YearlyPortrait2026
NEEW Yearly Portrait
The highest level on NEEW. The Winner receives the title NEEW Photographer of the Year.
Entry
500 NP
Entries close January 1, 2027.
NEEW Yearly Portrait is judged on the published criteria below. Judging is blind wherever practical: judges score submissions without seeing who made them.
Paid entries and qualified entries go through the same judging process. NEEW awards recognition only — there is no cash prize and no item of monetary value.
Entry to this competition is a fee for participation and judging. NEEW awards recognition only — a trophy, a permanent record, a published result. There is no cash prize and no item of monetary value. Full rules.
- Level
- Yearly
- Category
- Portrait
- Entry
- 500 NP
- Entries per photographer
- 3
- Opens
- January 1, 2026
- Closes
- January 1, 2027
- Results
- January 21, 2027
- Eligibility
- Open worldwide
Judging criteria
- Visual ImpactImmediate strength and presence of the image.
- 30%
- CompositionFraming, balance, use of the frame and visual structure.
- 25%
- OriginalityDistinctiveness of vision and freshness of approach.
- 25%
- Technical ExecutionExposure, focus, processing quality and craft.
- 20%
Each criterion is scored from 1 to 10 and weighted as shown. Judging is blind wherever practical, and paid and qualified entries are judged identically.