We are looking for photographic representations of income inequality and equality, photos that can grab attention, communicate and inspire.

Closing date - midday on 15 April 2011

Have a look at our flickr group  where entries will be submitted.

About us

The best-selling book The Spirit Level, published in 2009, brought wider public attention to compelling new evidence that the large gap between rich and poor in society damages the social fabric and the quality of life for everyone – rich and poor alike.

The Equality Trust was set up in conjunction with the book's publication to spread this message and to campaign to halve the current levels of income inequality in the UK.

About the competition

Judges

The competition will be judged by professional photographers Mark Burton and Jeff Hubbard and The Spirit Level authors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson.

Categories

We welcome entries from professional photographers, photography students and amateurs of all levels of experience. Full details of categories

Prizes

Winning entries will be displayed on our website and in other media, and there will be a book launch to accompany the competition. All winners will receive a copy of The Spirit Level: Images of [in]equality photo book.

We hope also that the photo competition will lead into an exhibition later in 2011.

For further information please visit the competition website.

This competition meets all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights

Note that although Pro-Imaging will promote competitions sponsored by organisations which support the Royalty Free licensing model, this does not imply that Pro-Imaging support Royalty Free Licensing. Our only consideration in this report is compliance with the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions. Competitions which pass the Bill of Rights do not -

• claim copyright
• seek waiving of moral rights
• fail to give a credit for all free usage.
• add, alter, or remove metadata from digital images
  
• seek usage rights other than for solely and exclusively promoting the contest. Note that a book, posters, cards, or a calendar are seen as legitimate ways of promoting the contest and defraying costs.
  
• seek free usage rights in excess of 5 years
• use the images commercially without the photographers agreement, and such commercial usage is to be rights managed and limited to 5 years.
• make it a condition of winning that an entrant must sign a commercial usage agreement.
• fail to publish all documents on the competition website that an entrant may have to sign
• fail to name the judges for this or last year's competition
  
• fail to explicitly state all the  organisations who will acquire rights to the images
• set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
• fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how images are used.

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