This portfolio contest for schools offers eight different categories. Schools submit up to three 10-print portfolios representing at least five students’ work.
Entry Fee
- $10 per portfolio
Categories
- Architecture
- Commercial / Advertising
- Documentary / Photojournalism
- Landscape/Nature
- Sports
- Portrait
- Still Life
- Thematic – include an explanation of the theme with the prints and in the metadata
Deadline
- Received by April 24, 2020
Rules and Submission Guidelines
- Schools may enter portfolios in up to three categories. The Top Program will be awarded to the school with the highest number of winning portfolios, with four points awarded for a first place portfolio in each category, three points for second place, two points for third place and one point for honorable mention. If there is a tie, the judges will judge all entries from each school in a head-to-head contest.
- Sponsoring teacher must be a Texas member of ATPI.
- Individual students may not have more than two prints in any one portfolio.
- Photographs should be matted or mounted on 11×14 black, white or gray mount board.
- We encourage schools not to insert sheets of paper between each entry. This slows down the preparation for judging.
- Entries in the Documentary/Photojournalism category should not contain digital manipulation.
- Schools must upload a digital copy of each portfolio to the ATPI contest site by 6 pm on April 24, 2020. Include the required metadata in each image file (instructions here) and upload all 10 images under the teacher’s name.
- Entry forms and shipping information available in the PDF file.
Winners Lists
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000Winners Galleries
Contest Statistics
2019:
Top Program
Trinity High School, Euless
Michael Peña, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 1
Commercial/Advertising – 4
Documentary/PJ – 4
Landscape/Nature – 5
Portrait – 9
Sports – 4
Still Life – 2
Thematic – 6
2018:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 6
Commercial/Advertising – 2
Documentary – 4
Landscape/Nature – 5
Portrait – 9
Sports – 5
Still Life – 1
Thematic – 5
2017:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 7
Documentary – 5
Landscape – 8
Portrait – 10
Sports – 8
Still Life – 7
Thematic – 3
2016:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 7
Documentary – 6
Landscape – 8
Portrait – 9
Sports – 4
Still Life – 7
Thematic – 9
2015:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 9
Documentary – 5
Landscape – 8
Portrait – 7
Sports – 5
Still Life – 4
Thematic – 6
2014:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 10
Documentary – 4
Landscape – 9
Portrait – 8
Sports – 6
Still Life – 6
Thematic – 7
2013:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 5
Documentary – 5
Landscape – 9
Portrait – 10
Sports – 4
Still Life – 6
Thematic – 7
2012:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 8
Documentary – 5
Landscape – 8
Portrait – 10
Sports – 4
Still Life – 5
Thematic – 9
2011:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 6
Documentary – 6
Landscape – 7
Portrait – 10
Sports – 4
Still Life – 4
Thematic – 6
2010:
Top Programs
Allen High School, Allen
Krista Luter, instructor
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 5
Documentary – 4
Landscape – 5
Portrait – 10
Sports – 5
Still Life – 8
Thematic – 5
2009:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 7
Digital – 1
Documentary – 6
Landscape – 11
Portrait – 8
Sports – 5
Still Life – 3
Thematic – 7
2008:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 6
Digital – 2
Documentary – 2
Landscape – 7
Portrait – 5
Sports – 2
Still Life – 5
Thematic – 7
2007:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered: 44
2006:
Top Program
Allen High School, Allen
Krista Luter, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 9
Digital – 4
Doc/PJ – 5
Landscape – 9
Portrait – 11
Sports – 9
Still Life – 7
Thematic – 7
2005:
Top Program
Trinity High School, Euless
Jeff Grimm, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered: 38
2004:
Top Program
Cy-Fair High School, Houston
Earl and Laurie Emery, instructors
Total number of portfolios entered: 52