Home
 
About Us Exhibitions Workshops Contact Us Services Store Links Blog Past Events
 G O A     I N T E R N A T I O N A L     P I N H O L E
 P H O T O G R A P H Y    C O N T E S T    -   2 0 1 0
Last Date for Entries: 5th April, 2010
Rules & Regulations: Goa Center for Alternative Photography announces “GOA International Pinhole Photography Contest 2010” to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photography and in honor of April 25, 2010 World Pinhole Photography Day. Who can enter? This is an open call for photographic work taken with a pinhole camera. What is the last day to summit the photo for this contest? The submission closes on April 5, 2010 Important dates to remember April 5, 2010: Deadline for submissions April 20, 2010: Notification of juried results April 25th – May 31st: Traveling Exhibition How to submit the pinhole photographs There are two ways to submit your pictures: 1> Please email us your entries to: 25april2010@gmail.com. Please make sure the images are less than 10 MB Digital File specifications • Save each image as a separate JPEG file with high quality image setting 8 ("high"). Do not submit files exceeding maximum size 2832 pixels by 2128 pixels (vertical and horizontal). Image resolution should be 72 dpi or higher. • Use an embedded RGB color profile or grayscale (do not use CMYK). • No masks, borders, backgrounds or other artistic effects are allowed. The images may not show the name of a photographer, agency, publication etc. • Hard copy prints or transparencies from digital sources must be of reproduction quality. 2> "8x10" or 12"x12" Color or black and white prints made on photo paper (no inkjet printed photos) along with the entry form should be sent to the Goa-CAP office. One digital image of the photographs has to be emailed to us, for online exhibition. Goa Center for Alternative Photography (Goa-CAP) House No. E2 / 268, Dongorpur (Royal Village), Near Dharwadkar Nursing Home, Calangute - 403516, Goa, India What is the entry fee and how many photos may I submit? The entry fee is absolutely free and one person can submit 3 pinhole photographs to the contest. How do I know that you've received my entry? After you submit your photograph(s) we will send you a confirmation email. How will my photograph be judged? A jury will judge the entries of the competition. The members of the jury will be announced with the results. Decisions of the judges are final and binding When will the winners be announced? Winners of the GOA International Pinhole Photography Contest 2010 will be chosen on or around April 22, 2010, and will be notified by email. What are the prizes? 3 Zero Image Cameras, 10 Holga Cameras, 10 Stenoflex Cameras to be won!!! First-place winner pinhole photograph will be published in the cover page of a coffee table book. All the entries will be published as a coffee table book. Traveling exhibition will be organized on April 25, 2010 starting from New Delhi, India with first 50 pinhole photographs. All entrants are eligible to get 10% discount in the Art in Residencies conducted by Goa-CAP (http://www.goa-cap.com/Art%20Residency.html) Will my photography be seen online? Selected entries and the entrants' names may be published on the Goa-CAP Web site at the discretion of the Goa-CAP. Will I be notified if my photo is chosen for the online galleries? You will be notified only if you are a winner of the GOA International Pinhole Photography Contest 2010 Do photos have to be taken with a Pinhole camera? Yes, all photographs submitted should be taken by PINHOLE CAMERA only Is image manipulation allowed in the photo contest? All digital manipulation is unacceptable and will render the photograph ineligible for a prize. We trust our users to submit unaltered files. We cannot research every photo entry. However, if a photo is chosen for award and publication in the coffee table book, it will be scrutinized for possible modifications. What should I include in the description of my photograph? Please write about your camera specifications, place, time, settings, and situation. We trust our users to submit unaltered files. We cannot research every photo entry. However, if a photo is chosen for award and publication in the coffee table book, description and fact-checked. When I submit a photo to the photo contest, what rights does the Goa Center for Alternative Photography have to my submission? Goa Center for Alternative Photography will have the nonexclusive, perpetual right to use your image in connection with the contest and promotion of the contest, in any media now or hereafter known, including, but not limited to: display at a potential exhibition of winners; publication of a book featuring select entries in the contest; publication in online, highlighting entries or winners of the contest. Please read through the photo contest rules for more information on the rights you grant when submitting a photograph to the International Photography Contest. Are release forms required when submitting a photograph to the International Photography Contest? By submitting a photograph to the International Photography Contest you warrant that you are the owner of the image, that you alone own the copyright, and that you have obtained any necessary third-party releases. If your photograph is selected as a winner of the contest, you may be asked to submit a personal release, a location release, or an artist release. Please do not send any releases unless we've asked you to. Please read through the photo contest rules for more information regarding releases. Will my photographs be sold? We will have an exhibition with the selected works. In case you want your photographs to be available for sale, please mention your price in the entry form. Please note that 40% will be deducted from the sale price as part of our organizational fee, mounting & framing cost and gallery commission. Terms of Print Sales 1. For the ones expressing the decision of not having the work submitted for sale, the work and-or files submitted will be destroyed or returned after the book production is completed. The contest participant will be responsible for the return mailing costs of the material. 2. For the ones expressing the decision of making their work available for re-sale by Goa-CAP, they should state the retail cost per print size that include a 40% discount to Goa-CAP applicable only if Goa-Cap is the purchaser of the work for re-sale. 3. The quoted price should exclude the shipping and insurance cost, In the event of an enquiry from Goa-CAP the participant (vendor) should quote both shipping + insurance at cost level that should be substantiated by the carrier invoice. 4. Terms of payment for any purchase will be by PayPal in full upon receipt of an order, the participant (vendor) should quote a firm shipping time after the receipt of full payment. Will my photographs be returned back to me? The photographs will be a part of the exhibition curated by the jury. If you want your photographs returned back to you, please send us a return envelope with your mailing address printed clearly on the front and the equivalent postage paid. We will return the photographs after the exhibitions. Contest Rules Potential winners shall be required to sign in the application form the agreement for Liability Release, and where legally permissible, a Publicity Release and Warranty of Ownership and License in which the entrant warrants that he/she is the owner of the photograph (and all the intellectual property rights in the photograph submitted) and grants to Sponsor and its licensees the irrevocable perpetual, nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, display, and create derivative works of the entry (along with a name credit) in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest without additional compensation. Failure to execute and deliver any required documents to Sponsor by the specified deadline may result in disqualification from the Contest, and selection of an alternate potential winner. No prize transfer, assignment, or substitution by winners permitted. If a prize (or part of a prize) is unavailable, the Sponsor, in its discretion, reserves the right to substitute the original prize (or that part of the prize) with an alternative prize to the equal monetary value and/or specification, unless to do so would be prohibited by law. NONCOMPLIANCE OR RETURN OF PRIZE NOTIFICATION AS UNDELIVERABLE, WHETHER BY REGULAR MAIL OR BY EMAIL, MAY RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION AND SELECTION OF AN ALTERNATE POTENTIAL WINNER. License By entering the Contest, all entrants grant Goa-CAP permission for its limited use for activities listed below under the auspices of the organization without any remuneration being due by Goa-CAP. Display of the work submitted during the Goa International pinhole contest 2010 festival. Print of the work submitted in a display book produced and paid for by Goa-CAP. Limitation of Liability By entering this Contest, all entrants agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless Goa Center for Alternative Photography and its partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder. Goa Center for Alternative Photography assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Goa-CAP is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants' or any other persons' computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to in this Contest. Conditions THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Entrants agree that this Contest shall be subject to and governed by the laws of the Republic of India and the forum for any dispute shall be in the High Court of Bombay at Goa, Panaji, Republic of India. To the extent permitted by law, the right to litigate, to seek injunctive relief or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or on connection with this Contest are hereby excluded and any entrant expressly waives any and all such rights. Certain restrictions may apply. Entries void if the Sponsor determines the pinhole photograph to not be an original, or if the entries are illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, altered, counterfeit, produced in error or obtained through fraud or theft. By entering, entrants also agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; (b) that the decisions of the Judges are final and binding with respect to all matters relating to the Contest; and (c) if the entrant wins that Sponsor may use the winning photographs and each winner's name, photograph, likeness, and/or voice in any publicity or advertising relating to the Contest or future promotions without compensation or approval (except where prohibited by law). All national, state, and local taxes, fees and surcharges and taxes (whether foreign or domestic, and including income, sales, and import taxes) on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. In the event that the selected winner(s) of any prize is/are ineligible, cannot be traced or does/do not respond within ten (10) days to a winner notification as required by the "Contest Prizes" Rules above, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may choose whether to award the prize to another entrant. The Sponsor reserves the right to verify the validity and originality of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant's identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Official Rules or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by the Sponsor to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights. Right to Cancel or Suspend Contest If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, trojan horses, denial of service attacks, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Goa-CAP that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Goa-CAP reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the entry process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest. If Sponsor elects to cancel or terminate the Contest, Sponsor will not retain any rights in the submitted photographs, and will return the fees submitted with each entry. Winners List Entrants are responsible for complying with these Official Rules. Winners' names will be available online at www.goa-cap.com after April 15th, 2010 and by email. Data Privacy Entrants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the Contest and any other purposes outlined in these Official Rules. The data may also be used by the Sponsor in order to verify the participant's identity, postal address, and telephone number or to otherwise verify the participant's eligibility to participate in the Contest. Participants have the right to access, review, rectify, or cancel any personal data held by Sponsor by writing to Sponsor at Goa Center for Alternative Photography (Goa-CAP) House No. E2 / 268, Dongorpur (Royal Village), Near St. Alex Church, Calangute - 403516, Goa, India. Personal data will be used by Sponsor and its affiliates exclusively for the purposes stated herein. NOTICE TO INDIVIDUALS: REMOVAL FROM MAILING LIST: Any individual (or other duly authorized person) may elect to exclude the name and address of that individual from all lists used by Goa Center for Alternative Photography to mail contests. To elect to have an individual's name excluded from all such lists, submit a removal request in writing to: Goa Center for Alternative Photography (Goa-CAP) House No. E2 / 268, Dongorpur (Royal Village), Near St. Alex Church, Calangute - 403516, Goa, India. mailto:25april2010@gmail.comhttp://www.goa-cap.com/Art%20Residency.htmlhttp://www.goa-cap.comshapeimage_12_link_0shapeimage_12_link_1shapeimage_12_link_2
Entry Gift: 10% discount on
Art Residency conducted by Goa-CAP
Current Contest Jury Prizes Rules & Regulations Contact
Press
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Award Sponsors:
Media Partners:
Gallery Partners:
Art Collaborators:
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day Art Chamber Galeria de Belas Artes laperu Walking Paintings