CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year is an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography, honouring amateur and professional photographers who use their ability to raise awareness of environmental and social issues. With 2,500 entries received from 61 countries in 2009, EPOTY is now one of the fastest growing photographic competitions in the world. We would like to thank Mott MacDonald for their invaluable support.
ELIGIBILITYThe exhibition is open to all professional and amateur, national and international photographers of all ages working with digital and film photography. However, you must ensure that the image quality meets the competition’s criteria as stated below.
CATEGORIES
There will be a winner for each category, with one overall winner who will become the Environmental Photographer of the Year. Each picture must be assigned to only one of the categories below but you may enter more than one picture into a category. There is a maximum of seven images per entrant.
- Mott MacDonald’s Changing Climates
- Innovation in the Environment (New Category for 2010)
- The Natural World
- The Underwater World (New Category for 2010)
- Quality of Life
- A View From the Western World (New Category for 2010)
- CIWEM’s Young Environmental Photographer of the Year
- Young Environmental Photographer of the Year – Under 16
- Young Environmental Photographer of the Year – Under 21
REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD ENTER THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
- Receive international recognition as the Environmental Photographer of the Year
- Receive a share of the £3,500 prize fund
- Receive excellent media coverage in international print and online publications
- Have your winning work take part in a roving exhibition throughout the year
- Earn money from sales of limited edition prints during launch exhibition, with your permission*
- 20 limited edition prints of each of the winning and runner up images will be sold. Photographers will be asked their permission for their prints to be sold, entering a contract to receive 50% of sales revenues. Photographers can refuse to enter this agreement when contacted by CIWEM. Price per print TBC.
DIMENSIONS
All entries should be jpegs over 2MB. Your image must be of good enough resolution that it can be printed at the minimum size of approximately A3 (or the equivalent ratio of your image), meaning we require an image to be at 300dpi.
Do not increase the file resolution to 300dpi after the photograph has been taken as this will result in a loss of quality.
Enter fee – None
Copyright: The photographer must be the sole author and owner of the copyright for all photos entered.Photographers retain the copyright of any image entered into the Environmental Photographer of the Year. CIWEM and the sponsors reserve the right to reproduce any entry free of charge in relation to the competition and exhibition. This includes the right to publish entries in articles, EPOTY book, calendar, posters, postcards or any other EPOTY promotional materials. We will ensure that all photographers receive full credit.
Deadline: 31st July 2010
click here to enter in the contest website
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