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Categories
The Distant View
Transcend time and space to capture emotion
Night Scenery
Let the colours of the night bloom
Colours
All the colours of the universe, imagined
Portrait
The beauty and emotion in every face
Landscape
Journey through the wonder of nature’s creations
Light & Shadow
Imaginative play on light and shadow
The Taste of Memories
Food in relation to people, emotions, memories
Chapters of a Life
Express your life in a series of Photos (3~9 Photos)
Judges
Alec Soth has published over twenty-five books and has had over fifty solo exhibitions. In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
Alec Soth
Master Photographer
A member of Magnum Photos
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Alec Soth has published over twenty-five books and has had over fifty solo exhibitions. In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
In 1992, he shared with his colleagues in Moscow, a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Liu's photographs of China are widely recognised by the Chinese public as capturing an era of change. Liu is the founder of the Shanghai Center of Photography, which opened in 2015.
Liu Xiangcheng
Master Photographer, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
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In 1992, he shared with his colleagues in Moscow, a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Liu's photographs of China are widely recognised by the Chinese public as capturing an era of change. Liu is the founder of the Shanghai Center of Photography, which opened in 2015.
Chief Product Officer of OPPO, Pete Lau is promoting the innovation of mobile imaging in hardware, software and algorithm, ushering mobile imaging into an all new Three Main Camera era by continuing to create great products.
Pete Lau
Senior Vice President and
Chief Product Officer of OPPO
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Chief Product Officer of OPPO, Pete Lau is promoting the innovation of mobile imaging in hardware, software and algorithm, ushering mobile imaging into an all new Three Main Camera era by continuing to create great products.
Tang Hui was awarded the “China Photography Golden Statue Award”. He has also served as a jury member of the China Photography Golden Statue Award, China International Photographic Art Exhibition, and National Photographic Art Exhibition. He is hailed as "the most influential Chinese photographer worldwide" in Hasselblad's official website.
Tang Hui
Chinese Art photographer
Hasselblad Master
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Tang Hui was awarded the “China Photography Golden Statue Award”. He has also served as a jury member of the China Photography Golden Statue Award, China International Photographic Art Exhibition, and National Photographic Art Exhibition. He is hailed as "the most influential Chinese photographer worldwide" in Hasselblad's official website.
Tina Signesdottir is an international recognized Art photographer, with many awards and honors behind her. Such as Sony World Photography Award, Winner of National Award, and become the Hasselblad Master. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries around the world.
Tina Signesdottir Hult
Norwegian Art photographer
Hasselblad Master
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Tina Signesdottir is an international recognized Art photographer, with many awards and honors behind her. Such as Sony World Photography Award, Winner of National Award, and become the Hasselblad Master. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries around the world.
Wang Jianjun was ranked one of the Top 10 Young Photographers in China and was awarded the“China Photography Golden Statue Award”. He has served as a jury member of the China Photography Golden Statue Award, National Photographic Art Exhibition, and other competitions. Over the years, he has devoted himself to landscape photography in China, photography of humanistic and historic themes, and has published more than twenty photo books.
Wang Jianjun
Chinese Art photographer
Hasselblad Master
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Wang Jianjun was ranked one of the Top 10 Young Photographers in China and was awarded the“China Photography Golden Statue Award”. He has served as a jury member of the China Photography Golden Statue Award, National Photographic Art Exhibition, and other competitions. Over the years, he has devoted himself to landscape photography in China, photography of humanistic and historic themes, and has published more than twenty photo books.
Yin Chao is one of the most important photographers in the current Chinese fashion industry.In 2017 he became the only Chinese photographer among the twelve global ambassadors of the Hasselblad camera brand. He has continuously experimented with different media on the same subject matter, trying to create his own narrative language with an Eastern flavor.
Yin Chao
Chinese Fashion Photographer
Hasselblad Ambassador
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Yin Chao is one of the most important photographers in the current Chinese fashion industry.In 2017 he became the only Chinese photographer among the twelve global ambassadors of the Hasselblad camera brand. He has continuously experimented with different media on the same subject matter, trying to create his own narrative language with an Eastern flavor.
*In no particular order, in alphabetical order by name.
Guide
Prizes
Schedule
Who can participate?
How to submit my entry?
How to enter?
Submission deadline
Specific requirements of the entries
Additional information required
Failure in upload
Judging rules
Winner notification
Copyright of the entries
Disclaimer
Prizes
OPPO imagine IF
Master of the Year
One winner
Prize money of CNY 160,000
2023 OPPO flagship series, including Phone, Earphone, OPPO Watch and
OPPO Pad
Participation in the Hasselblad Image Training Camp
Participation in international photo exhibitions
Sign with OPPO to be OPPO photographer of the year and will be prioritized in event shootings
OPPO imagine IF Silver
Award of the Year
Four winners
Prize money of CNY 60,000
One OPPO Find X6 Pro
Participation in the Hasselblad Image
Training Camp
Participation in international
photo exhibitions
OPPO imagine IF Bronze
Award of the Year
Ten winners
Prize money of CNY 20,000
One OPPO Find X6 Pro
Participation in international
photo exhibitions
OPPO imagine
IF Honorable
Mention of the Year
4 winners for each of the
8 categories, 32 in total
Prize money of CNY 2000
One OPPO Find X6
Participation in international
photo exhibitions
Partner Channel Award -
OPPO imagine IF
Honorable Mentions
10 winners in each channel
Prize money of CNY 1,000
One OPPO Find X6
Other incentives are decided by the
partner channels
Monthly Activity Award -
OPPO imagine IF
Honorable Mentions
10 winners per month
Prizes for Top 3: One OPPO phone
Prizes for 4th to 6th:One OPPO Watch
Prizes for 7th to 10th:One OPPO headphones
All winners of the above
awards will receive:
2023 OPPO imagine IF
awards certificate
Official promotion by OPPO
Professional comments from the organizing committee
Cooperation opportunities
After all calls are closed, All participants can get:
One lucky draw opportunity per person with each submission, with a chance to win OPPO phones and OPPO headphones. There will be 20 winners.
*The prize will be paid in USD or other currencies according to the real-time exchange rate at the time of prize payment.
All prize money is pre-tax
Schedule
Entry
submission
April 17 - July 25, 2023
Open for
entries
Submission
Deadline
July 25, 2023 at 24:00
GMT,
Beijing time (UTC +8)
Final judging
process
Winners
Announcement
mid-to-late August
After the final submission deadline, you will not be able to upload, change or delete your entries to ensure fairness in the competition.
Who can participate?
Entries are open to OPPO and OnePlus users worldwide with full civil capacity, who are at least 18 years old , or reach the legal age in their region.
Entries must be original works. Photos that have been published or posted in other photography competitions or public media for profit, or photos that have won awards in other competitions are not eligible.
How to submit my entry?
Submissions can be made through the official OPPO imagine IF website, OPPO partner channels-500px.
To submit your entry on the OPPO imagine IF website, you need to login to your OPPO account and authorize us to use your OPPO account to identify you, so that you can upload, view, and manage your entry. Therefore, we will collect your OPPO account ID, OPPO account nickname, and OPPO account profile picture. We will provide you with the appropriate services according to the country or region where your OPPO account is located. By loginning into the official website, you agree to the User Agreement and Privacy Statement of OPPO imagine IF Website.
How to enter?
Entries should be submitted by July 25, 2023 at 24:00 GMT, Beijing time (UTC +8). After the final submission deadline, you will not be able to upload, change or delete your entries to ensure fairness in the competition.
Submission deadline
Entry submission is free.
Participants upload their entries and choose any suitable category for each entry.
The maximum number of entries per participant is 40, and each user can only submit five entries at most per category. A single photo/group of photos (no more than 9) is considered one entry, and uploading single images with repeated or overly similar content is not allowed. The entrants are allowed to submit the same photo to different categories, but each submission will be counted as one entry.
The entrants must submit works that fit the category that they have chosen, i.e., The Distant View, Portrait, Landscape, Colours, Light & Shadow, The Taste of Memories, Night Scenery, and Chapters of a Life.
The entries must be original images with complete EXIF data. If there is any dispute on the intellectual property rights such as copyright, and the original photo can't be provided, the organizer has the right to disqualify the entry
The theme of the entries must not have any elements of violence, pornography, racial discrimination, reaction against or denigration of the society, religion and religious taboos, etc. The photos must comply with laws and regulations and not violate public order and morality. Entries that violate the above mentioned rules will not be displayed or judged.
Specific requirements of the entries
The entries must be taken with OPPO devices, including all models of OPPO phones and OnePlus phones.
The photos should not be altered in any desktop image processing program such as Photoshop and Lightroom. Moderate post-processing on the photos is permissible, such as adjusting the brightness, contrast, white balance, saturation, etc.. Composite images that change the original content of the photo are not acceptable. Complete EXIF data must be retained.
Only photos in JPG format are accepted. The submission should not be smaller than 1000 pixels in width, and the size of a single photo should not exceed 20M.
A title and a caption within 100 letters should be added.
Additional information required
In order to provide services such as entrant identification and entry verification, we will collect your personal information in accordance with the privacy statement of this competition to the extent permitted by the above-mentioned purposes and applicable laws.
During the submission stage, you will only be required to provide information about your registered account (including your username, country/region, email address or cell phone number) and a title within 100 letters for each entry you submit. The username, email address, and cell phone number are used to contact you in a timely manner and to issue prizes. After the competition, the organizer will verify the registration information of the winners. If you cannot be contacted due to incomplete or incorrect personal information, which affects the issuance of prizes, the winners will be deemed to have automatically forfeited their right to win, and the organizer will not reissue the prizes.
Failure in upload
If you are having issues with your upload, please email the organizer at imagineif@oppo.com
Judging rules
After the deadline of the submission, the organizing committee and the preliminary panel of judges will select a total of 500 excellent entries to enter the final round, and the expert jury will make the final evaluation and pick the final award winners.
Submissions through partner channels have the opportunity to receive two awards. The professional judges of the partner channels and the professional preliminary panel of judges of the competition will select entries to enter the final round of the contest. 10 entries will be selected each month for each channel. Ten excellent entries will be selected by the professional judges in each partner channel.
Winner notification
After the final submission deadline (July 25, 2023), the organizing committee and the preliminary panel of judges will select outstanding final entries that meet the judging criteria. We will contact the finalists by phone, SMS or email. At the same time, we will also publish the list of finalists on the official OPPO imagine IF website (https://imagine-if.oppo.com/en/).
After the final selection, we will contact the winners by phone, SMS or email. We will also publish the list of winners on the official OPPO imagineIF website (https://imagine-if.oppo.com/en/) and OPPO's official social media account. The winner will be announced from August 14, 2023 to August 15, 2023, Beijing time (UTC+8), please refer to official website for more details.
After the announcement of the winners, OPPO will further confirm all the relevant information again. After OPPO contacts the winners, the winners must submit the original files taken with OPPO phone, fill in the documents about personal information, copyright statement of the work, authorization of the work, etc., and sign the documents in person, scan and return them by email. The winners must provide the above information within 2 days, and those who do not provide the information before the deadline and provide information that fails to meet the requirements specified by the organizer will be considered as automatically forfeiting their eligibility for the prize, and the vacancy will be filled by the entrant who is of the highest order. We will collect your personal information and the purpose of doing so: Name, cell phone number, email address, and OPPO account ID will be collected when entrants submit their entries. We will store the above personal information within mainland China for the shortest period of time necessary for the purposes you authorize, unless required by law or you otherwise authorize us to agree to a longer retention period. For more information, please refer to the privacy statement on the OPPO website (https://privacy.oppo.com/cn/policy/). If an entrant's entry wins, we will contact the entrant via phone number or email to obtain the recipient address of the prize, and we will send the prize by post after the competition. The information collected above will be removed quickly after use and will not be kept.
Copyright of the entries
The entrant shall have the right of authorship, and the copyright of the work shall remain that of the entrant. Participants represent and warrant that (1) they have independent, complete, clear, and undisputed copyright of his/her work, (2) the entries do not violate the rights of any third party, including copyright, portrait right, right to reputation, right to privacy, etc., (3) the entries are created by the entrant himself/herself. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Once plagiarism is found, the entry shall be disqualified. All entrants shall be deemed to agree with this clause. All legal responsibilities for any disputes arising from the above guarantee shall be borne by the entrant himself/herself and shall have nothing to do with the participating platform and the contest organizer.
By entering the competition, the entrant agrees and authorizes the organizer to use the submitted entries for promotional activities related to the competition without any compensation, including but not limited to using the entries in online media, print media, print, photography exhibitions, retail stores, road shows, and other activities, etc. There is no geographical limit on the scope of use. The organizer is also authorized to modify and crop the photos. The organizer is not required to notify the entrant or obtain the entrant's consent to use the entry. The organizer includes OPPO and its affiliated companies, strategic partners, etc.
Disclaimer
By submitting an entry, the entrant agrees that if the entry wins any award in the competition, it grants the organizer permission to use the entry for commercial distribution, and the entrant retains all rights to the entry.