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10TH INSTANBUL PHOTO AWARDS

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Application Deadline:  January 17, 2024, at 23:59 UTC+3.

LOCATION: Turkey

Applications are open for the 10th Instabul Photo Awards for professional and freelance photographers to participate in the photo contest. There will be prizes to be won.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applications are free and open between 17 Nov. 2023 – 17 Jan. 2024 at 23:59 (UTC+3).  

Photographs contain the relevant and correct information. Submitted photos must be taken in 2023 (between 1 Jan. 2023- 31 Dec. 2023).

Photographer has the liability for providing accurate personal information like name, age, company etc. besides the image info like date, location etc..

All submissions must have necessary information embedded into photographs IPTC like: title, description, creation date, city and country. The info and category of the photographs can be updated until the deadline.

Photography captions must be written in English. Kindly check the caption limits before upload your photos.

No signatures, stamp or any other identifying mark is allowed anywhere on the entry. Photographer’s name or company should not be mentioned at the captions.

Digital manipulation and any kind of Photoshop effects is not allowed, only basic colour corrections are allowed. It is not allowed to add signatures on the photo or in the caption.

Photographers must be the copyright owner of the submitted photographs.

Photographs must not violate any third-party rights.

Photographers are invited to apply all categories at the same time, both with published and unpublished photos. 

Photographers can apply 4 different photos in Single categories and 2 different stories in Story categories.

The same photo cannot be submitted into two different categories. Story category applications should include 10 photos.

Kindly note that this contest is for professionals only and Istanbul Photo Awards’ jury may ask for proofs of the source of the photo or publications on newspapers, magazines or web sites.

BENEFIT:

CATEGORIES                                  FIRST            SECOND            THIRD

SINGLE NEWS*6,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY NEWS3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE SPORTS3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY SPORTS3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE NATURE & ENVIRONMENT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY NATURE & ENVIRONMENT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE PORTRAIT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY PORTRAIT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE DAILY LIFE3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY DAILY LIFE3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD

The jury will select two photographers’ works from all series categories submissions to be awarded with a special tenth anniversary prize of 1,000 USD.

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GHENT UNIVERSITY SPECIAL RESEARCH FUND – DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CANDIDATES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 

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Application Deadline: 20 February 2024

LOCATION: Belgium

With support from its “Special Research Fund” (BOF) Ghent University grants PhD “sandwich” scholarships to promising PhD students from developing countries who wish to carry out half of their PhD research at Ghent University (‘North’) and half at a university in a developing country (‘South’). 

ELIGIBILITY:

Candidates need to come from – and have the nationality of – one of the selected developing countries (see country list);

The proposals must be jointly submitted by a candidate, a supervisor (promoter) at Ghent University and a supervisor at the partner university (South);

No restrictions are imposed on the field of research, nevertheless  preference will be given to topics that are relevant for development;

Only degree students (students who intend to obtain a (joint ) PhD degree at Ghent University) can apply. Exchange students cannot apply for this scholarship; 

This program is meant for students at the beginning of their PhD. To a limited extent, PhD students are allowed to have already completed preliminary research. At the time the fellowship starts (1/10/2024), a minimum of 36 months of doctoral research must still be required to complete the PhD;

Ghent university wants to encourage more female researchers to apply for this scholarship. That is why a Ghent University supervisor can support maximum 2 candidates per call on condition they are both of a different gender.

BENEFIT:

The Ghent University promoter receives a bench fee of € 310/per month of research in Ghent + € 8.000 travel budget to cover (part of) the operational costs, as well as part of the travelling costs of the student and both the Ghent University and the local promoter.

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