Terms and Conditions for Textile Exchange: Textile Transformations

By participating in the Textile Exchange: Textile Transformations (the "Contest"), you (the "Photographer") and Textile Exchange ("Textile Exchange"), a California nonprofit public benefit corporation with a registered address at 1812 W Burbank Blvd #5790, Burbank, CA 91506, United States agree to the following Terms and Conditions.

The Textile Exchange Terms and Conditions are additional to the Terms of Use of the software provider Picter, which can be viewed here: https://www.picter.com/terms-of-use.

The Contest will allow any early career photographer or filmmaker to submit Work from 09:00 (UTC) 19 May 2025 until the closing date on 23:59 (UTC) on 13 July 2025. Textile Exchange reserves the right to adjust this deadline at any time. For this Contest, an early career photographer or filmmaker is defined as someone who is in the first years of actively pursuing photography as a professional career, and has begun building a portfolio, exhibiting work, or securing commissions but is still working to establish their reputation and network within the field.

Decisions on any successful submissions will be made in August 2025. We appreciate all entries, but we will only be replying to successful submissions.

A. PRIZES

The prizes consist of:

1. Grand prize winner:

1. One (1) time commission to the value of $10,000. The value of this commission includes all necessary production and travel costs outlined by Textile Exchange and its partners, as well as any bank fees incurred.
2. Five (5) one to one mentorship sessions of one hour with a Magnum Photographer to be scheduled on the following dates: the week of 8 September 2025, the week of 15 September 2025, the week of 22 September 2025, the week of 29 September 2025, and the week of 6 October 2025.

2. Runner Up:

1. One (1) commission to the value of $7,000. The value of this commission includes all necessary production and travel costs outlined by Textile Exchange and its partners, as well as any bank fees incurred.

Separate licensing agreements will be created for the commission and creation of new work for Textile Exchange.

Prizes are inclusive of Photographer fees, all travel and photography expenses including insurance. Textile Exchange will ensure that commissions are local to the winning Photographers' locations to reduce any associated travel costs.

Artists selected for exhibition will not incur any additional costs or hidden fees.

B. CONTEST ENTRY AND SELECTION PROCESS**

1. Photographer must be at least 18 years of age to enter the Contest. 
2. Photographer must hold the right to work in Photographer's country.
3. Photographer must submit a maximum of two projects with an accompanying artist statement (the "Work"). If the Work does not meet these requirements, the Photographer will not be considered. 
4. The selection process for the prizes is based on the Work submitted and judged on the excellence, context, and quality of the work submitted in answer to the brief
5. If a large number of applications are received, Textile Exchange will do a preliminary selection of entries in partnership with Magnum Photos. All submissions will be reviewed to ensure they adhere to the guidelines and Terms and Conditions.
6. Jurors will participate in a remote session to decide the final winners.
7. Textile Exchange will not correspond with any Photographer regarding any unsuccessful application.

C. SUBMITTED WORK AND LICENSING

By submitting Work to the Contest open call, the Photographer agrees that:

1. Photographer is the copyright holder of the Work.
2. The Work is an original work (except to the extent that it may include third party clearances, including, if applicable, any music licensing, where the Photographer has in their possession any necessary written permission which may be delivered to Textile Exchange, upon request), is free of any lien, claim, or debt of any kind, is not in the public domain in any country throughout the world.
3. Photographer has obtained a valid and accurate model release, property release or any other release, clearance, consent, permissions, or third-party rights from any person(s) and owners of property depicted or included in the Work (the "Release"). When seeking the relevant Releases from an individual depicted or included in your Work, Photographer explicitly informed the individual of the purpose of the image, and the potential consequences of the submission (i.e., that it may appear online or print in the context of this Contest).
4. The Work contains no material that is libelous, obscene, plagiarized or any other unlawful matter, or is in any way illegal, and that it in no way infringes upon the copyright or violates any other right of any person so as to subject Textile Exchange to liability to any third party.
5. The Work does not depict any minors (children below the age of 18).
6. Textile Exchange reserves the right to determine the presentation, including layout, size, and materials, of the selected Photographers' Work in both digital and physical exhibitions, as well as the inclusion or omission of any third-party partners in storytelling for the Work.
7. If Photographer's Work is selected, Photographer agrees to grant Textile Exchange a non-exclusive irrevocable global license to reproduce, copy, publish, and display the Work in all Textile Exchange media, including but not limited to social media, printed media, third party press, and exhibitions. Photographer agrees that Textile Exchange will archive the digital versions of all submitted Work for possible future inclusion in promotion of the Contest in subsequent years.
8. Textile Exchange may wish to obtain the right to use a Photographer's submitted Work for further purposes, whether editorial, commercial, or otherwise, beyond the purpose of the Contest as set out in these Terms and Conditions and any Contest guidelines. Photographer shall receive further communications from Textile Exchange should we wish to exercise this option. In these circumstances, a pre-agreed fee will be payable by Textile Exchange to the Photographer, as per the fee structureprovided to the Photographer at the time of the request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein requires that we make any use of Photographer's Work.Photographer's Work will not be licensed without the Photographer's permission.

D. AI GENERATED IMAGES AND THE USE OF AI TOOLS

1. All photographs submitted to the Contest must be made with a camera. If Photographer's Work is selected, Photographer shall submit raw files of the images. No synthetic or artificially generated images are allowed, and no use of artificially generative fill is allowed in post-production. Any use of AI generated images or tools (such as, but not limited to, Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly, Runway ML, Leonardo AI, Dream by Wombo, Bing Image Creator, NightCafe, Craiyon, Artbreeder, and DeepAI) will automatically disqualify the entry from the Contest.

E. MISCELLANEOUS TERMS

1. The Photographer shall indemnify, defend and hold Textile Exchange, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, successors, licensees and assigns and respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, partners and agents who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in threatened, pending or completed claim, action, suit, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution proceeding, administrative hearing whether of a civil, criminal, or administrative nature (any of the foregoing, a "Proceeding"), or any appeal of such a Proceeding or any inquiry or investigation that could lead to such a Proceeding harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses, including attorneys' fees, costs or disbursements arising out of any breach of this Agreement.
2. The Photographer may request the withdrawal their Contest submission or the deletion of their entire Picter account and removal of submitted Work from the Picter platform by notifying support@picter.com. Picter's Privacy Policy can be viewed here: https://www.picter.com/privacy-policy.
3. If Photographer is seeking to remove any item of Work due to a potential, threatened or actual legal claim, Photographer must immediately notify Textile Exchange in writing (email is acceptable).
4. These Terms and Conditions and any documents referred to herein shall constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof
5. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of New York, U.S.A. without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles that would cause the laws of any other jurisdiction to apply. In the event of any dispute arising from or in connection to these Terms and Conditions, the parties shall first seek to resolve it amicably through mutual agreement, but if no resolution is achieved, any action or proceeding to enforce the terms and conditions shall be brought in a court in the State of New York, United States, or by binding arbitration in the New York, United States. The Parties hereto hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of these courts and waive the defense of inconvenient forum to the maintenance of any action or proceeding in such venue.