Stop TB Partnership

Rules

The award:

An international jury of photography experts from around the world, chaired by Gary Knight, will select a photographer who will receive a US$10 000 grant to be used towards the production of a photo reportage on tuberculosis on the basis of an assignment provided by the Stop TB Partnership.

Who may enter:

Any photographers aged 18 and over are eligible, 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.

What to enter:

Photographers must submit a photo reportage depicting public health. Please enter 10 - 15 photographs depicting health-related issues. Cropped photos are eligible. We do not accept digitally or otherwise enhanced or altered photos. Minor adjustments, including removal of dust spots, dodging and burning, contrast and slight colour adjustments, are acceptable. If our judges see that a photographer has obviously altered his or her photo, they reserve the right to disqualify the photographer. Entrants must hold all rights to their photographs. 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 (500 KB compressed file is the maximum for each photo). Not Admitted formats: Tiff, Raw, videotapes, interactive CDs or slide shows (.pps, .ppt, .mov, .mpg). Submissions not meeting these requirements will not be considered. Photos and CDs will not be returned.

How to enter:

Option 1

Please send the following to stoptuberculosis@gmail.com:
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 send a written confirmation by email to nuttalls@who.int that photos have been sent.

Option 2

Send one CD 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 by the Stop TB Partnership by 20 July 2011.

Judging, grant and announcement:

Submitted photographs will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit.
The winner will receive an award of US$5000 and an additional US$5000 to be used towards travel expenses to produce a series of 20-30 photographs on tuberculosis, in a country/region designated by the Stop TB Partnership.
The winner will be notified of his or her status by 15 September 2011.
The name of the winner will be announced through the Images to Stop Tuberculosis website (www.stoptb.org/global/awards/images/) on 26 October 2011.

The award reportage

If you win, you will be required to produce a photo reportage in line with an assignment set 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 that violate or infringe upon another person's copyright, are not eligible.
Each photo must 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.
These photographs must be submitted to the Stop TB Partnership no later than 28 February 2012. The reportage will be made public on 24 March 2012, World Tuberculosis Day.

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 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.