Third Annual SoCo Clicks Photo Competition - 2023

SUBMISSION INTAKE: 
  • March 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023  ​
CATEGORIES: 
  1. Portrait: Family, self-portrait, fashion / beauty. Images of people.  
  2. Documentary: Photojournalism, street photography. Images that address cultural, political, or social issues affecting individuals or society.    
  3. Alternative: Alternative processes. Images created using alternative processes (analog, digital, or combined).
  4. The Natural World: Nature and Landscape.  
  5. The Still World: Still life, architecture, abstract, and interior. 
Students are encouraged to work with their teachers to determine which category best suits their work. For example, if a student focuses on street photography, it would be up to them to decide if the work best fit in the category of Portrait, Documentary, or the Still World.

NUMBER OF ENTRIES:   
  • Each applicant can submit a total of 3 images. Only one image is permitted per category. 
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS 
  • Open to all current or previously enrolled students attending schools within Sonoma County, within the last two years. 
  • Work must have been produced within the last two years (Spring 2021). 
  • The show welcomes work in color, black & white, analog (film), digital, collage, drone, and alternative processes. 
  • It is the participant’s responsibility to confirm that each person depicted in the photograph has granted permission to be portrayed as shown - and has the right to grant that permission. 
All entries will be reviewed and judged by a jury of photography professionals.
Qualifying entries will be exhibited online at SoCoClicks.org beginning in late spring of 2023.
Category winners will be exhibited at the Museum of Sonoma County, in Santa Rosa, autumn 2023.

​PHOTO SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS 
  • Formatting Images: Image File Size: Minimum 1MB/Maximum 5 MB.
  • Image File Format: JPEG (JPG)
  • One or more of the pixel dimensions should be 2500 pixels.  Select the larger pixel dimension number and reduce that to 2500 while maintaining the proportions.  
  • 72 dpi
  • ​Make sure to keep a high resolution “Original” image prior to submitting

FILE NAMING
SAVE your image as a JPG.  The name of the file should be the title of the image.
For instance, an image titled Reflections, it would be saved as Reflections.jpg.

​MORE INFO ON PHOTO SUBMISSIONS CAN BE FOUND - HERE​
​* link available 3/1/23–3/31/23*
​Please click the links below for winners and galleries from the Second Annual SoCo Clicks competition and exhibition, held in 2022.

2022 Winners

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2022 - The Still World

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2022 - Portraits

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2022 - ​Alternative

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2022 - Photojournalism

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2022 - The Natural World
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