[custom_adv] As the world's largest photography competition, the EyeEm Awards receives hundreds of thousands of submissions from talented creatives across the globe. Here we present the 2018 EyeEm Awards finalists, which received over 700,000 submissions from more than 100,000 photographers worldwide. [custom_adv] This year's EyeEm Awards jury have selected the top 10 images from each of nine categories and shortlisted 10 entrants for Photographer of the Year. These will be exhibited at the inaugural Berlin Photo Week October 10-14, where the winners will also be announced. [custom_adv] The EyeEm Awards were open for submissions from June 7 to July 31, and were free to photographers of all skill levels and backgrounds to submit through the EyeEm web platform and app. The Photographer of the Year will receive a trip to Berlin for Photo Week, plus a Sony Alpha camera and mentorship throughout the year by senior photo editors. All winners will get featured, exhibited and published on a global scale. [custom_adv] The contest's nine categories were: The Architect, which received more than 95,000 submissions; The Great Outdoors, over 229,000; The Photojournalist, over 53,000; The Portraitist, over 77,000; The Street Photographer, more than 87,000; The Creative, more than 42,000; The Traveler, over 116,000; Still Life, more than 67,000; and Fashion, which attracted over 27,000 entries. [custom_adv] The Photographer of the Year will receive a trip to the inaugural Berlin Photo Week, a Sony Alpha camera, a complimentary one-year subscription from our friends at Format to build a stunning portfolio, a feature in Format Magazine, and mentorship throughout the year by senior photo editors. [custom_adv] As the world's largest photography competition, the EyeEm Awards receives hundreds of thousands of submissions from talented creatives across the globe. Here we present the 2018 EyeEm Awards finalists, which received over 700,000 submissions from more than 100,000 photographers worldwide. [custom_adv] This year's EyeEm Awards jury have selected the top 10 images from each of nine categories and shortlisted 10 entrants for Photographer of the Year. These will be exhibited at the inaugural Berlin Photo Week October 10-14, where the winners will also be announced. [custom_adv] The EyeEm Awards were open for submissions from June 7 to July 31, and were free to photographers of all skill levels and backgrounds to submit through the EyeEm web platform and app. The Photographer of the Year will receive a trip to Berlin for Photo Week, plus a Sony Alpha camera and mentorship throughout the year by senior photo editors. All winners will get featured, exhibited and published on a global scale. [custom_adv] The contest's nine categories were: The Architect, which received more than 95,000 submissions; The Great Outdoors, over 229,000; The Photojournalist, over 53,000; The Portraitist, over 77,000; The Street Photographer, more than 87,000; The Creative, more than 42,000; The Traveler, over 116,000; Still Life, more than 67,000; and Fashion, which attracted over 27,000 entries. [custom_adv] The Photographer of the Year will receive a trip to the inaugural Berlin Photo Week, a Sony Alpha camera, a complimentary one-year subscription from our friends at Format to build a stunning portfolio, a feature in Format Magazine, and mentorship throughout the year by senior photo editors. [custom_adv] As the world's largest photography competition, the EyeEm Awards receives hundreds of thousands of submissions from talented creatives across the globe. Here we present the 2018 EyeEm Awards finalists, which received over 700,000 submissions from more than 100,000 photographers worldwide. [custom_adv] Photography is the art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. [custom_adv] The first permanent photoetching was an image produced in 1822 by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, but it was destroyed in a later attempt to make prints from it. [custom_adv] Originally, all photography was monochrome, or black-and-white. Even after color film was readily available, black-and-white photography continued to dominate for decades, due to its lower cost and its "classic" photographic look.