Lundi 20 Avril 2015 12:32:51 par Juliette Sellin dans Concours

Canon France, in association with Images Evidence, has announced that the 15th annual Canon Female Photojournalist Award is open until 22 May 2015 for submissions from female photojournalists of any age and nationality.

Once again, the award is supported by Elle magazine and Canon France will grant the winning female photojournalist €8,000 to help her to continue and complete a photojournalistic project on a social, economic, political or cultural subject.

A jury made up of photography and press professionals will select the winner in June. Applicants will be judged by both the presentation of their project and their previous work. Among the selection criteria are the quality of the photographs, as well as the journalistic thoughts and relevance of the chosen subject.

The Award will be presented to the winner at the Visa pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France, during the professional week from 31 August – 6 September 2015. The winner will produce an ongoing one year project which will lead to an exhibition or showing at the Festival in 2016.

An exhibition of the work of the 2014 award winner – French photojournalist Viviane Dalles (Signatures) – seen above – showing images from her project on teenage mothers in the North of France will feature as part of the exhibition programme of the 2015 Visa pour l’Image festival.

The conditions are as follows:
- applicants must be female
- applicants must have completed at least one photo-reportage (published or unpublished)
- applicants must be professional photojournalists
- applicants must be able to write and speak in French or English

The application dossier will include the following items:
1- a signed application form,
2- a copy of the applicant’s identity card or passport,
3- an affidavit stating that the candidate is a professional photojournalist (attestation of honor written by the photographer or from an agency or from a newspaper)
4- a curriculum vitae,
5- a letter in support of the application including a description of the photo- reportage project (maximum 1 typed page). This letter must remain anonymous and must not contain anything that would allow the candidate to be identified.
6- a projected budget for the photo-reportage project for which the Award is to be used if obtained.
If the financing of the project is to be extended to other partners, these must be approved by Canon and Images Evidence who reserve the right not to cite them,
7- a photo-reportage in black and white or colour: between 10 and 20 pictures.

Material specifications for .jpg
- low resolution .jpg
- with captions written in the File Info field,
- only JPEG accepted (no TIFF or PSD)
- maximum images size : 3 MB
- Each Picture file has to be numbered without mentioning the name of the photographer (01, 02, 03, ...) in the order the photograph would like them to be shown to the jury