Az W Photo Award 2012

Yarışmaya fotoğrafların son teslim tarihi 26 Mart 2012.

The Az W Photo Award goes into its 3rd round… Following the successful establishment of the first two awards in 2009 and 2010, this year participants are called upon to go in search of green space in the city. The upcoming spring exhibition ‘Hands-On Urbanism 1850 – 2012. The Right to Green’ (15.03 – 25.06.2012) is dedicated to the history of the idea of appropriating land in urban space. The exhibition tells the alternative history of hands-on urbanism — international case studies from Vienna, Hong Kong, Havanna, Quito, New York or Leipzig show what bottom-up urban development can look like. Self-organised settlements, self-build and self-sufficiency with gardens are a part of towns and cities all over the world. What do settlements, community gardens, neighbourhood gardens, allotments or informal urban expansion look like today? What can we learn from them? What are the roles played by architects, planners, activists, artists, settlers or gardeners in this process?

Jury
The jury is to nominate a shortlist from the works submitted, from which 10 entries are to be selected.

Johannes Faber, Galerie Faber
Carl Aigner, director Landesmuseum Niederösterreich and founding editor ‘EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art
Elke Krasny, curator ‘Hands-On Urbanism 1850 – 2012. The Right to Green’ and Architekturzentrum Wien staff.

The shortlisted and winning photographs are to be shown in Halle F3 of the Architekturzentrum Wien for two weeks in the coming May. The show opens on Wednesday 23 May, at 7pm.

PARTICIPATE + WIN:
> 1 night for 2 people at the Looshaus am Kreuzberg, Payerbach, Lower Austria / architecture by Adolf Loos
> 2 nights for 2 people at the 25hours Hotel Wien / architecture by BWM Architekten, interior design: Dreimeta
> as well as Az W catalogues and yearly season tickets to the Architekturzentrum Wien

deadline for submissions: Monday 26.03.2012
exhibition opening: Wednesday 23.05.2012
exhibition duration: 24.05 – 04.06.2012

ENTRY CONDITIONS
Submissions must arrive at the Architekturzentrum Wien by 26 March 2012 to qualify for entry.

ENTRIES MAY BE SUBMITTED ON/PER:
CD/DVD
USB stick
FTP upload

login details for the FTP Server:
server: ftp.azw.at
user name: photoupload
password: photoazw

photographs submitted by email do NOT qualify for entry

please address all queries to: photo@azw.at

ENTRY FORM
• Max. 3 photographs may be submitted per person. Images may be submitted as individual motifs or as a series. Please mark the appropriate field on the text document for a series, if applicable.

• The documents must be placed in one folder
folder name: “Surname_FirstName”

• document name for photographs: “Surname_FirstName”
in the case of submissions consisting more than one photograph: Surname_FirstName_1.jpg, Surname_FirstName_2.jpg …

• accepted formats: JPG, TIFF (only!)

• minimum size per photograph: 1 MB. Submissions smaller than this minimum size do not qualify for entry.

• Include 1 text document with the following details:
first name and family name
Email address
postal address
telephone number
for more than one photo: please state whether you have included individual motifs or a series
print size: please state the size that your image/s should be printed (individual motifs or series), e.g. 1:1 or smaller (format in cm at XX dpi)
statement on the photograph/series
date and location of (each) photograph

• Important
document name for the text: ‘FamilyName_FirstName.doc’ or ‘FamilyName_FirstName.rtf’

Submissions may only be made by the author/s of the work concerned. The person/s submitting work accepts/accept full liability should the rights of third parties be infringed. Entrants agree that photographs printed by the Az W for exhibition purposes become the competition organisers’ property following the end of the exhibition.

Data storage devices (CDs, USB sticks etc.) submitted to the Az W will not be returned.In making a submission the sender consents to publication of the image/s concerned in a context of the exhibition and/or in a context of the focus on Public Space (online and for a range of printed matter).