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The Images to Stop TB Photo Award, launched in 2008, is intended to raise awareness of tuberculosis prevention and treatment and community activity by obtaining outstanding photos of these activities.
The 2008 award, presented at the Angkor Photography Festival in Cambodia in November 2008, was won by photojournalist Jean Chung of the Republic of Korea, whose portfolio chronicling the death of a young Afghan woman affected by tuberculosis was selected by an international jury from among 54 entries. Ms Chung received a grant of US$5 000 to produce a photo essay on tuberculosis in one or more of the 22 countries most heavily affected by the disease, along with US$5 000 in prize money. Her photo essay will be featured in the IMAGES TO STOP TUBERCULOSIS exhibition.
The Images to Stop TB Photo Award is supported by the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership.
Images to Stop Tuberculosis Photo Award 2009 Edition (Rules of the Award)
The Project
The project seeks to produce a comprehensive body of photographic work on tuberculosis to be used for advocacy purposes. The 2009 edition aims to obtain outstanding photos depicting people taking action to stop tuberculosis. An international jury will select a photographer who will receive a grant to produce these photos. The jury includes photography experts from around the world and representatives from UN and other partner organizations.
Rules
Who may enter:
Photographers aged 18 and over-except for individuals affiliated with the World Health Organization; or Eli Lilly and Company, including employees, regents, trustees, interns, volunteers, fellows, research associates and their immediate families (children, siblings and spouses) and others living in their households-are eligible.
What to enter:
Ten to 15 photographs depicting health-related issues. We are looking for photos that give a human face to diseases and the fight against them.
Cropped photos are eligible. We do not accept digitally or otherwise enhanced or altered photos. Minor adjustments, including spotting, dodging and burning, contrast and slight colour adjustment or the digital equivalents, are acceptable. If our judges see that a photographer has obviously altered his or her photo, they reserve the right to disqualify the photographer.
An entrant must hold all rights to a photograph. Photos that violate or infringe upon another person's copyright are not eligible.
Captions for all photos in the portfolio must be submitted with your entry and appropriately cross-referenced with the photos.
Admitted formats: JPEGs only
Not Admitted formats: Tiff, Raw, videotapes, interactive CDs or slide shows (.pps, .ppt, .mov, .mpg).
Submissions not meeting these requirements cannot be taken into consideration.
Photos and CDs will not be returned.
How to enter:
Option 1
Please upload the following on the WHO FTP server:
- A completed entry form that includes captions for submitted photographs
- The 10 to 15 photos you are submitting for consideration. These must be labelled with your name and numbered for cross-referencing with captions.
Please find instructions on how to access the WHO FTP server at the following link: http://whoftp.who.int/info/anonuser.html
Please send a written confirmation by email to cammarotav@who.int that photos have been uploaded, since they will stay up on the FTP server for only three days.
Option 2
Send one CD with printed thumbnails or previews and a completed entry form. ICTP fields: caption, location, date.
Address:
Images to Stop Tuberculosis Photo Award
Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
World Health Organization
WHO/STB/TBP
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Entry deadline:
All entries must be received at the Stop TB Partnership by 20 September 2009.
Judging, grant and award:
The Stop TB Partnership will convene an international jury to select the winning photographer. Submitted photographs will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit.
The winner will be notified of his or her status by 30 November 2009.
The name of the winner will be announced through the Images to Stop Tuberculosis website (www.stoptb.org/images) on 3 December 2009.
The winner will receive an award of $5000 and an additional $5000 to be used towards travel expenses to produce a series of 20 - 30 photographs depicting actions people can take to stop tuberculosis and to raise awareness about it. These photographs must be submitted to the Stop TB Partnership no later than 30 January 2009
The 20-30 photos in the reportage will have to be produced in line with a briefing document provided by the Stop TB Partnership.
For a photo in which a person is recognizable, the photographer must secure a model release from the subject or, in the case of a minor, the subject's parent or guardian and provide it to the Stop TB Partnership on request.
Photographs previously published or pending publication, or photos that violate or infringe upon another person's copyright, are not eligible.
Each photo submitted will have to be accompanied by a caption providing the names of all people photographed, the name of the place where the photo was taken, and a description of the activity depicted in the photo.
Legal conditions: By entering this competition, contestants agree to these entry rules and the following legal conditions:
The Prize winner agrees to grant the copyright on the series of 20-30 photographs taken with funding from this award to the World Health Organization. The name of the photographer will always be acknowledged in the copyright line.
By entering, participants warrant that their entry materials are original, do not infringe on any third party's rights, and that they have obtained any necessary permissions from any third party if a third party or third party's property appears in the photograph.
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