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Commonwealth Photography Competition
Invites Entries
Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) is inviting applications for the 2006/07
Commonwealth Photographic Awards. The theme for the awards this year is
'Achievement'.
The competition
is open to all Commonwealth residents. Submitted photographs will be
judged on the interpretation of the theme as well as technical quality.
The overall winner of the Commonwealth Photographic Awards will receive
a prize of £1,000, while more prizes are in store for regional winners.
The competition
features a special award for young photographers from developing
Commonwealth countries. The Canberra Times/CPU Young Photographer Award
- a three-week photographic residency at the newspaper's offices in
Canberra, Australia - is open to those who will be between 21 and 25
years of age as on 17 January 2007.
Another category
- named 'Three Pictures, One Story' - invites entrants to tell a story
of achievement in three pictures. The prize for this award is £250. The
awards offer a view of how people in the Commonwealth, with its mixture
of races, creeds, cultures and ways of life, see themselves and others,
CPU Training Director Jane Rangeley said.
Ms Rangeley
said: “We believe photography to be vital to the success of a newspaper.
By supporting photographers - whether amateur or professional, young or
old - we are encouraging an independent view, press freedom and
democracy.”
The deadline for
submitting photographs is 17 January 2007. To see the rules, criteria
and other details on the awards, plus winning photographs from previous
years, visit
http://www.cpu.org.uk/. The awards are sponsored by the Commonwealth
Secretariat, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, Commonwealth
Foundation, Royal Commonwealth Society, 'The Canberra Times' and
Toronto's 'Globe & Mail'.
The CPU is an
association whose membership includes more than 1,500 newspapers and
news agencies. It monitors and opposes measures likely to affect the
freedom of the press and works to improve the standard of news reporting
in the Commonwealth.
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