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    The document provides guidelines for the India Future of Change Photography Contest. The contest invites amateur and professional photographers worldwide to submit photographs capturing India's tradition and modernity across five themes. Photographs can be submitted until December 15, 2010 and will be judged by a panel based on relevance and quality of perspective within the contest theme. Twenty total winners will receive cash prizes and an all-expenses paid trip to India, with the top 20 photographs exhibited in Switzerland.

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    The document provides guidelines for the India Future of Change Photography Contest. The contest invites amateur and professional photographers worldwide to submit photographs capturing India's tradition and modernity across five themes. Photographs can be submitted until December 15, 2010 and will be judged by a panel based on relevance and quality of perspective within the contest theme. Twenty total winners will receive cash prizes and an all-expenses paid trip to India, with the top 20 photographs exhibited in Switzerland.

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    The document provides guidelines for the India Future of Change Photography Contest. The contest invites amateur and professional photographers worldwide to submit photographs capturing India's tradition and modernity across five themes. Photographs can be submitted until December 15, 2010 and will be judged by a panel based on relevance and quality of perspective within the contest theme. Twenty total winners will receive cash prizes and an all-expenses paid trip to India, with the top 20 photographs exhibited in Switzerland.

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    IFC Photo Rules

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    Suhas Bandre
    The document provides guidelines for the India Future of Change Photography Contest. The contest invites amateur and professional photographers worldwide to submit photographs capturing India's tradition and modernity across five themes. Photographs can be submitted until December 15, 2010 and will be judged by a panel based on relevance and quality of perspective within the contest theme. Twenty total winners will receive cash prizes and an all-expenses paid trip to India, with the top 20 photographs exhibited in Switzerland.

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    Photography Contest

    Guidelines

    www.indiafutureofchange.com
    INDIA Future of Change
    Photography Contest

    Capture India with a Click!


    A picture is worth a thousand words!
    India a land of myriad images – colorful, vibrant, poignant and enthralling!
    If your lens can capture the magic of India then you can participate
    in the INDIA Future of Change Photography Contest.

    The INDIA Future of Change Photography contest invites all –


    Amateurs and Professional Photographers from all over the world to capture
    their image of India that best portrays any one or more or all of the five contest
    themes under “Tradition and Modernity in India”.

    Contest Themes
    Theme 1. Tradition and Modernity: Festivals of India
    Theme 2. Tradition and Modernity: Homes in India
    Theme 3. Tradition and Modernity: Architecture
    Theme 4. Tradition and Modernity: Spirituality
    Theme 5. Tradition and Modernity: Rural India

    Contest Categories
    Category 1. Amateur Photographers
    Category 2. Professional Photographers

    Prizes
    • Two winners in each Contest Theme in each Contest Category:
    (A total of ten winners in each Contest Category. Twenty winners in all.)
    • One Cash Prize of US$ 5000 in each of the themes.
    • A fifteen day all-expenses-paid vacation to select destinations in India for all winners.
    • Top 20 entries to be exhibited at the INDIA Future of Change Showcase
    at the Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland, January 26-30, 2011 on the sidelines
    of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.
    Rules of Participation
    Eligibility
    • Entry to the contest is open to both amateurs and professionals.
    • There is no age limit for the participants.
    • The participant must ensure that he/she registers and submits for the correct category,
    i.e. amateur segment or professional segment of the Photography Contest.
    Submission in an incorrect category will lead to disqualification.
    • Participation is open to individuals only.

    Technical Criteria
    • Photographs must be in digital format, no print or film submissions will be permitted.
    • The submissions must be in .jpeg format.
    The file size of each entry must not be more than 10 MB.
    • The photographs can be in horizontal or vertical formats.
    • The submitted work must not contain material(s) offensive to any particular
    community, group, individual or institution.
    • Photo-editing can only be done to the extent of cropping, minor colour correction
    and tinting. Stitched panoramas are acceptable only if all parts are photographed at the
    same time. Any of the allowed alterations, once made, must be clearly mentioned at
    the time of submission.
    • Photographs previously published in any media or entered for any award
    will be disqualified.
    • Photographs should be submitted electronically
    to [email protected]
    by December 15, 2010, 12.00 hrs GMT.
    • All photographs will be displayed in www.flickr.com page of INDIA Future of Change.
    • Each participant can submit a maximum of three entries for each of the contest
    themes. Judging will be based on a single image and not on a series of images.
    • Submitted entries should not have been previously published.
    • Submitted entries that have previously been awarded at other competitions
    will not be considered eligible for entry and will face immediate disqualification.

    Rights and Reproduction


    • Any moral and paternity right regarding the project sent in for the contest is the
    photographer’s property. However, by submitting a photograph in the competition,
    the participant agrees to give INDIA Future of Change the first right of refusal
    to the exclusive use of the picture. This option is valid until 31 March 2012.
    • All participants agree to allow their entries to be published or showcased by INDIA
    Future of Change. INDIA Future of Change retains the right to publish the submissions
    and information associated with them and the participants in all communication
    exercises for INDIA Future of Change campaign.
    • INDIA Future of Change or any employee or agent of INDIA Future of Change
    will NOT be liable for:
    (a) any costs incurred or loss or liability suffered by the participants in relation
    to the program
    (b) any lost expectation of profits by participant
    (c) any failure by participant to understand their rights in relation to Intellectual
    Property, or the rights of The Organizers in relation to Intellectual Property
    (d) any other benefit applicants may expect to gain by participating in the program.
    • INDIA Future of Change may change the Terms and Conditions of participation at any
    time without specific notice. The amended Terms and Conditions of Entry will be
    effective immediately upon being posted on www.indiafutureofchange.com. Important
    changes to the Terms and Conditions will be highlighted on www.indiafutureofchange.
    com for your convenience; however, you acknowledge that it is your sole responsibility
    to regularly visit www.indiafutureofchange.com to read any changes to the Terms and
    Conditions of Entry. Conditions apply.
    • Disputes, if any, are subject to the jurisdiction in the courts of Delhi, India only.

    Selection Criteria
    The picture will be judged on the relevance and the quality of perspective presented
    within the context the contest theme.

    Selection Procedure
    • All entries will be reviewed by a panel of renowned Indian and international
    photographers and other luminaries.
    • There is no fixed matrix of judging criteria. All entries will be judged individually
    and the winners selected by consensus of the Jury.

    Important Dates
    Registration and Submission
    • Registration opens on 15 September 2010, 0900 hrs GMT
    • Registration closes on 2 December 2010, 12.00 hrs GMT
    • Submission closes on 15 December 2010, 12.00 hrs GMT

    Declaration of Results
    • Top ten winners in each of the categories will be announced by January 15, 2011.
    • The Grand Prizes will be announced in March, 2011 during the Valedictory function
    in New Delhi. Exact date of the Award Ceremony will be communicated to the winners
    in January.

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