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Rules 2022
Contest
The cultural association dotART, based in Trieste, Italy, is organising the 13th edition of URBAN Photo Awards contest.
THEMES AND SECTIONS
The contest is open to everybody and organised into 3 sections:
- Single Photos
- Projects & Portfolios
- URBAN Book Award
Contestants can participate in more than one section at the same time. The general theme of the contest is Urban Life: Urban Photography. The theme delves into modernity through all kinds of photography set in the fabric of the city. At the heart of the contest is the City, the urban environment and the humanity living there: the everyday life of big cities and small towns, the contrasts and the contradictions between the city and the countryside, the aesthetic views, the architectural geometries, fragments of colour breaking up the greyness of the city. Real, immediate images, able to recount the City and its stories.
This section is dedicated to single photos, which have to fall within one of the following thematic areas:
STREETS
The infinite aspects of the city and of the lives of its dwellers.
Categories
- street photography
- transport
- urban life
- sport
- night life
- events
- urban jungle
- gatherings
- contrasts
- urban animals
- unposed subjects
- other
Post-production: allowed.
Photo editing: not allowed.
PEOPLE
The human body, to be portrayed in a pose or to fleetingly capture on the street. Portraits, fashion, glam and kitsch, faces and glances, conventional and unusual beauty.
Categories
- portraits
- fashion
- kitsch
- studio photography
- wedding
- boudoir
- lifestyle
- self-portraits
- nude
- other
Post-production: allowed.
Photo editing: allowed.
SPACES
Urban spaces, among buildings and streets, shapes and geometries, monuments and churches, industrial archaeology and abandoned places.
Categories
- NEW BUILDINGS (Matrix4Design Prize)
- architecture
- buildings & structures
- urban geometries
- urban design
- city landscapes
- urban art
- industrial
- industrial archaeology
- green life
- drone / aerial
- other
Post-production: allowed.
Photo editing: not allowed.
CREATIVE
Together with
City of PALMANOVA, Sito UNESCO
Artistic, experimental, conceptual, visionary and abstract photos, which do not belong to any of the previous categories, but still refer to Urban Life theme.
Categories
- fine art
- digital art
- artwork
- advertising
- macro
- minimalist
- conceptual
- abstract
- visions
- experimental
- still life
- surreal
- other
Post-production: allowed.
Photo editing: allowed.
» New Buildings – Matrix4Design Prize Guidelines for Single Photos Technical specifications
Prize offered by our partner Matrix4Design.
Photos representing some of the symbols of architecture that have helped change the look of the city over the past ten years. If you wish to enter, you will only have to add the category New Buildings (Matrix4Design prize) to the Single Photos running in the category SPACES. Pictures will be judged by Matrix4Design editor Andrea Boni , who will select a shortlist of the best photos and the Winner. Please add in the title the building’s name, the architect (if you know them) and the city.
Contestants can submit sets of photos, linked to each other by a common trait. The sets can be in the form of photographic projects, thematic portfolios, series, reportages and storyboards (sequences of images telling a story).
Guidelines for Projects & Portfolios
- Projects will have to contain from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 12 photos. Post-production and photo-editing are allowed.
- Authors will have to write a brief description of their projects in English (Google Translate can be used as a support), to be uploaded with the photos.
- Each contestant can submit as many portfolios as they please.
- Both colour and black-and-white photos are allowed.
- Post-production and photo-editing are allowed at the discretion of the author.
- Photos with signatures, filigrees, frames or visible marks will not be accepted.
- Photos deemed offensive according to the sensibility and the unappealable decision of the jury will not be accepted.
- To make sure you have the right order of the photos, please add a sequence number to your filename (e.g. filename01.jpg, filename02.jpg, filename03.jpg …).
Technical specifications
- Jpg format (attention to file extension No to “.jpeg” extensions and not even TIFF, RAW, etc.).
- RGB color method.
- Single photos: files must be less than 10 MB each.
- Projects: the files that make up the projects must be less than 10 MB each.
- Minimum size on the smaller side: 2000 px / maximum size on the longest side: 6000 px.
- In the Portfolio section, to be sure that the order of the photos is correct, add the numbers in the desired sequence to the file name (eg “filename01.jpg”, “filename02.jpg”, “filename03.jpg” …).
Section dedicated to extended projects, inspired by the theme Urban Life: Urban Photography. Authors can here compete with drafts of their own photographic books, in pdf format. The goal is to give the winning photographer the possibility to produce and promote their own authorial project internationally. It will be published as a paper book by dotART / URBAN and officially presented during the festival Trieste Photo Days 2022.
The new section URBAN Book Award is designed for photographers that feel the limit of 12 photos set for the Projects & Portfolio section as a restraint, and would like to submit extended projects (or larger versions of the same projects already competing in the Projects & Portfolio section).
Guidelines for URBAN Book Award:
- Contestants will have to upload a “dummy”, a draft of the book in pdf format, with a clear structure, even if not well-finished or ready to be printed yet.
- If a pdf format cannot be provided, single photos can be submitted, as far as they are renamed in sequence and gathered in a single zip folder.
- Maximum of 128 pages.
- Contestants can submit up to 3 books each.
- Maximum size of the pdf or zip folder: 100 MB.
- The suggested paper sizes are: A4 (21 x 29.7 cm, vertical or horizontal) or square (22 x 22 cm). If the winning book is of a different size, dotART reserves the right to adapt it to the ones mentioned before.
- Authors are free to create the layout of the book as they please, to employ text and to choose the photographic style they prefer.
- The winner will receive a publishing offer, with a regular publishing contract.
- The staff of the contest will ask the selected author to provide high-resolution versions of the photos composing the book.
- The book will be realized and published by the end of September 2022, in limited deluxe edition. It will also be promoted through dotART networks (Urban Photo Awards and Trieste Photo Days).
“Palmanova Creativa” exhibition-prize
New exhibition-prize offered by the Municipality of Palmanova, the famous north-eastern Italian star-shaped city, in the province of Udine, a UNESCO’s World Heritage Site. A group exhibition-prize will be dedicated to a selection of creative, experimental, abstract and conceptual photographs, competing in the Creative category of the Single Photos section and in the Projects & Portfolios section.
The exhibition will be held from 1 October to 15 November in the Polveriera Napoleonica, and will be part of the calendar of two important exhibitions:
- Palmanova Creativa, in which Palmanova celebrates 5 years as a UNESCO City with an international tribute to creativity in Photography
- Photo Days Tour 2022, the setting for events taking place outside the Trieste during Trieste Photo Days festival
SUBMISSIONS
The contest starts on March 1, 2022, and will end at midnight on May 31 June 12, 2022 NEW DEADLINE!.
To enter the contest, you will just have to fill in the online form in the User Area, to upload files and pay the submission fee. Users already registered in the past years can log in with the same data.
Single Pictures
€ 15 for the first submitted photo
€ 10 for every further photo
EARLY BIRD PROMO Until 31.03.2022
€ 15 for the first submitted photo
€ 8 for every further photo
Projects & Portfolios
€ 40 for each portfolio submitted, regardless of the number of photos composing the portfolio
URBAN Book Award
€ 20 for each book submitted, regardless of the number of photos composing the book
In the User Area you can upload, check, add or delete your Photos and/or Projects & Portfolios / Books, modify the titles and descriptions and manage the payment.
Jury
Entries will be selected by dotART and presented anonymously to a prestigious jury. The other members of the jury will be soon defined.
The jury and dotART have the right to award more than one photo realised by the same author and to assign it to a different section if necessary. The decisions made by the jury are final.
TIMELINE
1 March – 12 June 2022 NEW DEADLINE!
Registrations open for Single Photos, Projects & Portfolios, Books
By the end of June 2022
The names of the Selected Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked). The photographers will have the chance to participate in summer exhibitions and previews as well.
By the middle of July 2022
The names of the Semi-finalist Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 100 single photos, 50 projects & portfolios and 20 Book Award volumes will be selected.
By the end of July 2022
The names of the Finalist Photographers will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 40 single photos, 20 projects & portfolios and 5 Book Award volumes will be selected.
By the middle of September 2022
The names of the Winner Photographs will be published on the website in alphabetical order (not ranked): around 12 single photos, 3 projects & portfolios and 1 Book Award volume (in this case, the winner).
Saturday 29 October 2022
The final ranking will be announced during Trieste Photo Days festival. The final ranking will then be published on URBAN website and Facebook page.
PRIZES
The total prize value is € 23,000(updating).
Up for grabs exhibitions, publications, Amazon Gift Cards, prizes offered by our partners, exclusive events at Trieste Photo Days 2022 and much more.
WINNERS EXHIBIT AND AWARD CEREMONY
The highest placing works with be published on the competition’s website and will be displayed in a collective exhibit on October 2022, in Trieste during Trieste Photo Days 2022 festival. The printing of the photos will be the responsibility of dotART. Some of the entered photos may in addition be selected for exhibits in Italy and abroad.
EXHIBIT/PREVIEWS
The best ranked pictures (usually, 30% of the Selected photos – see Art. 5) could be chosen for “travelling” exhibitions around the world in the context of dotART’s events (Trieste Photo Fringe / Photo Days Tour).
PAYMENT
You can pay in the User Area. We accept these payment methods:
- PayPal to paypal@dotart.it or www.paypal.me/dotart.
- Bank transfer to dotART – IBAN IT43F0306909606100000010209 / BIC/SWIFT Code: BCITITMM (please add text: “Urban 2022”. IMPORTANT: include the email used in the upload form)
- Payment by hand at dotART, Via S. Francesco 6 – 2nd floor, Trieste, Italy – by appointment (info@dotart.it or Tel. +39 040 3720617)
- We also accept other payment methods (for example SumUp and Wise): if interested, write us an email
If you wish to pay by bank transfer you can make a single payment specifying “Contribution to Urban Photo Contest 2022 + section1 + Name + Email”.
COPYRIGHT
Each photographer maintains moral and intellectual property rights on their submitted works. Each author grants the dotART association the non-exclusive right to use the winning/selected images to promote/advertise the association’s non-profit activities, subject to official communication to the author (whose name will always be attributed to the work).
ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES / MODEL RELEASE
By entering the competition, the Author accepts the present rules and declares that he/she is the owner of the intellectual property rights and of the rights of use of the submitted image and of any necessary release notes. Documentation of rights ownership must be presented to dotART upon request.
RIGHT TO CANCEL OR TO SUSPEND THE COMPETITION
If for any reason the Competition cannot be run as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, trojan horses, denial of service attacks, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause that corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Competition, dotART reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) seen to have tampered with the entry process and/or to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Competition. If dotART elects to cancel or terminate the Competition, it will not retain any rights to the submitted photographs and it will return all entry fees.
dotART is not responsible for the cancellation or modification of the prizes offered by the partners.