The UPR Series Award
Think in series
A photo award for series: send three photographs that build one idea, and get written feedback from the jury, whatever the result.
Season one
- Three framesread as one work, in the order you choose
- €35 a seriesthe same for everyone, up to three a season
- Three jurorsfive dimensions and the remove-one test
- Written feedbackon every series, whatever the result
Three prizes and a shortlist every season, published together with credit.
€1,000
For each season’s winner, in cash
Shortlist. The three frames published in your order, with credit.
Series of the Year. Once a year, an expanded panel chooses the Series of the Year from both seasons.
Three framesthat buildone idea
One photograph is a moment. Three can hold an idea: a shared visual language, one thought seen from more than one angle, and an order that would lose something if you changed it. Sequencing is a different skill from making one strong picture. You learn it by building a series and hearing where it held and where it broke.
Take a frame away and the idea should weaken. If it does not, that frame was decoration.
How it works, in three steps.
Submit three frames
In the order you want them read, with an optional title. Nothing else.
The jury reads them as one work
Three jurors, five dimensions and one test: take a frame away and the idea should weaken.
Written feedback, whatever the result
Every entrant learns where the series held and where it broke.
Every entrant gets written feedback
Written feedback on every series, tied to the pillars and the remove-one test. You learn why your series held, or where it broke, and you can use it in the next one. Every response is reviewed by a juror before it is sent.
Enter to find out whether yours holds, you will hear either way.
Series that hold. The award is new, so there are no award winners yet. These series come from the Urban Photo Race, which is judged on the same three pillars.
More about the Series Award.
Entries open in 2027
Submissions are not open yet. Join the list and we will write to you when the first season opens and when its theme is announced.