04.11.09
The Document Photographic Award
Student photographers are being offered the chance to win a new prestigious award of a week-long show in London by entering the Document Photographic award 2009. This unique competition is looking for photographs which portrays how the global economic crisis has hit poor people and human rights. The financial crisis has cost millions of jobs and livelihoods in Britain and overseas, throwing many more people into poverty.
Photographers are asked to consider the impact of the crisis on one individual, a group or a community.
The pictures can be presented in ways such as a documentary essay, a series of portraits, still life, or a set of architectural or landscape images. The judges will not seek typical “charity” or “campaign” photographs, but images which surprise, celebrate, intrigue, inform, disturb or question.
The finalists’ work will be displayed at the Host gallery, London’s foremost exhibition space for photojournalism.
Organised by the British anti-poverty charity War on Want, the submitted images will be judged by Roger Tooth, the Guardian picture editor, Stephen Ledger Lomas, photographic director of the monthly publication Dazed and Confused, Lauren Heinz, who edits the photojournalism magazine Foto 8, Conrad Tracy, commercial photography course leader at the Arts Institute of Bournemouth, and a War on Want representative.
War on Want fundraising director Stefanie Pfeil said: “Making global poverty relevant to UK audiences has always been a challenge. Yet the global meltdown has uncovered just how interdependent our world has become. The choices made in one country will affect lives in another. Perhaps more than any other group, photographers are best positioned to visualise and present these connections. This award will allow photographers to make these connections real.”
Entrants can submit up to eight low resolution photographs on the award website www.documentphotoaward.org
The deadline for the contest, which is open to photography students of all ages, is 16 December 2009.
The judges will select the finalists on 5 January.
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