Terms and Conditions EISA Maestro
  1. This year’s theme: Street Life
  2. Scope and Contest Rules: The competition has two categories.
    • Single picture: You may submit one picture based on the theme of ‘Street Life’.
    • Picture series: You may submit a total of 5-8 pictures as part of a portfolio based on the theme of ‘Street Life’.
  3. Photographers may compete in one category only. All entries must be in digital format (camera or scanned film originals) and must not have won a prize in any other competition. AI-generated images and pictures older than 2022 are excluded.
  4. Photos must be received by May 15th 2025 by the EISA Photography magazine or website published in your country (see member list EISA Photography Expert Group).
  5. The files should be submitted as JPEGs with a maximum 800 pixels on the longest edge. Images that are selected for the finals will be required to be resubmitted at a higher resolution (3000 pixels).
  6. Entries must be accompanied by your name, postal address, e-mail and phone number.
  7. You may only submit your own work. The competition organisers and EISA publishers will not be responsible for copyright infringements committed by entrants. By submitting your work, you affirm that you have the permission of the subject(s) depicted in the entry to use their image.
  8. The national contests will be judged by the editors of each EISA Photography member magazine or website and are open only to residents of that country.
  9. The winning entries from each of the 15 participating EISA countries will then be judged together at the Association’s Awards Meeting in June 2025.
  10. There will be two winners – for “Single” competition and for “Series” competition.
  11. The organisers reserve the right to publish winning entries free of charge worldwide and in any format or medium for the purposes of promoting the competition. At the end of June 2025 all national Maestro winners will have their work published on EISA website as part of EISA’s Public’s Choice competition.
  12. Neither EISA nor members of its Photography Expert Group will enter into any correspondence about the results.
  13. The winning entries from each of the 15 participating EISA countries will then be judged together at the Association’s General Meeting in June 2025. The final results of the International Maestro contest will be celebrated at the EISA Awards Gala on September 26th 2025 and revealed, online, alongside the EISA product Awards on Aug 15th 2025.
  14. Prizes are:
    Single picture prize: €1000 and the EISA Maestro 2025 Trophy
    Picture series prize: €2000 and the EISA Maestro 2025 Trophy
    Public’s Choice Award for single picture: €500
    Public’s Choice Award for picture series: €500
  15. All national 1st place winners will be placed on EISA website for voting for the Public’s Choice Award. The voting period ends on 10th August 2025.
  16. The top winning portfolios will be published in the Sept/Oct issues of all 15 EISA photo magazines/websites. Circumstances permitting, these winners will be invited to the EISA Awards ceremony at Ascot in the UK on September 26th 2025