Submissions are invited for Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2025. The last date of submission is April 30, 2025.
About Nikon
Nikon Corporation, also known just as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan; it specializes in creating and marketing optics and imaging products. The companies held by Nikon form the Nikon Group.
Competition Details
The Nikon Small World Competition first began in 1975 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. Since then, Small World has become a leading showcase for photomicrographers from the widest array of scientific disciplines.
The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition is open to anyone with an interest in microscopy and photography through the microscope. A photomicrograph is a technical document that can be of great significance to science or industry. But a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition, and content is an object of beauty, open to several levels of comprehension and appreciation.
Eligibility
The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition is open only to individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry and have access to a light microscope.
Guidelines
- Images must be submitted in .jpeg, .png, or .tiff format.
- Images should be submitted with the highest quality with regard to file size, bit depth, and resolution.
- Images do not need to be taken with a Nikon-branded microscope.
- Images must be taken by Entrant using a light microscope. Images taken with an electron or any other microscope(s) that do not capture imagery using optical light technology are not eligible.
- Macro photography is not eligible.
Prizes
There will be twenty (20) winners ranked from first (1st) place through twentieth (20th) place, plus Honorable Mention prizes, and prizes for images of distinction if and as determined by the Judges.
- First Prize: Three Thousand U.S. Dollars ($3,000.00).
- Second Prize: Two Thousand U.S. Dollars ($2,000.00).
- Third Prize: One Thousand U.S. Dollars ($1,000.00).
- Fourth Prize: Eight Hundred U.S. Dollars ($800.00).
- Fifth Prize: Six Hundred U.S. Dollars ($600.00).
- Sixth Prize: Four Hundred U.S. Dollars ($400.00).
- Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Prizes: Three Hundred U.S. Dollars ($300.00) each.
- Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Prizes: Two Hundred U.S. Dollars ($200.00) each.
- Honorable Mentions: One Hundred U.S. Dollars ($100.00) each. The number of Honorable Mention Prizes will be determined by the Judges in their sole discretion.
How to Submit?
Interested individuals can submit online via this link.
Submission Deadline
The last date of submission is April 30, 2025.
FAQs
What is Nikon Small World?
Nikon Small World is the world’s preeminent photographic competition for images TAKEN THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE. It is comprised of 2 separate contests, Nikon Small World and Nikon Small World in Motion (sometimes referred to as SWIM). Nikon Small World is for STILL images taken through a microscope and Small World in Motion is for movies, time-lapse movies also taken through a light microscope.
Who can enter?
The contest is open to anyone over the age of 18 years who is not an employee of Nikon, their agencies, affiliates or any competing microscope or camera manufacturers.
