The University of Cardiff now wants you to think about what engineering means to you and photograph the impact it is has had on your life. You don’t need scientifc knowledge or engineering expertise to enter this competition. Anybody can take part. We want you to look within your own lives and find out what the applications of engineering research means to you.

Categories:

1. Most creative interpretation of the brief
2. Best technical image
3. Best manipulated image
4. Best picture taken on a mobile phone
5. Under 16s

Prizes:

* Overall winning image – £1,000 cash prize
* £500 runner up prizes

Simply submit your image(s), along with an entry form, to info@graphicscience.co.uk Or by post to: Engineering for Life Photo Comp; Graphic Science Ltd; The Sheilings; Felton Common; North Somerset; BS40 9YP. Remember to include an entry form. Digital adjustments are only acceptable if submitted under the category ‘Best Manipulated Image’ (Although basic darkroom-equivalent changes such as cropping, brightness, sharpening or spot/blemish removal are allowed across all categories).

Official web site: http://www.graphicscience.co.uk/engineeringforlife.html

* Copyright: We respect the copyright ownership of all submitted images, which continues to belong to the photographer.
* Eligibility: Open to residents in the UK at the time of entering the competition.
* Entry fee: Free
* Entry deadline: 31 May 2010

How do you see development? How can you portrait the human face of the development processes? How do you show that development initiatives and programmes improve the lives of people? This Global Photography Campaign aims to show examples of people winning the battle against poverty, social exclusion and marginalization. It is intended to raise awareness of the successes in the development process. The campaign is intended to counterbalance the frequently shown images of desolation and despair. A photo gallery will to be permanently located at IPC-IG office and open for public visitation.

This campaign will enable people to contribute photographs related to a wide array of development situations, such as:

• Overcoming poverty, social exclusion and marginalisation.
• Enlarging people’s choices and supporting local development initiatives.
• Promoting self-esteem, confidence and hope.
• Building a brighter future and advancing human capacities.
• Fighting deprivation and expanding access to food, water, sanitation, education and health services for the poor.
• Eliminating gender inequalities in the labour market.
• Empowering women.
• Fighting discrimination, domestic violence, abuse and exploitation.
• Eliminating child labour and promoting decent work opportunities.
• Expanding access to education and improving its quality and social inclusiveness through innovative approaches.
• Innovative initiatives on local development, enhancing the participation of communities in decision processes.
• Enhancing women’s potential and participation in development processes.
• Promoting women’s leadership and equal opportunity to develop talents.
• Building democratic governance and developing institutions and processes that are more responsive to the needs of ordinary citizens, including the poor. Alleviating exclusion, suffering, injustice and waste caused by corruption.
• Empowering citizens to combat the destructive influence of corruption, entrenched networks and abuse of power.

As a reward, your contribution to this campaign and your effort in supporting its goals will be acknowledged by a wide dissemination of your work through a range of UN communications tools:

• The selected photographs and the respective contributors’ names will be highlighted in various UN communications channels, such as IPC-IG and UN media campaigns, releases, websites and so forth.
• The selected photograph will be part of UNDP and IPC-IG photo databases and will be shared with the United Nations Department of Public Information in New York, promoting global visibility to contributors, their work and participation in the global campaign.
• Contributors will receive a certificate jointly issued by the UNDP International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth and the campaign partners.
• Contributors will have their names displayed at the IPC-IG photo gallery on “Humanizing Development”, which will be launched at a public event on November 2009.
• Photo exhibitions are to be organised in order to highlight the photographs and the contributors and to promote the campaign goals. Exhibitions are planned to be held in New York, Brasilia, São Paulo, and other cities in the South.

To take part in the Campaign, potential participants should upload their photograph(s) to the Global Photography Campaign website, which is hosted on the website of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the United Nations Development Programme
http://www.ipc-undp.org/photo/index.htm#howparticipate.

Each participant may send up to 5 photographs that significantly represent the theme.

• Copyright: The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the United Nations Development Programme agrees to fully credit all photographs submitted to the Global Campaign, by reference to the name of the participant following the standard format “IPC PHOTO / PARTICIPANT NAME”. Participants within the Humanizing Development Global Photography Campaign must agree to transfer, irreversibly and irrevocably, all intellectual property rights pertaining to their submitted photographs to the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the United Nations Development Programme.
• Eligibility: Open to both amateur and professional photographers, as well as to the general public.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 1 October 2009

Official website: http://www.ipc-undp.org/photo/index.htm