Photocompete

• Copyright: For the purposes of this Contest, the Contest participants grant the Organizer the right to use the photo images submitted to the Contest.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 15th April 2015
• Who can enter: open to Russian and foreign nationals who are professional photographers, aged at least 18 and no more than 33 years old

Entries can contain a single photograph or series of no more than 20 photographs.

Categories:

1. Top news
2. Current issues
3. Sports
4. Everyday life

Prizes:

• The Grand Prize winner will receive RUB 500,000 (five hundred thousand).
• The first place winner in each category for an individual photo image or a series of photo images will receive RUB 50,000 (fifty thousand).
• The second place winner in each category for an individual photo image or a series of photo images will receive RUB 35,000 (thirty five thousand).
• The third place winner in each category for an individual photo image or a series of photo images will receive RUB 25,000 (twenty five thousand).
• The exhibition of entries by Contest Winners and Runners-up will open in Moscow on June 3, 2015.

Information on Contest  Winners and  Runners-up shall be published on the Website on April 29, 2015.

Image requirements: JPG files with compression from 10 and 2,200 px in size; up to 5,700 px on the long side; maximum 20 Mb in file size; must contain all EXIF data.  Minor cropping, or balance (white balance) or density (brightness, contrast) correction is acceptable. Framed images, collages, photos that have been significantly photoshopped, with parts of the image edited, deleted or replaced with a different image, will not be accepted.

Online submission of digital photographs via the website.

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