EXTENDED DEADLINE TILL 11 July 2022

Dear Colleagues,

Lithuanian Press Photographers Club is pleased to announce the 16^th International Festival of Photojournalism VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE.

A PHOTOGRAPHERS’ WEEKEND will be held in Vilnius preliminary on 14-16 October 2022. 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 (2018 - 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 11 JULY 2022 (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). 
A participant can submit two photo stories for this contest. One photo story can contain up to 16 photos. The description of the series must be provided as the caption of the first picture. 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.

Festivals’ VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE Contest HOMEWORK – for photographers under 30 years old (born 1992 or latter) – will also be organised. The contest accepts only photo stories. The topic of this year’s HOMEWORK Contest is ’WOMEN WHO HOLD UP HALF THE SKY‘(*). The Tutor and Judge of this contest is Mary F. Calvert (**). She is 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Photography and 2017-18 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Mary 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 11 JULY 2022 (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). 
A participant can submit two photo stories for this contest. One photo story can contain up to 12 photos. Pictures (for upload) must be JPEG with captions in their respective File info fields completed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. The description of the series must be provided as the caption of the first picture. The long edge of the picture must be between 3000 - 4500 pixels, JPEG file no bigger than 4,5 MB.

This year the Festival also presents 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. 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 31 JULY 2022 (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). 
A participant can submit two photo stories for this contest. One photo story can contain up to 16 photos. The description of the series must be provided as the caption of the first picture. 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 2018 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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*WOMEN WHO HOLD UP HALF THE SKY
This theme centers on stories about women and girls of all ages. Look past the stereotypes and shown me stories about strength, resilience and compassion.

**Photographer Mary F. Calvert uses photography to inform and influence social change by concentrating on documenting social justice issues neglected by  the media at large.  https://www.maryfcalvert.com/about