This portfolio contest for schools offers nine different categories. Schools submit up to four 10-image portfolios representing at least five students’ work.
Entry Fee
- Entry fee is $20 per school
Categories
- Architecture
- Commercial / Advertising
- Documentary / Photojournalism
- Landscape / Nature
- Sports
- Portrait
- Still Life
- Thematic – the first image should be text explaining the theme but can have an image as the background
Deadline
- Uploaded by April 28, 2023
Rules and Submission Guidelines
- Entries will no longer require prints. All entries will be judged from the digital files only.
- Schools may enter portfolios in up to four 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.
- All images must have been taken after the deadline of the previous contest – April 29, 2022 and while working with the sponsoring teacher.
- Individual students may not have more than two images in any one portfolio.
- 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 28, 2023. Include the required metadata in each image file (instructions here) and upload all 10 images under the teacher’s name.
Major rule changes for the 2023 Top Program contest. Please read carefully.
Winners Lists
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000Winners Galleries
Contest Statistics
Top Program
Texas High School, Texarkana
Clint Smith, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 6
Commercial/Advertising – 3
Documentary/PJ – 7
Landscape/Nature – 8
Portrait – 9
Sports – 8
Still Life – 6
Thematic – 10
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 1
Commercial/Advertising – 4
Documentary/PJ – 2
Landscape/Nature – 4
Portrait – 7
Sports – 2
Still Life – 4
Thematic – 6
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 4
Commercial/Advertising – 3
Documentary/PJ – 4
Landscape/Nature – 4
Portrait – 10
Sports – 4
Still Life – 5
Thematic – 6
2020:
Top Program
St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas
Scott Hunt, instructor
Total number of portfolios entered:
Architecture – 1
Cellphone/Smartphone – 2
Commercial/Advertising – 3
Documentary/PJ – 4
Landscape/Nature – 4
Portrait – 6
Sports – 6
Still Life – 4
Thematic – 3
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