Calling Edinburgh’s hottest young photographic talent – a new Europe-wide competition aims to showcase the continent’s best young photographers as part of the EUROCITIES ‘Your City – your view’ project.
The City of Edinburgh Council’s Arts Development Team has joined forces with EUROCITIES to invite Edinburgh’s aspiring Harry Bensons to enter this exciting contest. Harry Benson always seemed to be at the scene of many notable moments in history. He has photographed every US President from Eisenhower to Obama, and his work was displayed at The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2006-07.
Councillor Deidre Brock, Culture and Leisure Convener, said: “Our Arts Development Team have been working closely with EUROCITIES on this project, which will give Edinburgh’s finest young photographers an unmissable opportunity to make their work accessible to a potentially vast audience right across Europe. I’m really looking forward to seeing the entries as they come in and there’s no doubt the panel will have a very difficult task selecting just one image to go forward.”
Nicola Vatthauer, EUROCITIES Communications Director, said: “The EUROCITIES ‘Your City – your view’ project is a fantastic opportunity to broaden our understanding of the way young people interact with their cities across our network of 30 countries. We’re delighted that Edinburgh is participating and look forward to seeing the contribution from this key partner.”
Entrants must submit up to three images which show a different view of Edinburgh – and the organisers have stated that they don’t want the usual promotional shots, for example fireworks or skylines.
The theme of the ‘Your City – your view’ book is to illustrate ‘people and place’. Images could be based around themes such as:
– changes in the city which have affected you
– thoughts you have about your local neighbourhood
– an expression of the uniqueness of Edinburgh
A panel of judges will evaluate all the Edinburgh competition entries before selecting one image to share with our European neighbours.
The winning photo from this competition will represent Edinburgh in this book and the winning photographer will receive a copy of this book and be included in publicity to promote it.
Entrants must be aged between 15 and 25 and must be resident in Edinburgh.
Images must be 20x30cm in 300 dpi resolution, colour, or black & white (reproduction rights conceded to EUROCITIES).
Images can either be uploaded to the competition Flickr site or emailed to edinburghartsdevelopment@gmail.com
Entries should be accompanied by a short description (100 to 150 words) explaining where and why the photo was taken, as well as the entrant’s name and age.
The competition closes on Wednesday 20 April 2011 and the panel, comprising curators and arts officers, will notify the winner by 6 May 2011.
