The Competition
Call for Entries to the 2012 AOP Open Awards is now open!
The AOP Open is run by the Association of Photographers and is the only competition where professionals and amateurs compete on equal terms.
There are no categories or themes in this competition so the choice of work submitted is entirely up to the photographer.
There are also some brilliant prizes and benefits on offer. Click here for further details on all the prizes.
The 2012 Call for Entries opened Monday 19th March. For the first two weeks, there will be Early Bird prices. After 6pm Friday 30th March, regular prices will apply. The FINAL DEADLINE is 6pm 18th May.
Early Bird Entry
£15.00
Regular Entry
£18.00
This year there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs this year. More details to follow shortly.
The Public Choice Award is sponsored by JWT. There will also be Best in Show Award and Judge's Choice Awards from each of the judges.
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 meet all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights For Artists do not do any of the following -
- claim copyright
- claim exclusive use
- seek waiving of moral rights
- fail to give a credit for all free usage
- add, alter, or remove metadata from submissions
- seek usage rights other than for promoting the contest and no other purpose. 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 submissions commercially without the entrant's agreement, and such commercial usage is to be subject to a freely negotiated license independently of the competition.
- 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 submissions
- set a closing date more than 18 months after the contest launch date
- fail to make clear statements of rights claimed and how submissions are used.
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