An Opportunity to Win 1500 Euro in Transversalidades Photography Contest 2019

Transversalidades initiative has announced the opening of the Transversalidades 2019 annual photography contest. This contest takes into account, the importance that photography assumes in contemporary societies, the Transversalidades Project uses photography as a way to promote the inclusion of territories and regional cooperation.

Contest Objectives: 

• To take advantage of the aesthetic, documental and educational value of the image, to promote the inclusion of less visible areas by identifying resources, enhancing landscapes, cultures, and heritage.
• To promote cooperation between people, institutions and territories, within and beyond frontiers endorsing the exchange of experiences and knowledge, spread across different countries from different continents.
• To create new audiences and use new communication technologies as a privileged way to communicate.

Themes:

Photos must allude to one of the following subjects: 

• Landscapes, biodiversity and natural heritage (Natural resources and risks; use, management and planning of natural areas; diversity of contexts and intercourse between man and the environment, etc.).
• Rural areas, agriculture and settlement (Goods and agricultural products, organization of rural areas; places and rural architecture, mobility, etc.). 
• The city and the urbanization process (City, architecture, regeneration and urbanization processes; landscapes, urban environments and experiences, etc.).
• Culture and society: cultural diversity and social inclusion(Constructed legacy and cultural heritage, ways of life and social conditions; fight against poverty and social exclusion, etc.)

Requirements: 

1. The applicant must guarantee that pictures: 
   • Are originals.
   • Don’t include any identification element of its author.
   • Have not yet been published, exhibited or previously rewarded.
2. Each candidate may only submit one portfolio with six (6) photos about a single subject of the contest.
3. Formats and dimensions of the photos are as follows:  
   1. Contestants must only send a single file - type zip or rar- which should contain all the contest photos.
   2. Photos must have a screen resolution of 72 dpi and size from 2000 to 2500 pixels (horizontal* or vertical, according to the angle of the photo).
   3. The authors of the awarded photos may posteriorly be contacted in order to provide the files of the photos with a higher resolution in order to make a public exhibit of their work, which is a necessary condition to receive the award. 

Evaluation:

1. The Jury will be selected by the Executive Committee of CEI and will be presided by one of its members and shall consist of a panel of photographers, researchers or other individualities considered relevant for the evaluation process.
2. The evaluation of the material submitted to the competition will be conducted by the jury according to: loyalty to the proposed topics, creativity and photographic quality.
3. The winners’ selection will be an absolute, final and irreversible decision of the Jury.
4. The Jury’s decision will be announced on the official website of CEI www.cei.pt until 31st October 2019. 

prizes:

1. The Overall Winner (1) for the best and most complete submitted portfolio will receive 1500 Euros.
2. The Winner of each theme (4) for the best and most complete portfolio will receive 750 Euros.
3. The Jury will also award up to 12 portfolios, being each one awarded with 150 Euros.

Required Documents:

Contestants must submit:

1. The application  properly filled with the following fields: personal information about the author; description for each photo.
2. File with portfolio of six (6) photos. The file name must be identified by the identification number of each contestant: identity card number, passport or other. (Ex: 122258045.zip). 
3. Declaration accepting the conditions of the contest.

The prizes will be delivered until the 31st of December 2019. If it is not possible to contact the winner, the prize will only be able to be claimed until the 31st of January 2020.

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