A photo book contest "Photoback Award 2021" with the theme of "Soba, Happiness" will be held!
The photobook creation service "Photoback" operated by Contents Works Inc. (Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Akihiko Ogino) will hold a photobook contest "Photoback Award 2021". This contest was born from the desire to collect all the precious memories and irreplaceable memories that we want to keep for posterity at once, and to deliver many wonderful episodes to as many people as possible.
"Photoback Award 2021" special site: https://www.photoback.jp/contest/information/
Photobook Contest "Photoback Award 2021" Application starts from April 14th
The theme of this year's "Photoback Award" is "Soba, Happiness". With the Korona-ka, various changes are occurring in lifestyles and awareness of lifestyles, and I think that each and every one of us has more opportunities to think about "happiness." Therefore, I would like you to look back on your "happiness" from the casual "happiness" of everyday life to the "happiness" that you feel at a special moment. With that in mind, we have set this year's theme. We are looking for a fascinating happy story that is a collection of important thoughts that you want to keep for a long time.
Theme details
In addition, the contest will be judged by inviting a gorgeous judge who has a deep knowledge of photographs and texts, and the Grand Prix, Jury Prize, and Special Award will be selected from all the nominated works. All contest participants will be presented with a participation prize, and Grand Prix winners will be presented with a gift certificate worth 100,000 yen as a supplementary prize, as well as luxury prizes such as the Jury Prize and special prizes.
[Photoback Award 2021: Photobook Contest Details]
◆ Theme
"Happiness by the side"
◆ Holding schedule
[Application period] April 14th (Wednesday) -May 31st (Monday), 2021
[Announcement of nominated works] June 30, 2021 (Wednesday)
[Announcement of award-winning works] Wednesday, August 4, 2021
◆ Judges (in no particular order)
・ Masashi Asada
photographer. While attending his vocational school, he started taking family photos including himself and won the 34th Kimura Ihei Photo Award for "Asada Family" (Akakasha). In December 2014, he published "The Power of Album" (co-authored by Satoshi Fujimoto / Akakasha), which covered the scene of photo washing in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
In 2020, the movie "The Asadas!" Based on his two books was released in Toho all over Japan.
http://www.asadamasashi.com/
https://www.instagram.com/asadamasashi/
・ Minori Kai
Writer. She writes in magazines and books on travel and walks, sweets, local bread, souvenirs, classic hotels, miscellaneous goods and living. Her books are over 40. She also gives lectures.
http://www.loule.net/
https://www.instagram.com/minori_loule/
・ Miyako Takayama
Born in 1982. She has a wide range of activities including models, actresses and radio personalities. Her hobbies are cooking and marathon. Instagram that introduces her dishes and containers as "# Miyare Gohan" is popular. In her hobby marathon, she has a record of completing the Yokohama Marathon 2016 in 3 hours and 41 minutes. Her book "Miyako Takayama's Gastronomy" (published by Futabasha) series 1 to 4 are also on sale.
https://ameblo.jp/miyare38/
https://www.instagram.com/miyare38/
Photoback Award 2021 Jury
◆ Special judges (in no particular order)
monogram, fun camera school, Lovegraph, Rentio
Photoback Award 2021 Special Jury
◆ Award
Winning works will be selected (nominated) by Photoback from the submitted works, and the "Grand Prix", "Jury Prize" and "Special Award" will be announced by the judges for the winning works.
[Grand Prix 1 person] Gold ticket total 100,000 yen
Amazon gift certificate 50,000 yen, Photoback gift certificate 10,000 yen x 5
[Jury Prize 3 people] Total amount of cash vouchers 30,000 yen
Amazon gift certificate 10,000 yen, Photoback gift certificate 10,000 yen x 2
[Special prize 1 person each]
Fun Camera School Award Book "Camera 1st Grade Digital SLR Camera Edition"
monogram award original wooden photo frame (S)
Lovegraph Award 1 photo gift certificate (1 light plan)
Rentio Award Coupon for 15,000 yen that can only be used for the camera genre
* Prize contents are subject to change without notice.
[Participation Award All Participants]
"Photoback 500 yen OFF coupon" will be presented to all participants
* Participation will be completed when it is posted on the submitted work page.
* After the announcement of each award-winning work, we will send you one gift per person by e-mail.
◆ Award-winning works will be exhibited in Tokyo in September 2021.
Among the submitted works, the award-winning works and the winning works will be exhibited at the Tokyo Gallery in September 2021. You can see the work while picking up the real thing.
◆ Target works
Works created with Photoback's photo book (FOLIO, ROUGH, POCKET, GRAPH, LIFE, BUNKO, ALBUM)
* You can apply for both newly created works and past created works that have reorder data.
Please see the contest details page for how to apply.
"Photoback Award 2021": https://www.photoback.jp/contest/information/
[About Photoback]
Photoback is a photobook creation service with 500,000 members that "anyone can easily create a highly designed book". Introduced in 2004, it is available in 7 sizes and types to choose from. We deliver irreplaceable families, loved ones, pets, experiences, etc. in a "shape" that you can reach out at any time using photos and texts, and help to deliver unfading memories to the future.
[Content Works for photo business]
Contents Works Inc. is always looking for business partners to develop the photo business together. We provide on-demand solutions that match the creative, technology, and operations of our services to the business needs of alliance partners.
https://www.contentsworks.co.jp/partner
[Content Works Inc.]
2-12-15 Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061 G-FRONT Aoyama 4F
URL: https://www.contentsworks.co.jp
Representative: Akihiko Ogino, President and Representative Director
Established: February 15, 2001