Spotlight Awards 2023 edition

Show your photos to judges from Kia, Meta, Ferrero, C&A, IBM, Ogilvy, DDB, Forbes, Elle & more

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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
Nicholas Tamarin Design Editor Interior Design Magazine USA
Felix Ettelson Senior Art Director M&C Saatchi AUSTRALIA
Ernesto Castaldini Creative Director Wunderman Thompson ARGENTINA
Lucy Nkosi Art Director Forbes Africa SOUTH AFRICA
Naoto Ichikawa Creative Director Wieden+Kennedy JAPAN
Sarah Joan Ross Editor Beauty Daily by Clarins UK
Melvin Harper Creative Art Director Wella UK
Derek Eng Art Director Dwell USA
Guillaume Bret Art Director Parfums Christian Dior FRANCE
Attilio Gianfrancesco Senior Regional Advertising Producer Unilever UK
Christian El Asmar Creative Director BBD GERMANY
Alejandro Rattenbach Creative Director Wieden+Kennedy MEXICO
Jules Doyle Global Head of Creative The Body Shop UK
Anna Berlin Head of Design Audi / Creative Director Ogilvy GERMANY
Jens Erasmus Schröder Creative Director Art Grey GERMANY
Amy Silverman Photo Editor Airbnb USA
Heitor Buchalla Creative Director Art BBD Berlin GERMANY
Rishaad Sacoor Marketing & Brand Strategy Kia Europe GERMANY
Danny Fontaine Creative Director, UK & Ireland IBM UK
Glauber Dorotheu Associate Creative Director DDB UAE
Maximilian Ettl Art director Ogilvy GERMANY
Nicole Hardt Art Director Photo/Video C&A GERMANY
Paulo Ottaviani Senior Art Director Publicis Middle East UAE
Franco Martino Corporate Communication Director Ferrero / Kinder Joy of Moving SPAIN
Gavin Richardson Creative Lead Tesco UK
James Davies Art Direction Lead Waitrose UK
Heidi Kamp Art Director Bed Bath & Beyond USA
Jan Krystovic Pascua Art Director Moose Toys AUSTRALIA
Joanne Banks Photo Editor The Economist UK
Kayahan Uluş Advertising Coordinator Turkish Airlines TURKEY
Matthias Kapteyn Creative Director thjnk berlin GERMANY
Jacqui Free-Sze Senior Art Director On Running UK
Daniel Ávila Executive Creative Director Ogilvy Columbia COLUMBIA
Daniel Boyles Head of Creative Services Leagas Delaney Ltd UK
Felix Tatsumasa Freese Senior Brand & Communication Manager UNICEF SWITZERLAND
Erin Lenczycki Photo Editor Lonely Planet USA
Tobi Beckley Williams Copy Writer Insight Publicis GHANA
Robin Lemonnier Creative Leader Ikea SWEDEN
Soham Chatterjee Global Creative/Creative Lead Meta USA
Kauê Barbosa Creative Art Director The FWA BRAZIL
Aleksandr Sash Bobrov Art Director Dentsu Creative FRANCE
Julia Holmes Senior Visual Content Specialist Booking.com NETHERLANDS
Emil Nitkulinec Head Of Art DDB Prague CZECH REPUBLIC
Chris Little Group Creative Director Ogilvy AUSTRALIA
Crystal Henry Photo Editor National Geographic USA

Commercial categories

Covering all sectors of commercial photography

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