The Competition
World Photography Awards; Student Focus
The World Photography Organisation delivers various initiatives and programmes across the global photographic community under the "World Photography" brand.
These programmes involve the amateur and professional photographer in commercial, cultural and educational activities within the photographic industry.
Currently included within the World Photography portfolio are the World Photography Awards sponsored by Sony; the World Photography Student Focus Programme; the World Photography Festival, the World Photography Collection and the World Photography Focus Programme.
Proudly sponsored by Sony, the World Photography Awards is widely recognised as the leading photographic awards programme in the World. The World Photography Organisation (WPO) supports professional, amateur and student photography and lends a global platform for the photographic industry to communicate, converge and showcase current trends in Photojournalism, Fine Art and Commercial Photography.
Sony World Photography Awards; Student Focus Competition
Entry Start; 1 June 2011 Entry Close 25 November 2011
Student Focus is the global education programme created by WPO. Student Focus offers an international platform to support and connect the next generation of photographers. Throughout the year Student Focus also engages with academic institutions and organises talks, forums, exhibitions, symposiums, portfolio sessions and of course the largest programme of them all - the annual Student Focuscompetition. Join this growing network of students worldwide...
With 200 international institutions already participating, become part of the Student Focus community and join this rapidly growing global platform. Is your university signed up for Student Focus yet? If not, get your university registered today!
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“An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
Splash! Silence again.”
Matsuo Basho
Matsuo Basho, one of the early masters of Japanese haiku poems, begins one of his most famous poems, The Old Pond, with an observation about the nature of the pond and then explains the action taken by the frog. At the end of the second line, the poem changes from observation to reflection, as Basho explains in the third line what he heard as a result of this moment in time. The poem captures a brief moment in time, showing that the pond returns to the state of silence in which it began.
Due to the philosophy of haiku, and the necessity of choosing just the right word to capture the moment and meet the syllabic requirements, it poses a creative and interesting challenge to writers.
We want you, as a photographer, to take on a role similar to that of a haiku poet and create one image that depicts a ‘fleeting moment’; or as in the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson ‘the decisive moment’.
Find out more about how you can participate in the Student Focus competition here.
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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