Viewbook PhotoStory 2009

Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 challenges conceptual and documentary photographers around the world to create compelling stories with a linear series of photographs in an online gallery. The annual online competition aims to discover inspiring, high-quality photo stories within the photography community and bring them to a broad audience. Viewbook PhotoStory functions as a premium platform for emerging talents to face the establishment.

The competition is all about the art of shooting a strong series, making a critical selection, determining the right order, writing captions and an appealing title. And it’s about the impact that a photo story has on the audience. The submitted photo stories will be judged by an international panel of industry professionals. Viewbook PhotoStory is a public online event that everyone can be part of. Every visitor to this site can comment and vote on their favorite photo story. The first price winners receive international publications & lifelong subscriptions with a value exceeding $12,000. There are special prizes for the public winners. Every year the best photo series get published in the annual Viewbook PhotoStory book.

Viewbook PhotoStory is open for pros and emerging talents alike at no cost. All participants can easily create and submit their online gallery by signing up for a free, no-obligation, 60 day Viewbook Pro account.

Viewbook PhotoStory is initiated and organized by Viewbook.com in association with GUP magazine, backed up by Blurb, Workbook and many supporters.

Categories

Viewbook PhotoStory has choosen two categories that represent the most fundamental forms of photography. The kind of photography that captures what is going on with us on our wonderful but dramatic planet, and the photographic discipline of capturing unimpeded artistic expression.

Documentary photography
With the category ‘documentary photography’ we like to see contemporary photographic narratives and essays that tell us what is going on with us and our planet. Unveil real world phenomena, people, issues and cultures. Photo narratives that marvel or confront us. In this category we are searching for the finest contemporary photojournalism.

Conceptual photography
The conceptual catagory is about true free artistic expression, about everything that is made up of idea’s, concepts, stage, make-believe. In the conceptual category we are on the lookout for the photo series that truly inspire us to free our minds, series that make an unimpeded political statement, or make us fall of our chairs from laughter. Submissions can vary from pure art, fashion photography to portraiture and everything in between.

PRIZES
THE JURY

Requirements

Every photographer, pro or emerging talent above 18 years old can enter the Viewbook PhotoStory contest. Also a representer can submit the work for a photographer. Every photographer is allowed to submit one photo story per category. You are free to submit already produced work or newly produced work.

You are free to choose your amount of photographs in your photo story. Obviously it needs to be a series and less might be more. All entries must fit in one of the categories; documentary or conceptual and need to be of enough creative and photographic quality to pass the pre-selection. At entry we ask you to give us the title and a description of your photo story.

Specifications
Upload 1000 pixels wide, 12 quality .jpg’s, 72 dpi, sRGB
Ad “© name photographer” in the left bottom corner of each image. Use Arial 14 pt. Copyright © will be mentioned on the Viewbookphotostory.com website. Title and description of max 200 words.

Key Dates

Submissions open at 20 June 2009. All photographers can upload, edit and submit their works until the closing date of 1 October 2009. We encourage you to submit your work as soon as possible to get the most out of the public voting and get your photo story seen by as many people as possible.

Submissions open: 20 June 2009
Submissions closed: 1 October 2009
Announcing winners: 15 October 2009

Official website: http://www.viewbookphotostory.com