HOW IT WORKS

Your perspective. Your photograph. Your chance to win.

MATISTOTELES® organizes photography competitions that encourage creativity, originality, and individual expression. Whether you use a professional camera or a smartphone, what matters most is your idea and how you bring it to life.

Follow these seven simple steps to participate.

Step 1. Explore Our Competitions

Visit the Competitions section and choose a competition that interests you.

Each competition has its own theme, submission deadline, prize, and specific requirements. Read its description carefully before preparing your entry.

Step 2. Choose Your Best Photograph

Select a photograph you have taken yourself that matches the competition's theme and meets its requirements.

Standard photographic adjustments are permitted, including:

• Cropping

• Exposure and contrast adjustments

• Colour correction

• White balance adjustments

Generative AI is not permitted in competition entries. This includes AI-generated photographs and the generation or replacement of people, objects or backgrounds.

Additional photographic or technical requirements, if applicable, will be specified in the individual competition announcement.

Step 3. Prepare Your Email

Send your entry to:

competitions@matistoteles.cz

Use the exact email subject line specified on the page of the competition you are entering.

This helps us identify and organize submissions correctly.

Step 4. Include the Required Information

Your email must include the following information (except where marked as optional):

• Your full legal name.

• Your telephone number, including the international country code.

• Your preferred public name or nickname.

• The title of your photograph.

• Your Instagram username, if you would like us to tag you (optional).

• The required participation declaration provided on the relevant competition page.

Your full legal name and contact information will not be used as your public competition identifier.

For security and verification purposes, we may contact you by email or send a one-time verification code to the telephone number provided.

Step 5. Attach Your Photograph

Attach your photograph directly to your email.

Accepted file formats:

• JPG / JPEG

• PNG

• HEIC / HEIF

Do not send compressed archives, external download links or documents instead of your photograph.

Check the individual competition announcement for any additional file requirements.

Step 6. Submit Before the Deadline

Make sure your complete entry reaches us before the submission deadline stated on the competition page.

You will receive an email confirming that we have received your submission.

Please note that confirmation of receipt does not mean your photograph has been accepted into the competition. Every entry is reviewed to ensure that it meets the applicable requirements.

Late submissions cannot be considered.

Step 7. Follow the Competition and Results

Once the submission period closes, accepted photographs will be prepared for presentation.

Each competition page explains how its winner will be selected. Depending on the competition, this may involve public voting or another evaluation method announced in advance.

For competitions using public voting, we will publish the voting instructions and the link to the relevant voting channel or platform.

Follow the competition page for updates, voting dates and results.

 

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Important Information

• Participation is free of charge.

• Participants must be at least 18 years old.

• Unless otherwise stated, each person may submit one photograph per competition.

• You must own the necessary rights to your photograph and obtain any required permissions from people depicted in it.

• By submitting an entry, you confirm your acceptance of the Official Rules of Photography Contests, the General Terms and Conditions and the requirements of the relevant competition.

• MATISTOTELES® may review, reject or publish submitted photographs in accordance with the applicable rules.

Please read the official documents and the announcement of your chosen competition before submitting your photograph.