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Digital Imaging Competition

RPS Digital Imaging

DI Competition 2025

For 2025 our annual competition for members will feature three separate rounds, this time by class of image rather than subject theme.

We listened to your feedback in our member survey and have changed the way the competition will run. Although the classes are based on broad techniques and there's no time limit on when an image was made, we encourage you to submit recent work rather than mining your back catalogues! The three classes are Open Colour, Open Mono and Altered Reality - see below for more details.

  • Submissions will be via our PollUnit software, with expert selection in each class.
  • The top 10 winners of each class will be featured in DI Online.
  • The 30 finalists will go head to head at an online selection meeting with three selectors. The winner will be awarded the Raymond Wallace Thompson Trophy.

These are the classes:

  1. Open Colour: a straight image using two or more colours (e.g., full or selective colour, split toning etc.).
    Submissions in February. Selection end of March 2025
  2. Altered Reality: non-representational and composite images (e.g., ICM, collage, multiple exposure; can be mono or colour).
    Submissions in May. Selection end of June 2025
  3. Open Mono: a straight image only using a single hue (shades of grey or any other single colour). Submissions in August. Selection end of September 2025.

The final for the RWT Trophy will be held in November 2025.

See the Rules for detailed descriptions of each class and how the competition will be run. (PDF to download.)

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