Articles Tagged ‘competition’

Kids of Burkino Faso by Stéphane Heinz

In our continuing effort to post up all entries from our holgablog summer compeitition (seems so long ago now!), here’s another cracker by Stéphane, who travelled to Burkino Faso and discovered an amazing country…

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Krappy Kamera Competition XII

Call for Entries for Krappy Kamera XII INTERnational Juried Competition Prospectus and Application International entry directions The beginning The Krappy Kamera concept was born in 1992 at the Soho Photo Gallery® during a regular monthly opening reception when a few members admitted they preferred using their junky cameras to their high-end ones. One of the members, Sandra Carrion, proposed »

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Holga Self Portrait Challenge Results

This post is in follow up to my previous article “10 Tips for Better Holga Self Portraits” that I wrote just over a month ago. I was hoping to challenge the readers and toy camera shooters out there to try something different, go out of comfort zones and boxes and express themselves. Self portraits are not about »

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Competition: Win one of two SMENA/COSMIC Symbols

Another holgablog competition is upon us! It’s summertime, we are feeling generous so we are giving you the chance to win one of two near MINT Smena/Cosmic Symbol cameras, along with faux leather cases.    We have written about the Symbol before, and we loved it!  Paired with cheap film, the colours and tones it produces »

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HOLGAPALOOZA

Each year from July to September, photographers from around the world are encouraged to participate in an international contest featuring Holga photography hosted by Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com. Holgablog.com is sponsoring a category….get involved!

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Beauty, decay, and the American dream by Brandon Cordell

Once weekly we will be presenting you with another superb entry from our recent competition. The basic premise was that you had to submit at least six photos, along with a piece of writing, whether fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. The writing could be anything you want, but had to relate to the photos in some »

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Holgablog/Holga Ltd Competition Winner

It’s been a long time coming, but the votes have been counted, Holga consulted, and we are ready to announce our winner! Before that, we just thought we would congratulate everyone on the incredibly high quality of the entries. We would feel proud to put each and every one on the website. The remaining »

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COMPETITION: WIN ANY HOLGA, 1 WEEK LEFT

A Small reminder.  This competition ENDS ON SUNDAY. so get your entries in now   There’s a great prize available: Any Holga camera you want!!!

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 »

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Commie Camera: And the winner is…..

Thanks for everyone who entered the competition to win a commie camera.  We were genuinely humbled by the response we got. We felt a bit sorry for the Vilia, nobody really wanted it apart from a few, so it looks like it will be staying in my cupboard for a bit longer! The judging process was a »

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