The Competition
The Foto8 Award and Summer Show 2008
Ends 7 June 2008
This meets all the requirements of a good contest. Initially you submit either small proof prints or small jpegs for intial judging. The 100+ best entries will be shortlisted for an exhibition, for which you will need to supply a framed or mounted print to exhibition standard. If you wish your initial submissions returned you supply a stamped addressed envelope.
The entries submitted for the ehibition with the proceeds split between the photographer and HOST Gallery. At the exhibition the 'Best in Show' will be slected by the judges, the winner receiving £1000.00
Open to professionals, non-professional and students.
For further information please 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 the works
- 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 works commercially without the creators 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 works
- set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
- fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how the works are used
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