BJP is extending the deadline on its International Photography Award until 26 September. Click here to find out more and enter.

The competition is open to any photographer from any country, and has two categories - a single image prize, and a series of work prize. The two winners will see their work printed and framed at Spectrum Photographic, one of Europe's best fine art labs, and exhibited at the prestigious HOST Gallery in East London. In addition, the series winner will win a Nikon D700 plus a 50mm 1.4G lens, worth over £2600 RRP; and the single image winner will win a Sigma SP1x digital camera, RRP £599.99.

The prize also offers photographers the chance to get their work seen by some of the UK's best curators and picture editors. The series will be judged by Charlotte Cotton, creative director National Media Museum; Alexia Singh, editor-in-charge, wider image desk, ThomsonReuters; and Stuart Smith, from photobook specialist Smith Design. The single image prize will be judged by Monica Allende, picture editor of The Sunday Times Magazine; Lauren Heinz, HOST Gallery; and Hannah Watson, co-director of Trolley Books.

Past winners have included World Press Photo winner Walter Astrada, who picked up the single image prize in 2009 and has just been awarded a $20,000 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography. Edmund Clark won the series award in 2009 for a work in progress called Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out, which was published by Dewi Lewis and went on to be nominated for the Best Book of 2011 by Diane Dufour of Le Bal at the International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Best Book at the 2011 New York Photo Award and Best Books of the Year at the 2011 International Photobook Festival.