Capture Kingston Terms and Conditions

The competition is open until midnight on 31st October 2025

Anyone who lives, works, studies or has an interest in the history of the borough can take part. The competition aims to increase the photographic collection of Kingston History Centre and all entries will become part of the borough archive.

Your photograph must have been taken during 2025 and be taken within The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (including Surbiton, Hook, Chessington, Tolworth, New Malden, Old Malden and Coombe)

Photographs can be taken on any device and can be colour or black and white, filters and other effects may be applied

Photographs should be in JPEG/.jpg format. Each image should be 300dpi if possible

Up to five photographs may be submitted per entrant. 

All entrants must have completed the Capture Kingston entry form to enter

By submitting your entry, you confirm that your entry is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws or third-party rights, and that there are no conflicting agreements in place that restrict usage of your entry

You also confirm that you are the sole owner of the copyright in the entry

All entries from a young person under the age of 16 must include parent/guardian consent and the parent must fill in the part of the entry form that confirms parental permission

We will assume that all submissions have the permissions of anyone featured in the photograph (this is the responsibility of the entrant) Taking photographs of performers and crowds in public places is generally fine but please don’t enter photographs of children without parental permission.

In producing the photograph, you must not put yourself or anyone else in danger

Your contact details will only be used by Kingston Heritage Service for the purpose of contacting you about the competition

By entering photos into the competition you are gifting your image to Kingston Heritage Service’s photographic collection held at Kingston History Centre, meaning that your photograph(s) will become part of the Borough’s Archive.

The main purpose of taking photographic images into the collection is to be able to share them with current and future generations

By entering you transfer copyright to Kingston Heritage Service. This is important, as to accept images as part of the historical archive we need to be able to make them freely available. 

Transferring copyright also means the Heritage Service can use the images on our website, in exhibitions and for marketing purposes, social media and press which saves us money and allows us to concentrate our resources on building a historical record of Kingston and looking after documents, images and objects in our care

Your gift of copyright with this image will make a huge difference to how we and future generations can use and help to preserve this image going forward

By entering you agree for Kingston Heritage Service to use your image in future partnership projects or in an educational or marketing capacity

In all cases the Entrant will be credited for the use of their photograph, wherever practicable.

The decision of the judges is final

We reserve the right to make changes to the competition at any time.