Naujiena

Dear Colleagues,
In the November / December of 2018, the Lithuanian Press Photographers Club is pleased to
present the 12 th International Festival of Photojournalism VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE.
A PHOTOGRAPHERS’ WEEKEND will be held in Vilnius, during which presentation of the Festival
finalists and a conference on the theme of ‘PhotoJournalism Boundaries’ will be delivered and the
Festival prizes will be awarded.
The main part of the festival is the Contest THE CIRCLE OF LIFE, in which press photographers
from all over the world can take a part. This Contest is the flag-bearer of the Festival, aimed at
promoting the real essence and meaning of photojournalism. It is a contest only of photo stories
on social themes from our everyday lives. The photo stories must consist of between 5 and 16
pictures. The best six to ten photo stories selected by an international jury will be exhibited during
the Festival and published in the journal Photo Circle.
Our main sponsor FUJIFILM has provided the first prize for The Circle of Life contest. The winner
will receive a Fujifilm X-T2 and Fujinon XF18-55 kit.
THE DEADLINE for The Circle of Life Contest is EXTENDED till 15 SEPTEMBER 2018. Please register to upload

images online at http://www.photocircle.lt/en. Pictures (for upload) must be JPEG with captions in
File info modified with Photoshop or Photo Mechanic. The longest side of picture must be from 3000
to 4500 pixels.

In addition, the Contest HOMEWORK, for young photographers under 30, will be organised within
the framework of the Festival. It is a contest only of photo stories. The theme of this year’s
Contest is ’Courage‘ (see below). The Tutor and Judge of the contest is Sigrid Nygaard. She works
as a photo editor and photographer at the national Danish newspaper ‘Dagbladet Information’,
based in Copenhagen, Denmark. For more: see below. She will take part in the Photographers’
Weekend and will comment on the results of this Contest. The best three to five stories will be
exhibited during the Festival and published in the journal Photo Circle.
The winner of the Homework contest will receive a Fujifilm X-E3 and Fujinon XF23 F2 kit.
THE DEADLINE for the Homework Contest is EXTENDED till 15 SEPTEMBER 2018. Please register to upload
images online at http://www.photocircle.lt/en. Pictures (for upload) must be JPEG with captions in
File info modified with Photoshop or Photo Mechanic. The longest side of picture must be from 3000
to 4500 pixels.
For the participants of both contests we offer guidance from the World Press Photo (WPP): Entry
Rules, Code of Ethics and description of manipulation. This is guidance for the photojournalism
Festival and the contest. Participants can be requested to present additional information and files
for the Contest Verification Process. In the Contests, pictures created since 2014 are eligible,
unless part of a long-term project.
Photographers whose pictures are exhibited during the Festival and published in the Photo Circle
journal will be provided with a free two-night stay in Vilnius during the Photographers’ Weekend.
The nominees for the winner of The Circle of Life Contest (at least five people) and the nominees of
the Homework Contest (at least three people) will have their travel expenses covered by the
organisers up to 200 Euros (tickets must be booked only by the organisers). The organisers of the
Festival have the right to exhibit the selected works during the Festival and publish them in the
Photo Circle journal without paying a fee to the author (or/and third part). All possible income from
the sale or subscription of the journal will go to the Festival’s education programme. Presenting their
works for the Contest, photographers at the same time express their acceptance of these terms of
participation at the Festival. If you have any additional questions, please contact us by e-mail:
photocircle@pressphoto.lt.
For the winners and finalists of 2014 and 2015 see: http://www.pressphoto.lt/festival/2014-the-circle-
of-life-en-us/ & http://www.pressphoto.lt/festival/2015-gyvenimo-ratas-en-us//

‘Courage’
If it were not for the courage of Jon and Alex, the couple in Mads Nissen’s winning photo at World
Press Photo in 2015, this brave story about homosexuality in Russia would never have been told.
If it were not for the courage of Burhan Ozbilici, the photographer behind the shooting of the
Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov, he would never have captured this scene of anger.
Great photography takes courage. Not only from the photographer, but also very much from the
people being photographed. The photo story should show both courage from the photographer and
the people involved in the story.

Sigrid Nygaard works as a photo editor and photographer at the national Danish newspaper
‘Dagbladet Information’, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated as a photojournalist from
The Danish School of Media and Journalism (2008) and was awarded with honorable mentions at
the Danish Picture of the Year in 2016 and 2017. She was also nominated for a Cavling award, the
Danish Pulitzer Prize, in 2016.
Sigrid is a visiting lecturer at The Danish School for Media and Journalism, DIS Copenhagen and
Copenhagen Film and Photography School.
She believes in the importance of consistently fighting for visual storytelling in a changing media
landscape. She strives to commission and produce outstanding documentary photography, often
with an eye to experimental forms and expressions.
Sigrid has been a jury member of Picture of the Year in Denmark (2011), and Picture of the Year in
Sweden (2012). She was a member of the the 6x6 online selection committee at World Press Photo
(2018) and Picture of the Year in Lithuania (2018).

Looking forward to seeing you in Vilnius,
Lithuanian Press Photographers Club
www.pressphoto.lt http://www.photocircle.lt/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/268278949866950/
Contact us by e-mail: photocircle@pressphoto.lt