PRIZE DETAILS: The Contest Winner will receive recognition as the winner of the Contest, and will have the opportunity to work with the Emerging Lens Judges, Sponsor’s staff, and collaborating professional photographers in 2017 to expand and finish a body of work focused on a human rights or social justice topic of the Contest Winner’s choice, subject to the terms set forth in the “Winner Agreement” provided by Sponsor (the “Created Work”). If the Contest Winner enters the Winner Agreement, he/she will be awarded a $2,000 stipend to use as he/she sees fit in connection with creating the Created Work. If the Contest Winner does not wish to enter the Winner Agreement, he/she will receive nothing more that initial recognition as the Contest Winner, and the next highest scoring Runner Up will be presented with the opportunity declined by the original Contest Winner. The Created Work will be exhibited in Sponsor’s 625 Studio Gallery in Chicago in June 2017 (exact dates to be mutually agreed upon by Sponsor and Contest Winner) and shared through our distribution
channels. Total approximate retail prize value in this Contest is $2,000. Prize may not be transferred, and no prize substitutions will be allowed. The winner is responsible for any and all federal, state and local taxes due in connection with their acceptance of a prize, and may be issued a 1099 or other tax form for the value of their prize as required by law. Not eligible to enter? - Find contest where you are.

COPYRIGHT: By entering the Contest and accepting the prize, the Contest Winner grants Sponsor a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual and non-exclusive right (but not the obligation) to display (but not sell) Created Work for purposes of exhibition and publicity without additional compensation or notice. USAGE RIGHTS: By accepting the prize, the Contest Winner hereby waives and releases Sponsor and the other Related Parties, and each of their employees, owners, officers, directors, agents, contractors and representatives (collectively the “Released Parties”), from any and all claims that the Contest Winner and/or his/her heirs may now or hereafter have in any jurisdiction based on “moral rights” with respect to exploitation of the Entry or Created Work by Sponsor or those authorized by Sponsor, without further compensation to entrant of any kind. Contest Winner agrees not to instigate, support, maintain, or authorize any action, claim, or lawsuit against Sponsor or the other Released Parties on the grounds that any use of the Entry or Created Work, or any derivative works, infringe or violate any of Contest Winner’s rights therein. Contest Winner
grants Sponsor, and anyone authorized by Sponsor, the right, but not the obligation, to associate the Entry and/or Created Work with Contest Winner’s name, image, likeness, hometown, and biographical information, without limitation and without compensation. Contest Winner shall not
receive any compensation or credit for Sponsor’s, or those authorized by Sponsor, use of the Entry or Created Work, other than that disclosed in these Official Rules.