Introduction

This National Young Photographer Competition is a well-established and successful competition promoted by Rotary International in Britain and Ireland (RIBI)

It is a three-stage competition designed to support and encourage the development of photographic skills

Aims

This competition aims to encourage young people to:

• Experiment with photography
• Use digital or traditional methods of photography
• Show interpretation of their chosen topic
• express their ideas through the medium of photography

The Three Stages of the Competition

Local Heats                Your local heat will be organised by the Rotary clubs of Halstead. Winners of local heats will be entered into a District Competition.    

District Heat              organised by Rotary. Age group winners of District competitions are entered into the National Final.

National Final            organised by Rotary. One entry per age group per District may be submitted to the final competition.

Competition Guidelines

Task

To produce a portfolio of three separate photographs based upon the theme ‘Light up the Community’ in colour or black and white on photographic paper. Each print, including any mount should be no larger than A4 size.

District competition winners will be asked for a digital copy in jpg format and ideally 5MB for an A4 sized print, on disc as part of the National final submission

In addition, each entrant should provide, in no more than 50 words the inspiration for their photographs.

Photographs of people under 18 years old must be accompanied by written permission from the parent, guardian or carer of the person photographed

Entries should be sent to the Stage organiser by the closing date.

Photographs may not be returned unless specifically requested

Judges with appropriate skills, appointed by Rotary, will apply the judging criteria below.

Judging Criteria judges will consider technical merit; content and composition; imagination and style.

Only in exceptional circumstance, at the sole discretion of the competition organiser, will correspondence or discussions be entered into following a competition by the competition organiser

Prizes At all stages of the competition, competitors will receive a certificate of participation.

The Local, District and National winners will also be given appropriate awards

For each age group, the first place National winners’ school/organisation will be given an award.

Please see Mrs Tyler for more information.