2021 CONTEST RULES

CONTEXT

The GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is a side event of the GRAVITY FESTIVAL, the first urban arts festival serving the planet.

The first edition of the festival will take place on May 15th and 16th 2021 at Yann Arthus Bertrand’s Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris.

This festival will have various aspects but the two main ones are:

– An artistical component with 10 graffiti artists, recognized at the world level, that will paint live in front of the public 10 artworks on the topic of the protection of environment. Also, visitors will have access to Matthieu Ricard’s open air exhibition and the Planet Ocean exhibition inside the Foundation’s castle.

-An informative component with six conferences by leading actors of the ecology. Also, visitors will have access to all the Foundation’s workshops.

The purpose of the festival is that all contributors, artists and speakers, contribute to raise awareness of the gravity of the current ecological situation.

Everything is free.

GENERAL RULES

The GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is a photographic contest open to professional and non-professional photographers from all around the world. Are excluded only the festival’s organization team and Foundation GoodPlanet’s team.

THEME

The topic of the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is “the beauty of nature” in its broadest sense.

The presented photographs can either focus on environment and its protection, the ecological situation but also on the animal or vegetal world, landscapes.

We add an important point, beauty alone does not really make sense, a strong message must be associated with it. Furthermore, the equipment used is of no importance in the eyes of the jury, as is the professional or amateur aspect of the photographer. We simply want to see beautiful and strong pictures of nature.

CALENDAR

Starting date: 2021, January 15th

Contest deadline: 2021, April 15th at midnight

First jurors voting session: 2021, April 16th

Communication of the preselected photographs: 2021, April 16th

Call for HD files upload: within 2021, April 30th

Second jurors voting session: 2021, May 1st

Exhibition Opening: 2021, May 15th

Award ceremony and live results release: 2021, Mai 16th at 5pm

JURY

Myriam Dupouy : professional photographer, speaker, trainer for the NIKON SCHOOL, the French Federation of Photography, Studio Jiminy and the Festival de l’Oiseau et de la Nature. https://myriamdupouy.art/

Stanley Leroux : professional photographer, Gold Medal for Photography from the National Society of Fine Arts, author of two successful monographs Cinquantièmes Hurlants and Rêveries, les éléments de l’incertitude. http://www.stanleyleroux.com/

Sarah Barracco : Responsible for the programming of the GoodPlanet Foundation’s events since its opening in 2017. https://www.goodplanet.org/fr/

Jonk : professional photographer, author of several books, member of the organization team of the Gravity festival. https://www.jonk-photography.com/

ENTRY FEES AND PAYMENT MODALITY

The registration fee is 10 euros. Registration for the competition will be validated once the rights have been received by the organizers. Registration fees are payable only via paypal at [email protected]

They allow participation in the competition with a maximum of three (3) photographs. We would like to point out that we would have preferred that this competition, like the entrance to the festival, be free. We have decided to set up a small participation of 10 euros for three reasons: to allow the first three finalists to be offered a financial reward, to help pay for the print of the 20 finalists exposed photographs (even if our partners offer us reduced prices, there is still a significant share at our expense) and finally, if the number of participants is large, help finance part of the festival. It is free and we can only count on a few grants and partnership to carry out its realization.

PHOTOS SUBMISSION

All entries must be submitted by email only to the address [email protected] with an object name « GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST ». Photographs must be in JPG file format. The file size of the individual image should not exceed 5MB. The dimensions of photographs must not exceed 2000 pixels for the longest side (whether vertical or horizontal). Works entirely created by computer, photomontages, photographs with signatures or watermarks are not allowed. Each photograph must be accompanied by an explanatory text in .PDF format of a maximum of 500 characters.

FILES NAMES

The JPG and PDF files should be named as follows: firstname_familyname_title

AUTHOR COPYRIGHT

Each participant owns the copyright of the submitted images. The participant certifies the work as his or her own. The entrant allows the contest organizers to use, free of charge, the entered images for promotional purposes related to the photo contest. The winning photographs will be made available to the media who wish to announce the results of the competition. Each time the images are used, the organizers or media will quote the author’s name. No photographs entered for the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST will be offered for sale or used by any of the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST sponsors for any commercial or other purposes.

REJECTION

An entry may be rejected by the Organization if it does not conform to Contest rules and conditions.

DIGITAL POST PROCESSING PROCEDURES

You may use digital post-processing to optimize an image, and you may crop images slightly, but you are not permitted to add or remove key elements of the composition. Brightness, contrast, colour balance can all be adjusted. Dust spots, minor elements, etc. can be retouched. Images can be sharpened before printing. Post-processing, which could realistically be achieved in a darkroom will be accepted but jurors have the discretion to reject any entry which has been, in their opinion, over-manipulated and therefore removing the integrity of the original image. Participants who will be listed in the final round are requested to submit the RAW files or original JPG camera files of their photographs in preselection.

JURY PANEL RULES

Entries will be evaluated by a nominated Jury panel. The judging is anonymous so judges are not aware of participants’ names or details. The jury will evaluate the images on the basis of visual impact, composition, originality, technique, creativity but also and above all on the ability to communicate a message, a feeling or an emotion. First, the jury will select the fifty photographs it deems the best and which will be considered preselected.

The preselected participants must send, before the date stated in the rules and under penalty of exclusion from the competition, the high resolution image files.

Twenty finalists will then be selected and announced.

The winners will be unveiled during the awards ceremony on Sunday May 16th, 2021 at 5 pm at the GoodPlanet Foundation.

PRIZES

The twenty finalist’s photographs will be exhibited at Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris during the length of the festival.

Photographs will be printed on Dibond at 40*60cm. Participants who will be willing to get there pictures back after the festival will be able to do it at no cost. The other ones will be recycled.

The first price will receive the sum of 200 euros, a voucher worth 200 euros at PICTO Online, a book by Stanley Leroux, a book by Jonk.

The second price will receive the sum of 100 euros, a voucher worth 100 euros at PICTO Online, a book by Stanley Leroux, a book by Jonk.

The third price will receive the sum of 50 euros, a voucher worth 500 euros at PICTO Online, a book by Stanley Leroux, a book by Jonk.

All twenty finalists will receive a diploma.

NOTIFICATION

All participants will receive an email with the contest’s results. They will also be published on the website of the competition.

ACCEPTANCE OF RULES

Submission of an entry implies the acceptance of all rules and conditions.

ORGANIZATION

Jonk : [email protected]