Gaia Fest Photo Contest (Stories of Lands and Food) with Valubale Prizes

All photographers who love food are invitited to take part in Gaia photo fest competition 2022, The theme is Food and Territory: iconography of an indissoluble relationship. A theme that explores the traditions, memory and culture of peoples through photographs that represent iconographic images of the relationship between food and territory. Images able to tell the food placed in relation with the Territory of which it is typical and with the Humanity that populates it.

Two categories: Single Photos and Projects and portfolios.

The value of the prize pool is yet to be quantified.

Both Winner of the Projects and Portfolio category, and Single photo category winner gets:

• GAIA Photo Fest 2022 Trophy
• Guest of honor at "FESTA GAIA - Stories of Lands and Food": 2-night stay for 2 people on the occasion of the award ceremony
• Guest at the gala dinner of "FESTA GAIA - Stories of Lands and Food"
• Evidence in the collective exhibition of the winners and other works selected by the jury during "FESTA GAIA - Stories of Lands and Food"
• Any Sponsor Prizes

Photographers and amateurs who have reached the age of 18 on the date of call of the competition and who are resident both in Italy and abroad can participate in the competition.

Published or unpublished works are admitted, even previously exhibited in other events, taken in the last 3 years and relevant to the theme.

To be considered suitable for online upload, the photographs must necessarily have the following characteristics:

• .Jpg format;
• RGB color method;
• The files must be less than 6 MB each;
• Dimensions: longest side not exceeding 2500 pixels;
• Resolution: 300 dpi.

Both color and black and white photos are allowed. Post-production and photo editing are allowed at the author's discretion.

Each photograph must be accompanied by a brief description and an indication of the geographical location to which it refers.

Photos with signatures, watermarks, frames or marks visible on the image are not allowed.

Photos or images deemed offensive are not allowed, according to the sensitivity and unquestionable judgment of the jury.

All photographs submitted must have been photographed by the author who must, therefore, have full and original authorship and ownership. Photographic post-production interventions are accepted. Photographs or parts thereof made with the exclusive use of computer graphics programs or models are not permitted. Photomontages are not allowed, under penalty of exclusion from the competition.

About Gaia Photo Fest:

A Festival that aims to promote the territorial identities of the whole world and to enhance their cultures and typicality through the narration of food and wine traditions and it does so also by promoting and enhancing the talent and quality of the works of national and international photographers to allow them a profitable exchange of experiences, direct confrontation with professionals in the sector and the expansion of skills, as well as to increase the possibility of being known by a wider audience.

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