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
Brendan Donnelly Creative Director M&C Saatchi AUSTRALIA
Edgar Liñayo D2D Brand Manager Nestlé SPAIN
Grant Pearce Creative Director & Commercial Editorial Director Vogue Man Hong Kong & GQ Australia HONG KONG
Robyn Selman Photo Director Forbes Magazine USA
Nicholas Tamarin Senior Editor Interior Design Magazine USA
Ely Tomines Creative Design Manager Celebrity Cruises, Inc. USA
Debbie Totten VP Creative Dev + Brand Communications Marriott Vacations Worldwide USA
Camila Rodrigues de Souza Senior Creative Art Director Wunderman Thompson BRAZIL
Victor Arriazu Martin Creative Director VMLY&R SPAIN
Agustín de Tena Editor Car & Driver / Hearst SPAIN
Joseph Siegel Sr. Director Creative and Marketing DHL USA
Danny Ratcliff Director of Post Production & Motion Graphics Hearst USA
Jérémie Atlani Senior Art Director CHANEL FRANCE
Katarina Pepichova Creative Producer & Art Buyer Calvin Klein NETHERLANDS
Natasscha Girelli Branding & Creative Director Hooligans Magazine DENMARK
Christopher Stahl Producer, Director, DoP Volkswagen of America USA
Stephen Moore Art Director Sainsbury's UK
Jordan Gladman Creative Director Juliet Creative CANADA
Matt Hubbard Creative Director Droga5 UK
Alayna Kunitake Art Director Ogilvy AUSTRALIA
Florian Severin Creative Director Thomas Sabo GERMANY
Cari Spinnler Senior Content Producer and Marketing Consultant Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts USA
Kristina Wilmar Art Buyer H&M Home SWEDEN
Yuri Ezhkov Creative Director MAC Cosmetics HONG KONG
Angela Sumner Creative Director Elizabeth Arden (Global) USA
Fabio Cerdeira Creative Director Uber BRAZIL
Janique Helson Head of Brand Marketing, Content & Creative Services Volvo Cars USA
Felix Ettelson Senior Art Director Ogilvy AUSTRALIA
Marjorieth Sanmartin Executive Creative Director TBWA GERMANY
Jesse Young Art Director McCann AUSTRALIA
Ernesto Castaldini Creative Director Wunderman Thompson ARGENTINA
Sasha Patkin Photo Editor Harvard Business Review USA
Lucy Nkosi Art Director Forbes Africa SOUTH AFRICA
Ruth Ferrier Freelance Art Buyer Marks and Spencer UK
Ryan van Son Integrated Creative Director Wunderman Thompson SOUTH AFRICA
Naoto Ichikawa Creative Director TBWA HAKUHODO JAPAN
Jamie Spence Creative Producer Vogue UK
Krystal Atwater Senior Creative Producer Creative Studios Fisher-Price Inc. USA
Kevin Lennox Freelance Senior Producer Nike USA
Tiffany Huang Ou-Yang Head of Design Colgate Palmolive HONG KONG
Clara Ho Creative Director Grey HONG KONG
Mari Torres Senior Creative McCann Worldgroup GERMANY
Annie Henley Art Buyer/Producer VLMY&R USA
Abigail Nicolas Photo Editor Sports Illustrated USA
Karen Frank Director of Photography ESPN USA
Echo Mah Creative Director Tiffany & Co. USA
Martín Miguel Art Director Arandu BOLIVIA
Matias Paglieri Creative Director Digitas ARGENTINA
Elma Karabegovic Associate Creative Director FCB CANADA
Nadine Baltes Head of Production Havas Düsseldorf GERMANY
Rory McKechnie Creative Director DDB Group NEW ZEALAND
Camilla Ploug Creative Director Ogilvy Denmark DENMARK

Commercial categories

Covering all sectors of commercial photography

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

Fashion
- Julia Buruleva
- Joanna Kustra
- Dorit Thies
- Timothy Saccenti
Advertising
- Johnny Valentine
- Richard Boll
- Sam Thies
- Staudinger + Franke
Beauty
- Bruno Juminer
- Elena Paraskeva
- Julia Kuzmenko
- Simon Songhurst, rep. by JSR
Architecture & Interiors
- Heroes Agency
- David Mitchener
- Walter Shintani
- Balint Jaksa
Cars
- Paul Barshon
- Alex Howe
- Andy Wee
- Malek Fayoumi
Corporate & Industrial
- Adam Gault
- Alex Petrenco
- James Braund
- Christian Vorhofer
Food & Drink
- Kris Kirkham
- Mike English
- Marek Bartos
- James Murphy
Kids
- Rocco Bizzarri
- Isabel Pinto
- David Handley
- Isabel Pinto
People & Lifestyle
- Michael Krosny
- Camille Chaudeurge
- Katarina Premfors
- Anatol Gottfried
Portraiture & Celebrity
- Hamish Brown
- David Giesbrecht
- Lucho Vidales
- PEROU
Sport
- Matthew Mcquillan
- Michael Müller
- EXYL
- Victor Fraile
Still Life
- Mikkel Jul Hvilshoj
- Aine Photography
- Ivan Moshe
- Barry Makariou
Travel, Documentary & Landscape
- Brian Hodges
- Mark Lehn
- Jasper James
- Marina Kloes