What?

The Underwater Photo Marathon is an online based competition. The participants of the annual competition need to send their photos in a given time period to the organizer. After the time window expires a jury of experts elects the winners.

Who?

Submissions are accepted from photographers worldwide, as long as they're taken with a digital camera. All are welcome to enter the competition, amateurs and professionals alike.

How?

The photos have to be submitted through the official www.uwphotomarathon.com website. The results will be posted on the same website upon jury's decision. The award ceremony will follow at the Underwater Photo Marathon exhibition opening, and the best photos will also be displayed virtually.

Why?

Because we are a young and enthusiastic team from the diving club "Roniti se mora", focused on the goal to improve the cultural offerings of the city of Zagreb, by providing a different perspective on photography. And why a marathon? Our ultimate goal is to display the best photos year round on an exhibition in various institutions in Zagreb as well as country wide, until the next competition which marks the beginning of a new cycle. That way the concept of underwater photography becomes available to a number of people of different backgrounds, which allows for it to continuously promote itself.

UWPM 2018

Competition is now FINISHED!

Thank you all for participating

Competition Rules

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UWPM 2018 Judges

Wolfgang Poelzer

Wolfgang Poelzer, a well known Austrian photographer was born in 1969 in Hallein, Austria. Among many international awards, the ones he is most proud of are the 1998 and 2002 CMAS Underwater Photography World Championship gold medals in macro and wide angle categories, and 2000 Antibes Festival gold medal in black & white category. Since then he become a professional photographer, and today he works as a freelance journalist and photographer.

Pedro Vasconcelos

Pedro Augusto Vasconcelos was born on the island of Madeira on the 10th of March 1977, always in contact with the sea since birth. He started underwater photography competition in 2007 and was vice-champion several times and had participated in 2 World Championships of Underwater Photography. He is responsible for the Underwater commission of photography in the Portuguese Federation. His passion is to capture all of life with his camera, both through photo and video, and to share it with others.

Goran Butajla

He is the editor and chief of the Croatian ScubaLife magazine, and an underwater photographer from Zagreb. Underwater photography has been his passion throughout his entire diving career. He has been diving for almost 30 years and is in diving business for over 15 years, both as an instructor trainer and as a diving center owner in Croatia. He have travelled the world and visited most of the top diving destination, and for him the best diving spot in the world is Jardines de la Reina in Cuba.

Milan Tomažin

Milan Tomažin Tyson is an experienced Slovenian underwater photographer born in 1968 in Kranj. He joined the ranks of Slovenian underwater photographers in the late nineties. As a special force police officer, he started achieving extremely good results with his Nikonos RS.

Since than his work has been published in many books and magazines, and he exhibited at more than 16 exhibitions worldwide. Some of his greatest achievements in underwater photography were Audience award at the 7th World Championship in Underwater Photography in Norway and second place in Singapore at the CMAS “50 Judges” UW Photography Contest.

Ronny Rengkung

Since becoming a diver in 1995, his life has revolved around the sea. While diving, he discovered a passion for underwater photography. In 2010, after attending several workshops to further develop his photography skills, he became a correspondent and executive officer of the Ocean Geographic magazine for the Indonesian region.
Inspired by winning the first photo contest he entered in Raja Ampat in 2007, Ronny started and organized a yearly international photo contest, rajaampatdivephoto.com. He has also authored several books, including Exquisite Indonesia's Coral Triangle, Underwater Jailolo West Halmahera, and Underwater Creatures. and last book publish on Oct 2016 is UNDERWATER NORTH RAJA AMPAT.

Damir Zurub

Damir was born in 1976 in Zagreb. In May 2015 he won the title of 15th CMAS World Champion in Underwater Photography. Damir emerged as the best all-round photographer, winning gold, silver and bronze medals in the categories closeup, closeup with theme and wide angle with model. He is an SSI diving instructor, the president of “Roniti se mora” diving club, and he also established the Underwater Photo Marathon in 2013, and has been its chief organizer and director ever since.

Heinz Toperczer

Heinz Toperczer was born in 1962 in Graz (Austria) as the son of a former submarine sailor.

As a diving instructor he devoted himself to the underwater film and participated in productions for ORF, Servus TV and BBC.

He later switched to underwater photography where he won the Hans Hass Fotofestival in 1997, the first of his numerous international awards.

Today, he works as an underwater photographer and travel journalist worldwide and his publications can be found in magazines, newspapers and textbooks.