Skip to main content Scroll Top
LumEarth Photo Awards - Award Categories
Explore Our Genres

Award Categories

Diverse categories celebrating all forms of visual storytelling

Submit Across All Genres

We accept single images and photo series across diverse categories. Whether you capture the raw power of nature or the quiet dignity of a portrait, there is a place for your work. Choose the category that best represents your vision.

Color Photography

Color Photography

Celebrating vibrant, compelling color work that captures light, mood, and the spectrum of human experience. From photojournalism to fine art, color photography demands mastery of saturation, tone, and emotional resonance.

Black & White

Black & White

Timeless monochrome imagery that relies on composition, contrast, and emotion. Emphasizes form, geometry, and the essential structure of light. Black and white photography strips away color to reveal the pure essence of a moment.

Mobile

Mobile

An open category dedicated to photographs captured with smartphones and mobile devices. Any subject and style is welcome, as long as the image reflects strong composition, creativity, and visual impact. Democratizing photography.

Landscape & Nature

Landscape & Nature

Grand vistas and intimate natural details. The untouched beauty of Earth's diverse ecosystems—mountains, deserts, forests, and wilderness. Explores humanity's relationship with the natural world and the environment's visual majesty.

Birds

Birds

Avian photography celebrating the diversity, grace, and behavior of birds. From rare species to common varieties, capturing flight, plumage, and ecological significance. Documents our planet's ornithological heritage.

Human & Environment

Human & Environment

Portraiture and cultural documentation. Explores the human condition and humanity's relationship with the natural and built world. Celebrates diversity, tells stories, and bridges cultural understanding through visual narrative.

Climate Change

Climate Change

Documentary imagery addressing environmental challenges. Visual evidence of climate impact and the imperative for global environmental action. Holds a mirror to our changing planet and calls for urgent response.

Wildlife

Wildlife

Animals in their natural habitats, from majestic wildlife to intimate creature portraits. Captures behavior, beauty, and the biodiversity of our planet. Celebrates the animals that share our world.

Agriculture & Rural

Agriculture & Rural

Images of farms, fields, livestock, harvests, and the daily lives of rural communities, from traditional practices to contemporary methods. Honors the people and places that sustain our world.

Macro & Details

Macro & Details

The hidden world revealed through magnification. Intricate textures, patterns, and intimate details visible only through close observation. Transforms the microscopic into the monumental.

Water & Life

Water & Life

Aquatic environments and marine ecosystems. Explores water's vital ecological role and the biodiversity that depends on aquatic habitats. Reveals the underwater world that sustains all life.

Architecture

Architecture

Built environments and structural form. Examines contemporary and historic architecture, design, geometry, and humanity's imprint on the landscape. Celebrates the art of construction and urban design.

Aerial & Drone

Aerial & Drone

Perspectives from above revealing landscape patterns, scale relationships, and visual compositions invisible from ground level. A new vantage point on our world's geography and beauty.

Minimalism

Minimalism

Simplicity and restraint as artistic power. Essential composition, negative space, and distilled visual language conveying profound meaning. Sometimes less is infinitely more.

Ready to Find Your Category?

Choose the category that best represents your creative vision and submit your work today.

Submit Your Work Now