Are you an expert or hobbyist photographer, or are millets your sole passion? Do you cultivate, refine, or market millets? Would you be prepared to share your knowledge? Participate in the IYM 2023 Photo Contest to raise awareness of the various advantages of millets, including their commercial potential, diversity, capacity to grow in arid regions, and range of nutrient-rich recipes they can provide.
Your photograph should illustrate one or more of the following aspects:
- Millets can fight hunger and contribute to food security;
- Millets are climate-resilient;
- Millets are tasty and can contribute to a healthy diet;
- Millets offer promising livelihood opportunities for small-scale farmers and small and medium enterprises for post-harvest and processing services;
- Millets are rich in heritage;
- Millets can be used in many innovative ways.
A worldwide professional panel made up of FAO photographers, agronomists, and communication experts, as well as Magnum Photos Editorial Director Giulietta Palumbo, will study and choose the winning images. The four runners-up will be announced on the FAO social media sites after the professional jury has chosen an overall winner, and the public vote will decide who takes home the second-place prize.
General rules:
- FAO employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings, and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the contests. FAO will determine eligibility at its sole discretion.
- Partners or relations of partner staff of the institutions involved in the launch of contests, and relations of the judging committee are not eligible to compete.
- FAO reserves the right to disqualify submissions that are not consistent with the Organisation’s values and guiding principles.
- FAO also reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with the Contest Rules, including these Rules, Copyright, and Privacy, or who tampers with the entry process.
- FAO will not pay any fees, nor pay any costs relating to, participation in any contest or for the use of any submissions in relation to the contest.
- No logos, URLs, telephone numbers, or calls that solicit directly for monetary donations should be included in any material.
- FAO will not be responsible, and cannot be held liable, for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected, or illegible entries or for failure to receive entries due to transmission failures or technical failures of any kind, including, without limitation, malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software, whether originating with sender or for any human error, lost/delayed data transmission, or any other error or malfunction.
- By submitting entries to the contest, entrants agree that personal data, especially name, and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest, FAO institutional activities, and any other purposes outlined in these Rules. The data may also be used by FAO in order to verify the entrant’s identity, postal address, and telephone number or to verify the entrant’s eligibility to participate in the contest.
- Nothing in these General Rules or in any rules for the contests, nor any acts performed or statements made in relation to the contests, shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of FAO.
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OnlineBenefits
- The first-prize winner of the photo contest will be invited to the official closing ceremony of the International Year of Millets in 2024. Travel expenses will be covered for the winner, according to FAO rules.
- Winners will be announced on the International Year of Millets website at the beginning of December 2023.
- Winners will be promoted on FAO social media, by FAO offices around the world, and by partner websites.
- All 5 winners will receive a certificate of recognition and a surprise gift bag.
- In the event that any of the selected winner(s) of any prize (that is/are ineligible in accordance with these Contest rules and/or the General Rules, Copyright, and Privacy) cannot be traced, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and it will be in the sole discretion of FAO to choose whether to award the prize to another eligible entry.
- When winning photos are published, only the first and family names will be published. No other personal information about the contestants will be published or shared.
Eligibilities
- Participants should be 18 years old or above.
- Each participant can submit up to five photographs by filling in and submitting the registration form. Each photo should be submitted separately by filling in the form.
- Participants must own the copyright and must have taken the photographs themselves. The photos may have been taken within the five-year period prior to the deadline of the contest (e.g. after 1 October 2018).
Application Process
Step 1: Choose up to 5 of your own photos and prepare their captions.
Step 2: Fill in and submit the registration form before 31 October 2023 for each photo.
Step 3: Share your photos on social media with the hashtags #IYM2023 and #YearOfMillets tagging @FAO.
Step 4: Stay tuned to find out who the winners are!
- Each submitted photograph must have a title and a short description/caption explaining what the photo represents, considering one or more of the aspects mentioned, and where/when the photo was taken (max. 150 words).
- Photographs must be submitted in .jpeg format. Images should be of high quality (e.g. 300 dpi and 5000 pixels and a file size that does not exceed 2 MB). Both color and/or black-and-white images will be accepted.
- The material must not violate or infringe third party’s rights including but not limited to trademark, privacy, publicity, or other intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement.
- The submission must not contain dates, texts, brand names, logos, or trademarks.
- The IYM Secretariat respects photographers’ rights and does not claim copyright over images submitted to this contest. The author retains full copyright for each entry. Whenever the image is published by FAO, the author will be credited.
- By participating in the contest, the contestant grants FAO permission to use the image in FAO material and on FAO digital channels for non-commercial purposes. FAO does NOT own the copyright and authors are free to use the image for other purposes at their choosing.
- The top five photos will be posted by FAO corporate social media accounts and the four runners-up will undergo a popular vote to determine the second prize winner.
Application Deadline: August 31, 2023
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