Yarışmalar-Competitions

Yarışma Özeti(Summary):
World Press Photo invites press photographers and photojournalists throughout the world to participate in the 47th annual World Press Photo contest. This competition accepts press photographs taken during 2003 and intended for publication. Entries for the 2004 contest, accompanied by a completed entry form, must be sent to the foundation's office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, before 15 January 2004. This deadline will be strictly observed.

Tip (Type): 

Kimler katılabilir (Open to):

Katılım ücreti (Entry Fee):

Ödüller (Awards):
All entries will be judged for their news value and for the creative skills of the photographer. For stories and portfolios the editing of the entered material will also be taken into account.

The World Press Photo of the Year 2003 Award
The World Press Photo of the Year 2003 Award will honor the photographer whose photograph, selected from all entries, represents an event, situation or issue of great journalistic importance in that year, and demonstrates an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity.
The award carries a cash prize of EUR 10,000, and an invitation to Amsterdam to attend the awards ceremony in April 2004 (including one return flight ticket and hotel accommodation). At this ceremony the first exhibition of the season is officially opened. The winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2003 Award is also offered an exhibition of his or her photojournalistic work, to be opened simultaneously in Amsterdam.

The Golden Eye Awards
In each category both the photographer of the best single picture and the photographer of the best picture story/portfolio will receive a Golden Eye Award, a cash prize of EUR 1,500, and an invitation to Amsterdam to attend the awards ceremony in April 2004 (including one return flight ticket and hotel accommodation).
Winners of second and third prizes and honorable mentions will receive the foundation's Golden Eye Award and a diploma.
Photographers who have not won prizes, but whose work has been selected for the yearbook and/or exhibition, will receive a certificate recognizing their outstanding skill and a copy of the yearbook.
The final decisions of the jury will be announced at a press conference in the Boekmanzaal of the Amsterdam City Hall on Friday 13 February 2004. The results will be also published on this website. Prizewinners will be personally informed by telephone, fax or e-mail. All contestants will receive acknowledgment of their participation and a complete list of winners soon after this date.

The prizewinning pictures selected by the international jury will appear in the yearbook and will be exhibited under the auspices of the foundation.

Juri (Jury):
Elena Ceratti (Italy) international news editor Agenzia Grazia Neri
James K. Colton (USA) photography editor Sports Illustrated
Steve Crisp (UK) editor, News Pictures, Reuters
Ruth Eichhorn (Germany) director of photography Geo Germany
Mark Grosset (France) photography consultant
Gary Knight (UK) photographer VII
Herbert Mabuza (South Africa) picture editor The Sunday Times
Susan Olle (Australia) freelance designer and art director
Swapan Parekh (India) photographer
Reza (Iran) photographer National Geographic/ Webistan
Dani Yako (Argentina) photographer and chief editor of photography Clarín
Aleksander Zemlianichenko (Russia) chief photographer Moscow Bureau, The Associated Press

İletişim Bilgileri (Contact): 

World Press Photo invites press photographers and photojournalists throughout the world to participate in the 47th annual World Press Photo contest. This competition accepts press photographs taken during 2003 and intended for publication. Entries for the 2004 contest, accompanied by a completed entry form, must be sent to the foundation's office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, before 15 January 2004. This deadline will be strictly observed.

Contest rules and information
All the rules and regulations regarding participation. Note that there have been changes in the division into categories.

Digital entry specifications
A digital entry consists of digital file(s) stored on a storage medium and a completed entry form. The form must be signed by the photographer or his/her representative. Files may not be sent by e-mail.

Entries for the 2004 World Press Photo contest will only be accepted if accompanied by an entry form filled in with the personal details of the photographer and a full specification of the material.

Participants:
1 Only work by professional photographers will be accepted for the World Press Photo contest.

2 All entries must be accompanied by an entry form filled in with personal details and a full specification of the material, and must be signed by the entrant or his/her representative. If no employer organization is filled in on the entry form, a reference, press card details or another officially recognized document or registration number establishing the professional status of the photographer must be included with the entry form.

General rules
3 There is no entry fee.

4 Single pictures in all categories must have been taken in 2003. In the categories Spot News, General News, People in the News and Sports Action, all pictures in the stories must also have been shot in 2003. Picture stories/portfolios in the remaining categories must have been completed or first published in 2003.

5 A picture story/portfolio may contain a maximum of 12 images. There is no limit to the number of single images or stories/portfolios submitted by one entrant.

Material specifications
6 Prints, slides or digital entries are accepted in this contest.
The pictures must be of reproduction quality. Do not send in originals.
Further specifications:
- PRINTS: minimum size 20x25cm (8x10 inches), maximum size 30x40cm (12x16 inches).
- SLIDES: 35mm, mounted in a durable frame to withstand handling and projection. Indicate correct viewing side by a black dot in the top right-hand corner of the frame. Slides from prints are accepted, but must include only one full frame image per slide.
- DIGITIZED FORMAT: see digital entry specifications.

7 Hard copy prints or transparencies from digital sources must be of reproduction quality.

8 Composite photographs, multiple exposures and manipulated images are excluded from the contest. Manipulation and/or adjusting of digital entries are subject to the following restrictions: the original structure of a digital image (scan and/or camera file) must never be altered except by such darkroom techniques as brightness, contrast and color adjustments, dodging and burning. All other kinds of changes of the original digital frame, or part of it, are not allowed.

Preparation of entries
9 Material submitted as part of a story/portfolio need not be entered separately as single pictures. The jury will judge all images in a picture story/portfolio also in an appropriate singles category, provided the singles were made in 2003.

10 Prints and slides must not bear the contestant's name or any identification other than the category code and the story sequence number used on the entry form. On receipt every picture is registered and coded by World Press Photo.

11 Prints must not be rolled up.

Submission of entries
12 Entries should be forwarded either by mail or by prepaid courier. They should not be sent by air freight. Please write 'no commercial value' on the package to avoid extra costs and delays at the customs.

13 The closing date for the 2004 contest is 15 January 2004. All entries must have arrived in our office by this date.

14 All winners will be contacted immediately after the results of the contest have been announced and requested to submit first-rate reproduction material suitable for the production of the book and the exhibition.

15 Entries will not be returned. The foundation has the right to dispose of the material.

16 The conditions set out in these entry rules and on the entry form are binding.

The members of the 2004 jury
Chair:
Elisabeth Biondi (Germany) visuals editor The New Yorker

Members:
Elena Ceratti (Italy) international news editor Agenzia Grazia Neri
James K. Colton (USA) photography editor Sports Illustrated
Steve Crisp (UK) editor, News Pictures, Reuters
Ruth Eichhorn (Germany) director of photography Geo Germany
Mark Grosset (France) photography consultant
Gary Knight (UK) photographer VII
Herbert Mabuza (South Africa) picture editor The Sunday Times
Susan Olle (Australia) freelance designer and art director
Swapan Parekh (India) photographer
Reza (Iran) photographer National Geographic/ Webistan
Dani Yako (Argentina) photographer and chief editor of photography Clarín
Aleksander Zemlianichenko (Russia) chief photographer Moscow Bureau, The Associated Press

Secretary:
Stephen Mayes (UK) photographic consultant

Awards
All entries will be judged for their news value and for the creative skills of the photographer. For stories and portfolios the editing of the entered material will also be taken into account.

The World Press Photo of the Year 2003 Award
The World Press Photo of the Year 2003 Award will honor the photographer whose photograph, selected from all entries, represents an event, situation or issue of great journalistic importance in that year, and demonstrates an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity.
The award carries a cash prize of EUR 10,000, and an invitation to Amsterdam to attend the awards ceremony in April 2004 (including one return flight ticket and hotel accommodation). At this ceremony the first exhibition of the season is officially opened. The winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2003 Award is also offered an exhibition of his or her photojournalistic work, to be opened simultaneously in Amsterdam.

The Golden Eye Awards
In each category both the photographer of the best single picture and the photographer of the best picture story/portfolio will receive a Golden Eye Award, a cash prize of EUR 1,500, and an invitation to Amsterdam to attend the awards ceremony in April 2004 (including one return flight ticket and hotel accommodation).
Winners of second and third prizes and honorable mentions will receive the foundation's Golden Eye Award and a diploma.
Photographers who have not won prizes, but whose work has been selected for the yearbook and/or exhibition, will receive a certificate recognizing their outstanding skill and a copy of the yearbook.
The final decisions of the jury will be announced at a press conference in the Boekmanzaal of the Amsterdam City Hall on Friday 13 February 2004. The results will be also published on this website. Prizewinners will be personally informed by telephone, fax or e-mail. All contestants will receive acknowledgment of their participation and a complete list of winners soon after this date.

The prizewinning pictures selected by the international jury will appear in the yearbook and will be exhibited under the auspices of the foundation.