WinPhoto
№ 08 · Press

Press kit.

Everything a journalist needs to write about WinPhoto in an afternoon. Quick facts, quotable lines, press images, contact below. Response time within 24 hours.

Quick facts.

  • What it is. WinPhoto is an AI critic that reads each photograph against every open photo competition and returns a reasoned verdict — Submit, Refine, Hold, or Skip — so photographers stop paying entry fees for contests they were never going to win.
  • Founded. 2026.
  • Location. Luxembourg. EU-hosted by design.
  • Founders. Zied Mnif — working photographer; the contest-entering obsession behind the product. Dhikra Houissa — software engineer, based in Luxembourg. A two-person, husband-and-wife team.
  • Pricing. Apprentice (free) · Studio (€11/month) · Atelier (€29/month). Plus a one-shot Critic Pass for non-subscribers.
  • Tech posture. EU-hosted inference (Ireland region, Zero Data Retention), Article 50 machine-output disclosure on every result, hand- verified contest catalogue.
  • URLs. winphoto.io · /analyze (no-signup demo) · /ai-policy-2026 (the AI-policy database for 22 contests) · /blog (the journal).

Quotable lines.

Pre-formatted statements, attributable to "Zied Mnif, founder, WinPhoto". Use as-is; paraphrase only if you need to shorten.

  1. "The Skip verdict is the moat. A score is easy to fake — a reasoned 'Skip this — the jury rewards X, your photograph reads Y' is harder."
  2. "Photographers paid an estimated €600 million in contest entry fees in 2025. About a third went to contests photographers were never going to win."
  3. "EU-sovereign by design, not by retrofit — we don't add a GDPR disclaimer to a US-hosted product. The inference happens in Ireland, the data doesn't leave the European Economic Area, and the Article 50 disclosure is on every verdict we return."
  4. "We analyse. We don't edit. We don't submit. The top-tier contests require the entrant to author every curatorial choice — automating submission would breach that rule, so we don't build that feature, and we wouldn't build it even if the rules changed."
  5. "The honest 'no' is the product. A tool that tells you to skip is more useful than a tool that flatters you into entering."
  6. "I enter these contests myself — I know what it costs to get a frame wrong. WinPhoto is what came out of that obsession, plus the years of looking at why photographs win or don't."
  7. "We publish corrections within seven days of being told we got something wrong. The original text is struck through, not silently rewritten. That's the bar."

Past coverage.

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