The Competition
Worldwide Photography Gala Awards
Closing date 26 July 2009, extended deadline 27 Sepember 2009
The annual Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) provides a juried competition for professionals and amateur photographers from around the world to compete for the Photographer of the Year Award and the Humanitarian Documentary Grant, provided by WonderPick Gallery. Besides conducting the annual contests, WPGA hosts quarterly contests that offer artists similar opportunities for awards and recognition.
WPGA hosts annual and quarterly contests to honor talented photographers and as a means of establishing and maintaining a continuing effort help them further their careers. WPGA recognizes artists’ talent through competitions juried by industry leaders, exposing their work in the media, publishing their work, hosting a collective exhibition in Madrid, and by exhibiting their work to an extensive international audience through WonderPick Gallery, an art portal where selected artworks can be viewed online and purchased.
WPGA believes in the social responsibility of all business endeavors. Accordingly, WPGA efforts also benefits worthy humanitarian causes. The first annual WPGA contest supports the international organization, Save the Children. Save the Children will receive 10 percent of the revenue from the Worldwide Photography Gala and 40 percent of the revenue from the sale of prints exhibited in Madrid.
For further information and entry details visit the competition website.
Complies with the Bill of Rights
This competition meets all the standards set out in
the Bill of Rights For Artists
Competitions which comply with the conditions set out in the Bill of Rights For Artists 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 3 years
- use the images commercially without the photographers agreement, and such commercial usage is to be rights managed and limited to 3 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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