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Israel & Jewish Life
Photo Contest International
TUV Productions announces a Photo
Contest & Exhibition of Photos Online.
Deadline: November 26, 2006
Announcements
The winners will be announced
in December 2006.
OFFICIAL RULES
TUV Productions will accept
Color or Black & White electronic images via email only.
Winning entries will be exhibited at the Jewish Life. All entrants
asign publication rights to TUV Productions. TUV Productions
reserves the right to use any entry as it sees fit within any
publication of Jewish Life.
All entries must be of Jewish or Israeli themes and reflect
cultural, historical, religious, political, economic, Jewish
society or Jewish social aspects of Jewish Life in Israel or
Diaspora. Entries must be submitted for the first time to a
contest.
Winners will be selected on the basis
of talent, originality, style, technical excellence and creativity.
The decision of the judge is final. Valid model releases must
accompany all the entries where subject'(s)' faces or property
is identifiable and are not displayed in public to be seen and
photographed without permits and/or model realeses. By submitting
your entries you testify that you will not hold TUV Productions
liable and/or responsible for any disputes that might arise
over the ownership, content and/or permission to reproduce and/or
publish your photographic entries and you waive all the rights
to hold TUV Productions liable. By submitting your entries you
testify that you will not hold TUV Productions liable and/or
responsible for any disputes that might arise over the permission
to photograph these subjects by you and you waive all the rights
to hold TUV Productions liable. By submitting your entry, you
confirm that it has not been previously published, and has no
copyright restrictions or privacy restraints. Employees of TUV
Productions and its affiliates, and members of their immediate
families and households are not eligible.We
are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, illegible,
incomplete or garbled e-mail transmissions. Receipt of entries
will not be acknowledged, nor can correspondence or emails be
answered.
Entrant Criteria is open to any photographer,
professional or amateur, from
any part of the world. TUV Productions reserves the right to
disqualify entries that violate any American or other relevant
national law or standard, and entries considered to be
indecent. Photographs that have been published, as well as those
that have won
awards in other contests and in its judging procedure may not
be submitted to TUV Productions (photographs submitted to other
contests that didn’t win awards will be
accepted).TUV Productions cordially invites you toparticipate
in the TUV Productions'
Israel & Jewish Life Photo Contest International (TUV Productions)
2006. Photography lovers from around the world have been competing
with each other for prizes and bragging rights since the contest
first took place in 2000. For TUV Productions 2006, we’ve selected
"Israel & Jewish Life"
as the themes for categories listed here. It is a joint theme
made by TUV Productions in cooperation with the Jewish Singles
Video Connection.
We encourage you to submit your best photos to TUV Productions
in 2006 and demonstrate your photographic flair to the whole
world. Please make submissions according to the entry rules.
However, the same photo may not be submitted in several categories.
Any such attempt will result in disqualification.
Entry Fees:
Each submitted photo must be accompanied
by a non-refundable entry fee payable via our secure payment
center online. After you
have registered and/or logged in, you will be prompted to enter
your photos and to pay your entry fee at the 'For addition of
a new photo you should pay USD$ 5.00' option at the Israel &
Jewish Life Photo Contest International / Add / Edit your photos
to which you will be taken after you clicked on the Add New
Photo button. Please make sure that you finish the payment provess
and submit your photos before you leave. Photos not accompanied
by the entry fees will not be accepted.
How to Apply
You may submit up to only 3 photographs
in
each of the 10 categories. To submit your entries you must fill
out the online entry form provided below, then
upload it along with your photographs. Only the first 20,000
photographs will
be accepted. Entrants will not be notified of receipt of their
entries. Data
entry is accepted only from the TUV Productions web site. Submissions
accepted only by email !
NOTE: All entries must be email-marked
on
or before November 26, 2006.
Multiple photographs for one picture
number may not be submitted. Panorama-format photographs will
also be accepted provided that they meet
the mentioned below size requirements. Photographs not within
these size limits
will be disqualified.
TUV Productions may ask winners to
provide high-quality originals or data for
the production of "Israel & Jewish Life Photo Collection"
or panels for exhibitions. Complimentary copies of the "Israel
& Jewish Life Photo Collection" will be sent to the
winners.
Judging Awards
If high resolution images are not available at time of judging
the entries will be disqualified. All
entries will be judged by TUV Productions in conducting the
contest.The
judge's decisions will be finalized, and the winners will be
announced on the
TUV Productions' Jewish Life web site (http://www.tuvproductions.com/jewishlife.htm)
by the end of December 2004.
TUV Productions will not respond to any inquiries regarding
the contest's results.
Disclaimers
Entrants are regarded as having agreed
to the rules at the
time of entry. Any photograph or entrant found by TUV Productions
to be in
violation of any of the rules is subject to disqualification.(Entrants
will not
be notified if one or more of their submissions has been disqualified.)
If it is
later found that the winning photograph violates the rules,
TUV Productions
retains the right to cancel the award and request return of
the prize. No
entries will be returned to entrants. Entrants will not be notified
of receipt of
their entries. We will handle the electronic entries with great
care; however, we are
not responsible for any damage or loss which may occur during
emailing of your
photographs, or for data that is damaged or lost during uploading.
Entrants
retain all copyright and equivalent rights of winning photographs.
However, TUV Productions has the right to Notification of Winners.
Winners will be notified individually via electronic mail (email)
by TUV Productions by the middle of December, 2006. All winners
will be required to complete, sign and return the sworn statement
provided by TUV Productions within 14 days of notification.
Failure to comply with this rule may result in disqualification.
Winning photos will be displayed in a special publication of
TUV Productions named Jewish Life (http://www.tuvproductions.com/jewishlife.htm).
Prize Name and
Number of Winners
Prizes:
Grand Prize One winner TUV Productions'
Cash Prize equivalent to USD$1,000 and a publication of photo(s)
on Jewish Life page. The prizes are subject to change without
notification. (In the event that photographs are selected for
use in other publications TUV Productions will enter into separate
agreements with the entrants concerned. TUV Productions also
has the permanent right to use prize-winning photographs for
non-commercial purposes. TUV Productions will not be responsible
for any claims or complaints from models used in winning
photographs should these photographs be published or exhibited.
Entrants guarantee that they have the right to submit their
entries and have obtained any necessary permissions. When a
third party lodges a claim or complaint, all ensuing responsibilities,
including any costs incurred, rest solely with the entrant.
Entrants will be responsible for all entry-related costs such
as duplication, enlargement and postage, if needed. Winners
are responsible for any tax or other charge connected with the
prize received. TUV Productions will not
respond to any claims or inquiries regarding the contest results.
Names of winning entrants and their photos will bedisplayed
on the TUV Productions' Jewish Life web site, and might appear
in "Israel & Jewish Life Photo Collection", and
may be used at exhibitions. If a conflict arises between an
entrant and TUV Productions, the case falls under the jurisdiction
of the Indianapolis District or Supreme Court and will be handled
accordingly.
TUV Productions has the final say on any point not outlined
in the entry rules.
If an entrant disagrees with a decision made by TUV Productions,
he/she has the right to withdraw his/her entry. (Any expenses
incurred to that point will be borne solelyby the entrant.)
Use of Personal
Information General
When completing an entry form, you
are requested to provide certain personal information.
This requested information is mandatory for entry, and we regret
that TUV Productions cannot accept any entries where this information
is not provided. All entries will be forwarded to TUV Productions
head office at (4410 Clayburn Dr., Indianapolis, Indiana 46268
USA) for judging. The following
text explains the manner in which TUV Productions may use such
personal information.
Purposes for which personal information
will be used by TUV Productions and its subsidiaries and affiliates
in the following ways: to notify winners, to provide entrants
with contest-related information, to contact entrants regarding
the use of their photographs, to announce the winners and their
location, to announce the next contest, to provide other information
such as information on new products, services and events from
TUV Productions if requested by you on the entry form. Prize
winner'(s)' names will also be announced on the TUV Productions'
web site and may be used to identify the winning individuals
in published reproductions of winning photographs.
Release of Personal
Information to Third Parties
TUV Productions will reveal only your
name, location (country only) and technical data regarding photo.
No other information will be revealed.
Image'(s)' Size
and Specifications
Only JPEG/JPG files can be accepted
in PC format. The file name must have the appropriate type extension
included. Large files will be resized (to conserve space on
our server - and to allow fast downloading!)
Images are also resized for display purposes. For the sake of
fairness the longest side of all images shown will be same (300
pixels).
Remember that, once on the web an image can be copied - another
reason to only show low resolution files. All images on this
site are the copyright of their respective owners.
Do not steal them unless you want a big legal bill! We have
a scheme where selected images are avaiable free for use on
websites.
HOW TO
ENTER
- Choose a medium: Color,
B&W, Color and B&W
- Entry's Size:
- Pick a category :
- Jewish Life.
- Israel/Israeli Politics/Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict.
- Jewish & Israeli Culture.
- Jewish & Israeli History/Aliyah.
- Photographer's Choice.
- Judaism & Religion.
- Jewish & Israel's Society.
- Jewish Family.
- Diaspora.
- Israel's Tourism.
- All entries must be received by
November 26, 2006
- All entries must include: correct
spelling of all names, including private names, photo subjects
and photographer. Up to date address, contact phone numbers,
including state code, area code on the electronic entry form
below.
- Each entry must be accompanied
by 1-3 brief paragraphs explaining the content/circumstances
of the photograph.
- Do not mount entries, but send
in appropriate stiff packaging. TUV Productionsis not responsible
for lost or damaged entries.
- The title (below) must acompany
each photo entry. Entries without titles or without paragraphs
explaining photos will be disqualified.
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