Photocompete

• Copyright: the contestant retains copyright and remains the owner of her/his photograph. The contestant agrees that the submitted image may be used once in a virtual exhibition for honouring the twenty finalist images on the Teutloff Museum website.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 31st March 2016
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide, 18+

Theme: “The Face Of Freedom”

‘The Face of Freedom’ is multi-faceted. It’s not only the portrait itself, but also reflects democratic behaviour and political awareness from the photographer’s point of view.
How can the ‘freedom’ or the ‘lack of freedom’ be visualized in images. This contest asks you to show us the many faces of freedom.

Prizes:

• 1st Grand Prize: EUR 5,000
• 2nd Grand Prize: EUR 3,000
• 3rd Grand Prize: EUR 2,000

The twenty entries that receive the highest overall number of likes will be selected as the ‘Finalists’ and will be announced on the Facebook page. This final round of judging will be conducted by Prof. Dr. Klaus Honnef (art historian, freelance publicist, theorist of artistic photography), Roland Nachtigäller (artistic director of Marta Herford) and Prof. Dr. h.c. Peter Weibel (visual artist, media theorist, director of Center for Art and Media?ZKM, Karlsruhe).

The winners will be notified through Facebook message by end of April 2016.

The final judging is based on creativity, quality, originality and responsiveness to the prompt. Each contestant can submit only one still photography via Facebook.

Image requirements: under 25 MB, the recommended file formats are JPEG/JPG of at least 150 dpi.

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