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Young Photographer Award 2023
The Young Photographer Award is an educational award geared towards passionate emerging photographers looking to cultivate a career in documentary photography or photojournalism. The winner of the competition, gets an opportunity to participate in an intensive Mentorship Programme. The programme is designed to give young photographers a chance to learn more about photography with our bootcamp course as well as developing a documentary photography project under the guidance of an industry professional. The photographic outcomes from the mentorship are exhibited in Kampala.
Deadline: July 15, 2023
Status: Closed
Deadline
July 15, 2023 (11:59 PM, EST)
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Submissions are closed.
Brief & Application Procedure
- All submissions are made via a Story uploaded via the Visura platform.
- The contest is restricted to Ugandan citizens, between 21 and 28 years of age.
- As part of your submission, written in English, you should include:
- Your motivation letter, not less than 200 words.
- Your project proposal, which shouldn’t be less than 400 words. The proposed subject must be noteworthy and original or, an original take on an old idea.
- Portfolio. - One proposal per photographer will be considered. In the case of multiple submissions being received from a single photographer only the first proposal received will be considered.
- The project proposal is a concept note for a documentary or other photography project that you’d like to realise.
- The portfolio should consist of 20 images taken by the applicant which will represent your photographic approach and interests.
- While there will be no restrictions to technical quality of the images submitted, applicants are expected to submit their best quality images.
- Images must have accurate captions, written in English only, and contain adequate information which should include:
- Description of who is in the photograph and what is going on within the photo.
- Name of the place where the picture was made.
- Provide the date the photo was made.
- Captions must give context for what’s not seen (e.g. a scene of walking pilgrims). - Only submissions uploaded via the entry website by the July 15th 2023 deadline will be accepted.
- The applications will be reviewed by a jury who will select the winner and two runners-up who will be invited to participate in the 2024 Mentorship Programme.
- Notice: Any correspondence with judges pertaining to the judging process will be grounds for disqualification.
- The winner of the competition will be announced in October, 2023.
Jury: Dennis Kimbugwe - Photographer (UG), Martin Kharumwa - Photographeer (UG), Giovanni Okot - Photographer (UG), Miriam Watsemba - Documentary Photographer (UG), Martha Kazungu - Curator.