Time to enter the 2010 International Conservation Photography Awards
As you may have read in prior posts, I am a big fan of Art Wolfe. This particular contest was started by Art and a couple of his friends back in 1997. They wanted to provide a platform to showcase the work of amateurs and professionals.
ZZZZbras, 2008 Wildlife Category Winner: Clint Carter
IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Entries
Entries accepted from
November, 2009 to
February 28, 2010
What are the ICP Awards?
The International Conservation Photography Awards (ICP Awards) is a premier worldwide photography event focused on conservation and the environment. The ICP Awards are open to all photographers worldwide. The biennial juried photo competition, along with awarding cash and merchandise to selected photographers, will include an online exhibit, a 3-month museum gallery exhibit at the prestigious Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington, publication in a national photography magazine and other printed communications, and a slide show for use in community outreach and global on-line entertainment/education.
Submission Categories
· Landscape – Depicting the beauty and diversity found throughout both the protected and unprotected natural landscapes of the world.
· Wildlife - Depicting the diversity of animal species, their behavior and habitat, including endangered species.
· Flora – Depicting the beauty and diversity of plants throughout the world, including endangered species and ecosystems.
· Underwater – Depicting the beauty and diversity of marine or freshwater animals or plants, including inherent environmental/conservation themes.
· Community at Risk – Focusing on environmental threats and issues particularly pertaining to our cities and urban areas, including humanity’s positive and negative impacts.
· Natural Environment at Risk – Depicting the threats facing the world’s natural environments and resources.
· Documenting a Conservation Project- This special category seeks images that document a conservation project in which you, as photographer, are personally involved. Provide up to 6 images documenting the project.
· Puget Sound at Risk – Special category depicting the environmental issues and humanity’s impact on Puget Sound in the Northwest United States.
This category is sponsored by Puget Soundkeeper Alliance whose mission is to protect and preserve Puget Sound from pollution. www.pugetsoundkeeper.org
· Student - Images from participants enrolled full-time in schoool or under the age of 18 as of April 1,2010 that pertain to any of the above categories.
Elephants in dust strom, 2008 Wildlife Winner: Sue Flood
Mission of the ICP Awards
To harness the potential of amateur and professional photographers around the world who are not yet involved in environmental and cultural conservation.
To recognize and reward excellence in conservation photography.
To educate, inspire and motivate the public through a photographic exhibition that will create a sense of urgency and move people to take action.
History and Purpose
Known for his passionate advocacy of the environment, nature photographer Art Wolfe created a conservation-themed photo contest in 1997 as “an event for the advancement of photography as a unique medium capable of bringing awareness and preservation to our environment through art.”
The 2010 International Conservation Photography Awards is a continuation of Art Wolfe’s vision and has become a biennial (every two years) international event. Each year the ICP Awards strives to increase its reach and influence to photographers from around the world as well as to diverse audiences who will be inspired by the work.
More than just a competition, 75+ of the juried photographs will be exhibited in 2010 via a new partnership with The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, a development that continues to raise the bar for this program. ICP Awards organizers are also exploring ways to travel the exhibit in the interim year before the next program in 2012 – please let us know if you have ideas about venues that would be interested in hosting the exhibit during the 2011 year.
The ICP Awards are open to all photographers worldwide.
JUDGES
Barbara Cox, Photokunst
For the past 18 years, Barbara Cox has been involved with photography as a consultant to cause-oriented photographers, photojournalists and major photo archives including the New York Times, Getty Images and the Gandhi Archive. She acts as a book and licensing agent and works with publishers, museums, galleries and the media to achieve professional recognition for her clients. She is a past exhibitor at Art Basel, Paris Photo, photo la, Frankfurt Art Fair, and more. www.photokunst.com
Tim Girvin, GIRVIN | Strategic Branding
Tim Girvin is internationally recognized as a brand strategist and designer; his time is committed to client work, creative strategy, as well as philosophical overviews and trend analyses, as a top-rated blogger and speaker. His firm, GIRVIN | Strategic Branding has been in continuous operation as a consulting group for nearly 35 years. Calligrapher, journalist, photographer and poet he travels and works in the world of curiosity, innovation and creativity. Girvin’s group offices are in Seattle, NYC and Tokyo. His brands are among the best in the world. www.girvin.com
Jane Perovich, Getty Images
Jane Perovich is Senior Photo Editor at Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multi-media products. Jane leads a team of photo editors and provides art direction to photographers who contribute to Getty Images house collections, including Stone, Stone+, The Image Bank, Taxi and Photodisc. Her team also seeks out imagery and photographers whose work represents intriguing and diverse points of view for the Flickr collection at gettyimages.com. www.gettyimages.com
Grace Stahre, Versant Media, Inc.
Grace Stahre is the founder and principle of Versant Media, a video and movie production company committed to the creation of works with aspirational themes around social change and justice. An environmentalist as well, Grace also serves as president of the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network. www.versantmedia.com
Andrew Whiteman, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Andrew Whiteman is an avid outdoorsman and the Senior Curator of Exhibits and Exhibit Designer at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle where he oversees all exhibit design and production activities. www.washington.edu/burkemuseum
RULES / GUIDELINES
Who is Eligible?
- Open to all photographers world-wide.
Invitational Rules
- All photographic processes and formats are eligible.
- Images made in any location worldwide are eligible.
- Images must be in keeping with the mission of the ICP Awards.
- You may enter as many categories as you like, but you may submit only up to 4 entries per category.
How to Enter
Images produced in all film formats and types, including digitial media, are eligible. Once your entry fees have been sent and received, you will receive further instructions on submitting your images which will include submission in digital format via e-mail attachments to the ICP Awards.
No entries will be accepted by mail.
Entry Fees
The entry fee is $50(US) for up to 4 entries and $15(US) for each individual entry thereafter, with limit of 4 submissions per category. (Special category Documenting a Conservation Project may provide up to 6 images for the $50 (US) entry fee.
For entrants in the Student category the fee is $25(US) for up to 3 entries and $10(US) for each individual entry thereafter with no limit on the number of total entries allowed.
How to Pay Entry Fees and Submit Images
All submission fees will be paid on-line through this site’s shopping cart using your credit card or PayPal account. Follow instructions under the big green SUBMIT PHOTOS HERE button to the right. Here is where you will pay your fees and be instructed on how to submit your images. For international submissions, appropriate exchange-rates will automatically be accounted for.
Entry Period: November, 2009 – February 28, 2010
Digital Specifications
- Images must be no larger than 2.5 MB in JPEG format at maximum quality, with the longest dimension no larger than 1024 pixels, at a resolution of 72 dpi, in 8-bit RGB mode.
- Color management preferred ICC Profiles are Adobe RGB (1998) or sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
- Images must be named lastname_firstname_category_sequence#.jpg with no spaces in filename.
Examples: wolfe_art_landscape_01.jpg
wolfe_art_wildlife_01.jpg
wolfe_art_wildlife_02.jpg
If the category is too long, use the first word in the category. Example: Puget Sound at Risk = puget. - No border, embedded marks or logos.
Digital Manipulation Guidelines
Heavily manipulated images will not be accepted. Color and contrast adjustments, sharpening, burning and dodging, etc. will be accepted within reason so long as it does not alter the subject content of the original image.
Requirements for Selected Photographers and Images
Accurate caption information must be available should your image be chosen for the ICP Awards exhibit. This would include information regarding plant or animal species, where appropriate, and the state/province and country in which the photograph was taken. Wildlife images should include whether animal is wild or captive.
Photographers with the selected photographs must be prepared, prior to exhibit and awards, to submit a brief written paragraph on the artist’s intention and process in capturing the conservation-themed image(s).
Photographers whose images are selected for the exhibit agree to allow ICP Awards to post said images on the ICP Awards website, to publish/feature a selection of said images in both print and online magazines, to incorporate photographs in slideshow for educational and community outreach purposes, and to use said images for promotion of the ICP Awards. Photographers will receive appropriate credit in all cases.
The ICP Awards will discard all images not selected as winners after final jury decision is made.
Submission of Selected Images
Upon notification, selected photographers will be responsible for submitting a high resolution /high quality image file to match our exact specifications. The ICP Awards will print the images and provide high quality frames and mats for the exhibition at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and any potential subsequent showings during the following year.
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