Foto Contests

THE CONTEST’S RULES

Participation conditions

Any person can sign-up for the contest. In order to sign-up you have
got to fill in a signing-up form which is available on the site IFAF
and send the works until the 10th of July 2007 at photocontest@iraf.ro .

Foto Contests

THE CONTEST’S RULES

Participation conditions

Any person can sign-up for the contest. In order to sign-up you have
got to fill in a signing-up form which is available on the site IFAF
and send the works until the 10th of July 2007 at photocontest@iraf.ro .

The single themes:

So keres? (How are you ?) SK
Nomad’s life NL
Roma traditions RT
Poverty/ Richness PR

The serie’s theme: Photo essay PE

The participants can send a maximum of 7 photos for each single
theme.For the photoreportage the participants are invited to send a
serie of 5 to 12 photos which illustrate an aspect of roma people’s
life.The minimum recomandated size is 2500 pixels for the large side
and 300dpi, mut it is not an expelling rule. The photos can be sent at
the mail adress photo.contest@iraf.ro if each material is smaller than
10 MB. These should have at least 5 MP, JPG format.to sign up each
participant must fill in a signing up form which is available on the
site www.iraf.ro. The autor must write down his personal data, a title
and a description of each work(where, when, who).The name of the photo
must contain the theme’s initials.For the photoreportage, these have to
contain numbers in the order the autor wants them to be.

We don’t accept works that are modified on the computer.

Calendar

• Signing-up period: between the 9th of March and the 10th of July
• Evaluation period: between the10th of July and the 10th of August
• Annunciation of the winners: the 15th of August
• The exhibition of the best 20 works: between the 31st of August and the 6th of September
• Publishing and distributing for free the photo album:between the 1st of October and the 1st of November

Evaluation:

The evaluation will be made between the10th of July and the 10th of August.

The memebers of the jury: Mihai Barbu (photoreporter Reuters),
Cosmin Bumbut (photographer), Petrut Calinescu (Panos Pictures), Bogdan
Croitoru (freelancer, National Geographic’s permanent colaborator),
Silviu Ghetie (The Photo Group 7 Days), Marius Nemes (Photoreporter),
Gicu Serban (The Photo Group 7 Days), Mihai Vasile (Chief Editor
Mediafaxphoto).

The annunciation of the winners will be made on the 15th of August on www.iraf.ro and personally through mail.

The
best photos will be exposed in 5 exhibitions (one for each theme) in
Timisoara, between the 31st of August and the 6th of September and
published in a photo album which will be distributed for free during
and after the festival.

The first, the second and the third award for the photoreportage
theme will consist in photo apparatus in value of 1200,800 and 500
euros.The winners of the first and the second award for the other 4
sections will win photo accessories in value of 150 and 100 euros.

Copyrights:

The signed-up material must respect the copyrights law. The
participant must own all the rights for the materials signed-up in the
contest.

The participant is the only responsible for any direct or indirect
consequence that may appear for signing-up the material in this
contest. The participants keep the copyrights.

By completing the signing-up form the participants agree that the
photos can be exposed and published in a photo album by the organizers
of IRAF,with the mention of the autor’s name.
The organizers have the right to use the signed-up photos JUST for
non-commercial purposes.The best works will be presented in
exhibitions, published in an album which will be distributed for free
and used in campains to promote the contest.The autor’s name will
always be mentioned.

Confidentiality Policy:

The participants’ personal data are cinfidential and will be used only for the normal activity of the contest.

Contact:

For more informations about the contest, please write to us at photocontest@iraf.ro

Final clauses:

By completing the signing-up form the participants confirm that he
read and understood the conditions of the Contest’s Rule and that he
agrees with them.