• PRODUCT
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  • The organisers reserve the right not to award any of these prizes if the standards are not met as determined by the panel of judges. Partner’s decisions on screening cancellations and rescheduling are final.
  • All photographs must be the photographer's own works.
  • Entrants warrant to the organisers that they (the Photographer) own the work submitted, that the whole copyright in the work is vested in the Photographer, that the Photographer has the right to submit the work free from encumbrances or restrictions and that if the work was commissioned for private and domestic purposes it is submitted with the permission of the person who commissioned it.
  • Entrants warrant that, if their work is selected for exhibition, they (the Photographer) have obtained the appropriate model releases from persons featured in their submitted photographs for all sales, marketing, educational and publicity uses and that no additional releases are required in respect of names, trademarks, designs or works of art depicted in the work.
  • Entrants agree that their work may be exhibited by the organisers and festival collaborators at an appropriate venue, and subsequently at any other exhibition tour venues organised by them for 2 years from the close of the contest.
  • Entrants agree that the organisers may use any entries featured in the exhibition without any payment to the Photographer, model or any third party for any sales, marketing, educational and publicity use on, and in, all media worldwide including catalogues, posters, postcards, the Internet and within a television documentary related to the exhibition for 2 years from the close of the contest, and the photographer, will receive credit for such use.
  • ​AI prompt-generated digital images are not permissible, in whole or part of any submission. We trust on photographers' integrity and honesty not to submit AI-created images.
  • The judges' decisions are final, and no discussion or correspondence can be entered into.
  • Only shortlisted finalists and winners will be contacted by email.