15th International Photojournalism Festival VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE
15th International Photojournalism Festival VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE
Dear Colleagues,
Lithuanian Press Photographers Club is pleased to announce the 15th International Festival of Photojournalism VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE.
A PHOTOGRAPHERS’ WEEKEND will be held in Vilnius on 1-3 October 2021. It will consist of presentation of the Festivals’ finalists and the award ceremony for the winners, as well as a conference The Boundaries of Photojournalism.
The main part of the festival VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE is the Contest THE CIRCLE OF LIFE. Press photographers from all over the world are eligible to apply, but note that Festival's contests accept only photo stories. This Contest is the flag-bearer of the Festival, aimed at promoting the real essence and meaning of photojournalism. The photo story must consist of between 5 and 16 pictures created in the past 5 years (2017 - to date). The best five to seven 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-T4 and FujinonXF18-55 kit.
THE DEADLINE for The Circle of Life Contest is 8th JULY 2021 (23.59 CET).
Please register to upload images online at http://contest.photocircle.lt/en (please copy this address and paste it to the browser if it doesn‘t open directly).
Pictures (for upload) must be JPEG with captions in their respective File info fields completed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. The long edge of the picture must be between 3000 - 4500 pixels, JPEG file no bigger than 4,5 MB.
The Jury of the 15th International Festival of Photojournalism 'Vilnius Photo Circle' contest The Circle of Life: Lars Boering, Yuri Kozyrev, Maria Mann, Peggy Porquet, Espen Rasmussen, Jonas Staselis.
Festivals’ VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE Contest HOMEWORK – for photographers under 30 years old (born 1991 or latter) – will also be organised. The contest accepts only photo stories. The topic of this year’s HOMEWORK Contest is ’A PERSONAL STORY‘(*). The Tutor and Judge of this contest is Svetlana Bachevanova (**). She is the co-founder and executive director of the FotoEvidence Foundation and the co-founder of the publishing house FotoEvidence (2010), the Bulgarian-American Svetlana Bachevanova is a photojournalist active in the field of human rights. Svetlana 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.
Our main sponsor FUJIFILM has provided the first prize for The Circle of Life contest. The winner will receive a Fujifilm X100V.
THE DEADLINE for HOMEWORK Contest is 12 JULY 2021 (23.59 CET).
Please register to upload images online at http://contest.photocircle.lt/en (please copy this address and paste it to the browser if it doesn‘t open directly).
Pictures (for upload) must be JPEG with captions in their respective File info fields completed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. The long edge of the picture must be between 3000 - 4500 pixels, JPEG file no bigger than 4,5 MB.
This year the Festival presents its new Contest - BALTIC PHOTO CIRCLE. We invite photographers from countries surrounding Baltic sea to submit their photo stories on the topics of nature protection and climate change in the countries they represent. Photographers from Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland and Sweden are eligible to apply for this contest. Please note that the Festival's contests accept only of photo stories. The best photo stories (up to three), selected by an international jury will be exhibited during the Festival and published in the journal Photo Circle.
THE DEADLINE for BALTIC PHOTO CIRCLE Contest is 19th JULY 2021 (23.59 CET).
Please register to upload images online at http://contest.photocircle.lt/en (please copy this address and paste it to the browser if it doesn‘t open directly).
Pictures (for upload) must be JPEG with captions in their respective File info fields completed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. The long edge of the picture must be between 3000 - 4500 pixels, JPEG file no bigger than 4,5 MB.
For the participants of all contests we offer the guidelines of the World Press Photo (WPP): Entry Rules, Code of Ethics and description of manipulation. The guidelines are for the photojournalism Festival and the contest. Participants may be asked to present additional information and files for the Contest Verification Process. In the Contests, only pictures created since 2017 are eligible, unless they are part of a long-term project, then the case is going to be examined separately.
Photographers whose pictures are exhibited during the Festival and published in the Photo Circle journal are going to be provided with a free two-night stay in Vilnius during the Photographers’ Weekend. For the nominees for the winner of The Circle of Life Contest (at least four people) and the nominees of the Homework Contest (at least two people), and the winner of Baltic Photo Circle organisers will cover their travel expenses 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 a third party). 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 express their acceptance of these terms of participation in the Festival. If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mail: photocircle@pressphoto.lt or mobile phone +37069921807.
Looking forward to seeing you in Vilnius,
Lithuanian Press Photographers Club
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*A PERSONAL STORY
Photographers are people on the road, living to document other people’s lives. Constrained by the unprecedented COVID-19 lockdown, many of them had their first experience of being still long enough to begin seeing and understanding small details about who they are, their roots, lifestyles and values - things that went unnoticed in their regular busy lives.
**Svetlana Bachevanova
The co-founder and executive director of the FotoEvidence Foundation and the co-founder of the publishing house FotoEvidence (2010), the Bulgarian-American Svetlana Bachevanova is a photojournalist active in the field of human rights. Their books expose various injustices in order to create enduring evidence of human rights violations and to inspire social change. Svetlana conceived the FotoEvidence Book Award and the FotoEvidence W Award to support the work of photographers dedicated to the pursuit of human rights, publishing work that is unlikely to find commercial publication elsewhere. Under her management, FotoEvidence has occupied a unique space in the world of photojournalism as both a publishing house and activist organisation.