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 min, $20 max
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 19, 2019
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 19, 2019. 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
20192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006200520042003200220012000Winners 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
