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CALL FOR ENTRIES: 28TH LUIS VALTUEÑA INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Application Deadline: Friday, 4th October, 2024

LOCTION: Spain

Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the 28th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best images that singularly demonstrate social inequities, injustices, and/or human rights abuses, or the situations that either foster or fight them.

ELIGIBILITY:

Entry is free

The submitted images must narrate a story related to one of these topics: health, natural disasters, humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, violation of human rights, armed conflicts, vulnerable groups, refugee and/or migrant populations.

This year, entries must be submitted exclusively in digital format via the Picter website. If you are not yet registered on the platform, you will need to create an account in order to participate. You will only be able to submit a single application. Once your submission is successfully submitted, you will receive a confirmation email.

Each entrant must submit the following documentation:
Personal and contact details
Biography (max. 1500 characters)
A series of between 5 (minimum) and 10 (maximum) photographs, in color and/or in black and white
Description of the project presented, including captions

Important: The author’s name must not appear in the description of the project, in the captions or in the name of the files.

For entry requirements or further information, please refer to the contest rules.

BENEFIT:

Winner: €6,000 award.

Winner and finalists:

Receive a plaque

Participation in the annual and itinerant exhibition produced by Médicos del Mundo.

Publication of the photo series on the exhibition catalog, available in Spanish, English, and French. Each author will receive five copies.

Publication in the online collection on Premio Luis Valtueña’s website.

Travel and accommodation (two nights) to attend the Luis Valtueña International Award ceremony and the exhibition opening in 2025 in Madrid.

Press release and newsletter announcement to over Médicos del Mundo community. Winner and finalists are often featured in major publications in Spain.

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BILLBOARD ART COMPETITION ART MOVES

Application Deadline: 24 July 2024, 0:00 CET 

LOCATION: Poland

Artists are invited to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme: To become dependent or independent? To swim with or against the tide? The competition is a part of the 17th Festival of Art on Billboards Art Moves.

ELIGIBILITY:

The purpose of the Competition is to propagate and popularize billboard art and to encourage artists to create art engaged in the reality.

The Competition is open and all artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part, however, the Competition is particularly addressed to young artists, who are usually most eager to face new themes and untypical ways of art presentation. There is no entry fee.

The artists taking part in the Competition are invited to prepare an artwork (maximum three pieces), technique is up to you. The work is intended to be a creative response to this year’s Competition theme: To become dependent or independent? To swim with or against the tide?

Incorporation of the Competition theme in the work is not required and will not have any impact on the evaluation of the work by the jury. If some other slogan or phrase is used in the work, it should be expressed in either Polish or English language.

The format of the competition work should be 498 cm x 243 cm (196 inches x 95.7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 100 dpi, cmyk, tiff. In order to take part in the Competition, the artist has to send a completed entry form and attach a preview of the submitted work in the following format: 30 cm x 14,6 cm (11,8 inches x 5,7 inches) in a horizontal layout, 72 dpi, jpg. Each jpg file should be named with the artist’s first and last name. If more works are submitted, use numbers 1 to 3 in addition to the first and last name e.g. adam_smith_1, adam_smith_2, adam_smith_3.

BENEFIT:

From all the entries, the jury will select 6 most interesting works which will be printed and displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September 2024 in Torun, Poland. The best selected work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 4000 (about EUR 918,00, USD 981,20). The winner will be obliged to pay a lump-sum tax on the award value.

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