NEWS
2024 NOVEMBER
KLPA goes to Italy!
AUTOPORTRAIT Top30 finalists will be screened at Palazzo Ducale in Lucca, Tuscany on the occasion of the 20th Edition of Photolux Photography Festival, opening on 23.11.2024 as part of our commitment to showcase the best in portrait photography to a wider international audience through collaborative efforts with our partners. KLPA since 2009 has strived to raise standards and promote portrait photographers around the world with our open calls and meaningful creative themes, and continues to highlight the importance of creative portrait expressions from this popular practice in the photography world. KLPA would like to thank Photolux for hosting us.
2024 JULY
KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 2024
Temu House was the venue which hosted KLPA International Photoawards Portrait Prize 2024 in July with the theme Make It Real - Staged Portraiture, our 16th edition.
2023 SEPTEMBER
KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS 2023
For the second year running, Temu House hosted the KLPA International Photoawards Portrait Prize and 2023 was a special edition as we celebrated our 15th anniversary with the theme Portraits of Intimacy.
Intimate Perspective - a panel discusion took place at Temu House in March 2023. The panel comprised of local artists Dipaki Gupta and Eiffel Chong, poet and lecturer Sheena Baharuddin, and Temu House curator Sharmin Parameswaran. The discussion was modertaed by KLPA director Steven Lee.
2022 DECEMBER
Pictures from the Media Launch and official opening of KLPA2021 Winners and Finalists exhibition (delayed) at GMBB in Kuala Lumpur on 24 February 2022 and KLPA2022 in September, 2022.
2022 NOVEMBER
2022 OCTOBER
2022 SEPTEMBER
2022 JUNE
KLPA 2021 AT AUCKLAND FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
As part of the Festival's In-Venue Programme in a long-standing partnership with the festival, Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards [KLPA] are back once again!
In June 2022 view a daily screening at Lake House Arts of the outstanding portraiture photography featuring the KLPA 2021 winners and finalists selected by an international jury panel.
The KLPA is an annual global portrait photography prize seeking the very best and fresh entries from photographers of all levels in two main categories - Single Image open and a Project-based or themed category.
Initiated in 2009, KLPA is recognised as a significant and vital award in the photography calendar, supporting and rewarding contemporary portraiture practice, especially in the South East Asian region.
Image: Niamh Smith (Ireland) - 3rd Prize - Home Soft Focus - Life Cocooning
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2022 FEBRUARY
Pictures from the Media Launch and official opening of KLPA2021 Winners and Finalists exhibition (delayed) at GMBB in Kuala Lumpur on 24 February 2022.
2020 NOVEMBER
The 7th SUWON INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL hosted an exhibition of the 2020 KLPA finalists at photospace UM in Suwon, South Korea from 1 - 6 November 2020.