Photocompete

• Copyright: The photographer grants Fotoweek DC the rights to use the image for promotion of Fotoweek DC and for other FotoDC purposes only for a period of five years from the date of entry. The copyright remains solely with the photographer.
• Entry fee: From $5.56 to $60 if submit before July 25th. Extra fees for submission after that date.
• Entry deadline: 19th September 2011
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers worldwide who are 18 years of age or older. Student categories require a student ID

Categories:

• Single Image: Photojournalism/Social Documentary
• Single Image: Commercial
• Single Image: Fine Art
• Single Image: Contemporary Life
• Single Image: Travel
• Single Image: The Natural World
• Portfolio: Photojournalism/Social
• Portfolio: Fine Art
• Portfolio: The Natural World
• Student Portfolio
• Mobile Phone: Spirit Of Washington
• Mobile Phone: General Submissions
• Multimedia

Awards (Total cash value of the awards: $21,100):

• Eleven main categories:
  • 1st Place: $1,000
  • 2nd Place: $450
  • 3rd Place: $150
• STUDENT PORTFOLIO AWARD:
  • 1st Place: $600
  • 2nd Place: $300
  • 3rd Place: $100
• MOBILE PHONE AWARDS:
  • 1st Place: $400
  • 2nd Place: $200
  • 3rd Place: $100
• The winners, at the discretion of the Sponsor, will be included in an exhibition during the FotoWeek DC festival on November 5-12, 2011.
• In addition, submitted work will be shown online www.fotoweekdc.org.

Image requirements: JPEG or TIFF format; image size at least 1,000 pixels on the longest dimension; color profiled in sRGB, Adobe-1998, or not color-managed. Only online sibmission. A series consists of related images (minimum 3, maximum 9).

• For the categories of Photojournalism/Social Documentary, Travel and The Natural World images may not be staged/posed, composites, multiple exposures, or digitally manipulated beyond the reality that existed when the image was made, except for reasonable dodging and burning.
• For the categories of Commercial, Fine Art, Contemporary Life, Portrait, Multimedia and Mobile Phone images may include photo illustration, manipulated imagery, photo collage.

Judging criteria:

• creative vision
• originality
• technical competence as appropriate to the category

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: awards.fotodc.org