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1st Urban Photography Competition CONTESTED_CITIES

Are you interested in photography? Are worried about the urban problems in
your city or neighbourhood? If so, then here is an opportunity to represent
urban conflicts, problems and transformations that take place in the urban
environment.

The CONTESTED CITIES research project is launching an urban photography
competition that will showcase urban phenomena. Our research project is
centred around the study of social and political processes in cities
specifically the increasing neoliberalisation of urban spaces occurring
concurrently with the increasing contestation of these processes. We are
developing a way of approaching these issues from a visual vantage point.
As part of this aim we want to open up the challenge to represent social
conflicts in an urban environment through digital photography.

We are looking for photographs that show urban development in the last few
years, the urban consequences of the recent crisis and the social movements
that fight for better cities. Examples of these processes would be:
movements to stop evictions, housing campaigns, squatting and occupy
movements, neighbourhood movements, evictions, real estate speculation and
urban protest graffiti. Those photographs that are selected will be
exhibited in cultural spaces in some of the cities that are involved in the
Contested Cities project, as well as in newspapers and magazines that deal
with urban social issues.

Send us your photographs before the 15th of April to
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For more information about the rules of the competition check:
facebook.com/contested.cities

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The CONTESTED CITIES research project is launching the first edition of the
“CONTESTED CITIES Urban Photography competition”. A photo Competition
centered around cities and open to all photographers interested in
capturing social, political and neighbourhood conflicts that are related to
urban environments.

Prizes
MADRID competition
- 1st prize: €250 in photographic material and a subscription to the
newspaper Diagonal.
- 2nd Prize: €150 in photographic material and a subscription to the
newspaper Diagonal.
- Three 3rd Prizes: A book from the Traficantes de Sueños publishers and a
subscription to the newspaper Diagonal.
CONTESTED CITIES competition
- 1st prize: €300 voucher for photographic material.
- 2nd Prize: €175 voucher for photographic material.
- Three 3rd Prizes: €30 Amazon voucher

RULES OF THE COMPETITION

Participants
The competition is for everyone who is interested in capturing urban
realities and wants to participate: Residents, activists, photography
amateurs or professionals…anybody who can use a digital camera.

Themes
We are looking for photographs that will reflect urban issues and that will
be interesting from a social and political point of view. We are therefore
interested in photographs that deal with recent models of building cities;
both the impact of the global financial crisis, as well as the reaction
from social movements and urban resistances. Within these limits there is
freedom to choose your theme, but some examples of these processes would
be: movements to stop evictions, housing campaigns, squatting and occupy
movements, neighbourhood movements, evictions, real estate speculation and
urban protest graffiti.

Competition areas
There will be two different completion areas one for Madrid and one for the
rest of the world.
MADRID: To apply for this section photographs must be taken within the
limits of the metropolitan area of Madrid.
CONTESTED CITIES: This section will be for all photographs taken outside
the metropolitan area of Madrid, in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere in
the world.

Technical requirements
- The photographs need to be originals, taken by the participant and which
haven’t been previously sent to a different competition.
- When you send the photographs you should attach a short text describing
each of the photographs. In this text please include your name, the
geographic location of the photograph, date of the photograph, as well as a
technical description and specification of the material used for the
photograph.
- You will need to send the photographs in .jpg format.

Number of photographs
Each participant can send between 1 to 5 photographs. You can send various
photographs under the same theme as a “reportage” or up to 5 individual
photographs on different themes. You can also send 2 “reportage” with 2 or
3 photos as long as you don’t send more than 5 in total.


Jerome Krase, Ph.D.
Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor
Brooklyn College
The City University of New York
Seeing Cities Change: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409428787

Website:  http://brooklynsoc.tumblr.com/

Urbanities: http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com
Cidades: http://cidades.dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/index.php/CCT/index