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clickIT!
Description: Welcome to ClickIT! 2008, our photography competition for a world wide audience! The competition has been made possible with the generous support of AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood and Arts & Business New Partners and this year offers substantial cash prizes.
There are three categories in this year''s competition:
The best Landscape - from an urban or rural environment.
The best Decisive Moment - from sport to street photography, nature and wildlife to travel - capture that split second shot.
The best Short Photo Essay - a set of six linked images of where you live - any aspect of local life to give an overview, tell a documentary
story, record an event - the choice is yours.
The first two categories each carry a £500 first prize winner. Second and third place, commended and highly commended places will also be awarded in each category (although there are no prizes for these). One overall winner of the Short Photo Essay category will win a £1000 first prize. You can enter all three categories once only.
This competition is open to entrants worldwide aged 14 years and over. All winning and commended entries will be included on the Pixel and Grain
website and an exhibition of winning entries will also be shown.
For more information contact: Catherine Gillam +44 (0)1509 268010 / clickit2008@charnwood-arts.org.uk
Closing Date: 16/May/2008
Contact: Catherine Gillam
Website: http://clickit2008.sharedspace.org/
Email: clickit2008@charnwood-arts.org.uk
Argazklik Photography Contest
Description: Nontzeberri cultural web site and Pripublikarrak (Bilbao, Spain) promote the 1st edition of Argazklik Photography Contest.
This is an on-line competition on the site www.argazklik.com (English)
The contest wishes to think about the roles we have, which we invent, or which have been enforced on us, and to think beyond the masculine/feminine, male/female, traditional man/woman binary.
Works must be made up of three inter-related photographs, which may or may not form a narrative. Registering is free.
Guest artits: Shu Lea Cheang (Taiwan), Carles Congost (Olot, Spain), Voodoo-EROS (New York), Elssie Ansareo (Mexico) and Julia Montilla (Barcelona, Spain).
The deadline to submit for the competition will be 21st May 2008 (13.00 p.m. local time).
The competition offers the following awards:
- First Award: 3000 euros
- Second Award: 2.000 euros
- Third Award: 1.000 euros
- Artistic Production Prize: Arteleku arts centre (San Sebastian, www.arteleku.net) will help the production undertake a photographic project of 500 euros.
More details and guidelines on Argazklik.
Closing Date: 21/May/2008
Contact: Lutxo Egia
Website: www.argazklik.com
Email: nontzeberri@nontzeberri.com
Norfolk Photographer of the Year
Description: Theme: Little Things. Adult first prize: commission fee for a solo exhibition at Norwich Arts Centre, plus one year's free use of the darkroom and media lab. Adult second/third prizes: photography vouchers and one year's free use of the darkroom and media lab. Under 18 first prize: one year's free use of the darkroom and media lab plus photographic vouchers. Under 18 second/third prizes: photographic vouchers.
Twenty five photographers will be shortlisted and included in the exhibition, which runs from 17th July-13th September 2008. Prizes will be awarded to three entrants in each age category. Please download an entry form from our website or email Holly Rumble. Entrants must be living in Norfolk to enter. Check the website for further details.
Closing Date: 02/June/2008
Contact: Holly Rumble
Website: www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
Email: holly@norwichartscentre.co.uk
London Lens Competition
Description: Looking out of her attic window, Anne Frank saw beauty, hope and freedom from her hiding place even when, all around her, hatred and confusion was dividing society. She dreamed of a more accepting and peaceful world.
The London Lens competition (sponsored by Olympus UK and supported by The Royal Photographic Society and The Department for Communities and Local Government) aims to bring the community of London together through the eye of a camera lens. We want the young participants to show their slice of London, celebrate the wonderful diversity of our capital city and feel proud to be a young Londoner in the 21st century.
The competition is open to anyone aged 10 to 21 who live, go to school or work in London. Send photos to lens@annefrank.org.uk and all pictures must be accompanied with 50 words maximum explaining what the photo says about your identity and community.
As part of this competition we will also be running 4 regional photographic workshops (North, East, South and West London) as part of the project. These workshops will be delivered by top industry professionals.
All of the entries will go on a special public online gallery as soon as they are received.
The competition will be judged by a panel of leading photography professionals and 25 entries from across London will be shortlisted and exhibited at a central London gallery space. One photograph will be selected from each London region (North, South, East, West) and these finalists and the overall winning photograph will be announced at the Grand Final presentation event in September 2008 (Location and date TBC).
The overall winner will take home a fantastic limited edition 7.1 Megapixel Olympus Mju 790SW digital camera.
Competition rules and more information about the London Lens competition can be found on The Anne Frank Trusts website www.annefrank.org.uk.
Closing Date: 12/June/2008
Contact: Jamie Arden
Telephone: 020 7284 5858
Website: www.annefrank.org.uk
Email: lens@annefrank.org.uk
Liverpool Working Lives
Description: Your photograph should be taken in Merseyside and show what you feel to be the essence of Liverpool Working Lives. It can be a picture of your workplace or your journey to work, it can be a picture of people or objects but should show what you consider to be Working Lives in Liverpool. Entries will be judged on the interpretation of the theme as well as the skill involved in taking the picture.
The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers.
Each photograph may include a short narrative (up to 100 characters) describing the image, what it depicts and the ideas behind it. For professional photographers, this may include your contact details if you wish to be contacted about your picture.
The first prize winner in each class will be awarded a cash prize of £250, the second prize winner £100 and the third prize winner £50. In addition the winning photographs in each class will be printed, framed and exhibited at a city centre location during the summer of 2008 together with a selection of other entries.
Closing Date: 13/June/2008
Contact: Anne Thornton
Website: www.unions08.co.uk
Email: unions08@tuc.org.uk
Dark and Light
Description: We are looking for any image depicting both dark and light which could be shadows or moonlight etc.
The competition is limited to 1 entry per person and is free to enter.
1st Prize: £75
2nd Prize: £50
3rd Prize: £25
All prizes are amazon gift vouchers and please visit the site to read all the rules.
Closing Date: 30/June/2008
Contact: Paul Hunter-Rowe
Website: http://www.phototopix.co.uk
Email: paul@phototopix.co.uk
Buxton Festival Photography Competition
Description: Chance to win £200 and have your worked displayed in at exhibition during Buxton Festival!
Theme for 2008 is water.
Photographs to be submitted (with a completed entry form) without frames or mounts to 3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ by 1st July 2008.
For an entry form contact claire@buxtonfestival.co.uk or call 01298 70395.
Good luck!!
Closing Date: 01/July/2008
Contact: Claire Rhodes
Telephone: 01298 70395
Website: www.buxtonfestival.co.uk
Email: claire@buxtonfestival.co.uk
MyPlace
Description: MyPlace aims to celebrate photography, culture and heritage, and welcomes all those who have a passion for taking photos of splendour and individuality.
MyPlace has been launched in the UK and Ireland as a result of the successful ''Our place - The World''s Heritage'' project where professional photographers armed with Lumix Cameras have gone all over the world to shoot UNESCO World Heritage sites.
MyPlace allows you to upload photos of your very special place and share with members of the community why this place is special to you. There are regular prizes to be won for the best photos voted by YOU, the MyPlace community, the ultimate prize being a trip to China''s most treasured World Heritage sites. A pro photographer will pick the best photos every month and comment on them.
Closing Date: 31/July/2008
Website: www.my-place.tv
Email: myplace@eu.panasonic.com
Farming and Rural Life Photo Competition
Description: Vapormatic is proud to announce its 2008 Photo Competition is now open. The contest is open to everyone, anywhere in the world and is designed to inspire the most creative and imaginative images of farm machinery at work as well as capture the beauty of the environment in which they operate.
The 4 main categories are:
- Modern Farm Machinery (1990+)
- Classic Farm Machinery (1960-1989)
- Vintage Farm Machinery (pre 1960)
- Free subject with an agricultural/countryside theme
The 3 machinery categories are for images where the farm machinery is the subject of the picture.
The free subject category can by all means feature machinery, but only if the main focus of the picture is elsewhere. For example, you could be taking an interesting landscape picture but there happens to be a tractor working in a field.
There is a total prize fund of £2500 (approx $4800, οΎ¬3500). Each category will have the following prizes:
Winner: £350 voucher to spend at their local Vapormatic stockist.
Runner up: £150 voucher to spend at their local Vapormatic stockist.
As well as this we will pick an overall winner from the four winners in each category who will receive an additional £500 voucher!
Entrants must be over 18. The deadline for entries 31st August 2008. For full terms and conditions please visit the competition homepage at www.vapormatic.com
Closing Date: 31/August/2008
Contact: Ben Wright
Website: www.vapormatic.com
Email: PhotoCompetition@vapormatic.com
Terry O'Neill Award 2008
Description: Terry O'Neill Award, submit a series of 3-6 images. Landscape, portraiture, documentary, wildlife, fashion, creative.
Judges, Terry O'Neill, Monica Allende (picture Editor Sunday Times) Paul Wombell (independent curator) Daniel Campbell Blight (curator Fulham Palace) Elizabeth Roberts (B&W Magazine) Robin Bell (B&W printer) Melissa De Witt (editor Hotshoe Magazine)
Closing Date: 10/September/2008
Contact: Lucy Bell
Telephone: 01424 775650
Website: www.ipgbattle.com/oneillaward
Email: info@ipgbattle.com
Airscene 2009 Airshow Calendar Competition
Description: It's back again...
The competition for the Airscene 2009 calendar opens on the 1st April 2008, and Key Publishing Limited are providing £250 worth of aviation book prizes for the 3rd year in a row.
First prize currently stands at £125 of aviation books courtesy of Key Publishing Limited & Trial Flying Lesson courtesy of BA Flying Club - more prizes to be added shortly.
Other prizes are currently in the pipeline, and it is expected that there will again be 3 top prize places and a further 3 runners up places. The top 12 entries will all appear on the FREE Airscene calendar.
This competition is open to amateurs and professionals alike... for further details and competition rules please visit:
http://www.airscene.co.uk/competitions.php
Closing Date: 30/September/2008
Contact: Ian
Website: www.airscene.co.uk
Airscene Aviation Photographer of the Year
Description: 10 months
10 themed categories
1 Aviation Photographer of the Year!
Currently around £200 in prizes to the overall winner, with 2nd and 3rd place prizes too, in addition to monthly theme prizes for the best photo. More prizes to be announced in the near future.
Closing Date: 31/October/2008
Contact: Ian Grigg
Website: www.airscene.co.uk
Devon Wildlife Trust Wildlife Photo Competition
Description: This local wildlife photo competition is now in its fifth year and is open to amateurs of all ages. All shots need to be taken at one of DWT''s 40 nature reserves and can be of animals, plants or scenery. Entry fee of £2 per picture. For more details download a leaflet from our website.
Closing Date: 30/November/2008
Contact: David Ireland
Website: www.devonwildlifetrust.org
Email: direland@devonwildlifetrust.org
Digital Photo Group Monthly Competitions
Description: Every month we offer two competitions - one a theme (check the site for details) and an open. You can have two entries each month in each competition. You need to be a site member to enter, but once joined - you can enter each month for a chance to become our Digital Photographer of the Year.
Closing Date: 31/December/2008
Contact: Diane Seddon
Website: www.digitalphotogroup.co.uk
Email: diane@digitalphotogroup.co.uk
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