International Juried Photography Competition

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Organized by The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, The Four Seasons
Photography Juried Competition is open to professional and non
professional photographers who will compete together in color and
black and white. The theme for this contest is the celebration of the
Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Winter and Autumn. All images should
have a seasonal element and be submitted based on the season
appropriate to the location in which it was taken.

WPGA would like to see images celebrating the seasons-in landscapes,
cityscapes, people at work or on holidays, as well as images
expressing the impact of the seasons on living conditions. In this
sense documentary images are also welcome provided they represent a
story related to a specific season. Although documentary can, but does
not necessarily mean drama and tragedy, it can also relate the joy of
a summer camp or the happiness of a good harvest.

For this contest there will be only one juror, G.M.B. Akash, a
photographer from Bangladesh who has an extraordinary professional
trajectory, having been awarded by World Press Photo 2006 and selected
as one of the 30 emerging photographers by the magazine Photographic
District News (PDN 30). He'll be the juror and will host the winner in
an amazing trip to Nepal, India or Bangladesh (location to be decided
by the winner) that constitutes the prize of The Four Seasons Contest.

THE PRIZE: The winner of WPGA The Four Seasons contest will be awarded
a paid trip, including lodging, to Nepal, India or Bangladesh, where
he will have the chance to work with G.M.B. Akash on a 10-day
photographic project to be decided and agreed by both winner and
juror. Date and location of the trip will be freely discussed and
chosen between juror and the awarded photographer. In case the winner
decides not to travel (or cannot travel) the award will consist in a
cash prize of three thousand US dollars.

Additionally, the images produced in this project, together with a
visual prologue by G.M.B. Akash, and selected images of runners up in
the contest, will be published in the book WPGA - Asia and The Four
Seasons. Images selected by the juror will be exhibited in Asia and in
another European or US city to be determined at a later time. Artist
commissions will be 40% and donation to Save the Children another 40%;
the remaining 20% will be applied to organizational costs.

Entry fee for 3 images is $35 (the minimum of images to be submitted
is 3); each additional image is $10.

To submit your images go to:

http://www.thegalaawards.com

Final Deadline: October 25th, 2009