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
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.