Photocompete

• Copyright: Copyright of the images will remain at all times with the photographer. All entrants agree of the storage of their images in electronic form for the purpose of judging the competition and the private distribution of those images as required to complete the judging process. Finalist’s images as selected by the jury will be printed and mounted at the expense of the PHODAR Foundation, for display at the PHODAR Awards Exhibitions.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 31st December 2024
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

Theme: “Photographic Reality”

The 13th consecutive edition of the “Fodar” International Photo Festival Biennale is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the “Fodar” Foundation. Its theme is “Photographic Reality”. It was provoked by the increasingly rapid democratization and wide distribution of the photographic image. If 30 years ago photography was the most accessible technology for creating images and its fields of application expanded exponentially, becoming a leader in the field of visual arts, today practically everyone who has a mobile phone takes pictures. The development of social networks gives a new impetus to the creation and distribution of photographic images. It is no exaggeration to say that especially for the younger generations, the creation of digital images, online communication and life on the web is replacing the physical existence. The problem has many dimensions and ramifications, and the authors have a wealth of material for interpretations. Does virtual reality come into conflict with physical reality, or do they go together to new unsuspected horizons? And isn’t photographic reality a new language with its own rules, vocabulary, syntax? Where is and will be the place of artificial intelligence in this problem space? Of course, in addition to social, photographic reality also has its historical, informational and philosophical dimensions. This is the first topic that addresses so directly the problematic of the phenomenon of photography.

Awards:

• 2025 Grand Prize $2.000
• Award for Humanistic Photography $600
• Debut Award $600

Image requirements: JPEG/JPG format with a minimum resolution of 3000 pixels on the longest side, file size up to 8MB, not compressed. Selected winners and participants can be asked to re-submit the originals in RAW, JPEG or TIFF format at 300 dpi.

Online submission of digital images via the website. You can submit between 8 and 24 images with coherent overall look – photo essay, from an unfinished, ongoing or completed project.

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