Production Paradise is announcing the launch of their 2021 Spotlight Awards – a competition with a unique focus for advertising talent. This is the 4th edition of the awards, the only photo competition that has created a judge’s panel that is solely filled with potential clients for commercial photographers. Judges like Jérémie Atlani (Senior Art Director at Chanel, France), Alayna Kunitake (Art Director at Ogilvy, Australia), Mari Torres (Senior Creative at McCann World group, Germany), Marjorieth Sanmartin (Executive Creative Director at TBWA, Germany), and Jamie Spence (Creative Director at Vogue, UK), among many others, will be choosing the winners who will be announced in early July 2021 – this competition might just be the most global online portfolio review a photographer could ever have.

“Our Spotlight Awards give the opportunity to talented photographers to be directly visible to more than 50 of some of the most influential creative decision-makers around the globe. That is exactly what Production Paradise is all about – great imagery in front of great creatives.” says Mariela von Estorff, CEO of Production Paradise.

The awards will have a submission period from April 9th to May 31st, 2021.

Photographers may submit imagery in 13 professional categories: Advertising, Architecture & Interiors, Beauty, Cars, Corporate & Industrial, Fashion, Food & Drink, Kids, People & Lifestyle, Portrait & Celebrity, Sport, Still Life and Travel & Documentary.

Each category will have a single winner and all 50+ judges will choose a Grand Prize winner from the professional category winners. There are over $35,000 worth of prizes, throughout 13 commercial categories and one special category.

Furthermore, in collaboration with ModelManagement.com, we invite photographers to create images that represent diversity, respect for each other or stand for a social cause in a special category: Story Telling: Shoot for a Cause. ModelManagemet.com will offer photographers the opportunity to book models for this project free of charge, and will donate USD 1000 to the cause of the winner’s choice.

This exclusive category with ModelManagement.com will be free of charge to enter. One simply needs to meet the requirements of entering images that represent diversity, respect and a stand for a cause that the photographer believes in. Moreover, ModelManagement.com will provide the models needed for the shoot.

2020 winners included Zay Yar Lin, Grand Prize and Travel & Documentary Winner; Julio Bárcena, Beauty Winner; Julia Bostock, Kids Winner; Michael Wharley, Advertising Winner; and Astrid Obert, Fashion Winner, among other prestigious photographers.

This year’s sponsors and prize givers are ModelManagement.com, Tablet Hotels, Think Tank Photo and Delight-Rent.com.