Your name city to city
13 cities since 2011 and next Paris, Manchester and Eindhoven: each race can carry your name.
A race can have one partner or several, with no fixed list and no minimum amount: we agree together on what suits you.
Presenting partner
Your name first on one race: “Urban Photo Race Amsterdam, presented by you” on the flag, the race page and every post.
Co-host
Host a race with us: your school, gallery or magazine beside UPR, your community racing with ours from the briefing to the winners.
Race partner
Support one city’s race or a whole season. Your name goes on the race page and is there on the day.
Checkpoint partner
A checkpoint in your space, where every racer checks in and sees your place: the Amsterdam finish was at Oedipus Brewing.
Hands-on partner
Your gear in racers’ hands for the day: in Brussels, Sigma brought six BF cameras for racers to try along the route.
Prize partner
Gear, prints, a course or a show for the winners, with your name on the prize: in Brussels the Best Photographer won a Sigma 35mm lens.
Theme partner
Your name on one of the race’s themes and on the post that announces its winner.
© Niels van de Laar · Almost happy · Best Theme Your idea
If you have another idea, tell us: many good partnerships start with the partner’s own idea.
The flag every racer looks for
On race day the checkpoint flag is where racers meet, check in and receive the next theme, and a presenting partner’s name is on it, in the photographs taken around it.
What every partnership includes, whatever you bring.
Seen where photographers look
Your name on the race page, which stays online as the race’s archive, and on its results.
Introduced in our own voice
We tell our photographers who you are and why you are with us, in our own words and not as an advert, before and after the race.
In the room on race day
A place at the briefing and the checkpoints, where every racer comes, to say hello, show your work or give something to the racers.
A report afterwards
Where your name appeared and the photographs it stood beside, so you can see what the partnership did.
Who partners with us, and how.
Camera and lens makers
Gear to try on race day, a lens or a body for the winner.
Print partners
Prints for the winners, a printed show of the best series.
Photo schools and courses
A class that races together, a theme from your school, a course as a prize, online or in the room.
Galleries and spaces
A checkpoint, the briefing or the winners’ exhibition on your walls.
Magazines
The winners’ series published and the story of the race for your readers, online or in print.
Foundations
Prizes, prints or a new city’s first race.