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Celebrate the beloved Holga camera during Holga Week! Shoot as much as you can during the week of October 1-7, 2023, and challenge yourself to create some great work with your Holga products. This will be a week of shooting Holga photos, and sharing them with all of the other Holga lovers out there! Click on the SUBMIT page and you will be able to enter up to three of your favorite photos taken during this week and be eligible to win prizes. The deadline for submissions is November 8, 2023.

There will be great prizes up for grabs.  If your photo catches the eye of one of our jurors, you will win! Simple as that.

Prizes

We are still finalizing prizes. They will be set before Holga Week 2023 begins. We will announce the final prizes. Stay tuned.

  • 2023 Holga Week Champion
    • A gold painted Holga camera (was working last year)
    • A copy of Death By Holga: 11.22.63 by MC Roman
    • And the same prize given to the categories
  • Holga Categories
    • We are currently working on prizes right now.
  • Holga Week Regional Prize Sponsors
    • We are inviting film stores and processing labs the opportunity to give select prizes within their region.
    • Regional prizes will be a select amount of merchandise or services set by the sponsor.
      • Analog Wonderland
        • Region: United Kingdom
        • Level: Platinum Sponsorship
      • Legacy Photo Lab
        • Region: United States
        • Level: Platinum Sponsorship
      • Old School Photo Lab
        • Region: United States
        • Level: Platinum Sponsorship
      • Lone Star Darkroom
        • Region: United States
        • Level: Platinum Sponsorship
      • Don’s Used Photo Equipment
        • Region: United States
        • Level: Gold Sponsorship
      • FotoDiox Pro
        • Region: United States
        • Level: Silver Sponsorship

Categories & Jurors

  • Holga Effect (NEW)
    • Holga Effect is a new category for all the special ways a Holga camera can be used. This category is for multiple exposures, light leaks, and any other Holga camera effect you can produce with a film Holga camera.
    • Juror
  • Holga Street
    • Urban, suburban, city, town, graffiti, animals (pets), buildings, trains, bus stops, traffic, crowds, restaurants, shopping malls, food trucks, signs, etc.
    • Juror
  • Holga Nature
    • Landscapes, clouds, mountains, botanical gardens, trees, lakes, flowers, beaches, oceans, animals (pets and not pets), weather, volcanos, fields, tractors, barns, trails, etc.
    • Juror
  • Holga Portrait
    • Faces, heads, bodies, hands, hair, skin, hats, clothing, animals (pets), etc.
    • Juror
  • Holga Pinhole
  • Holga Select
    • Anything from Holga Effect, Street, Nature, Portrait, or Pinhole.
    • Each 2023 Holga Week photographer will vote for as many photographs as they like. The photograph with the most votes wins.
    • Juror
      • All 2023 Holga Week Photographers

Champion

The 2023 Holga Week Champion will be selected by the 2022 Holga Week Champion Alastair Place or Mr. Holga. They can select from any of the Holga Week photo submissions.

Submit Photos

Holga Week photos will be submitted through this website. We are making updates as quickly as possible to make submitting and viewing photos as easy as possible. Stay tuned.

Holga Week photos will be accepted from October 8 through November 8, 2023.

Submit photos at holgaweek.com/form

Announce Winners

Winners of each Holga category and the 2023 Holga Week Champion will be announced on November 22, 2023 at 12:30 p.m. in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Yes, that Dealey Plaza. Why do you think we selected this oddly specific date and time?

The champion and winners will be announced live on Instagram.