35th Anniversary International Women Only Call for Entry 

To celebrate their 35th anniversary, Professional Women Photographers invites ALL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS - NON-MEMBERS AND MEMBERS, AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL to submit entries. Jurors Elinor Carucci and Stephen Perloff award $3000 in prizes and the Grand Prize image will appear on the cover of IMPRINTS Magazine Fall/Winter issue.

AWARDS

Winners will be selected from four categories. Submissions may be made to more than one category, and there is no limit to the number of images submitted. The categories are: People, Places, Nature, and Abstract.

EXHIBITIONS

Selected images will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate fine art photography. These images, as well as 20 Jurors’ Selections, will be exhibited in a two-week group show at New York’s Soho Photo gallery from June 1 – June 14, 2011 and in on online exhibition on the PWP website for six months, November 15, 2010 – May 15, 2011. An additional 30 images selected for Honorable Mention will also be included in the PWP online Exhibition.

In addition to the exhibitions for the various winning images and honourable mentions there are a range of cash prizes for the overall winner and for the first, second, and third places in each category.

The closing date for entries is Thursday 30th Septemebr 2010. 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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