Open Call: Castelfiorentino for the Arts Award

The “Castelfiorentino for the Arts Award: Photography 4_2024” entitled “Beyond and Elsewhere: Contemporary Photography in Search of Possible Futures for a Conscious Innovation of Vision”. has two sections: Open, for individuals over 18 years old, and Student, reserved for photography students from universities, academies, and schools.

Objectives

• Map the work of talented contemporary photographers;
• Encourage a focus on students in photography schools/academies/universities;
• Promote Castelfiorentino as a place of cultural interest;
• Promote the Fondo Fotografico David Bastianoni which preserves an important part of the municipality’s history.

Funding Information

• Sole Award for best photographic project in the Open section
  • 1st Prize Є3,000 (three thousand/00)
• Sole Award for best photographic project in the Student section
  • 1st Prize Є500 (five hundred/00)

Eligibility Criteria

• The following are allowed to submit work for the award:
  • Individuals over 18 years old;
  • For the Student category, individuals must be enrolled in a school, academy, or university during the 2023-2024 academic year;
  • Photographers can submit photographic projects either individually or as a group;
  • The theme of the contest is free.
  • Submitted projects must not have received any awards prior to the date of submission.

Application Requirements

• File Format and Technical Specifications:
  • Projects must be submitted in PDF format (see example) and include:
  • Title of the project, descriptive text, images, CV;
  • The file must be named: NameLastName_yearofbirth or CollectiveName_yearofbirth (ex. MarioRossi_1995);
  • The artists guarantee the rights to publish the images for non-commercial uses in communications/promotional material related to the Raccont’Arti Award and its future editions;
  • The file must not exceed 25 megabytes, PDF file < 25 mb.
• Participants will:
  • Guarantee that the submitted project has never received any awards prior to the submission date;
  • Guarantee authorship of the work,
  • Guarantee their authority to cede the rights to the work and ensure that exhibition of the work will in no way violate the rights of a third party;
  • If selected, provide high resolution images for projection;
  • If selected, provide high resolution images for exhibition and publication in the catalog;
  • If selected, provide, within the time frame established by the organisation, a selection of images accompanied by descriptions, copyright, and potential courtesies, with permission to be published in print, on the website, and in all communications/promotional materials for the Raccont’Arti Award and its future editions.
  • The jury is made up of 5 members: gallerists, curators, professors, and professional photographers.

For more information, visit Raccont’arti.