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NPS Portrait Photo Contest

PORTRAIT

PHOTO CONTEST

 Click them Face to Face!

NAT PHOTO SOCIETY invites photographers and budding shutterbugs to capture the depth of the human face and features, clicking the most mysterious looking and magical faces in our Portrait Art Photo Contest! We know that human portraiture is a broad category, so let your lens explore them inside or outside your studio, capturing the delicate contours of the face, the winks and whiskers, where the blink of eyelashes tell a story never shared before!

Submit some professional headshots of raw emotions and capture the drama of a silent gaze or depth of a smile with your photographic vision, with precision. Take your time to nurture the master shots of the fleeting emotions - keep your tools ready, and go for the best!! Join us at NAT PHOTO SOCIETY’s portrait photography competition and send the soulful pics to win exciting cash awards!

Embrace the features and freeze the glances into eternity with your faces photography icons.

Don’t miss this opportunity to make your epic shots seen by our expert panel of jurors, whether you click a traditional face or a quirky one - snap them as raw & real and authentic as they can be!

NPS Portrait Photo Contest

How to Enter

It’s simple! Snap the best faces & features shots on your smartphone or professional camera, share with us, and stand a chance to win cash prizes worth up to $500!

This is an open contest call for all photo enthusiasts around the globe - from the seasoned shutter-freaks to the emerging photo-grabbers. Join our portrait photography competition open call and share your compelling vision with the world. Come and be a part of the passionate community of photographers worldwide for a rare exposure, engagement, and recognition!

Why Participate?

  1. Have your name alongside the talented photographers & wavemakers in photography.

  2. Show your captivating clicks on faces photography and go global.

  3. With your professional headshots win cash prizes & other exciting rewards!

NPS Portrait Photo Contest

Submission Deadline for the Portrait Photography Competition:

Submit your most stunning portraiture shots before

AUGUST 08, 2025

Choose the number of images you would like to submit:

​Please note that you can showcase your portrait photography skills by submitting photos, anywhere between these numbers by clicking on the appropriate tab.

For example, if you want to submit 8 photos (instead of the allotted 10), click on the tab 10 for $50.

NPS Portrait Photo Contest

RULES

Details to Enter the Portrait Photo Contest by NAT PHOTO SOCIETY

Note: If you'd like to read about our complete set of rules, please click HERE.

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What’s the Buzz Around a Portrait Photography Competition

NAT PHOTO SOCIETY welcomes ace photographers, rising shutter-bugs, and amateurs from all corners of the globe to participate in our awe-inspiring portrait photo contest. No wonder, this is the moment to immortalize expressions and show your photographic skill on portraiture, without stopping. Whether it is a candid portrayal, a mysterious glance, or a legend to click, snap the personalities and human emotions hidden beneath the skin & bone. We wish to see your best work, and how you conjure stories with stunning compositions.

This is the right spot to unleash your creative genius and show the world everything you click! Catch the fleeting moments NOW and stop the scrolls. Freeze the whisper, scream, or secrets behind a smile, with all its lights & shadows.

You don’t have to go off your limits to focus on the faces, or travel outdoors to catch the raw emotions – catch them handy on a busy marketplace or while working in a harvest; show us what you see with your lens & let those be the best moments for you to snap!

It’s a global call for aspiring click-freaks and those who are pro in exceptional photographic portraits – come and enter a show of rare showcase of emotions.

Determination of Winners

We have an expert panel of jurors to evaluate submissions based on creative vision, composition, technical, and storytelling skills of the photographers.

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Image Specifications 

Participants for Online Portrait Photography Competition make sure your pictures adhere to the following guidelines:

  • You must submit original images. Stock images are not allowed.  

  • You can use any device including your smartphone to click the images.

  • You must own all images submitted, or you should have the right to represent them on behalf of the photographer.

  • Your submissions may have copyright symbols, watermarks, names, or logos but they must be faint and not hinder the jurying process. 

  • All images must be in JPG or JPEG format with a minimum quality of (90%) or higher. 

  • Make sure to resize your pictures to 1000 pixels on the longest dimension.

  • All files must be less than 2 MB.

  • You can make basic adjustments to the images as long as they don’t alter their content. For example, adjusting contrast, exposure, dust removal, etc., is acceptable.

  • Do not make adjustments by adding or removing an element from the image. 

  • We only accept bleed photographs except for polaroids or other processes that make borders an inherent part of the image.

  • You have the widest bounds to paint emotions in this international portrait photo contest in your own creative way. Face them NOW!

NPS Portrait Photo Contest

Prizes & Awards

Dreaming of having your name showcased among the famous photographers – snatch the glory NOW! The winners of this show-stopper portrait photography contest will be announced on our NPS website. Achieve breakthroughs in your career with this incredible opportunity to win cash prizes of up to $500 and get featured in our online gallery space!

Don’t miss it! Whatever be the story, click them face to face and turn some heads around!

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NAT PHOTO SOCIETY

FIRST PRIZE - Cash Prize, Certificate of Recognition, and Promotions on social media.

RUNNER-UPS - Cash Prize, Certificate of Recognition, and Promotions on social media.

MERIT AWARD - Cash Prize, Certificate of Recognition, and Promotions on social media.

TALENT AWARD - Cash Prize  and Certificate of Recognition.

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD - Certificate of Recognition.

FINALIST AWARD - Certificate of Recognition.

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