2013 Voies Off Prize
The Photographic Alternative
Online application from November 30, 2012, to February 28, 2013
For the past 18 years, Voies Off has offered an alternative approach to emerging
contemporary photography, its particularities, its evolutions, and its
areas of resistance.
Voies Off night projections during the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles festival
(first full week in July) have become an international reference for the discovery
of emerging authors and the alternative venue that it creates for international
photographic creation.
Year after year, the selected themes have met the evolutions of our contemporary
world with a critical eye. Over twenty different nationalities are represented at each
festival. Every year, around sixty candidates are selected for the programme of the
night-projections.
Every July, the Voies Off Prize is awarded by a jury of renowned professionals to an
artist for the clarity of his/her vision and the high quality of his/her work.
The current amount of the prize is 2,500 euros.
Be part of the photographic alternative and participate in the 2013 Voies Off Prize.
Rules
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Participation
No restriction regarding age or nationality.
Participants in the Voies Off Prize are: all amateur or professional photographers,
artists, associations, collectives, groups, galleries, agencies, or schools…
using photography as their medium.
A commission will select the applications presenting originality and a personal
approach. The works must be organized as a series showing coherent thinking
developed through a theme, a personal vision.
The main criterion considered by
the commission will be a personal and creative vision.
Jury and award
A jury composed of renowned professionals and the artistic director of Voies
Off will choose the winner of the competitions among the selected applications.
The jury is sovereign in its decision that shall not be appealed.
The 2012 Voies Off Prize is 2,500 euros.
Calendar
Results will be emailed to the participants.
The result of the jury’s selection for the 2013 festival will be announced in May 2013.
The winning portfolio will be announced in July 2013.
Copyright and liabilities
Any submission that shall not abide by the following rules shall be rejected.
The participants are responsible for authorizations and releases from their models
and subjects.
The participating photographers agree, once selected, to add a link to the Voies Off website to their own websites [http://www.voies-off.com].
Participants agree to Voies Off ’s possible free and fair use of their
photographs from the selected portfolios for promotion purposes.
Participants must be aware that the festival may canceled at any time in case of a
major emergency. Voies Off shall not be held responsible for any financial damage.
Participants in the 2013 Voies Off festival agree with and will abide by the above rules.
Submission
Any submission that shall not abide by the following rules shall be rejected.
Applications for the 2013 Voies Off prize shall include:
Texts :
+ ONE (and one only) pdf document including CV and a short statement describing
the intentions and work of the author of the portfolio. Any relevant or useful information
can be added to this document.
The pdf file will be titled as follows :
[participant’s first name] _ [participant’s LAST NAME]
Ex: Winston_SMITH (first name+underscore+last name)
Photographs :
+ A series of 15 to 45 photographs :
jpg format at the highest quality (lowest compression) / about 1500 pixels x 2000 pixels (for projection purposes), resolution set at 72 dpi / RGB or Gray Scale / Unlocked files
Image files shall be named as follows :
The folder containing all the required files shall be named as follows:
[participant’s First Name] _ [participant’s LAST NAME]
Ex: Winston_SMITH
Numbering can indicate the order in which the photographs should be projected.
+ If the submission is composed of several series of images, the appli- cant must create a specific sub-folder for each series.
The sub-folders will be titled as follows:
[participant's first name] _ [participant's LAST NAME] _ [title of the series]
Ex: Winston_SMITH_Around-the-world
For the name of your folders and files, avoid using spaces and special characters: é è ç: / *? <> # & @ ...
