Google and the Saatchi Gallery team up for new photography competition

Google has announced an open call for submissions to the Google Photography Prize, a collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery to find talented student photographers and give them unprecedented online and offline exposure. The winning submissions will be available for millions of Google users around the world to display on their personalised iGoogle homepages, and given a special exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. The overall winner will also receive £5,000 and an invitation to spend a day with renowned photographer Martin Parr.

The competition is open to students in institutions of higher education in many countries around the world. Students can enter by submitting a series of five photographs at http://www.google.com/photographyprize by May 31. The thirty-six top entries will be selected for the shortlist and made open to an online public vote on June 11. The top six vote-winners will be flown to London for the opening night of an exhibition of their work at the Saatchi Gallery, and the ultimate winner will be decided by a panel of art critics and artists, including Idris Khan, Martin Parr, Michael Hoppen, Susanna Brown, Tim Marlow and Mariella Frostrup.

Comments (2)

JuliaNoble said:

... How fun! Thanks for posting this. :) I was reading the terms and conditions and it mentions that you have to supply your academic institution's email address issued to you at enrollment. My school doesn't do that. :( I wonder if that will make a big difference.

May 16, 2009

rhonda said:

... Julia, I don't know, I think you could probably contact Saatchi or Google and ask them. But I think if you go online to your college site where you enroll online you can get an official institution email address that way, if not maybe one of your counslors could tell you how to do get one. http://uits.uark.edu/email/ this is the it info page for uofa fayetteville

May 17, 2009