Spotlight Awards 2019 edition

Show your photos to judges from Diesel, Lego, Bacardi, IKEA, T Brand NY Times, Starbucks, GREY, FCB, Ogilvy, BBDO & more

Closed for entries

Winners are announced!

Photo: Patrick Curtet

Judges

Put your work in front of international expert judges who are managing billions of dollars of marketing budgets

Whether you’re a winner in the competition or not, if a judge likes what you do, you could get hired.

Angela Affinita Head of Creative and Production The Walt Disney Company UK
Natalie Alvarado Associate Photo Editor Playboy Enterprises USA
Lily Alt Executive Photo Director Parents / Parents Latina USA
Gaetana Angiolin Head of Marketing & Communication Italy Tommy Hilfiger ITALY
Kwesi Anokye-Kwakye Creative Director AdmediaFCB Ghana Ghana
Cameron Barnum Sr. Content Producer | Art Buyer BBDO San Francisco USA
Hayley Baxter Art Buyer Hogarth-Ogilvy SOUTH AFRICA
Philipp Bierbaum Managing Partner DAMM & BIERBAUM GERMANY
Chris Booth Associate Creative Director Lego UK
Cassio Cappelossa Global Brand Identity and Merchandise Hewlett Packard Enterprise USA
David Cooper Photo Director Health Magazine USA
Laurent Dailloux Procurement Manager for Marketing Content Nestlé SWITTZERLAND
Brendan Donnelly Creative Director M&C Saatchi AUSTRALIA
Pablo Ferrari Group Creative Director BBDO MEXICO
Anne Franke Senior Photo Producer Grey GERMANY
Toru Fujii Senior Creative Director ADK Tokyo JAPAN
Nelly Gocheva Global Editorial Director T Brand Studio, The New York Times UK
Sungwon Jee Director Hyundai Creative Works SOUTH KOREA
Shaun Loftman Executive Creative Director CEEMEA Landor UK
Kristine LaManna Senior Photo Editor ESPN The Magazine USA
James Li Group Creative Director Saatchi & Saatchi CHINA
Luke Li Creative Lead / Art Director Ikea Creative Hub SWEDEN
Edgar Liñayo Global Creative Manager Bacardi Spain
Sophia Leong Head of Creative Studio Starbucks CHINA
Leo Marks Global Creative Director MINI Brand Fields & Electric at BMW UK
Yvonne Moeller Head of Corporate Communications Shire GERMANY
Shireen Nababteh Creative Director Cheil Worldwide JORDAN
Tony Naudts-Ducène Freelance Creative Direction & Art Direction Strategie agency BELGIUM
Mbuso Ndlovu Co-founder/Creative Director wrd. SOUTH AFRICA
Thomas Payne Group Photo Editor Popular Science/Saveur Magazine USA
Grant Pearce Editorial Director GQ Asia Pacific Hong Kong
Serena Pederiva Head of Marketing, South Europe Diesel ITALY
Martin Queirolo Partner Marketing / South of LATAM Netflix BRAZIL
Tseliso Rangaka Executive Creative Director Ogilvy & Mather SOUTH AFRICA
Francesco Risso Creative Director Marni ITALY
Shantesh Row Chief Creative Officer Slant Agency UAE
Federico Russi VP of Creative Leo Burnett MEXICO
Paula Sabater Creative Director Havas Worldwide SPAIN
Robyn Selman Photo Director Forbes Magazine USA
Anita Skocic Head of Global Campaigns & Artwork MINI GERMANY
Storm Smith Art Director BBDO Worldwide USA
Paul Stechmesser Manager - Design The Coca-Cola Company USA
Nicholas Tamarin Senior Editor Interior Design Magazine USA
Julie Thymann Production - Head of Art Mother UK
Ely Tomines Creative Design Manager Celebrity Cruises, Inc. USA
Debbie Totten VP Creative Dev + Brand Communications Marriott Vacations Worldwide USA
Loyiso Twala Creative Director FCB Africa SOUTH AFRICA
Anna Verkholantseva Managing Editor Vogue Russia RUSSIA
Jens Petter Waernes Creative Director Goodby Silverstein & Partners USA
Chizuru Wykoff VP Global Creative L'Oreal USA
Chenghua Yang CEO M&C Saatchi CHINA CHINA
Bill Yom Global Creative director Cheil SOUTH KOREA
Chiara Zennaro Senior Photo Editor Condé Nast Glamour ITALY

Commercial categories

Covering all sectors of commercial photography

The competition has 13 advertising categories with a prize pool of over $30,000

Fashion
- Dorit Thies
- Timothy Saccenti
- Santiago Ruiseñor
- Astrid Obert
Advertising
- Staudinger + Franke
- Mattia Pelizzari
- Lucila Blumencweig
- Lei Deng
Beauty
- Bruno Juminer
- Elena Paraskeva
- Julia Kuzmenko
- Simon Songhurst, rep. by JSR
Architecture & Interiors
- Walter Shintani
- Balint Jaksa
- Tom Kurek
- Florian W. Müller
Cars
- Lisa Linke
- Lisa Linke
- Richard Thompson III
- Anton Watts
Corporate & Industrial
- Christian Vorhofer
- Andy Mahr
- Roe Photo
- Jasper James Studio
Food & Drink
- Dominic Episcopo
- Richard Jung
- Julie Renouf
- Francine Zaslow
Kids
- Isabel Pinto
- David Handley
- Isabel Pinto
- Miriam Lindthaler - Petit Pomme
People & Lifestyle
- Astrid Obert
- Chris Sisarich
- Nick Hall
- Dominik Mentzos
Portraiture & Celebrity
- Perry Curties
- Corey Nichols
- Beardy Studios
- Beat Mumenthaler
Sport
- Victor Fraile
- Tim Adorf
- Michael Müller
- Cyril Masson
Travel, Documentary & Landscape
- Brian Hodges
- Mark Lehn
- Jasper James
- Marina Kloes
Still Life
- Barry Makariou
- Mark Zawila
- Pixeleyes
- Thomas van Schaik

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