While we’re all stuck inside and trying to decide which of our family members to eat during the apocalypse, the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival is excited to launch our first ever Local Photographer of the Year competition for 2020.

The competition is open to anyone living within the borough of Epsom and Ewell, and is open to all ages.

So it’s time to send us your best photos of quarantine life.  

Yes, that’s right, what better way to celebrate all that extra time we get to spend with our loved ones than to take that one perfect picture that encapsulates this year’s theme:

My life in isolation

You can interpret that theme any way you like.  It can be crazy, serious, funny, artistic, the choice is yours. It could be of a person, an animal, an object, even the view out of a window.

But all photos MUST be taken in your home or in your own garden/property while adhering to the isolation rules.

All photos will be judged on three criteria – originality, creativity and quality with cash prizes for the winning entries. You don’t have to own an expensive camera and whether you take your photos on a phone, iPad or Canon, we want to see your bursts of inspiration and/or fun.

Closing deadline for entries is the 1st of May 2020.

Submissions must be sent to [email protected] and have as the subject SEIFF PHOTO 2020 ENTRY. Full details are below. 

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

By entering the competition, entrants confirm that they have read, understood and agree to be bound by the following competition rules:

1 The SEIFF Local Photographer of the Year 2020 competition is open to everyone living within the borough of Epsom & Ewell.

2 Entrants must like the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival page at www.facebook.com/satisfiedeye before submission

3 Entrants must submit a maximum of one photo with the theme of ‘My life in isolation.’

4 Entries must be received no later than midnight on 1 May 2020.

5 Photographs must be taken in your home or in your own garden/property while observing isolation rules.

6 All submissions must be the original unedited photo.  No post production, Photoshopping, colour grading etc is allowed although we will allow cropping.  

7 Files must be submitted as jpegs with a maximum file size of 5mb.

8 Each photo MUST  be submitted with the following information: 

Full name of photographer, age of photographer, postcode AND  a title for your photograph.  

9 For those entries by anyone under the age of 18 a parent or guardian MUST submit the application using their own email, with the above information of the photographer, even if the photographer has their own email account.

10 Only one submission per person but there are no limits on submissions per household.

11 Entry shall only be valid if all of the above submission requirements have been adhered to.

12 The winner of the competition shall be decided by a panel of judges (see below) and who shall decide, in their absolute discretion, the winner.

13 The decision of the judges shall be final and binding and no correspondence shall be entered into by SEIFF.

14 The copyright of any photograph entered into the competition shall remain with the entrant. However, entrants consent to SEIFF displaying submitted images for any publicity and/or promotional activities related to the SEIFF Local Photographer of the Year 2020 competition both online and in a public place.

15 No alternative to any prize is available and the prizes shall be non-transferable.

16 Anyone not living within the borough will be disqualified.

17 SEIFF takes no responsibility for work not received.

18 In the event of insufficient submissions, SEIFF retains the right to close that category and withhold the associated prize.

HOW TO ENTER

Submissions must be sent to [email protected] with the subject SEIFF PHOTO 2020 ENTRY 

WINNERS

A shortlist will be announced 8 May 2020 and displayed at www.satisfiedeye.com and www.facebook.com/satisfiedeye

Winners will be announced by 4pm on 16 May 2020 at www.satisfiedeye.com and displayed at www.facebook.com/satisfiedeye

ENTRY FEES 

Entry is free.

PRIZES

£50 cash prize plus a full pass to the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival

Winning images along with those shortlisted will be displayed at the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival and at www.satisfiedeye.com

JUDGES

JOHN MCMURTRIE – Multi-award-winning Epsom music photographer John is the official photographer for IRON MAIDEN, METAL HAMMER magazine top photographer and go to guy for Rock and metal in the music industry.

CAI TAYLOR – Cai is one half of Epsom based design agency Cai and Kyn and co-founder of Once Upon a Town magazine. Cai has art directed international magazines such as Icon and Kodachrome where he’s been fortunate to work with some of the worlds best analog photographers.

KRULA – Like sting or Madonna, Krula is a portrait photographer who only needs one name  who loves working with people. What Krula looks for in photography is balance in lighting, composition, framing, subject. “Balance is what makes a great picture.”

ADA VAUGHAN – A Canadian director and producer, Ada provides consultancy services for the Academy Awards and was named as one of the Emerging20 Filmmakers at ReelWorld Film Festival and one of the eight select director participants chosen for the Women in the Director’s Chair at Banff.

INFO

For further enquiries email [email protected]

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