Participating in photography contests - do or don’t?

Whether to participate or not is a question I strated to ask myself, seeing all these competitions on Instagram. Being relatively new in the field, I quickly discovered this whole big world of photography contests. 

So May 2024 I gave it a first shot (the „Never try, Never know“ thing, remember?) and send my photo „A break from adolescence“ to two different competitions. And guess what - I received an honorable mention in the Open Category of the Minimalist Photography Awards. I was very happy and delighted!