The Global SinoPhoto Awards 2023
Tell your Chinese story – imagine, interpret, inspire
The Global SinoPhoto Awards (GSPA) is an annual photography contest that aims to communicate Chinese culture through remarkable imagery and to promote photographers internationally.
Global SinoPhoto Awards 2021 Overall Winner: © Li, Huaifeng: Dancing Dreams of a Mountain Girl, Shanxi 2020
Schedule and Highlights for Awards 2023
• Submissions will be open from September to 20 November 2022;
• Shortlist photographers will be announced early 1st January 2023;
• Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony, at the legendary British Library on 17th January 2023;
• Awards images will be exhibited at the Fujifilm House of Photography in central London between 17th January – 19th February 2023, during the Chinese New Year.
Further exhibitions and events are to be confirmed.
Winners are selected by our expert judging panel:
Our judges are prominent figures in photography/creative industries, most of them have insightful knowledge of China:
• Patrik Schumacher: Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects Ltd., Chief Designer of the Daxing International Airport, the world's largest airport when built.
• Kim Hoang（黄秋河）: Senior picture editor, Save the Children; the Guardian, the Red Cross, Magnum Photos.
• Yao Lu（姚璐）: International award-winning artist, lecturer in photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
• Lynne Bryant: Founder of The Architectural Photography Awards, former Chair of the British Association of Picture Libraries (BAPLA). Lynne is also the Co-founder of the Global SinoPhoto Awards
• Michael Freeman: Photographer and prolific author with 155 books published internationally in 28 languages, including bestsellers "The Photographer's Eye" and "The Tea Horse Road".
• Betty Yao（姚詠蓓）: Curator and author of “Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868 – 72” exhibition and book.
