Holgablog, in association with Holga Inspire brings you an exciting new competition! You have the chance to win ANY holga camera in the entire holga catalogue (you can see most of them in our recent holga guide).
The writers@holgablog and staff@holgainspire have been agonizing and debating for weeks to decide the format of the competition, and we have finally come to our decision!
The Competition
The competition will take a photojournalistic approach. You submit at least 6 photographs (or the links to the photos to save our inbox from exploding!) in addition to a story. The story can be non-fiction or fiction, it can be an account of how you took the photographs, or an account of what is happening in the photographs (For example,imagine the article ‘when candids go wrong‘, but with more photos!), or even a fictional story or poem with relevent photographs. Let your imagination run wild, or take a step back and submit something journalistic, the choice is yours!
The bottom line is you have to submit at least 6 photographs along with a piece of writing. The writing has to be linked in some way to the photographs. That’s it!
Sounds easy, there’s rules…right?
Not too many, the main rule is that your photographs have to be taken with a film camera. No digital allowed. Your stories and photographs will be judged as a ‘whole’ (i.e the story and photographs together) by the holgablog writers and holga inspire staff. The winner’s photographs and story will be posted on holgablog, and the runners up will also be posted in subsequent weeks.
How do I enter?
Just email comp@holgablog.com with your story and either attach the photographs or insert links in the email to the photographs you want. The closing date is the 31st May 2009, so you hopefully have lots of time to take some photographs and get them developed.
The Prize
You can choose one of the following Holga cameras, kindly supplied by Holga Inspire/Holga Ltd.
If you need to see the functions each model has, take a look at our holga guide.
HOLGA 120N
HOLGA 120FN
HOLGA 120CFN
HOLGA 120GN
HOLGA 120GFN
HOLGA 120GCFN
HOLGA 120PC
HOLGA 120WPC
HOLGA-120-3D
HOLGA-120PC-3D
HOLGA 135
HOLGA 135PC
HOLGA135BC
The Smallprint
All entries must be made before 23.59GMT 31st May 2009. The judging will be made the following week by holgablog writers and the holga inspire staff. The judges decision is final. You retain ALL rights to your photographs and story, but by entering, you give us permission to post them on holgablog. The prize is any holga camera manufactured by Holga Ltd, and will be supplied directly by Holga Ltd at a date to be determined.
Any Questions?
Just leave a comment below with your question and we’ll answer it asap 
Good Luck!
The Holgablog Writers
Comments
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can i join the competition with my diana?
’cause in the rules section i dont see it have shot with holga… thx anyway…
Hi Donny,
You can use any camera you like to to enter the competition, the only rule is that you must use a film camera. As the diana is a film camera, you are 100% allowed to enter with it
Can we use a disposable camera? Like say, a kodak.
Hi Kay, yep, you can use any film camera you want. It would be interesting to see what you come up with using a disposable camera.
Good luck
What´s the minimum & maximum length for the stories? Cheers.
Hi Almu,
You can write as much or as little as you like
Were you planning on doing another Holga competition anytime soon? I would really like to own a Holga…
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