As the festival expands in 2012, the London Festival of Photography Prize is an opportunity for photographers to submit projects for inclusion in a world-class exhibition celebrating the annual festival theme. Each year the festival will explore a relevant and far-reaching theme through photographic exhibitions, workshops, participatory activities and debates.
This prestigious prize will achieve critical acclaim for the chosen winners. Every entry will be seen by a judging panel of internationally renowned experts. The Street Photography Awards exhibition run by the festival in 2011 was seen by 6,000 visitors and the winners and finalists have had their images published worldwide. The exhibition sat alongside the festival’s Vivian Maier exhibition, listed by the Observer as one of 2011′s top 10 photography shows in the UK.
There are two options for submission:
- the photo-series category (still images only) and
- the photo-film category (multimedia)
Why are there two categories?
Projects combining photography, moving image, sound and graphics have become important aspects of online journalism and story telling. This prize aims to salute those practitioners and discover who is creating the most exciting multimedia projects today. At the same time, we recognise the power of a carefully edited set of images that stand strong without additional effects.
HOW TO ENTER
Please read the following information carefully and study the Rules page before submitting your entry. The link to enter the prize is at the bottom of this page.
The prize is calling for photographic essays, documentaries and conceptual projects that relate to the 2012 London Festival of Photography theme, InsideOut: Reflections on the Public and the Private.
The emphasis of the prize is on visual storytelling. Projects must work together as a whole and include some sort of narrative structure. We are not looking for single images or commercially-oriented work.
The prize is open to all photographers aged 18+, anywhere in the world.
THE THEME
INSIDEOUT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE
This theme intends to explore the changing boundaries between the public and the private, as both physical and metaphorical concepts, and the social consequences of these shifts. Considering the role of photography as a tool for documentation, expression and collaboration, the festival is looking for work responding to the theme in its broadest interpretation.
You may interpret this theme in any way you wish. Some ideas your work may explore include:
- photography as a means to reflect not only the external world but also the inner self of the image maker
- the social media revolution and how it has overturned our ideas of personal privacy
- the changing boundaries of public and private land, what this means for personal freedom and the ways in which people inhabit these opposing spaces
- the effects and ethics of putting a very private photographic image on public display
- censorship of images
- the democratisation of visual journalism and how the public have become mass purveyors of information
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