JOSTENS PHOTO CONTEST

Enter and you could have your photo published and win up to $1,000 and more!*

Upload photos any time between January 1 - March 1. 

To be eligible for the contest, each photo will need a model release form signed by anyone who is personally and substantially identifiable in the photo.  

ONE (1) MIDDLE SCHOOL CATEGORY

// Middle School Open – Choose any school-related topic. Student photographers must be a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, age 13 years or older, and a middle school or junior high student, grades 6-8.

NINE (9) HIGH SCHOOL CATEGORIES

Entrants may submit up to three photos per category.

// ACADEMICS & COMMUNITY SERVICE
Show students learning, in or out of the classroom.

// GRADUATION
Capture the emotion, color and vibrancy of graduation day. Photos can be from the previous year graduation as long as the photographer is enrolled in high school for the current school year.

// LANDSCAPE
Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

// PHOTO ILLUSTRATION & MANIPULATION
Photos in this category can be posed or electronically enhanced to illustrate a topic or idea.

// PORTRAIT
Capture facial qualities, expression or mood and environment of your subject as the main focus.

// SPORTS: ATHLETES IN ACTION
Wherever they are, we’re looking for athletes in action.

// SPORTS: SIDELINES & SCHOOL SPIRIT
Show moments that capture school pride in all its forms.

// STUDENT LIFE & TRADITIONS
Capture student life in a way that showcases school culture and tradition.

// YEARBOOKERS IN ACTION
Go behind the scenes and capture the making of the yearbook. Photos of staff selling yearbooks, engaging in team building activities and traveling to workshops, in addition to working in the classroom, are all welcomed.

// MIDDLE SCHOOL CATEGORY
Entries on any school-related topic must be taken by a middle school or junior high student of at least 13 years of age. Entrants may submit up to three photos in this category.

 

*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The Jostens North America Photo Contest (“Promotion”) begins at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on January 1, and ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on March 1 (“Entry Period”).

Entrants must be, as of the date of entry: (A) a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, or Canada (excluding Quebec); and (B) a current middle school, junior high school, or high school student; and (C) 13 years or older (regardless of school grade).

To clarify, for the criterion (A) above: (i) U.S. and Canadian citizens living abroad (i.e., not in their home country of the U.S. or Canada) meet this criterion; and (ii) foreign exchange and international students living in the U.S. and Canada, but who are not U.S. or Canadian citizens, do not meet this criterion and are not eligible.

Anyone between the ages of 13 and 17 or who is under the age of majority in their state, province, or territory of residence (a “Minor”) must obtain the permission of his/her/their parent or legal guardian (“Guardian”) to enter.

Entrants who are high school students may enter in all categories except the “Middle School & Junior High" category. Entrants who are middle school or junior high school students may only enter in the “Middle School & Junior High” category. 

Directors, officers and employees of Sponsor, and its affiliates, parents, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies and their respective immediate families (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and those living in their same households are not eligible to enter or win this Promotion. Entry constitutes entrant’s (or the Guardian’s, in the case of a Minor) full and unconditional agreement to these official rules (“Official Rules”) and to Sponsor’s decisions The decisions of Sponsor regarding all matters related to this Promotion are final and binding. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth in these Official Rules.

©2024 Jostens, Inc. All rights reserved. Promotion entrants are hereby authorized to copy these Official Rules on the condition that it will be for the entrant’s personal use and not for any commercial purpose whatsoever.

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