Get your entries ready...

A new LensWork Community Book project for 2024 that will be our 9th publication of the excellent work from our LensWork readers!

Now accepting entries!
Deadline for entries is
Sunday October 20, 2024
Midnight


The book will be completed and printed in Nov 2024,
and mailed in December 2024.

New for 2024

There are a number of important differences this year compared to previous years.

  1. New this year! There is no subject theme this year as we've done in the past. Instead, we are looking for your very best work — your Legacy images or projects. All work is acceptable for entry — whenever you photographed it! All subjects are acceptable, all formats, all treatments, all creative visions.
  2. New this year! You get to choose what type of presentation — single images, trilogies, or a "Seeing in SIXES" project. The finished book will include all of these!
  3. New this year! This year's book will be published as an expanded (more pages) LensWork #170, December 2024.
  4. New this year! All subscribers to LensWork will receive this book whether or not you enter.
    If you are not a subscriber to LensWork, you can still enter, and books will be available to you to purchase. We will have discount prices for pre-publication. Unlike in past years, you will not receive a book automatically — which has allowed us to lower the entry fee substantially.
  5. New this year! For the first time ever, we will be publishing selected work in both the printed issue #170 of LensWork and as an expanded downloadable PDF with lots more images and projects!
  6. New this year! Choose your entry format! All entries are the same price ($30) regardless of the format:
    • You have single images? You can enter up to three images for a single entry fee of $30
    • You have three-image "trilogies" like we published in 2022? You can enter 2 "trilogies" projects for a single entry fee of $30.
    • You have a fantastic "Seeing in SIXES" project you'd like to enter? You can enter a single Seeing in SIXES project (obviously 6 images) for a single entry fee of $30.
  7. There is no limit on how many entries you can submit. For example, you could enter 3 single images for $30, two "Trilogies" projects for $30, and a "Seeing in SIXES" project for $30. Each entry will be reviewed individually regardless of how many entries you make. Each photographer can appear in the final publications only one time.

Legacy 2024 entry form and instructions

Unlike many other juried publications, you retain all copyrights to your images and written materials. LensWork is granted one-time only publication rights only for the printed book and for the downloadable digital PDF publication..

* You do not need to be a LensWork subscriber to enter.


Announcing the 2024 LensWork Community Book Project
Legacy 2024. Presenting the very best of our LensWork Readers!

As we’ve done for the last eight years, this book will feature the work of our readers — like you! perhaps you! — printed with the quality you’ve come to expect from us. This promises to be an important and substantial survey of the LensWork community, subscribers as well as non-subscribers. And new for 2024, we will also be publishing an expanded digital version of Legacy 2024. This will allow us to include many more photographers and lots more outstanding imagery.

  • New this year! All subscribers to LensWork will received a copy of the book whether or not you enter. If you are not a subscriber to LensWork or would like additional copies, books will be available for sale at a pre-publication discount.
  • New this year! There are no restrictions whatsoever on subject matter, treatment, or creative vision. The only thing to keep in mind is that you can enter single images, trilogies, or "Seeing in SIXES" projects only.
  • Each photographer who is selected for publication will be limited to one image/project in the final publications. We want to publish as many photographers as we can!
  • Black-and-white or color
  • No titles or text needed. Just images! We would, however, suggest that a title for a Seeing in SIXES project usually makes the project better.
  • You may submit as many images/projects as you want. You are not limited to your initial entry.
  • New this year! Each entry submitted must include either: Single images (up to three) for $30, or; Two three-image "trilogies" for $30, or; a Seeing in SIXES project for $30. Same price for any of these formats — you choose your strongest work! Choose your format!

    3 — Single images (up to three per entry)

    2 — Three-image "Trilogies" projects (two per entry)

    1 — "Seeing in SIXES" (one 6-image project per entry)

New this year! We’re excited to publish the best of your images in book form and as a digital PDF, knowing they will be appreciated around the world on both formats.

Examples

If you are not familiar with our previous LensWork Community Book Projects, here are some sample pages from previous publications.

Single image sample pages

Trilogies sample two-page spreads

Seeing in SIXES sample 6-image sample pages

Legacy 2024 entry form and instructions