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Date: 2010
Deadline: Registration Closed
Open to : All Interested
The Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010
CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year honours amateur and professional photographers who use their ability to raise awareness of environmental and social issues. The competition encourages entries that are contemporary, creative, resonant, challenging, original and beautiful. But most of all, we want your pictures to inspire people around the world to start taking care of our environment. Deadline closes at 5pm on 31st July 2010.
ELIGIBILITY
The exhibition is open to all professional and amateur, national and international photographers of all ages working with digital and film photography. However, you must ensure that the image quality meets the competition’s criteria as stated below.
CATEGORIES
There will be a winner for each category, with one overall winner who will become the Environmental Photographer of the Year. Each picture must be assigned to only one of the categories below but you may enter more than one picture into a category. There is a maximum of seven images per entrant.
- Mott MacDonald's Changing Climates: These photographs should illustrate the impacts that global warming is having on our world. This may include places and people that are benefitting from a changing climate, or vulnerable ecosystems and communities which are struggling with the affects. You may wish to examine the interaction between economic development, environmental degradation and social inequity, treating climate change as a human rights issue.
- Innovation in the Environment (New Category for 2010): Environmental innovation tends to conjure up technological solutions that help us pollute less or use fewer resources. But, whilst technological change is vital to overcoming many of the environmental hurdles we face, innovation can also come from an inspirational person or organisation making a difference to a community by encouraging a healthier social or physical environment. Therefore images should try to capture the different ways contributions are being made to the pursuit of sustainable development.
- The Natural World: These images should celebrate the incredible variety and beauty that exists within our natural environment, serving to remind us what we need to protect.
- The Underwater World (New Category for 2010): Three-quarters of the world’s surface is water and almost half of the world’s population lives on or close to a coastline, but to many the wonders of the underwater world are virtually unknown. This category allows you to share the incredible secrets the oceans, lakes and even ponds hold, as well as highlight the vital role they play in our world’s survival.
- Quality of Life: Photographs might illustrate a particular way of life in various rural, urban or social environments all over the world. They may examine individual or community lifestyles, working conditions, leisure activities, cultural traditions, spiritual activities, social inequities, racial prejudices or access to natural resources that impact on people’s quality of life, both positively and negatively.
- A View From the Western World (New Category for 2010): Many of those living in the Western World prosper through political and personal freedom, good health and education but the developed world is also associated with excess and waste, stress, over development and environmental degradation. So this is an opportunity to explore all that is good and bad in Western society, perhaps looking to your local communities, politicians, friends or businesses for inspiration or condemnation. Remember, climate change will affect all of us, not just those in seemingly far off places.
CIWEM’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year
This year we are separating the Young Environmental Photographer of the Year into two groups. This will allow budding photographers a greater chance to compete with their contemporaries. Each group will have a winner, with the overall winner of these two categories gaining the title of CIWEM’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year.
Young Environmental Photographer of the Year - Under 16: (This category is open to anyone under 16 as of the 31st July.)
You are free to take pictures of anything that excites or interests you about our environment. We would love to see your pictures of wildlife, parks, buildings, your garden or your holidays. But remember - the more creative, the better.
Young Environmental Photographer of the Year - Under 21: (This category is open to anyone under 21, including photography students.)
Although this section has no thematic boundaries, we encourage entries that highlight issues important to you and your generation. This might include things you’ve seen on your travels, inspirational people, places and events, or environmental deterioration in your local area.
N.B. Entrants of any age are eligible to enter the other categories.
REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD ENTER THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
- Receive international recognition as the Environmental Photographer of the Year
- Receive a share of the £3,500 prize fund
- Receive excellent media coverage in international print and online publications
- Have your winning work take part in a roving exhibition throughout the year
- Earn money from sales of limited edition prints during launch exhibition, with your permission*
*20 limited edition prints of each of the winning and runner up images will be sold. Photographers will be asked their permission for their prints to be sold, entering a contract to receive 50% of sales revenues. Photographers can refuse to enter this agreement when contacted by CIWEM. Price per print TBC.
For more Information:
CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010
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