Deadline: 8 February, 2019
The ZEISS Photography Award is now in its fourth year – and is calling on ambitious photographers from across the globe to present their work around the theme “Seeing Beyond – The Unexpected” to the international jury of experts. The ZEISS Photography Award is jointly organized by ZEISS and the World Photography Organisation. Last year, 12,000 photographers from 140 countries submitted nearly 90,000 photos.
Photographers are asked for a creative response to the brief “The Unexpected” that is driven by a strong and clear narrative. To be understood in its broadest sense, “The Unexpected” challenges photographers to submit a series of 5-10 images that look past the everyday and address something unforeseen or surprising – whether this is through the landscape and the physical environment, through human expression, emotion and interaction, through political or social causes or something more conceptual. The ‘unexpected’ element could be of global or very personal concern and may either showcase the familiar in a new way or shed light on something entirely different. All types of photography are welcomed by judges.
Judges:
The award is free to enter and will be judged by the following industry experts:
- Simon Frederick, Artist, Photographer, Director and Broadcaster
- Dagmar Seeland, Photo Editor and Writer, STERN magazine
- Shoair Mavlian, Director, Photoworks.
Eligibility:
- Participants are required to submit a series of five to ten photographs, including a description of the images, online.
Please note that each entry must be supported by a statement explaining how the images fit the brief.
Benefits:
The winner will receive:
- ZEISS camera lenses of their choice worth a total of 12,000 euros, and 3,000 euros to cover travels costs for a photo project.
- Flights and accommodation to attend the exhibition’s opening at Somerset House London in April 2019.
- ZEISS will also invite the winner to their headquarters in Germany to see behind the scenes and test out ZEISS lenses for themselves.
- The winner will also have the chance to collaborate directly with ZEISS and the World Photography Organisation.
Timeline:
- A shortlist with up to 15 photo series will be released on 26 March 2019.The winner will be announced on 9 April 2019. The winning and selected shortlisted works will be exhibited at Somerset House.
Rules:
- The ZEISS Photography Award is open to all Photographers entering a body of work between 5 to 10 images.
- All entrants must be over 18.
- To enter, you must upload your image via the following website: worldphoto.org (the “Website”), following the on-screen instructions carefully.
- Image Entry criteria:
- Un-published work entered into the competition must have been taken between the dates of January 1st, 2015 and February 8th, Once unpublished work has been entered, it cannot be entered again as published work in the future year of the awards competition.
- Published work may have been taken at any point in history, but must have been commissioned or acquired or first published between the dates of January 1st, 2015 and February 8th,
- Eligible publications include magazines, newspapers, online and print editorial, self-publishing websites, including personal sites as well as commissioned gallery exhibitions.
- Images included in past photographic competitions, advertisements, marketing material, blogs, social media, and all other visible platforms prior to January 1st, 2015 will be considered published and not permissible within this competition.
- Images should be no smaller than 1MB and no larger than 5MB. Images should be JPEG files
- All images must be saved in the RGB color model and EXIF data must be left in the image file.
- All entrants must be able to supply a high-resolution image suitable for printing in exhibitions should the image be required.
- You may enter a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 images.
- You are the sole owner and author of each Entry
- You have the right to make your entry available to the Competition
- Each Entry does not contain personally identifiable information about you or any other person(s)
- Each Entry does not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane content.
- Each Entry does not contain any material that could constitute or encourage conduct, which would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law
- Each Entry does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity, or violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity, and Your Entry does not include:
- Trademarks owned by third parties
- Copyrighted materials owned by third parties (including movie dialogue or musical compositions)
- Names, likenesses, voices or other characteristics identifying celebrities or other public figures, living or dead
- Entries which contain any commercial content that promotes any product or service other than that of the World Photography Organization.
- All entrants understand that the image information, including image name and description, may be shared with Event partners and media as per clause 7.1, 7.2 and 8. For the avoidance of doubt the “image information” does not include any personal information of you the author.
- Any photograph used by the World Photography Organization shall carry a credit line.
- Any failure to provide such credit line shall not be deemed to be a breach, as long as the World Photography Organization uses its reasonable endeavors to rectify such failure within a reasonable period from the date of a notice of such failure.
- All entrants must be able to supply a high-resolution image suitable for printing in media and an exhibition should the image be required.
The winner will be announced on 9 April 2019. The winning and selected shortlisted works will be exhibited at Somerset House,
