The AIPA welcomes submissions featuring concept driven photographic work by New Zealand photographers, photo assistants, and photography students.
Photo essays should include between 6 and 16 images that clearly communicate a concise idea or narrative concept. In other words we are not looking for a selection of “pretty pictures”. Selected essays will convey an intent that goes far beyond the aesthetic qualities of the images themselves. Each series submitted for review should have meaning and purpose!
Images should be supplied as high-quality jpg files that are exactly 630 pixels in height and have an embedded sRGB colour profile.
Each photo essay must also be accompanied by a written synopsis (between 50 and 500 words) that clearly describes the underlying concept of the work.
Please email all images and text to mail@imagenation.co.nz for consideration. Submissions will be reviewed independently and anonymously by a panel of 3 to 5 highly experienced photo industry practitioners.
In exchange for granting a limited non-exclusive licence that allows the AIPA to publish their photo series and accompanying text on this website, each photographer whose work is selected for publication will receive:
- A NZ$200 cash payment (AIPA Members will receive NZ$400) courtesy of the AIPA
- A Sandisk Extreme 16GB Compact Flash Card courtesy of Lacklands
- A Frio Cold Shoe courtesy of Enlight Photo
- A ticket to the Image Nation 2012 Professional Photography Conference courtesy of the AIPA
Photographers are welcome to submit more than one photo essay.
In addition, all photographers with photo essays featured on the site before June 1st next year (2012) will be in the running to win the Image Nation Annual Photography Award worth over NZ$5500. This prize package includes:
- A Sony VAIO 14 inch C series laptop courtesy of Sony New Zealand
- A Sony NEX5 camera with 16mm lens courtesy of Sony New Zealand
- A Bowens Gemini Classic 500C studio lighting kit courtesy of CR Kennedy
- A NZ$1000 cash payment (AIPA Members will receive NZ$2000) courtesy of the AIPA
- An Orbis Ring Flash courtesy of Enlight Photo
- Plus more prizes to be announced
The winner of the Image Nation Annual Photography Award will be announced at the Image Nation 2012 Photography Conference in Auckland next June.
Terms & Conditions
All submitted photographs must be entirely original and, ideally, should not have been published previously in any mainstream media. If the work has been published previously the photographer must disclose when and where.
All of the submitted images must have been captured/created after June the 1st, 2010.
The photographer must be the legal copyright owner of any work they submit. Copyright in the work remains with the photographer.
It is the submitter’s responsibility to obtain appropriate permission from people or owners of property that are identifiable in their work. The photographer fully indemnifies the site owners against any claims arising from the display or use of unaltered work on this website, and from the infringement of intellectual property rights of any third party.
The site owners acknowledge the moral rights provisions of the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994, including the right to be identified as the author of the work and the right to object to derogatory treatment of the work. To preserve the artistic integrity of submissions, no work will be intentionally edited, altered, demeaned or misrepresented in any way.
All of the photo essays published on this site will be clearly credited with the photographer’s name and include a direct link to the photographer’s website.
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