Bucket Tech: HUAWEI Kicks Off the Global XMAGE Awards 2023

 

Huawei has officially kicked off the HUAWEI XMAGE Awards 2023. As Huawei’s open platform for smartphone photographic excellence, the annual competition celebrates inspiration and creativity, through amazing photos and videos captured with Huawei devices around the world. Since 2017, users from more than 170 countries and regions have participated in the yearly competition, contributing nearly 4 million entries to date. This makes the HUAWEI XMAGE Awards a cultural heritage of its own, containing fragments of human history from worldwide perspectives.

Capture and Inspire: A New Direction for XMAGE Awards

This year’s XMAGE Awards hopes photographers everywhere – casual or professional – will seek inspiration in their photography. The award takes its name from Huawei’s proprietary Imaging Research & Development arm XMAGE. Like its namesake, XMAGE Awards aspires 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 tenets of Huawei’s new and upcoming smartphone camera technology, such as the latest HUAWEI Mate 50 Series’ Ultra Aperture Camera and HUAWEI P60 Pro's Ultra Lighting Telephoto Camera.

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, encouraging users to photograph the hidden wonders of night life, using Huawei’s unique night-photo settings.

 Attractive prizes and new judges

This year, the following prizes will be given out to outstanding submissions: 3 Grand Prize winners, 24 Best-in-Category winners, 27 Runner-up winners, and 5 Honourable Mentions. Winners can receive up to USD 10,000 in prize money.

New judges were invited, including Molife Kumona, GQ South Africa Editor-in-Chief. 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 the Consumer Strategy Marketing Dept at the HUAWEI Consumer Business Group.

The XMAGE Awards Submissions will close at 23H59 GMT+8 on August 15, 2023. We look forward to your participation and seeing your creativity come alive.

Users can visit the unified global submission channel via XMAGE Awards 2023 for their submission, as well as submit their entry via HUAWEI Community. Entries must be images or videos captured with a Huawei mobile phone, and there are no restrictions on when the work was captured or using which Huawei mobile phone.

For more information and competition terms and conditions, as well as submission, please refer to the competition website: https://gallery.consumer.huawei.com.

Interpret Durban 5

I love my city, in fact there's very few people from Durban that will tell you differently. It's been always said that Durban is melting pot of cultures, but what surprised me is the talent that comes from the various types of people in our city. I generally don't delve into the arts side of things since its not in my interest but you can't help but admire some of the work that's being created by the locals. It's because of this Interpret Durban (#ID5) was created, a platform for creatives to showcase their work and with it not only promote them but the city as well. This year sees the 5th installment of this event and competion with over R90,000 in prizes to be won!

Organisers are calling for artists to take part in #ID5, the theme for this year is Durban DNA which considers the building blocks under the city. The categories are:

• Professional Photography: I am Durban.
• Amateur Photography: Pure Durban.
• Illustration /Design: Durban Bulletin.
• Video: Durban Atmosphere.
• Visual Arts: Durban urban.

To enter simply visit www.interpretdurban.com then download the brief and entry form. Deadline for entries is the 12th of December 2014, so best get to it! The event will culminate at a prize giving evening with a host of exhibitions and live entertainment. As mentioned before there are big prizes and a host of sponsors, it's sure to be a great event. 

For more info:

website: www.interpretdurban.com
facebook: Interpret Durban
twitter: @InterpretDurban
instagram: interpretdurban