ROSL Photo 23: Biennial Photography Competition

Deadline: 1 September 2023

Royal Over-Seas League is delighted to announce the biennial photography competition is now open for submissions.

This year’s theme is viewpoint, each entrant can submit up to five digital images of their choice taken in the past 18 months from any image making camera source, tackling the subject however they wish.

Winning images published in Overseas Magazine and open to any photographer 18+ who is a citizen of a Commonwealth or former Commonwealth Country, the USA, EU and EEA countries or Switzerland.

Prizes

1st Prize: £2,000, a 5-day trip to London for the exhibition opening on Thursday 8 December 2023 (including accommodation at Royal Over-Seas League), winning image published in Overseas Magazine and professional development support from ROSL ARTS.
Runner-Up: £1,000 and winning image published in Overseas Magazine.
The Madiha Aijaz Prize: £500 and winning image published in Overseas Magazine, awarded to a Young Photographer of Promise under 23 years of age.
The shortlisted top 20 entries will be exhibited at Over-Seas House, 9 December 2023 – 4 February 2024.

Terms & Conditions

By entering ROSL PHOTO 23, you agree and acknowledge that ROSL is permitted to receive your registration data. As an entrant to the Photography Competition, you are asked to provide them with your name, address, email address, date of birth and online links.
Entries – 1 to 5 photographic images submitted to the competition by a single person (or representative of an art collective), accompanied by a completed submission form must arrive before the deadline to be considered.
The competition requires a minimum of 1 image per person and can only accept a maximum of 5 images per person.
Entrants must be 18 years old or older.
Image Entry criteria:
- Images can be manipulated; however, the manipulation must be clearly outlined within the image description.
- Images must have been taken since January 2022 to the competition deadline.
- Images must not have been published prior to submission, social media sharing and website posts are permitted, but any use for marketing or print will disallow the image.
- Images must conform to the size regulations stated.
- All images must be saved in the CMYK colour model and EXIF data must be left in the image file.
Any entry that cannot be authenticated or is not of acceptable quality will be disqualified.
ROSL reserves the right to disqualify and remove any entry (photographic image) that does not comply with the following requirements, even after the entry is submitted. in respect of each entry submitted by you (Entry) you agree as follows:
- You are the sole owner and author of each Entry, You own the copyright and all other rights in each Entry – You have the right to make Your Entry available to the Competition and agree that each entry can be used as ROSL deem appropriate.
- Each Entry does not contain personally identifiable information about you or any other person(s).
- Each Entry does not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libellous, defamatory, obscene, inflammatory, pornographic or profane content.
- Each Entry does not contain any material that could constitute or encourage conduct, which would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.
- Each Entry does not infringe upon the copyrights, moral rights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity, or violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity, including:
  - Trademarks owned by third parties.
  - Copyright materials owned by third parties.
  - Names, likenesses, voices or other characteristics identifying celebrities or other public figures, living or dead.
  - Entries which contain any commercial content that promotes any product or service.
  - Entries containing screen credits.
Any travel prizes must be executed in an allocated time period and are dependent on visa acceptance and transport availability. Any travel prizes are allocated at the discretion of the Royal Over-Seas League; they have the right to not award this prize if they deem it not possible to do so.