is accepted into the competition!
Follow us on Instagram or Twitter for the launch announcement and updates:
📸 Instagram: @playbook_hq
🐦 Twitter/X: @playbook_hq
FAQ
What is Playbook?
Playbook is a cloud storage tool made for creative files. Playbook stores, automatically tags, and organizes your visual assets to make it super easy for you or your team to browse and find what they want.
Why is Playbook doing this competition?
We're creatives ourselves and started Playbook to support and uplift creative people. We want to bring our community together, get inspired, and (of course) spread the word about Playbook :)
Who is eligible?
Are you at least 18? Are you creative? If the answers are yes & yes, you’re eligible to enter the competition.
How many submissions can I enter?
You may only enter one submission (a single photo series and caption). If you need to update the photo or caption later, you can do that from the Playbook interface after you submit.
Do I retain all rights to my photo?
Yes, you retain ownership of all your work and ideas.
Playbook will have a limited right to use your work to promote or share information about the competition. We won't use your work in any other way, and we definitely won't train AI models on it or share it with anyone who does.
Are AI-generated images allowed?
No, not for this competition.
How is the competition judged?
Judges will be asked to pick winners using criteria of creativity, beauty, uniqueness, and relevance to the theme of Beautifully Unorganized.
See the Judging section of the Official rules page for more details.
Do community votes decide the winners?
No, community votes don’t directly decide the winners. However, they can influence our judges’ decisions and help bring attention to the most amazing photos (and their creators).