/PRZWT/With the official announcement of the list of winners, the 2025 Songdan Photography Competition, which lasted for nearly half a year, came to a successful conclusion. The competition began accepting submissions on June 20, 2025, and the submission deadline was November 30. All six awards were finally announced on January 15, 2026. This competition was hosted by the national brand Songdan, in collaboration with the Tuchong Network platform, and aimed to encourage everyone to use the Songdan camera for shooting and image creation. The goal was to promote the brand's slogan "Record Wonderful Lives" more deeply and enable more people to capture life moments and convey emotional warmth through images.
The winning works cover a wide range of themes, demonstrating the inclusive power of images.
This competition produced a number of outstanding works with rich themes and unique perspectives, fully demonstrating the diversity and inclusiveness of image creation. The work "Treading the Waves", which won the "Sengdan Photography Annual Award", was shot by the creator @Lan Yu Pai using the Sengdan DC306, capturing the beauty of nature in motion; The "Best Visual Narrative Award" was presented to "People in the Light of Dingdar" and "Happy Country Girl", which were respectively completed by @Ren Xiansen who loves taking photos and @Congmu with the help of Songdian VE418, presenting the integration of light and shadow with the emotions of the characters. Hangzhou Fenghuangli"， and "You and I Are All Birds in a Cage" cover multiple dimensions such as humanistic documentary， cultural inheritance， and social observation. The creators @GUYANERIC， @Chen Yanfei， and @Keke Nine Six all completed their creations using the Sengdan series cameras， truly presenting profound moments in daily life.
The competition system integrates three-party reviews to ensure professionalism and fairness.
The competition adopts a comprehensive evaluation mechanism of "professional judges 30% + brand reviewers 20% + public likes 50%". This ensures both professionalism and brand consistency while also widely inviting public participation, enhancing the interactivity and social influence of the event. The judging panel consists of industry experts, further strengthening the authority and credibility of the competition. This competition format not only ensures that outstanding works can stand out but also aligns with Songdian's core values of "honesty as the foundation and win-win cooperation", promoting an open, fair and impartial evaluation process.
From the event to the ecosystem: The Songdan System Empowers Creators' Growth
Organizing a photography competition is not merely a one-off brand event for Songdan; rather, it is a crucial part of its effort to build a sustainable image ecosystem. Songdan has always been committed to becoming a "world-renowned and influential image brand". Through the competition, it creates a virtuous cycle platform ranging from creation and publication, community interaction to professional recognition. The competition provides a stage for photography enthusiasts to showcase their works, helping them move from documenting life to professional creation, achieving a resonance between personal growth and brand value. Songdan also uses such activities to further strengthen its position as a "promoter of domestic image brands", providing high-quality and cost-effective image products while systematically supporting the cultivation and development of Chinese image creation forces.
Recording the era through images, Songdan continues to fulfill its brand mission.
The successful holding of the 2025 Songdan Photography Competition not only represents a deep interaction between the brand and its users, but also demonstrates Songdan's commitment to creating high-quality imaging products and its efforts in leading domestic camera brands to the global stage. In the future, Songdan will continue to hold various photography events, support the growth of creators, promote the popularization of imaging culture, and make cameras not only tools for recording but also important mediums for expressing emotions and narrating the times. In the context of the era of universal recording, Songdan will continue to exert its influence through both product and ecosystem, working together with users to write more wonderful chapters of life's imaging stories.
