Your name city to city
13 cities since 2011. Next: Paris, Manchester and Eindhoven. Each can carry your name.
One partner or several for each race, no fixed menu, no minimum cheque: we find the fit together.
Presenting partner
One race, top billing: “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
Help one city’s race happen, or a whole season, your name on the race page and on the day. A race can carry one partner or several.
Checkpoint partner
A checkpoint at your door: every racer walks in, checks in and sees your space. The finish in Amsterdam was at Oedipus Brewing.
Hands-on partner
Your gear in racers’ hands for the day. In Brussels Sigma brought BF cameras and lenses for racers to take round the route and try.
Prize partner
Gear, prints, a course or a show for the winners, credited on the prize and in the winner’s hands. In Brussels the first prize took home a Sigma 35mm lens.
Theme sponsor
Adopt one of the four themes, and the post when its winner is out.
© Niels van de Laar · Almost happy · Best Theme Your idea
Something else in mind? Bring it, the best partnerships start with an idea of the partner’s.
The flag every racer looks for
On race day the checkpoint flag is where everyone meets, checks in and gets the next theme. A presenting partner’s name goes on it, and into every photograph 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 the results the whole community reads.
Introduced in our own voice
Not an advert: we tell our photographers who you are and why you are with us, before the race and after it.
In the room on race day
At the briefing and the checkpoints, where every racer meets. Room to say hello, show your work or hand something out.
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 guest brief, 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
Online or in print: the winners’ series published, the race told to your readers.
Foundations
Prizes, prints or a new city’s first race.