Photocompete

• Copyright: The organizers reserve the right of using the images of the awarded reportage for promotion of future editions of the Festivals. The Festival will always note the credits of the photographer. All rights will remain with the photographer.
• Entry fee: From 15 Euros per one section
• Entry deadline: 9th May 2017
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

The awards will give attention to works focusing on people and their social and cultural stories; public or private, minor or crucial, big human tragedies or petty daily stories, changes and immutability.

Sections and Prizes:

• Master Award: This section is open to all photographers, with no restriction of any kind. Reportages must consist of min 20 and max 40 images. The prize will be of 6,000 Euros gross cash.
• Spot Light Award: This section is open to all photographers who did not receive one of the following awards before the 1st of April 2017: World Press Photo, W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, Pulitzer Prize, POYi Picture of the Year and World.Report Award, with exception for the multimedia category. Reportages must consist of min 20 and max 40 images. The photographers, who apply to this session, can also apply to the Master Award session. The prize will be of 3,000 Euros gross cash.
• Short Story Award: This section is open to all photographers, with no restriction of any kind. Reportages must consist of min 5 and max 10 images. The prize will be of 1,500 Euros gross cash.
• European Photographers Award | France 2017: This section wants to focus its attention on the different nationalities of the European photographers. The 2017 edition opens to all French photographers and is done in collaboration with ManifestO Festival of Toulouse (France). Reportages must consist of min 20 and max 40 pictures. The prize will be of 1,500 Euros gross cash and an exposition during the Festival of Ethical Photography in 2017 and during the ManifestO Festival in 2018.
• Single Shot Award: Fertile Solidarity.
  First prize 800 Euros gross cash; Second prize 500 Euros gross cash; Third prize 400 Euros gross cash.

Image requirements: .jpg with sized to  shortest dimension at no more than 1,280
pixels and 72dpi with a compression degree of 10/12 or 90/100. The recommended dimension is max 500 kb per picture. The finalists might be asked to provide the organizers with the  RAW files or the original negatives of the images that compose the reportage.

Online submission of digital photographs via the website.

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