| Photo Competitions Diary 26 September 2008 |
Photo Competitions Diary 26 September 2008Listed below are the titles of the competitions added to the competition campaign lists since the previous diary update along with news of any other events that have occured in the campaign since the last diary was published. 12 September 2008 18 September 2008 25 September 2008
26 September 2008
NewsSony World Photography Awards Wins the Rights On Award!The Sony World Photographic Awards, one of the world's premier photographic events, was officially launched on the 9th October 2007 to be an international showcase of the best images taken by renowned and undiscovered photographers alike. From landscape to music and photojournalism to fashion photography, the Sony WPA was the first awards of its kind and is supported by hundreds of the industry’s top photographers, critics, gallerists, directors, founders and more. The contest is now in its second year and Pro-imaging are delighted to announce the arrival of such a prestigious photographic contest to our Rights On List; there it has been awarded the well known 'green light' that signify contests that fully meet all the aims of The Bill of Rights. Some of the world’s leading photographers, public gallerists, curators and major picture editors have been invited to become members of the World Photographic Academy, and it is members of the academy who will judge images submitted to the contest. Winners will be announced at a black tie awards ceremony in Cannes at the Palais des Festivals on 16th April 2009. The awards and subsequent exhibition aim to become to photography what the Oscars are to the film industry. With an annual ceremony and black tie gala taking place on the prestigious Cote d’Azur, the World Photography Awards aims to become the largest and most important awards in the industry. Full details of this contest are available from our report and there you will find links to the contest website. This is the kind of contest that everyone who loves photography should enter.
Sony World Photography Awards Support The Bill of RightsRecent discussions between Pro-Imaging and Sony World Photography Awards concluded with an agreement that Sony World Photographic Awards are delighted to be named as a supporter of The Bill of Rights. Pro-Imaging thank Sony WPA for this support which we are sure will aid us in our quest to have The Bill of Rights accepted as an industry standard of best practice with regard to competitions treatment of photographers rights. Gaining new Bill of Rights supporters throughout the world will be an ongoing quest of Pro-imaging and we hope to gradually add the names of other organisations who desire to see photographers rights respected. Any organisation who is interested in supporting the Bill of Rights can contact Pro-Imaging for further information. There are no fees to pay for being listed as a supporter, just a commitment that you will neither organise nor sponsor a contest that does not comply with the Bill of Rights. The Photo Award 2008 Gets the Green LightJonas Lemberg, a Swedish news photographer since 1991, started out with a wish to make a change and make the world a better place to live. Now several years later he has founded a prestigious photography competition that does that, not only for photographers who work hard covering events and exposing injustice around the world, but also for the people depicted in them. Jonas heard about Pro-Imaging's campaign to set rules for photography contests that respect the rights of the photographers, be they amateur or professional, and contacted us to support our aims. The rules of The Photo Award 2008 fully comply with the Bill of Rights and Pro-Imaging are delighted to promote this prestigious new contest on our Rights On List. The complete contest report can be read here. Jonas supports our work and gave Pro-Imaging permission to include his organisation, The International Photographers Award TIPA AB on the Bill of Rights Supporters List, we are delighted to be able to do so.
Microsoft and Ford at the DoubleTwo Rights On contests have been launched simultaneously by Microsoft as part of the campaign by Ford to promote the Ford Fiesta; the campaign theme is based on "This Is Now". Finding one Rights On contest is normally hard work, but to have two launched by the same company at the same time is remarkable! Congratulations to both Microsoft and Ford is due for the care they took to protect entrant's rights in these competitions. In addition to the contests the "This is Now" campaign website is well worth visiting for the excellent graphics on display that enable you to navigate around a virtual city to visit the various goodies on offer. Navigate around the city using the signpost, and the competitions can be found by following the 'Gallery' signpost. The two Microsoft competitions are the Ford Fiesta Shopping Spree and the Ford Fiesta Art Competition. Freedom of Information - UK National Portrait GalleryPhotographic Portrait Prize 2007Pro-Imaging submitted a request under the UK Freedom of Information Act to obtain from the United Kingdom National Portrait Gallery specific information about their Photographic Portrait Prize Competition 2007. The Director of the National Porrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, subsequently provided the following information - 6072 Number of photographs entered £92,206 Income from competition entrants fees £79,561 Income from exhibition visitor fees (£1 each) £33,811 Income from catalogue sale; 3651 catalogues sold £6,438 Income from postcard and badge fees £212,016 Total Income £20,500 Total Prize Money Distributed In the reply to Pro-Imaging the Director of the National Portrait Gallery stated "the income figures listed above contribute towards the direct costs incurred on salaries, art handling and storage for judging, building of the exhibition, design and printing costs for the catalogues, productions costs for merchandise, design fees, agency fees, prizes, private and press view cards, learning and access events, as well as the indirect costs of maintaining the building, cleaning, heating, lighting and security." Pro-Imaging plan to make similar request of other public bodies who run photographic competitions. Such statistics will be published either in the diary or competition reports and at a later date summaries of the information obtained will be published. Such statistics will eventually become a valuable way of actually measuring the scale of the problem that the Bill of Rights has been designed to address.
10,000 Images Wolfed Down One of our contributors brought to our attention a photo contest being run by Tripwolf. Tripwolf describes itself as a "social travel guide for the discerning traveller that combines professional editorial travel content with user generated content", much of that user supplied content being imagery. The website has plans to enable travellers to book trips through it's website. Checking the photo contest rules reveals that they permit Tripwolf the right to use all the submitted images in any media for ever without payment to the contributor. On 24th August 2008 Pro-Imaging wrote to the CEO of Tripwolf, and made available to him our report on his competition. We said that we would be happy to correct any errors in the report, and would be happy to assist Tripwolf adjust the rules of the Tripwolf Photo Contest to comply with the Bill of Rights. On the 26th August we received a reply from Tripwolf thanking us for checking the rules of the competition and stating that Tripwolf would certainly try and comply with the Bill of Rights. They asked how much time we could give for this and we said that most organisations make changes within a week, two weeks at most. We offered to help in this process. Over three weeks later and we had received no further communication from Tripwolf concerning the rules of the Tripwolf contest. In the meantime the contest had concluded, the rules remained unchanged, and over 10,000 images had been harvested by Tripwolf that they can now use as they wish. The remainder of this story and the full report on this contest can be read here.
Don't Panic is Rights On!Pro-Imaging were contacted by Don't Panic, an arts and culture publication who have organised a photographic competition jointly with the Design Museum in London, and they asked us to vet their competition rules which they had constructed to meet the Bill of Rights provisions. We were happy to agree that it did and added it to our Rights On List on the 18th of September.The full competition report can be read here. Pro-Imaging welcome approaches from competition organisers about their competitions and if they have any concerns can be confident that any discussions with Pro-Imaging will be kept completely confidential.
Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions I Would you like to help in this campaign? If you would like to help here is a very easy way to do it through your website, blog, or forums that you belong to. Please provide links to the following three pages on the Pro-Imaging website - Bill of Rights http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/177/156/ Rights On List http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/category/21/69/171/ Rights Off List http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/category/20/68/173/ These links are very important, the more of you that can do this the higher our campaign pages will appear in search engine rankings when people are looking for competitions to enter.
Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions II Here's another simple way to help. Once a week, choose a competition on the Rights Off List, preferably one that's still running, any one that catches your eye, and send an email to the contacts listed in the competition report. Where we have given judges contact details write to them too. Tell them what you think about the contest rules, or just keep it simple and tell them you've found their competition on the Pro-Imaging Rights Off List and ask them to change the rules to comply with the Bill of Rights. We know that thousands of visitors have viewed our reports, and if each of you just send one email every week it will help our campaign enormously. Why not write to competiutions on the Rights On List and congratulate them for supporting the rights of photographers, it's only fair to give praise too.
Support the Bill of Rights for Photography Competitions III Many countries have a freedom of information act that require publicly funded bodies to comply with requests for information from members of the public. Pro-Imaging believe this act should be used by the public to obtain information from cities, local governments, government departments, government agencies about the photo competitions they run. You can do this and request the following information from publicly funded bodies -
Of course feel free to add your own questions that may be pertinant to a particular contest. We strongly urge everyone who is dismayed at the extent of rights grabbing occuring in the world to use the Freedom of Information Act in their country to get precise detail about the extent of it in publicly funded organisations. Pro-Imaging will be happy to publish such information.
RSS Feed We take the opportunity at this point each week to mention that if you want to keep up to date with the competition campaign, click on the orange RSS Feed icon in your browser address bar. You will recieve competition diary updates direct to your RSS feed. Regular visitors know this already, but new visitors arrive all the time!
Contacting Us We welcome notices telling us about contests that are either good or bad. You can use our Competitions Campaign Contact Form to tell us what you've found. We are especially keen to hear about good contests that you think pass our Bill of Rights, at the moment they are more difficult to find but as the campaign continues for the long term, we expect that to get easier. We try and reply to all the notices we receive, but this may not always be possible. We thank you here in advance for any help you offer. We never reveal the names of those who notify us of competitions.
Other Diary Entries Other competition diary entries can be read here.
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