Photocompete

• Copyright: Your photograph(s) and reflections(s) may be used to help publicize the photo book in print and online. All photos used will include photographer name and photo title.
• Entry fee: $25 for the first 3 images and $5 for each additional image
• Entry deadline: 1st August 2011
• Who can enter: Open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide working with toy, lo-tech, homemade, or modified analog cameras.

Enter photographs taken with toy cameras for a forthcoming photo book that explores, complicates, and represents in compelling ways the concept of Play.  These might include, but are certainly not limited to, photographs that deal with imaginary play, word play, adult play, children’s play, animal play, games, or the various kinds of materials and/or spaces associated with play. Similarly, photographs might represent play from the perspective of a child’s imagination, or from a toy’s perspective, or they might take up questions about what it means to play or explore the matter of who is allowed (or disallowed) to play.

Image requirements: JPG format, resolution 72 ppi, 800px on the longest side. Using dust removal or making slight level adjustments is okay; applying Photoshop filters is not. Online submission only.

You may enter up to five images. Cell phones, digital cameras (even if they have a Holga lens or, like the Lego digital camera, are marketed for children), and non-pinhole Polaroids are considered hi-tech and will not be accepted.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: composingwithimages.com/