Global Courant 2023-04-25 19:45:45
Huawei has officially kicked off the HUAWEI XMAGE Awards 2023. As Huawei’s open platform for photographic excellence on smartphones, the annual competition celebrates inspiration and creativity through stunning photos and videos captured by Huawei devices around the world. Since 2017, users from over 170 countries and regions have participated in the annual contest, with nearly 4 million entries to date. This makes the HUAWEI XMAGE Awards a cultural heritage of its own, featuring fragments of human history from a global perspective.
Capture and Inspire: A New Direction for XMAGE Awards
This year’s XMAGE Awards hope that photographers everywhere – casual or professional – will seek inspiration in their photography. The award takes its name from Huawei’s own Imaging Research & Development arm XMAGE. Like its namesake, XMAGE Awards strives to help photographers find inspiration and be innovative in photography.
Launched in 2022, the XMAGE brand focuses on optical system, mechanical structure, imaging technology and image processing in photography. All four pillars of XMAGE now form the principles of Huawei’s new and emerging smartphone camera technology, such as the latest Ultra Aperture Camera of the HUAWEI Mate 50 series and the Ultra Lighting Telephoto Camera of the HUAWEI P60 Pro.
New Night Walk category to capture Wonders of the Dark
This year’s competition has the following categories: Night Walk, Portrait, Art & Fashion, Outdoor, Hello Life, Storyboard, Action and Storytelling.
Night Walk is a new category that encourages users to capture the hidden wonders of nightlife using Huawei’s unique night photo settings.
Attractive prizes and new judges
This year, the following awards will be given to outstanding entries: 3 Grand Prize winners, 24 Best in Category winners, 27 Second Place winners, and 5 Honorable Mentions. Winners can receive up to $10,000 in prize money(1).
New judges were invited, including Molife Kumona, editor-in-chief of GQ South Africa. This also includes five leaders in photography: Chen Xiaobo, vice president of China Photographers Association; Chinese fashion photographer Pei Tongtong; Portuguese landscape photographer José Ramos; Australian portrait photographer Jessica Hromas; and Li Changzhu, Vice President of Consumer Strategy Marketing Dept at HUAWEI Consumer Business Group.
Entries for the XMAGE Awards close on August 15, 2023 at 11:59 PM GMT+8. We look forward to your participation and seeing your creativity come to life.
Users can visit the unified global entry channel through XMAGE Awards 2023 for their entry, and submit their entry through the HUAWEI Community. Entries must be images or videos taken with a Huawei mobile phone, and there are no restrictions on when the work was captured or with which Huawei mobile phone.
For more information and contest terms and conditions, as well as entry, please visit the contest website: https://gallery.consumer.huawei.com.
