Deadline: 07-Nov-22
Leica Camera is accepting nominations for the 2023 Leica Women Foto Project Award which encourages diversity and inclusion in visual storytelling to amplify voices typically underrepresented in photography, discovering the breadth of shapes formed by a single story.
Categories
- Category 1 (thirty-three and one third percent (33 1/3 %)): Quality of Photography (Composition, creativity, visual language, consistency of project, power of series, etc.)
- Category 2 (thirty-three and one third percent (33 1/3 %)): Dedication to the Medium of Photography (Artistic integrity, photographic career accomplishments to date, vision of future achievement)
- Category 3 (thirty-three and one third percent (33 1/3 %)): Sophistication of project (Quality of written descriptions, concept, level of relevance, connection to humanity through the female perspective, level of previous engagement with community affected, quality and relevance of planned usage of prize money)
Prizes
- Subject to “Prize Restrictions”, each Winner of the Leica Women Foto Project Award (“Winner”) will receive a cash prize of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00 USD) payable via check or wire transfer, as well as a one Leica SL2-S camera and Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-70 f/2.8 ASPH lens (or equivalent model at Sponsor’s sole discretion). Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) of each prize: $28,090 USD. Total ARV of all prizes: $112,360 USD.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Contest is open only to individuals legally residing in the fifty (50) United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, or Canada (excluding residents of the province of Québec), in each case who are at least twenty-one (21) years of age at time of entry in the Contest.
- (A) Employees, officers, managers, and directors of Sponsor or its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, representatives, consultants, contractors, vendors, freelancers, legal counsel, advertising, public relations, promotional, fulfillment, and marketing agencies, website providers, web masters, (collectively, the “Contest Entities”), (B) members of their immediate families (spouses, parents, siblings and children, regardless of where they live), and (C) those living in the same household as a Contest Entity are not eligible to enter or win. Subject to (B) and (C) of the preceding sentence, photographers who teach workshops at the Leica Akademie but are NOT employed by Leica are eligible.
- Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, individuals who have a formal affiliation or partnership with enterprises that compete with Sponsor and manufacture or market cameras, sport optic products, lenses, or accessories for the aforementioned products, or make such performances available to such enterprises, are not eligible to enter or win.
- Competitors include, without limitation, Canon, Nikon, Sony, Hasselblad, Mamiya, Fuji, Samsung, Olympus, Sigma, Panasonic, and Pentax. Sponsor reserves the right to verify the eligibility of potential Winners. Participation constitutes Entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these official rules of the Contest (these “Official Rules”) and to Sponsor’s decisions with respect to the Contest, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest.
Award Submissions
- The Submission must be a series of a work in progress for which the Award monies would support. The series must tell a single story through a woman’s perspective on a topic that serves to bear witness to humanity.
- Although the Contest is open to all (subject to the eligibility requirements set forth herein), Sponsor openly welcomes and encourages all who identify as women to enter. Sponsor does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender expression, ability, or sexual orientation.
- Limit one (1) entry/Submission per person. Entrants must provide all required information on the Website, including without limitation, first and last name and email address, to be eligible to enter. In doing so, an Entrant represents to Sponsor that all such information provided by such Entrant is true, complete, and correct.
- Entrants may be asked to answer optional questions and/or register for future notices of online promotions; however, Entrants need not answer these questions or agree to receive future emails in order to be eligible for entry in the Contest. Except as expressly stated otherwise in these Official Rules, Entrants will receive any communications related to the contest from Sponsor via email.
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