Young Photography Festival 2023 opens for submissions

The culture ministry's Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition (DFAPX) has opened submissions for the Young Photography Festival 2023.
Young Photography Festival 2023 opens for submissions ảnh 1The work 'Benh Vien Da Chien San Sang Tac Chien (Field Hospital Ready for Combat) by Nguyen Dang Giang. (Photo:VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The culture ministry's Department of FineArts, Photography and Exhibition (DFAPX) has opened submissions for the YoungPhotography Festival 2023.

The festival is open to eligible Vietnamese citizens between the ages of 18 and35, residing both at home and abroad

The submission deadline is set for May 31.

Held biennially, the festival is organised by the DFAPX to cultivate andpromote the talents of young photographers.
By providing a platform for publishing works that reflectcontemporary life through the eyes of emerging Vietnamese artists, the eventseeks to encourage the growth of creative activities in the field.

This is also an opportunity for young people who love photography throughoutthe country to exchange, study, meet and present their creative achievements,according to the organising board.

The festival will contribute to introducing and promoting the image of Vietnamand its people to the domestic and world communities and increase the young'sawareness, interest, cohesion and participation in the art of photography inparticular, and social issues in general.

According to the rules, the festival welcomes all entries that should bear freethemes into two categories: realistic and conceptual photos.

The participating works should reflect contemporary life, people, culture,landscape, nature, construction and defence of the country. They should alsocover some issues in the interest of young people, their thoughts, opinions,and ideas about life, or they can include other content exposing the values oftruth, goodness and beauty.

In the realism genre, photos are taken by realistic and traditional methods,without collages, which distort reality (except for panorama photos).Meanwhile, for conceptual photos, the author can use all technical andtechnological measures for creativity.

The eligible work candidates should be single or in a set, black and whitephotos created from August 2021 to May 2023. For the conceptual category,creation time is not stipulated for the entries.

For single photos, each should be a separate work. If the author submits both asingle and a set, the single should not be included.

For the photo sets, each is considered a work consisting of between five andeight sequentially numbered photos.

All entries should include captions according to the rules for each category.

Each photographer can submit up to 12 entries. They should be digital imagefiles in a JPG format with sizes from 5-12Mb and a resolution 300dpi. Up to sixsets for both realism and conceptual photos.

In particular, the works must not have been displayed or won prizes at manynational and international competitions held by the culture ministry and theDFAPX.

The organising board warned it would not be responsible for copyright andrelated rights disputes over the submitted works.

Excellent works will be selected and awarded by an arts council, it said.

A total of 17 awards will be given to the most outstanding photos, includingtwo gold, three silver, five bronze and seven consolation prizes. It isexpected that about 160 works of both categories will be selected for displayto the public by the end of September, 2023.

Submissions can be made via the festival's official website, festivalnhiepanhtre2023.com./.
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