Your Lens, Your Truth

© Richard Mosse

In collaboration with the Sainsbury Centre art museum in Norwich, and in response to the theme of their exhibition The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through The Incite Project, we’re inviting photographers to submit new work and be a part of our online exhibition YOUR LENS, YOUR TRUTH.

 

Sometimes seen as superior to text, photographs are now a mainstay of how the media and the public understand events such as war, famine, and celebrity.

If a single photograph of an event is taken through one frame, by one photographer and potentially filtered by one news editor, do you believe photographs can tell the whole truth?

Is what we see in the image the truth of the subject being photographed? Perhaps these photographs turn the camera on you to confront truths within your own life.

 

We’d love to see your interpretations of truth through photography.

 

Working together with the team at the Sainsbury Centre, we want to share your photography with wider audiences, and open up more opportunities for publicity and collaboration. Get involved!

We’re making this opportunity affordable for all photographers. There are no set entry fees for Your Lens, Your Truth; we’re asking you to pay what you can. Please help support the work we do by sharing this opportunity with other photographers. We receive no external grants or funding, but we’re determined to do what we can to keep photography open to all.

 

Deadline for entries: 09 September 2024 (5pm BST)

 


 

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THE BRIEF

Sometimes seen as superior to text, photographs are now a mainstay of how the media and the public understand events such as war, famine, and celebrity.

If a single photograph of an event is taken through one frame, by one photographer and potentially filtered by one news editor, do you believe photographs can tell the whole truth?

Is what we see in the image the truth of the subject being photographed? Perhaps these photographs turn the camera on you to confront truths within your own life.

We’d love to see your interpretations of truth through photography.

 

HOW TO ENTER

Please read the specification information below. Files that do not meet the specification or are not labelled correctly may not be accepted.

Deadline for entries: 09 September 2024 (5pm BST)

Please do not leave your entry until the last minute, we cannot accept any late entries.

 

FEES & ENTRY    

There are no set entry fees for this exhibition, we’re asking you to ‘pay what you can’. If you’re lucky enough to be in employment, or getting financial support, we hope you’ll help us support those who aren’t.

Once you’ve entered there are no further fees to take part or any additional fees for being shortlisted.

Each photographer can enter up to 6 images. Images can be from a series or individual images.

 

SPECIFICATIONS FOR ENTRIES

All submitted files must be named with photographer’s name and title of work. Files that are not labelled correctly may not be accepted. Correct file naming looks like this: lastname_firstname_title_of_image.jpg

Images can be landscape or portrait format.

Submitted images must be jpegs, 2000 pixels wide, 300ppi and no more than 5MB in size. Please submit images in sRGB colour profile.

Images must not include visible watermarks.

Each photographer can submit up to 6 images.

Images must be suitable for a family audience.

Shutter Hub reserves the right to not display work.

Please read the Terms and Conditions for further details.

Photographers retain copyright and ownership, as always.

 

We always get in touch to let you know the outcome of your submission, so if for any reason you haven’t heard from us within 8 weeks of the deadline, please email.

 

SALE OF WORK

Work will not be for sale during the exhibition.

Any enquiries from interested parties will be noted and passed directly to the photographers.

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Shutter Hub reserves the right to display, reproduce and publish in any media any entry, without payment, for the purpose of the project and its promotion and publicity. Copyright remains with the originator and each photographer shall be deemed to warrant that they own the entire copyright in the work or that they have permission from the licensee and/or copyright owner/s for the uses and that all necessary model releases and clearances have been obtained. If relevant, insurance of the artist’s work is the responsibility of the artist. Shutter Hub reserve the right to refuse work that they deem to be inappropriate, offensive or explicit.

Please make sure you read and agree with the above information before you submit your application. By submitting your application you are agreeing to abide by the terms and conditions and the information set out above.

 

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED

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