INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST
The nutrition and the resources of our planet are issues of vital urgency. For this we decide to focus on the themes of 2015 Universal Exhibition ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’, and to launch our own campaign ‘Feed a Different Imagination’. The campaign is free and open to all photographers who want to contribute to inspire our need to deepen and discuss these issues.
AWARDS
It is an opportunity for an important debate, to which we can contribute with our personal visions and stories. We know that images often have the power to engage and move the audience, capture their attention, and to reach deeper than that of the spoken word. We ask the international community of photographers to provide their own interpretation of the Thematic Routes chosen by EXPO 2015. Each of the Thematic Routes correspond to an award category, of which there are 5.
1. Food and Cultures
The story of humankind is a key theme for understanding the practices of land management. There are also references to exploitation and the degradation consequent to colonization. The history of food, through its customs and traditions, highlights the attributes of individual populations, from their agricultural and farming techniques to how foods have changed and developed over time.
© Janos Buck, ‘Fleisch’
2. Food and Health
The food is the basic need of our species. And yet we know malnutrition, lack of water, poverty, pollution afflict a large proportion of the world population. Where there is no shortage of food instead diets, obesity, poor eating habits, allergies, intolerances and other paradoxical discomforts are spreading.
3. Food and Perspectives
How shall we eat in the future? The mechanization of the agro-industrial sector shows us more and more controlled and over-produced crops. At the same time we see a wide increase in the use of sophisticated technologies. Across a large scope of massive urbanization, the future perhaps demands a need for a return to the land, to local and community management of the resources needed to nutrition.
© Paolo Fusco, ‘Urban Farmers’
4. Food and Equity
How is it possible to make humanity more sensitive to maintaining a better balance between food production and natural resources? The main focus of Expo Milano 2015 is nutrition, yet the issue of access to the resources of the planet puts emphasis on the need for greater equity and therefore human rights.
5. Food and Landscapes
The food is not only a necessity. It represents a potential expression of lands, territories, tastes and flavors, colors, nature and biodiversity. Food is therefore also unique to any particular landscape and the way we inhabit it.
© Alnis Stakle, ‘Shangri-La’
JURY
We have designated an International Jury including David Chancellor, Sasha Rudenski, David Marlé, Heidi Romano, Scott Dietrich. Each juror assigns one of five awards. Read more about the Jury here.
We have invited Steve Bisson, curator of EXPO CAMPAIGN, to select some of the best works submitted for a special publication entitled ‘Feed a Different Imagination’! Read more about the publication here.
Expo Campaign will support the END POLIO NOW project by Rotary International. As the Italian journalist Antonio Lubrano with your support to EXPO Campaign you can help this important initiative.
SUBMISSION
To participate:
1. Read the photo competition RULES from here.
2. Submit your images ( max 3 ) with a statement to info@expocampaign.com.
3. Wait for our quick feedback.
DEADLINE
01 september 2015
CONTACT
info@expocampaign.com
www.expocampaign.com