Competitions: November 2005 Archives

The Affiliate Communications Competition is designed to encourage excellence inPPA affiliate publications (newsletters and websites) and to recognize the individuals who spend their time and energy editing, designing, and maintaining these publications to keep members informed.

PPA is now accepting submissions for the Affiliate Communications Competition. Entries must be received at PPA no later than Friday, February 24, 2006. If you have additional questions please contact PPA at (800) 339-5451, ext. 256, or email Dana Groves. Download Rules and entry forms at http://www.ppa.com/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=85.

Beginning at the International Print judging in July 2006, album competition entrants may submit their Album entries on CD. This exciting change in the International Print Competition will simplify the submission process and greatly reduce the cost of producing and shipping physical albums.

Since most albums today are made from digital files, many entrants will already be familiar with the process. Just design your best album, be it a wedding, bar mitzvah, family or portrait event. Save each page as a jpg file and drop the pages into a folder. Burn that folder onto a CD and send it in with your entries to the PPA International Competition in July 2006. Remember, this year's entry deadline is June 1, 2006. Entrants may submit up to four albums, and each album must be saved to a seperate CD.

If you make your album the traditional way with film and prints, pages and album covers you can still enter the physical album into the competition, just as in the past.You may also photograph your album pages and send those images in on a CD.

Digital Album Entry Specifications:

• One CD Per Entry
• Viewable Image Size: 1024 x 768 pixels, Horizontal
• Gamma: 2.2
• Color Space: sRGB
• File Format: JPG
• Qty of Images: Not to exceed 70.
• Use three digit file names, sequenced numerically in the order in which you wish them to be viewed. Example: 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg, etc.
• Put all your images into one folder named with the title of your entry.

Complete rules and entry forms for the 2006 International Print Competition will be available soon. For the latest information visit http://competitions.ppa.com

ONLY HUMAN is an international photographic exhibit that inspires dialogue about the shared human condition, moves beyond stereotypes, and challenges people to recognize the unity within humanity’s cultural diversity. It is an exhibit that calls on the people of the world to talk to the people of the world about the people of the world. ONLY HUMAN is a visual narrative that communicates that although no two people, cultures, or nations are alike, we all are united by our shared human nature. The goal is to shed some positive light on a world divided by conflict by reminding people that we are all ultimately on the same “team” — “that there is no enemy, there is no stranger. All humanity is one.” We wish to inspire mutual respect, understanding, and a desire to know one another.

With that in mind, we are inviting professional and amateur photographers from around the world to share what they believe it means to be human. This is an opportunity for photographers to use the power of image to speak to the world, about both cultural identity and shared human identity. Each photo will be a piece of a puzzle that, when whole, paints a picture of an existence unique to the human experience.

The ONLY HUMAN exhibit will initially be exhibited in San Francisco, California, USA-one of the world’s most multicultural cities-starting April 2007. The exhibit will not be confined to the space of a museum, but will be held outdoors, accessible to an audience of all socio-economic conditions. Additionally, ONLY HUMAN will be made available to a larger international audience through our online exhibit and exhibit catalog.

This is a not-for-profit project and any proceeds that may result from the project will be donated to equal rights and humanitarian organizations such as Amnesty International or the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent. It is important that we collect submissions from every corner of the Earth in order to give ONLY HUMAN the global voice it needs. Thus, please feel free to spread the word about the ONLY HUMAN exhibit around the world and back.

SUBMISSIONS DUE: April 15, 2006

EXHIBIT DATE: April 1-15, 2007

FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.onlyhumanexhibit.org

ONLY HUMAN EXHIBIT:
3181 Mission St. PMB #6
San Francisco, CA 94110
United State of America