Concours du 1/2/2015 au 15/4/2015 Terminé
Since 1998, China Folklore Photographic Association (CFPA) has launched a call to photographers all over the world to document folklore phenomenon extensively and in depth. To this end, CFPA founded Humanity Photo Awards, a biennial international photographic contest. This event is blessed with UNESCO’s support and is granted with UNESCO’s logo since the 2nd HPA in 2000.For the past 16 years, photographers from 158 countries have participated in HPA, who successfully accumulated images about cultural phenomenon of 168 countries. This is a mass stock of photos on multi-culture.
As Mr. Hans d’ Orville, Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning UNESCO said in the preface of Memories of the Mankind IV, “The Humanity Photo Awards represents an undertaking that aims a more profound mutual understanding and interaction across cultural, geographical and political frontiers. HPA allows us to reflect on human activities by people in all continents and involving all age groups, HPA will allow us to get to know each other better, and above all HPA highlights and advocates strongly the value of our common humanity in diversity.”
Mission
We call upon responsible photographers who respect and love life to take their cameras, in the form of feature photography:
to explore and rescue the endangered folk cultures of nationalities worldwide;
to record the changes and evolution of various folk cultures in a genuine, vivid and profound way;
to record, spread and share the multi-cultures of the world with the aim of enhancing mutual understanding and exchanges of human beings and promoting the world peace and development.
to contribute to the World Folklore Photo Museum with world culture records.
Organized by
THE CHINA FOLKLORE PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (CFPA)
THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO)
Schedule
Photo Submission Period: September 16th, 2014—April 15th, 2015 (Beijing Time)
Selection: By mid July, 2015, all awards will come out after three rounds of evaluation. The results of Performance Awards, Nomination Awards will be published on http://www.hpa.org.cn.Winners of Jury’s Special Awards, Documentary Awards and Grand Awards will be announced at the Awards Ceremony.
Awards Ceremony: September 16th, 2015.
Categories
Entrants are required to submit photo stories/portfolios (8 to 14 photos for each set) according to the following categories:
Portrait & Costume
Portraits of people from different nationalities; costumes and adornments featuring diverse ethnic cultures, including everyday dress, ceremonial dress, hats and shoes, adornments and hairstyles, etc; the making of costumes and adornments; distinctive attire customs such as dressing etiquette and taboos.
Architecture
The construction process, structure, interior layout and furniture adornments of traditional dwellings, public facilities and special architecture (e.g. religious buildings); the influence of the surroundings reflected on features of the local architecture; dwelling habits of different ethnic groups.
Living Custom
The usual living habits, such as diet modes, food making, cleaning ways and related taboos; ecological consciousness, education forms and folk medicine in different regions; comprehensive and serial life customs of a specific region, a nationality or a tribe.
Production & Commerce
The traditional ways of production under certain ecological environments, such as fishing, hunting, farming, forestry, animal husbandry, etc.; materials processing such as handicrafts industry and folk crafts; services that make life easy; business activities such as products transportation and trade.
Festivities
Annual and seasonal festivals, festivals on production and recreation, religious ceremonies, temple fairs; traditional sports, recreational activities, music, dances and local dramas performed during festivals, especially showing their positive role in communications among local peoples and nations.
Traditional Rites
Birth rites, adult rites, weddings, funerals, morality etiquette, etiquette showing respect for the aged; celebrations for individuals and families, village and family rites, worshiping rites, taboo rites and folk religious rites.
1first price $2000
Conditions de participation
Entrants
1. Entries are required to be submitted online via the entry site http://2015.hpa.org.cn. Please sign up on the entry site and submit photos in accordance with relevant requirements. All information is required to be written in Chinese or English only.
2. The entrant’s name in the Entry Form should be the same with that on his/her valid identity certificate. Fake name such as “professional name” and “pseudonym” are not accepted.
3. There are no restrictions on entrants in terms of profession, gender, age, nationality, country or region.
4. The photos must be taken by the entrant himself/ herself, otherwise the entrant will be deprived of the right to win the prizes in the contest.
5. Photos entered jointly by two or more than two entrants will not be accepted.
6. All entrants will be deemed to have accepted the Guidelines of HPA 2015. Any legal responsibility relating to entries, such as copyright, right of reputation and portrait, right of privacy, right of trade mark, etc. will be borne by the entrants.
7. The contest is open to everyone except the members of jury and the staff of HPA 2015work team.
Candidate Photos
8. Photos that have won prizes in previous HPA contests are excluded from the HPA 2015; prize-winning photos in other contests or exhibitions are eligible for HPA 2015.
9. There are no restrictions on countries or nationalities which are shown in the photos. (Entries can contain images of several ethnic groups in one country or of one nationality living in different countries and regions.)
10. There is no limit on shooting time. Entries can be taken on one occasion or over a period of time.
11. The category of the submitted photos must be specified by the entrants. The organizer and judges are not responsible for re-categorizing any entry.
12. Photo stories/portfolios must consist of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 14 photos. Each entrant is allowed to submit no more than 3 sets.
13. Photos must be uploaded with .jpg format, size between 1MB and 4MB.
14. Only the necessary retouching which will not change the original appearance of the photo is allowed. All photos are prohibited from synthesis, addition, deletion or major changes in color. Photos with frames, special backgrounds or other decorative effects will not be accepted. To keep the authenticity of the record, composite, splicing and trick photos will not be judged.
15. Each photo must contain a caption.
Declaration of the Organizer
16. No entry fee is required for this contest.
17. To guarantee the fairness of the HPA 2015, personal information of the entrants should not be shown on the photo or in the caption. Otherwise, the entry will not be judged.
18. With the guarantee of the right of signature for every author, the organizer has the right to repeatedly use the entries in related non-commercial activities for free, including publications, exhibitions, TV programs, Internet displays, electronic media, etc. The Organizer reserves the right to do probable editing of the entries.
19. Photos must be submitted before April 15th, 2015 via the website above-mentioned. (The date when the photos of an entry set are completely submitted is deemed as its submission date.)
20. CFPA reserves the right of final interpretation of the Guidelines of HPA 2015.
Contact Information
CHINAFOLKLORE PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (CFPA)
E-mail: link@hpa.org.cn
Tel: 8610-62252175
Facebook: China Folklore Photographic Association
Entrants
1. Entries are required to be submitted online via the entry site http://2015.hpa.org.cn. Please sign up on the entry site and submit photos in accordance with relevant requirements. All information is required to be written in Chinese or English only.
2. The entrant’s name in the Entry Form should be the same with that on his/her valid identity certificate. Fake name such as “professional name” and “pseudonym” are not accepted.
3. There are no restrictions on entrants in terms of profession, gender, age, nationality, country or region.
4. The photos must be taken by the entrant himself/ herself, otherwise the entrant will be deprived of the right to win the prizes in the contest.
5. Photos entered jointly by two or more than two entrants will not be accepted.
6. All entrants will be deemed to have accepted the Guidelines of HPA 2015. Any legal responsibility relating to entries, such as copyright, right of reputation and portrait, right of privacy, right of trade mark, etc. will be borne by the entrants.
7. The contest is open to everyone except the members of jury and the staff of HPA 2015work team.
Candidate Photos
8. Photos that have won prizes in previous HPA contests are excluded from the HPA 2015; prize-winning photos in other contests or exhibitions are eligible for HPA 2015.
9. There are no restrictions on countries or nationalities which are shown in the photos. (Entries can contain images of several ethnic groups in one country or of one nationality living in different countries and regions.)
10. There is no limit on shooting time. Entries can be taken on one occasion or over a period of time.
11. The category of the submitted photos must be specified by the entrants. The organizer and judges are not responsible for re-categorizing any entry.
12. Photo stories/portfolios must consist of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 14 photos. Each entrant is allowed to submit no more than 3 sets.
13. Photos must be uploaded with .jpg format, size between 1MB and 4MB.
14. Only the necessary retouching which will not change the original appearance of the photo is allowed. All photos are prohibited from synthesis, addition, deletion or major changes in color. Photos with frames, special backgrounds or other decorative effects will not be accepted. To keep the authenticity of the record, composite, splicing and trick photos will not be judged.
15. Each photo must contain a caption.
Declaration of the Organizer
16. No entry fee is required for this contest.
17. To guarantee the fairness of the HPA 2015, personal information of the entrants should not be shown on the photo or in the caption. Otherwise, the entry will not be judged.
18. With the guarantee of the right of signature for every author, the organizer has the right to repeatedly use the entries in related non-commercial activities for free, including publications, exhibitions, TV programs, Internet displays, electronic media, etc. The Organizer reserves the right to do probable editing of the entries.
19. Photos must be submitted before April 15th, 2015 via the website above-mentioned. (The date when the photos of an entry set are completely submitted is deemed as its submission date.)
20. CFPA reserves the right of final interpretation of the Guidelines of HPA 2015.
Contact Information
CHINAFOLKLORE PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (CFPA)
E-mail: link@hpa.org.cn
Tel: 8610-62252175
Facebook: China Folklore Photographic Association