Leica Street Photo Prize an a Chance to Win a Camera

Leica 6×7 Gallery Warsaw has launched Leica Street Photo competition, as it's ten years old! We celebrate anniversary with a special prize. This year the Grand Prix award for the best street photography is the Leica Q2. The rules do not change. The Jury will select 20 winners from among the submitted works. You will be able to see them on the walls of our gallery in Warsaw, and then we send the exhibition to Poland!

Competition rules:

1. Everybody is invited to participate in the Contest (excluding employees of the Organizer). Minors will be requested to provide the consent of parents or guardians to participate in the Contest.
2. Condition for receiving a possible prize is providing real personal data.
3. The Contest Participant may submit maximum of five photos.
4. All techniques of photography are accepted. Topics should refer to the street photography. The primary criteria for the evaluation of works are originality and quality of artistry.
5. Photography has to be taken after 1st of January 2020.
6. Photos should be added through the application form in jpg. format and resolution of 2000 pixels along the long side. The contest winners will be asked to provide digital data at their highest resolution – enabling high-quality printing in the 50cm format over the long side. If the Winner does not provide such files after the deadline of 48 hours from receiving the information from the Organizer about qualifying for the Final, the Organizer may refrain from awarding the prize and qualifying the work to the Final.
7. By submitting her/his work for the Contest, the Participant declares that she/he is its author and has all rights to dispose of intellectual property related to the work. Besides, the Participant declares that the submitted work does not violate the rights of institutions and third parties, in particular, all persons visible in the photograph/video, and that these persons consented to the use of their images in the Contest and their dissemination. In the absence of such consent, the Participant assumes responsibility for all legitimate claims of these persons and institutions.
8. The submitted works may not contain content intended solely for adults, including sexually explicit material, promoting alcohol or tobacco products, and other content, that is not legally permitted for public display.
9. The Organizer will inform the winners about the results of the Contest via e-mail.
10. The Participant agrees to publish the submitted entries during the Competition and after its completion, on the Organizer’s and Partners’ electronic information platforms, social networking sites (Facebook, Instagram) belonging to Organizer and Partners. The participant also agrees to publish entries and through the media cooperating with the Organizer.

Awards:

• The main prize in the Contest is a Leica Q2 camera, awarded in accordance with tax regulations in force in Poland.
• The works qualified to the final will take part in exhibitions at the 6×7 Leica Gallery in Warsaw and other galleries in Republic of Poland. The Organizer covers all costs related to printing and presentation of winning works, organization of the exhibition and opening ceremony.
• For each in-kind prize, the Participant will receive an additional cash prize in the amount of 11.11% of the value of the awarded prize. The Participant agrees to allocate the additional cash prize to cover by the Organizer the flat-rate income tax on the winning prize and therefore the cash prize will not be issued to the Participant.

About Leica 6×7 Gallery:

Leica 6×7 Gallery Warsaw was established in 2010. It exhibits contemporary, documentary and artistic photography. The gallery held over fifty shows by artists such as Elliott Erwitt, Tomasz Tomaszewski, Thomas Hoepker, Wojtek Wieteska, Jan Grarup, Kacper Kowalski, Jacob Aue Sobol, Sputnik Collective and more.

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