Architectural Photography Award launched by the Association of Hungarian Architects and the Hungarian Architecture magazine.The main objective of this contest is to encourage and inspire thinking about our man-made environment via architecture-related photographs.
An exhibition is going to be opened in Budapest in November, 2017 to present the winning as well as the shortlisted finalist photos of the contest. From here the exhibition is to be moved on to Bratislava, Prague and Cracow at the beginning of the year 2018.
All the photos exhibited are also to be published in a special issue of the Hungarian Architecture magazine exclusively devoted to this topic.
We are hereby inviting photographs in two categories: open and professional.
The year 2012 saw the moment when 50 % of the entire population of Planet Earth became a town- or citydweller. Since then the significance of our built environment has risen to an unprecedented new scale and level which makes a world of difference compared to earlier periods of human history.
This change of proportions is clearly reflected in the spread and evolution of architectural photography which we experience all round the world nowadays. Our image of man-made environments as well as our co-existence with urban phenomena produce new aspects from time to time. This contest is targeted to raise awareness of all these tendencies: to view the buildings and humans, the urban sphere and the lives of cities and towns, the relations between natural and urban landscapes with an open-minded approach. As the publishers of this contest we would like to move architectural photography over the boundaries of its professional medium in order to bring it closer to the wider public of non-professionals.
For several millennia now, the essence of visual arts has been thinking about the relationship between mankind and its environment in images. In the 21st century the humanisation of our artificial environment has evolved into a key issue. For a long time now architecture has not been exclusively a case of professionals specialized in architecture. In the wake of this tendency, architectural photography has also grown out of its former status: instead of being part of the creative activities of photographers who work in co-operation with architects, it has turned into a communicating medium using images in comprehensive dialogues to engage areas of society, psychology, aesthetics and technology concerning society as such.
The international jury:
Iwan Baan
Tamás Bujnovszky
Nicolas Grospierre
András Krizsán
Josef Schulz
Jan Stempel
György Szegő
Schedule：
15. 06. 2017 Publishing the call for entries
07. 08. 2017 Registration starts
25. 09. 2017 Latest date for submitting photographs
15. 10. 2017 Publishing the finalists
22. 11. 2017 Results and opening the exhibition
Categories:
OPEN category
First Prize – 700 €
10 Shortlisted
Registration fee: 25 €
PROFESSIONAL category
First Prize – 1500 €
10 Shortlisted
Registration fee: 50 €
Only photos made no earlier than three years ago are eligible in this contest.
By submitting the photos, the applicant also agrees to its later use in communication associated with the contest.
Photos selected as finalists need to be submitted also in printable, high-resolution TIF formats.
More information: http://photoaward.meonline.hu/
Download the information related to this competition here.
Title：Architectural Photography Award 2017 - Call for Submissions
Type：Grants, Scholarships & Awards
Websitehttp://photoaward.meonline.hu
Organizers：Association of Hungarian Architects, Hungarian Architecture magazine
Submission Deadline：25/09/2017 10:23
Price：25 €, 50 €
