THE FIFTH EDITION OF THE WARSAW PHOTO DAYS FESTIVAL – OPEN COMPETITION!

Warsaw Photo Days Festival 2018 is organized by the Warsaw District of the Association of Polish Art Photographers ZPAF.
The theme of this year’s edition is MANIPULATION
Exhibitions will be presented in Warsaw galleries between December 7-28, 2018.
Deadline for submitting projects expires on November 24, 2018.

We are waiting for themed photographic projects and multimedia forms with the use of
photography and /or video. In Warsaw galleries presented will be twelve individual exhibitions selected through an open competition addressed to visual artists.
From among the projects selected for presentation, the jury will choose the winner of the competition who will receive the GRAND PRIX prize and PLN 5,000 cash (or the equivalent in €). The organizer will print the works from authors’ files the resolution of which must enable printing.
The theme of the fifth edition of Warsaw Photo Days is MANIPULATION.

We are waiting for projects that visually analyze and problematize this year’s theme.
Manipulation is a common and supra-local phenomenon that applies to social and political life, advertising, the media as well as medium of photography itself.
Under the competition, we expect projects attempting to look at the social phenomenon of manipulation understood as a form of influencing upon one person or a group of people in such a way that they fulfill the goals set by manipulator, as well as photographic cycles /video projects /installations that serve or potentially can be used as tools to manipulate audience through seemingly real, but in fact a highly processed or even distorted picture of reality.
There is no denying that as the contemporary media societies we have to face the problem of attempts to influence our individual and social awareness in numerous spheres of life.

The processes and phenomena occurring in this area are extremely interesting for making visual analysis and exchanging views on international ground.
These processes, due to their scale and the fact they increasingly become more common, should arouse the interest of each of us, especially the young generation of creators and recipients of a culture, shaped by overactive media reality and aggressive world of advertising, politics and mass culture surrounding us from every possible side.

Application MUST include:
* pdf file with a proposed set of photographs from a particular project
(72 dpi resolution)
– file size up to 5 Mb;
* description in pdf – max. 1800 characters, that obligatory include:
project description; information whether or not the project has already been presented (if yes,
where) ; proposed formats and technical description; author’s biography; website link for video work; contact details (e-mail, phone number, skype, mailing address).

Applications that do not meet the above requirements will not be admitted to participate in the competition.
Applications should be sent to the following address:
open@warsawphotodays.com

We accept only one entry per artist. Art groups may apply with one project.

Participation in the Open Program is free of charge.
DATES:
Deadline for application: November 24, 2018 (until hrs.23:59)
Announcement of results: November 26, 2018 – on www.warsawphotodays.com
Duration of exhibitions: December 7-28, 2018

Detailed conditions of participation are set in
THE RULES AND CONDITIONS which can be downloaded here: http://warsawphotodays.com/2018/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/en_rules_wpd_open_2018.pdf

Contact:
info@warsawphotodays.com

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