Case Study: London Photo Festival achieves 75% faster contest setup and streamlined curation with Submittable

Cutting the Headache Out of Curating Photo Contests

The London Photo Festival, founded by Kit Shah and Emma Mapp to help emerging photographers exhibit and sell work, struggled to juggle dozens of contests, events, and a slow submission process on their own website. They turned to Submittable’s festival management tools, including its Gallery feature, to centralize intake and simplify judging and voting.

With Submittable, the co‑founders can view submissions from anywhere, send judges a Gallery link, and set up new contests in about 1 hour—workflows they report are 75% faster than their previous system. Submittable’s solution cut planning and review time from days to hours, letting London Photo Festival focus on programming and getting artists’ work into public exhibitions.

London Photo Festival

Kit Shah

Co-Founder