The Festival of Beautiful Thoughts will take place on Monday, 21 December 2026, at the IGOR Lifelong Learning Centre, Marindvor 21, near Požega. The festival celebrates human creativity through music, singing, painting, literature, photography, dance, movement and other forms of expression.
The festival will also host an exchange of indigenous seeds: old varieties preserved and passed down by our grandmothers, carrying the codes of our local environment and traditions. Admission to all lectures, performances, exhibitions and the seed exchange is free.
To mark the festival, the IGOR Lifelong Learning Centre, in collaboration with the Svjetlopisi Photography Club, is organising a photography competition on the theme of “Togetherness.”
Entry requirements
- The competition is open to all interested amateur and professional photographers, with no age limit.
- Entries will be accepted from 21 October to 12 December 2026.
- The competition theme is TOGETHERNESS.
- Each participant may submit only one photograph in digital format.
- The photograph must be in JPG format, with a minimum long-side dimension of 3,000 pixels.
- Photographs may be taken with a camera or a mobile phone.
- The filename must include the photographer’s first and last name and the title of the photograph, for example: first_name_last_name_photo_title.jpg.
- Photographs may be in colour or black and white.
- Photo editing is permitted, provided it does not distort or alter the basic meaning of the content captured.
- Photographs generated entirely or partly with artificial intelligence (AI) tools may not be entered.
- Participants must submit their own photographs and are responsible for their content.
- Entries that do not include the required information will not be accepted or considered by the jury.
- The jury will review the entries, select photographs for the exhibition, and decide which photographs will receive awards or commendations. The jury’s decisions are final.
- Plaques and awards will be presented for first, second and third place. Photographers whose other entries are selected for the exhibition will receive commendations.
- The three-member jury consists of graphic designer Denis Treskanica; Igor Štavlić, M.Sc., senior lecturer, educator and founder of the IGOR Lifelong Learning Centre; and Željka Martinović, graduate primary school teacher.
- By submitting a photograph, the photographer grants the organisers permission to publish it free of charge for the purpose of promoting the exhibition and announcing it in the media.
- By entering the competition, photographers also consent to the publication of their personal details for the purpose of promoting the exhibition and announcing it in the media.
- The organisers will print the selected photographs for the exhibition at their own expense.
- After the exhibition, the photographs will remain in the collection of the IGOR Lifelong Learning Centre.
- There is no entry fee.
The deadline for submitting photographs is 12 December 2026 at 24:00 (midnight).
The results will be announced on the day of the festival, 21 December 2026.
Please send your photograph to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and include your full name, address, telephone number, email address and the title of the photograph.
Ana Radolović’s photograph “Quiet, Quieter, Quietest” received the most votes from the jury in 2025, when the competition theme was “Beautiful Thoughts.”
