Photocompete

• Copyright: Copyright of the photos is retained by the photographer. Entrants must accept that any image submitted to the competition may be used by the CAP Association to enable the delivery of the prize through the CAP Association and for future publicity and marketing purposes for up to five years.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 7th February 2019
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

Prizes:

• The CAP Prize, the International Prize for Contemporary African Photography is awarded annually to five outstanding photographers.
• the prize consists of global exposure at major international photography exhibitions such as at the IAF Basel – Festival for Contemporary Art in Basel, Switzerland. In previous years the CAP Prize winners exhibition was on show at LagosPhoto Festival in Nigeria, at FIFCV Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Cabo Verde, Eyes On – European Month of Photography in Vienna, Austria or at the Bamako Encounters in Bamako, Mali, just to name a few. The five CAP Prize winners are annually invited to the main exhibition at the IAF Basel – Festival for Contemporary Art and spend one week in Basel. The laureates are invited to join the Edition POPCAP, an edition of limited fine art prints of the awarded series. A catalog documenting the five winners works is published in time for the award ceremony.

Photographs must have been taken in an African country or deal with a diaspora of an African country. The emphasis of the competition is on image sequences. Images must work together as a whole.

Enter your project between 10 and 25 images. Online submission of digital photographs via the website.

Image requirements: jpeg format. Your images must be in sRGB format and 100% quality. The minimum size of your images should be 2,500 pixels on the longer side. Square images should be greater than 2,500 pixels on both sides. The file size of each image should not exceed 5 MB.

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