Spotlight Awards

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.

Chris Booth Associate Creative Director The LEGO Agency UK
Edgar Liñayo D2D Brand Manager Nestlé SPAIN
Shireen Nababteh Creative Director Cheil Worldwide JORDAN
Nicholas Tamarin Senior Editor Interior Design Magazine USA
Debbie Totten VP Creative Dev + Brand Communications Marriott Vacations Worldwide USA
Camila Rodrigues de Souza Creative Director Wieden+Kennedy BRAZIL
Ronnie Patt Executive Creative Director Jung von Matt GERMANY
Joseph Siegel Sr. Director Creative and Marketing DHL USA
Jérémie Atlani Senior Art Director CHANEL FRANCE
Katarina Pepichova Senior Creative Producer Wieden and Kennedy NETHERLANDS
Natasscha Girelli Branding & Creative Director Hooligans Magazine DENMARK
Matt Hubbard Creative Director Droga5 UK
Alayna Kunitake Art Director M&C Saatchi Group AUNZ AUSTRALIA
Cari Spinnler Senior Content Producer and Marketing Consultant RWest NETHERLANDS
Kristina Wilmar Art Buyer H&M Home SWEDEN
Fabio Cerdeira Creative Director Uber BRAZIL
Janique Helson Head of Brand Marketing, Content & Creative Services Volvo Cars USA
Marjorieth Sanmartin Executive Creative Director TBWA GERMANY
Ernesto Castaldini Creative Director Wunderman Thompson ARGENTINA
Sasha Patkin Photo Editor Harvard Business Review USA
Lucy Nkosi Art Director Forbes Africa SOUTH AFRICA
Ryan van Son Integrated Creative Director Wunderman Thompson SOUTH AFRICA
Naoto Ichikawa Creative Director TBWA HAKUHODO JAPAN
Jamie Spence Senior Visuals Editor Vogue UK
Krystal Atwater Senior Creative Producer Creative Studios Fisher-Price Inc. USA
Clara Ho Group Creative Director Carbon HONG KONG
Mari Torres Associate Creative Director N26 GERMANY
Karen Frank Director of Photography ESPN USA
Echo Mah Creative Director Tiffany & Co. USA
Nadine Baltes Head of Production Havas Düsseldorf GERMANY
Camilla Ploug Creative Director Ogilvy Denmark DENMARK
Renato Barreto Associate Creative Director MullenLowe USA
Felipe Paganoti Creative Art Director VMLY&R BRAZIL
Takae Takahashi SVP, Associate Creative Director Havas Health & You USA
Vanessa Nikolidakis Marketing Lead DACH Spotify GERMANY
Emmanuel Benson Creative Director LG Electronics UAE
Kai Simon Director Brand & Corporate Communications EAME / SWA Hyatt Hotels Corporation SWITZERLAND
Liana Cárdenas Cave Director, Content Management & Publishing Hilton USA
Christophe Pilate Head of Creative Studios Maisons du Monde FRANCE
Sarah Joan Ross Editor Beauty Daily by Clarins UK
Nathalie Kirsheh Creative Director ALLURE + GLAMOUR at Condé Nast USA
María Carolina Vásquez Arias Content Leader Havas Group PERU
Birger Linke Group Creative Director Hylink CHINA
Ray Sam Integration Director Publicis Middle East UAE
Cara Swindell Senior Art Buyer / Producer adam&eveDDB UK
Michael Bilbrey Senior Production Consultant Leo Burnett USA
Juan Pablo Alvarez Chief Creative Officer Ogilvy Andean COLUMBIA
Neill Furmston Global Creative Director Vodafone Smart Tech UK
Kim Knight Integrated Content Producer, Creative Project Manager & Shoot Producer McDonald's USA
Roy Swansborough Senior Producer PepsiCo UK
Rick Painter Senior Design Manager / Creative Head Danone USA
Aimen Shahid Creative Director Ogilvy PAKISTAN
Alex Collares Creative Art Director DDB Group Australia AUSTRALIA
Julian Lozano Executive Creative Director Sancho BBDO COLUMBIA
Amanda Hammar Producer, Content Creator, Social Marketing Director Cisco USA
Fer Vallespin Art Director Condé Nast (GQ, Vanity Fair, Traveler) SPAIN
Adriana Loayza Producer Leo Burnett USA
Alejandro Calero Orozco Innovation & Creativity Consulting United Nations / ONU Mujeres COLUMBIA
Michela De Rossi Producer Unilever UK
John Lin Executive Creative Director & VP of Basketball Fila USA
Colin Gould Creative Director New Balance USA
Grace Barnes Creative Production Director Condé Nast Britain UK
Melvin Harper Creative Art Director Wella UK
Derek Eng Art Director Dwell USA
Pietro Invernizzi Head of Content Production Prada ITALY
Guillaume Bret Art Director Parfums Christian Dior FRANCE
Mark Pontrelli Director, Content Creation Wella Company US

Commercial categories

Covering all sectors of commercial photography

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

Advertising
- Tim Tadder
- Henrik Knudsen
- Johnny Valentine
- Richard Boll
Architecture & Interiors
- Ralf Tooten
- Benjamin Norton
- Heroes Agency
- David Mitchener
Beauty
- Bruno Juminer
- Elena Paraskeva
- Julia Kuzmenko
- Simon Songhurst, rep. by JSR
Cars
- David Casas
- Paul Barshon
- George Colbeanu
- Paul Barshon
Corporate & Industrial
- Jack Harlem
- Abigail Bobo
- Adam Gault
- Alex Petrenco
Fashion
- Edmund Fraser, rep. by JSR
- Julia Buruleva
- Joanna Kustra
- Dorit Thies
Food & Drink
- Kai Schwabe
- Marc Haydon
- Paul Saraceno
- Tal Silverman
Kids
- Adrianne Miller Roberts
- Rocco Bizzarri
- Isabel Pinto
- David Handley
People & Lifestyle
- Alex Waber
- Abigail Bobo
- Trevor Adeline
- Adrien Crasnault
Portraiture & Celebrity
- Hamish Brown
- Hamish Brown
- Robert Wilson
- Hamish Brown
Sport
- Detlef Schneider
- Hamish Brown
- Matthew Mcquillan
- Michael Müller
Still Life
- Barry Makariou
- Sara Morris
- Jessica Griffiths
- Dag Dalvang
Travel, Documentary & Landscape
- Jasper Westley
- Brian Hodges
- Mark Lehn
- Jasper James