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The UN General Assembly declared February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science to inspire progress toward gender equality in science and technology. To celebrate and support this initiative, the RPS Women in Photography group is launching our first annual Woman Science Photographer of the Year competition. Our culture cannot be imagined without science. And in our visual world, it’s not enough to just speak about science; we must also show it. For this, we need photographers to capture it and to share it. The competition is open to any female and female-identifying photographers, regardless of age or photographic experience. Student or researcher, amateur or professional photographer, scientist or person interested in the world; anyone can take part in the competition.

Copyright Policy

Copyright remains with the originator and each photographer shall be deemed to warrant that they own the entire copyright in the work.

Image Usage Rights

The RPS Women in Photography Group reserves the right to display, reproduce and publish in any media any entry, without payment, for the purpose of promotion, publicity and exhibition of Woman Science Photographer of the Year and could be used to display on the RPS Women in Photography's website. If we do so, we will credit the image using the file name that is provided by the photographer when submitting (image-title-by-firstname-lastname).

The RPS Women in Photography group is launching the first Woman Science Photographer of the Year (WSPOTY) competition in celebration and support of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, declared by the UN General Assemby in order to increase awareness and inspire progress towards gender equality in the fields of science and technology.  

Commonly gendered subjects of art and science meet in photography, with technology providing the backbone, science helping us understand and creativity feeding the imagination.

The WSPOTY competition seeks to inspire and promote all female and female-identifying photographers, regardless of age or photographic experience. Submissions are invited from 1 November to 15 December, 2022.  Limit two images per photographer.  Entry is free. 

Winners will be selected from two age categories, under 18 and over 18.  Shortlisted and winning images will be exhbited at the RPS House on a digital big screen from 11 February to end of March, 2023.