The Student Focus Competition | Photo Contests 2010

The Student Focus Competition

Exposed

The aim of the brief is to produce a photograph that explores the theme 'Exposed' Your image should draw on themes explored within the Tate Modern's Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera exhibition. The exhibition explores issues around exposure, voyeurism and surveillance. It features a range of photographs created by well-known artists, photojournalists, amateur photographers and those using technology like CCTV and camera phones. We'd like you to think about these different kinds of imagery and how we experience photography in different areas of art, photojournalism and everyday life. We want to see your creative response to these images and ideas. We'd like to see how you think the themes affect the world around you. Consider the increasing use of surveillance cameras, camera phones, and the circulation of images in the media and on the internet. Look around you and observe different ways we experience 'exposure' through imagery. We are looking for a clear image to represent the above theme/s. Your photograph should record and communicate the essence of your idea.

Entry eligibility: The Competition is open to all students of photography from WPA selected universities. All entrants must be aged between 18 and 28 years of age.

Prize(s): Individual student finalists and the overall winning university are awarded a combined prize of approximately 45,000 Euros worth of Sony digital SLR camera equipment, courtesy of the sponsor, Sony.

Copyright: By submitting an entry for the Contest, each contestant acknowledges that the Copyright remains that of the photographer. Any photograph used by the SONY World Photography Awards shall carry the photographer's credit line. Use may include, but is not limited to, publication in any WPA media or documentation for a maximum of three years after the awards ceremony on the 27th of April 2011. You hereby grant WPA a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence in each Entry throughout the world in perpetuity in all media for any use directly or indirectly connected with the Competition but solely connected to the event, including, but not limited to: (a) judging the Competition (b) displaying the winning entries and runners up at public exhibitions promoting WPA and organised by WPA (c) inclusion within the Website, a World Photography Awards book, magazine or similar (d) inclusion within any materials promoting of the Competition and / or any exhibition organised by WPA, in the promotion of the WPA (e) inclusion on Competition- and exhibition-related products to be sold by the WPA or any third party following the individual agreement by the author (f) sub-licencing the Entries to the press for reproduction in connection with the Competition and any exhibition (g) allowing viewers of the Website to view images on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on a PDA or mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for their personal, non-commercial use only.

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Closing date: 2010-11-30