Photo Oxford 2020 is pleased to announce its Open Call for photography submissions that investigate Photo Oxford’s 2020 Festival theme: Women and Photography: Ways of Seeing and Being Seen. The Festival theme explores female identity in front of the lens and behind it. For more information, please see www.photooxford.org.
Photographers of all genders are invited to respond to the theme as widely as possible. Works can be from any kind of photography practice. Submissions are for a single photograph per entry (though up to six entries are welcome) and the challenge to photographers is to interpret the theme in an original, imaginative way, while submitting a single work that is visually arresting.
A great selection of prizes including £1,000 cash, exhibition spaces at the Photo Oxford 2020 festival, a portfolio review and memberships to Alamy and Photocrowd.
Expert judged:
1st prize: - £750 cash - 1 x 3 year no fee Alamy membership - 1 x portfolio review, in person or online and an hour long consultation with a senior member of the Alamy content team - 1 x Master-level Membership of Photocrowd for 1 year
Top 20 winning photographs will be exhibited at OVADA, Oxford, for the duration of the Photo Oxford 2020 festival (16 October - 16 November 2020), printed and exhibited at Photo Oxford’s expense, subject to any restrictions due to Covid-19 then in place. The winning photographs will be exhibited online, accessible through the Photo Oxford website and promoted by Photo Oxford.
Other prizes: 5x places Open discussion/workshop with a panel from the judges tbc provisionally at lunchtime on October 19th at the Old Bank Hotel, Oxford, OX1 4BJ, subject to any restrictions due to Covid-19 then in place. In the event that a meeting is not possible, an online meeting will be arranged via Zoom.
Crowd vote:
1st prize: - £250 cash - 1 x 3 year no fee Alamy membership - 1 x portfolio review, in person or online and an hour long consultation with a senior member of the Alamy content team - 1 x Master-level Membership of Photocrowd for 1 year
Top 20 winning photographs will be exhibited at OVADA, Oxford, for the duration of the Photo Oxford 2020 festival (16 October - 16 November 2020), printed and exhibited at Photo Oxford’s expense, subject to any restrictions due to Covid-19 then in place. The winning photographs will be exhibited online, accessible through the Photo Oxford website and promoted by Photo Oxford.
Every photo submitted will be available for the crowd to rate once the submissions period has ended. In this contest, the entries are hidden until the rating period begins.
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