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Entries Open: 8th July – 26th August 2011
Winner announced – 9th September 2011

Metro is pleased to announce its partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts and calls for entries to the Eyewitness Photography Competition.

The competition, hosted by Metroprint; Metro Imaging’s online, colour-managed, print ordering service, will coincide with the Royal Academy’s exhibition: Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century – Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy- Nagy, Munkácsi.

The Eyewitness Photography Competition is designed to encourage budding photographers to upload and share their images based on four separate categories: Street, Portrait, Fashion and Abstract photography. Each category is based upon an individual photographer from the Royal Academy’s exhibition: Brassaï for his classic portraits, Capa for street photography, Moholy-Nagy for abstract photography, and Pécsi and Munkácsi for fashion photography.

The competition will be judged by leading figures in the fields of Photography and Journalism: Colin Ford CBE – Curator of Eyewitness exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, Diane Smith – Deputy Editor of the British Journal of Photography, Jon Levy – Editor of Foto8, Steve Macleod – Creative Director of Metro Imaging and Laurence Earle - Executive Editor of the Independent on Sunday. The overall and category winners will be announced 9th September.

The winning image will be published in The Independent on Sunday's New Review magazine, together with the Independent, British Journal of Photography and Royal Academy of Arts websites. The winner will also receive a Supersized photographic print of their winning image from METROPRINT, a £250 voucher from Calumet, and the new Olympus PEN Mini E-PM1. Category winners will receive a portfolio of 12 genuine black and white resin coated or colour C Type photographic prints, courtesy of METROPRINT and an Olympus SZ-30MR.

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century - Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi opened on 30th June 2011 and runs until 2nd October 2011. The exhibition showcases over 200 photographs from 1914-1989, revealing how these world-renowned photographers were at the forefront of stylistic developments.

To enter the competition, please click here.

For more information on the exhibition click here.

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