Photo Awards Ed 4 Rules 2023-2024

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

(Published work is not mandatory)

1. News and Current Affairs - Single Image

Images on news events, culture, health, politics, gender or any current events across the country as single images. You may enter any number of entries.

2. News and Current Affairs - Photo Story

Photo stories on news, culture, health, politics, gender or any current events across the country. You may enter any number of entries. Minimum of 10 and maximum of 15 images can be submitted as part of your photo story.

3. Climate Change, Environment and Conservation - Single Image

Single images documenting climate crisis, climate impact on land, communities and wildlife, vegetation, land, ecology, geography, natural resource management, ecotourism, local conservation traditions, and related issues. You may enter any number of entries.

4. Climate Change, Environment and Conservation - Photo Story

Photo Stories documenting climate crisis, climate impact on land, communities and wildlife, vegetation, land, ecology, geography, natural resource management, ecotourism, local conservation traditions, and related issues. You may enter any number of entries. Minimum of 10 and maximum of 15 images can be submitted as part of your photo story.

5. Nature and Wildlife - Single image

Nature and wildlife photography that highlights not just the beauty, but the importance of preservation of nature and our wildlife, national parks, bio zones, the relationship between humans and nature and wildlife, natural habitats, urbanisation's impact on nature and wildlife, and related topics.

6. Portraits - Single Image

Compelling portraits that can be street style, environmental portraits, or close-up portraits, capturing the person's mood, body language, setting, giving a story of that person in one image. This can include creative studio portraits as well with a social and cultural lens. You may enter any number of entries.

7. Daily Life and Culture - Single Image

Street moments, cultural events, cultural traditions within a home or outside in public spaces, daily routines, capturing the essence of a moment that qualifies as daily life. Composition and context of the moment will play a key role here.

Eligibility Criteria

The CPB Photo Awards is free and open to all Indian residents regardless of location, religion, caste/class or gender. Non-resident Indians cannot apply.
Participants must be 18 years or over at the time of application for the award.
Team members, patrons, trustees and advisors of the organisers and key partner-organisers cannot participate in this award.

Submission Criteria

For News category - Submitted work for the awards must be made between Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
For Climate, Environment and Conservation category - No timeframe applicable
For Daily life & Culture, Portraits and Nature & Wildlife category - No timeframe applicable
Applicants can submit unlimited entries in multiple categories.
Single image entry can be repeated as part of your photo story submission.
Quality of English language will not be a criteria for judging the entry, only accuracy of information will be an important criteria for the jury.

Technical Criteria

File Specification: Submitted photographs must meet the following specifications:
Images to be submitted online to the contest platform with the following dimensions: 1500 pixels on the long side at 100 dpi.
AdobeRGB, sRGB or grayscale Gamma 2.2 are recommended.
No CMYK files will be accepted.
Images must be uploaded in JPEG format at the highest quality setting.
Shortlisted participants will be asked to submit untouched RAW files along as well as Full-Resolution processed TIFF images.
Image Editing
For applications under the categories "News and Current affairs" and "Climate, Environment and Conservation": Only single exposure and single frame pictures will be accepted. The following are not accepted: Multiple exposures, diptychs, triptychs, stitched panoramas, in-camera or with image editing software in these categories.
The content of a picture must not be digitally altered by adding, rearranging, reversing, distorting or removing people and/or objects from within the frame. There are two exceptions:
Cropping that removes extraneous details is permitted. Only standard format crops are permitted. No cloning or straightening of an image after a crop will be permitted.
Removing sensor dust is permitted, but it should not in any way remove any detail from the picture along with the dust. For instance, removal or sensor dust should not be an excuse for removing a mole from a face, or a bird from the sky, or a bullet from a scene of crime.
Adjustments of colour or conversion to grayscale that do not alter content are permitted, with the following exceptions:
Changes in colour should not result in significant changes in hue, to such an extent new colour is introduced, and is different from the original scene.
Changes in density, contrast, colour saturation levels that alter content by obscuring or eliminating backgrounds, objects or people are not permitted. For instance, an increase in contrast or brightness levels should not end up making a telegraph wire in the sky go away.

Other Terms and Conditions

Awarding Criteria:

Entries that have received any other awards (with or without financial compensation) will be eligible if it is made within the timeframes of this award.
Any entry, if awarded in a specific category, will not be considered for any other category.
Photo of the Year/Photo Story of the Year: All Single Images and Photo essays are automatically eligible for the Photo of the Year, the Photo Story of the Year and for the Emami Art Regional Photographer Award (for applications from Tier II and Tier III cities) awards respectively. Any entry that gets awarded the Photo/Photo Story/ Regional Award of the Year, will not be doubly awarded the category prize as well. For eg: If your entry is selected from any of the five submission categories for Photo/ Photo Story/Regional Award of the Year, another entry will be considered for the category award. You cannot be awarded both.

Usage:

For shortlisted and awarded pictures, the applicants grant the organizers unlimited non-exclusive use of high-resolution pictures for activities in all media, including social media, online and print, in relation to promotion of the contest, the exhibition(if any), and all promotional activities without any remuneration being due. The photographer will be credited wherever the image is used in the future for promotional purposes of the CPB Photo Awards only. Winning entries will be published on the Awards website and on Picter for perpetuity.
For all submitted photographs, copyright holders will grant the organizers non-exclusive use of low-resolution pictures in a public archive for its research and educational activities, without any remuneration being due.

Copyright:

The photographer or the agent or representative entering on their behalf, must be the copyright holder(s) or have been authorized by the copyright holder(s) to submit the material in case of a deceased photographer.
Applicants retain copyright of their work.
The applicant will ensure that the submission of the pictures does not breach any law, and has required consent from human subjects, further that no third party can hold any claims or any objections regarding the all rights granted to the organizers. The applicant will hold the organizers harmless of any claims from third parties after submission.

Disqualification

The conditions set out in the Entry Rules are binding and the organizers reserves the right to refuse or exclude any entry at its own discretion.
The organizer retains the right to disqualify any entry.
Contacting or attempting to contact any of the jurors, will attract immediate disqualification.
If the photographer has in some way influenced the elements/subject(s) within a composition, this fact must be clearly disclosed. (For eg: the survivor points to the direction from where the gunmen descended.) If an attempt to influence the situation/image in any unethical way is observed or is brought to the award organizer's notice, subsequent to the award ceremony, the image will be disqualified.
The organiser is entitled to revoke the issued award for any kind sexual harassment allegation against the applicant. By applying to the CPB Photo Awards, each applicant confirms that there is no past or present allegation, publicly or privately, against them. Should there be any allegations that the applicant is aware of, they must mention it in the application form in the relevant field.
Allegations of plagiarism and unethical practices will be duly investigated by the organiser and if the accusation is found to be of merit, the entry will be disqualified.

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