GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST

2022 CONTEST RULES

CONTEXT The GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is a side event of the GRAVITY FESTIVAL, the first urban arts festival serving the planet. The first edition of the festival will take place on May 14th and 15th 2022 at Yann Arthus Bertrand’s Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris. This festival will have various aspects but the two main ones are: – An artistical component with 10 graffiti artists, recognized at the world level, that will paint live in front of the public 10 artworks on the topic of the protection of environment. Also, visitors will have access to Vincent Munier’s open air exhibition and the Planet Ocean exhibition inside the Foundation’s castle. -An informative component with two round tables by leading actors of the ecology. Also, visitors will have access to all the Foundation’s workshops. The purpose of the festival is that all contributors, artists and speakers, contribute to raise awareness of the gravity of the current ecological situation. Everything is free.

GENERAL RULES The GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is a photographic contest open to professional and non-professional photographers from all around the world. Are excluded only the festival’s organization team and Foundation GoodPlanet’s team.

THEME The topic of the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is “the beauty of nature” in its broadest sense. The presented photographs can either focus on environment and its protection, the ecological situation but also on the animal or vegetal world, landscapes. We add an important point, beauty alone does not really make sense, a strong message must be associated with it. Furthermore, the equipment used is of no importance in the eyes of the jury, as is the professional or amateur aspect of the photographer. We simply want to see beautiful and strong pictures of nature.

CALENDAR Starting date: 2022, February 16th Contest deadline: 2022, April 16th at midnight First jurors voting session: 2022, April 18th Communication of the preselected photographs: 2022, April 19th Call for HD files upload: within 2022, April 30th Second jurors voting session: 2022, May 1st Exhibition Opening: 2022, May 14th Award ceremony and live results release: 2022, May 15th at 2.30pm

JURY

Myriam Dupouy : professional photographer, speaker, trainer for the NIKON SCHOOL, the French Federation of Photography, Studio Jiminy and the Festival de l’Oiseau et de la Nature.

Myriam Dupouy Photographe Art et Nature

Stanley Leroux : professional photographer, Gold Medal for Photography from the National Society of Fine Arts, author of two successful monographs Cinquantièmes Hurlants and Rêveries, les éléments de l’incertitude. http://www.stanleyleroux.com/

Candice Coulomb: Responsible for the programming of the GoodPlanet Foundation’s events.

Agir rend heureux

Jonk : professional photographer, author of several books, member of the organization team of the Gravity festival. https://www.jonk-photography.com/

ENTRY FEES AND PAYMENT MODALITY The registration fee is 10 euros. Registration for the competition will be validated once the rights have been received by the organizers. Registration fees are payable only via paypal at [email protected]. They allow participation in the competition with a maximum of three (3) photographs. We would like to point out that we would have preferred that this competition, like the entrance to the festival, be free. We have decided to set up a small participation of 10 euros for three reasons: to allow the first three finalists to be offered a financial reward, to help pay for the print of the 20 finalists exposed photographs (even if our partners offer us reduced prices, there is still a significant share at our expense) and finally, if the number of participants is large, help finance part of the festival. It is free and we can only count on a few grants and partnership to carry out its realization. Registration fees cannot be refunded. A confirmation email will be sent once the files have been received by email and when the registration fees have been paid. Incomplete applications will not be shown to the jury.

PHOTOS SUBMISSION All entries must be submitted by email only to the address [email protected] with an object name « GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST ». Photographs must be in JPG file format. The file size of the individual image should not exceed 5MB. The dimensions of photographs must not exceed 2000 pixels for the longest side (whether vertical or horizontal). Photographs already exhibited during previous editions of the festival cannot be submitted again. Works entirely created by computer, photomontages, photographs with signatures or watermarks are not allowed. Each photograph must be accompanied by an explanatory text in .PDF format of a maximum of 500 characters that does not mention the author’s name. So there must be one JPG file and one PDF file for each submitted picture.

FILES NAMES The JPG and PDF files should be named as follows: firstname_familyname_title

AUTHOR COPYRIGHT Each participant owns the copyright of the submitted images. The participant certifies the work as his or her own. The entrant allows the contest organizers to use, free of charge, the entered images for promotional purposes related to the photo contest. The winning photographs will be made available to the media who wish to announce the results of the competition. Each time the images are used, the organizers or media will quote the author’s name. No photographs entered for the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST will be offered for sale or used by any of the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST sponsors for any commercial or other purposes.

REJECTION An entry may be rejected by the Organization if it does not conform to Contest rules and conditions.

DIGITAL POST PROCESSING PROCEDURES You may use digital post-processing to optimize an image, and you may crop images slightly, but you are not permitted to add or remove key elements of the composition. Brightness, contrast, colour balance can all be adjusted. Dust spots, minor elements, etc. can be retouched. Images can be sharpened before printing. Post-processing, which could realistically be achieved in a darkroom will be accepted but jurors have the discretion to reject any entry which has been, in their opinion, over-manipulated and therefore removing the integrity of the original image. Participants who will be listed in the final round are requested to submit the RAW files or original JPG camera files of their photographs in preselection.

JURY PANEL RULES Entries will be evaluated by a nominated Jury panel. The judging is anonymous so judges are not aware of participants’ names or details. The jury will evaluate the images on the basis of visual impact, composition, originality, technique, creativity but also and above all on the ability to communicate a message, a feeling or an emotion. First, the jury will select the fifty photographs it deems the best and which will be considered preselected. The preselected participants must send, before the date stated in the rules and under penalty of exclusion from the competition, the high resolution image files. Twenty finalists will then be selected and announced. The winners will be unveiled during the awards ceremony on Sunday May 15th, 2022 at 2.30pm at the GoodPlanet Foundation.

PRIZES The twenty finalist’s photographs will be exhibited at Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris during the length of the festival. The twenty finalist photographs will receive a 10% discount on a Negative+ order in store. Photographs will be printed on Hahnemühle paper at 50x70cm. Participants who will be willing to get there framed pictures back after the festival will be able to do it at no cost. The other ones will be recycled. The first price will also receive a voucher for a mounted print on Dibond sized 50x70cm at Negatif+ store, a book by Stanley Leroux and a book by Jonk. The second price will also receive a voucher for a mounted print on Dibond sized 40x60cm at Negatif+ store, a book by Stanley Leroux and a book by Jonk. The third price will also receive a voucher for a mounted print on Dibond sized 30x45cm at Negatif+ store, a book by Stanley Leroux and a book by Jonk. All twenty finalists will receive a diploma.

NOTIFICATION All participants will receive an email with the contest’s results. They will also be published on the website of the competition.

ACCEPTANCE OF RULES Submission of an entry implies the acceptance of all rules and conditions.

ORGANIZATION Jonk: [email protected]

2022 CONTEST RULES

CONTEXT The GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is a side event of the GRAVITY FESTIVAL, the first urban arts festival serving the planet. The first edition of the festival will take place on May 14th and 15th 2022 at Yann Arthus Bertrand’s Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris. This festival will have various aspects but the two main ones are: – An artistical component with 10 graffiti artists, recognized at the world level, that will paint live in front of the public 10 artworks on the topic of the protection of environment. Also, visitors will have access to Vincent Munier’s open air exhibition and the Planet Ocean exhibition inside the Foundation’s castle. -An informative component with two round tables by leading actors of the ecology. Also, visitors will have access to all the Foundation’s workshops. The purpose of the festival is that all contributors, artists and speakers, contribute to raise awareness of the gravity of the current ecological situation. Everything is free.

GENERAL RULES The GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is a photographic contest open to professional and non-professional photographers from all around the world. Are excluded only the festival’s organization team and Foundation GoodPlanet’s team.

THEME The topic of the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST is “the beauty of nature” in its broadest sense. The presented photographs can either focus on environment and its protection, the ecological situation but also on the animal or vegetal world, landscapes. We add an important point, beauty alone does not really make sense, a strong message must be associated with it. Furthermore, the equipment used is of no importance in the eyes of the jury, as is the professional or amateur aspect of the photographer. We simply want to see beautiful and strong pictures of nature.

CALENDAR Starting date: 2022, February 16th Contest deadline: 2022, April 16th at midnight First jurors voting session: 2022, April 18th Communication of the preselected photographs: 2022, April 19th Call for HD files upload: within 2022, April 30th Second jurors voting session: 2022, May 1st Exhibition Opening: 2022, May 14th Award ceremony and live results release: 2022, May 15th at 2.30pm

JURY

Myriam Dupouy : professional photographer, speaker, trainer for the NIKON SCHOOL, the French Federation of Photography, Studio Jiminy and the Festival de l’Oiseau et de la Nature.

Myriam Dupouy Photographe Art et Nature

Stanley Leroux : professional photographer, Gold Medal for Photography from the National Society of Fine Arts, author of two successful monographs Cinquantièmes Hurlants and Rêveries, les éléments de l’incertitude. http://www.stanleyleroux.com/

Candice Coulomb: Responsible for the programming of the GoodPlanet Foundation’s events.

Agir rend heureux

Jonk : professional photographer, author of several books, member of the organization team of the Gravity festival. https://www.jonk-photography.com/

ENTRY FEES AND PAYMENT MODALITY The registration fee is 10 euros. Registration for the competition will be validated once the rights have been received by the organizers. Registration fees are payable only via paypal at [email protected]. They allow participation in the competition with a maximum of three (3) photographs. We would like to point out that we would have preferred that this competition, like the entrance to the festival, be free. We have decided to set up a small participation of 10 euros for three reasons: to allow the first three finalists to be offered a financial reward, to help pay for the print of the 20 finalists exposed photographs (even if our partners offer us reduced prices, there is still a significant share at our expense) and finally, if the number of participants is large, help finance part of the festival. It is free and we can only count on a few grants and partnership to carry out its realization. Registration fees cannot be refunded. A confirmation email will be sent once the files have been received by email and when the registration fees have been paid. Incomplete applications will not be shown to the jury.

PHOTOS SUBMISSION All entries must be submitted by email only to the address [email protected] with an object name « GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST ». Photographs must be in JPG file format. The file size of the individual image should not exceed 5MB. The dimensions of photographs must not exceed 2000 pixels for the longest side (whether vertical or horizontal). Photographs already exhibited during previous editions of the festival cannot be submitted again. Works entirely created by computer, photomontages, photographs with signatures or watermarks are not allowed. Each photograph must be accompanied by an explanatory text in .PDF format of a maximum of 500 characters that does not mention the author’s name. So there must be one JPG file and one PDF file for each submitted picture.

FILES NAMES The JPG and PDF files should be named as follows: firstname_familyname_title

AUTHOR COPYRIGHT Each participant owns the copyright of the submitted images. The participant certifies the work as his or her own. The entrant allows the contest organizers to use, free of charge, the entered images for promotional purposes related to the photo contest. The winning photographs will be made available to the media who wish to announce the results of the competition. Each time the images are used, the organizers or media will quote the author’s name. No photographs entered for the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST will be offered for sale or used by any of the GRAVITY PHOTO CONTEST sponsors for any commercial or other purposes.

REJECTION An entry may be rejected by the Organization if it does not conform to Contest rules and conditions.

DIGITAL POST PROCESSING PROCEDURES You may use digital post-processing to optimize an image, and you may crop images slightly, but you are not permitted to add or remove key elements of the composition. Brightness, contrast, colour balance can all be adjusted. Dust spots, minor elements, etc. can be retouched. Images can be sharpened before printing. Post-processing, which could realistically be achieved in a darkroom will be accepted but jurors have the discretion to reject any entry which has been, in their opinion, over-manipulated and therefore removing the integrity of the original image. Participants who will be listed in the final round are requested to submit the RAW files or original JPG camera files of their photographs in preselection.

JURY PANEL RULES Entries will be evaluated by a nominated Jury panel. The judging is anonymous so judges are not aware of participants’ names or details. The jury will evaluate the images on the basis of visual impact, composition, originality, technique, creativity but also and above all on the ability to communicate a message, a feeling or an emotion. First, the jury will select the fifty photographs it deems the best and which will be considered preselected. The preselected participants must send, before the date stated in the rules and under penalty of exclusion from the competition, the high resolution image files. Twenty finalists will then be selected and announced. The winners will be unveiled during the awards ceremony on Sunday May 15th, 2022 at 2.30pm at the GoodPlanet Foundation.

PRIZES The twenty finalist’s photographs will be exhibited at Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Foundation GoodPlanet in Paris during the length of the festival. The twenty finalist photographs will receive a 10% discount on a Negative+ order in store. Photographs will be printed on Hahnemühle paper at 50x70cm. Participants who will be willing to get there framed pictures back after the festival will be able to do it at no cost. The other ones will be recycled. The first price will also receive a voucher for a mounted print on Dibond sized 50x70cm at Negatif+ store, a book by Stanley Leroux and a book by Jonk. The second price will also receive a voucher for a mounted print on Dibond sized 40x60cm at Negatif+ store, a book by Stanley Leroux and a book by Jonk. The third price will also receive a voucher for a mounted print on Dibond sized 30x45cm at Negatif+ store, a book by Stanley Leroux and a book by Jonk. All twenty finalists will receive a diploma.

NOTIFICATION All participants will receive an email with the contest’s results. They will also be published on the website of the competition.

ACCEPTANCE OF RULES Submission of an entry implies the acceptance of all rules and conditions.

ORGANIZATION Jonk: [email protected]