COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
People are stories, ideas, imagination.
ORGANIZERS
“PEOPLE”, the new 2022 international call by Roma Fotografia in collaboration with Bresciani Visual Art Gallery based in Via Giulia in Rome, invites amateur and professional photographers and collectives to share (to tell), through color and/or black-and-white images, their view of the world, of people, of their histories and their ideas.
Maria Cristina Valeri, Alex Mezzenga and Gilberto Maltinti, artistic directors of Roma Fotografia, are looking for photographers to join the new 2022 call with strong and emotional images!
You’ve got photos consistent with the theme of the “PEOPLE” international call and you would like to display them at Bresciani Visual Art Gallery based in Via Giulia in Rome?
JOIN OUR CALL
“PEOPLE”, the new 2022 international call by Roma Fotografia in collaboration with Bresciani Visual Art Gallery based in Via Giulia in Rome, invites amateur and professional photographers and collectives to share (to tell), through color and/or black-and-white images, their view of the world, of people, of their histories and their ideas.
Maria Cristina Valeri, Alex Mezzenga and Gilberto Maltinti, artistic directors of Roma Fotografia, are looking for photographers to join the new 2022 call with strong and emotional images!
You’ve got photos consistent with the theme of the “PEOPLE” international call and you would like to display them at Bresciani Visual Art Gallery based in Via Giulia in Rome?
GOALS AND AWARDS
THE WORKS SELECTED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ARTISTIC COMMITTEE WILL TAKE PART TO:
- A collective photographic exhibition, consisting of 40 pictures by 40 different photographers, taking place in June 2022 at Bresciani Visual Art Gallery in Via Giulia in Rome. The photos dimensions will be 30X40 with 40X50 frames. Prints by Roma Fotografia Association.
- Periodical updates of the image galleries on the www.roma-fotografia.it website and on Roma Fotografia social media pages (FB and IG).
- The selected works will be published on the free PDF online catalog.
- Amidst the 40 selected photographers, the artistic committee will determine three winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd place) whom are entitled to:
1st place: A personal exhibition spread through galleries, stores and businesses located in Via Giulia, Via dei Banchi Vecchi, Via di Monserrato e Via del Pellegrino in Rome historical centre. (September-October 2022)
2nd place: A portfolio review with Luciano del Castillo.
3rd place winner: A photobook by the master Franco Fontana.
The call is open to amateur and professional photographers of every nationality whom are at least 18 years old.
HOW TO JOIN
REGISTRATION FEES
FILL THE FORM AND SEND ONE PICTURE
€10 euros for each single picture submitted.
FILL THE FORM AND SEND MULTIPLE PICTURES
€30 euros for up to 5 pictures with a single submission. (No Story)
GALLERY EXHIBITION PARTECIPATION FEE (WINNERS ONLY):
40 euros covering: printing, set-up, press and social promotion, online PDf catalog realization.
The artistic committee will choose 40 photographers out of all the applicants of the “PEOPLE” international call. The selected photographers will take part to the exhibition with only one picture of the submitted ones.
In order to be able to join the exhibition the applicants must pay the 10 or 30 euros entry fee first and then, if selected, the 40 euros exhibition fee.
The registration and participation fees are NON-refundable.
It is possible to submit works to the “PEOPLE” international call from 12h (CET) January 14th 2022 until 18h (CET) May 15th 2022.
PICTURES TECHNICAL SPECIFICS
Are allowed: published or unpublished pictures; color and B/W; squared, vertical and horizontal framings; analog, digital or smartphone pictures.
The pictures must weight 1MB maximum and the file format must be JPEG (.jpg).
The pictures must be watermark free.
If selected by the artistic committee, the applicants will be required to send the chosen picture in high resolution JPEG format within 10 days from the reception of the communication.
Any picture non-conforming with the required specifics won’t be taken into consideration.
ARTISTIC COMMITTEE
The artistic committee is headed by Luciano del Castillo, ANSA’s picture editor, and features:
Alex Mezzenga for Roma Fotografia.
Maria Cristina Valeri and Gilberto Maltinti for Bresciani Visual Art.
The artistic committee will unquestionably choose which pictures will take part to the “PEOPLE” exhibition and any other events elsewhere in Italy.
The single picture might be selected to take part, at the same or different times, to other ROMA FOTOGRAFIA exhibitions or events.
WARNINGS
The organization of the Call reserves the right to use the images sent for the purpose of promoting the Call itself, through online and paper publication. The copyright of the image and any other rights remain the prerogative of the participating photographer. The works delivered to the secretariat of the Organization, in the manner requested and within the deadline of the Call, and will not be returned.
The dispatch of the photographs and the payment of the participation fee signifies automatic acceptance of these Regulations.
The founding members of the ROMA FOTOGRAFIA Association as well as the members of the Scientific Committee and their respective families, as well as all those who collaborate in various capacities in the organization of the Call are excluded from the tender.
PRIVACY, AUTHOR’S RESPONSIBILITY AND RIGHT OF EXCLUSION
Each participant is responsible for the material presented he presents to the Call; therefore undertakes to exclude any responsibility of the organizers of the aforementioned towards third parties, also towards any subjects depicted in the photographs, above all if minors.
Each participant must inform any interested parties (people portrayed) in the cases and in the manner provided for by Legislative Decree June 30, 2003 n. 196 and subsequent amendments and by the GDPR 2016/679, as well as obtaining the consent to circulate them. In no case will the images sent contain data that can be classified as sensitive.
Each participant also declares to be the sole author of the images sent, which do not infringe the rights of third parties and that if they portray subjects for which consent or authorization is required, he has obtained it.
The organizers also reserve the right to exclude from the Call and not to publish the photos that do not comply in the form and subject with what is indicated in this announcement or with the commonly recognized rules on public morality, ethics and decency, for the protection of participants and visitors. .
Therefore, images deemed offensive, improper and harmful to human and social rights or vulgar images will not be admitted.
COPYRIGHT AND USE OF THE CALL MATERIAL
The rights to the photographs remain the exclusive property of the author who produced them, who however authorizes their use for events or publications related to the Call itself and for activities relating to the institutional or promotional purposes of the Roma Fotografia association and its Partners. . These companies will be able to use freely the images in their entirety, publish them on social networks, print them, promote them for the circulation of the Call or for other purposes associated with it in some way. Each author is personally responsible for the works presented; By registering for the call, the organization is automatically authorized to reproduce it in the catalogue, publications, CDs and on the internet without profit and by citing the name of the author of the images that will be sent.
Roma Fotografia and those who use the images insure to accompany the photos with the author’s name each and every time they are used.
We inform you that the personal data provided by competitors will be used for activities related to the promotional and management purposes of the Call and related activities, according to what provided for by Legislative Decree June 30, 2003 n. 196 and subsequent amendments and by the GDPR 2016/679. The material sent will not be returned under any circumstances.
ACCEPTIONS AND DECLARATIONS
The Authors participating in the International Call “PEOPLE” authorize ROMA FOTOGRAFIA Association, the Organization and the Partners to publish and circulate offline and online, including the pages of social networks related to the event, images of and/or relating to the Works participating in the Call, in order to promote the initiative, ROME PHOTOGRAPHY in general and the event , using the means and techniques of communication/ disclosure that the same and the Organizer deem most suitable. With the participation and automatic acceptance of the regulations, the participating Author:
– authorizes the Organizer and the Partners of ROMA FOTOGRAFIA specifically to process their personal data in accordance with GDPR 679/2016;
– declares and guarantees to be the author of the Works presented, to be the sole author and owner of the same and related rights, to have full and exclusive availability of the same and related rights, including the rights of economic exploitation, and of the rights transferred in any case pursuant to these Regulations; it also guarantees the Organization and ROMA FOTOGRAFIA the peaceful enjoyment of the assigned rights, and that it has not put in place any acts that limit their availability and that these rights are therefore free from constraints of any kind;
– declares and guarantees that the Work participating in the Call is original and does not violate property rights or copyrights of third parties and undertakes to indemnify the Organizer and the Partners of ROMA FOTOGRAFIA and to indemnify them from any third party claim and/or damage relating or in any case connected to the Work presented, as well as to reproduction and publication; the Organizer and the Partners of ROMA FOTOGRAFIA are therefore exonerated from any responsibility for any disputes regarding the originality and authorship of the Work presented;
– authorizes the Organizer and the Partners of ROMA FOTOGRAFIA to insert, publish and reproduce the Work presented, with the relative photographic credits, and/or the registration documentation, entirely or in part, directly or through third parties, by any means of communication or support and methods, on the ROMA FOTOGRAFIA website, https://www.roma-fotografia.it/, on the social network pages linked not to the Call on the social media pages networks managed by the latter as well as those of the Partners;
– declares to be entirely responsible for the contents of the visual and textual material transmitted;
– declares to be aware that submitting the Registration Documentation that is incomplete and/or does not comply with these Regulations constitutes a reason for exclusion from the Award;
– authorizes the Organizer of ROMA PHOTOGRAPHY to keep the Registration Documentation, acknowledging that it will not be returned;
– declares to be aware that the work presented would be excluded from the Prize if it were wholly or partially copied or created in violation of the rights of others; – fully accepts the Call Regulations and declares to be aware that joining the Call, by sending the Registration Documentation, implies acceptance of all the clauses of these Regulations.
TREATMENT OF PERSONAL DATA
Pursuant to and for the purposes of the GDPR 679/2016, the personal data and images that are acquired as part of this Award are collected and processed, also with the aid of electronic means, for the purposes and activities related to the performance of the Prize, including the realization of exhibition events and publication on the website https://www.roma-fotografia.it/, or to execute legal obligations. The data controller is: Associazione Culturale ROMA FOTOGRAFIA, in the person of its pro tempore legal representative.
APPLICABLE LAW
The rights and obligations deriving from the Call are governed by Italian law. The Call and its prizes lie outside the Presidential Decree October 26, 2001, n. 430 on the “Regulations concerning the organic revision of the control of competitions and prize operations, as well as local chance events, pursuant to Article 19, paragraph 4, of Law no. 449 “, as it is aimed at the realization of an exhibition for cultural and social purposes and the Call its prizes will be considered according to the Work itself or on recognition of the personal merit of the artists, that is, it is destined in favour of entities or institutions of a public nature or that have eminently social or charitable purposes pursuant to art. 6, paragraph 1, lett. a) and e) of the aforementioned D.P.R. n. 430/2001.
COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION
These Regulations are published on the website https://www.roma-fotografia.it/
For any information on the Call you can contact: romafotografiaeventi@gmail.com
PREVALENT VERSION
The original version of these Regulations in Italian. The Regulations have been translated into English. In the event of a conflict between the English translation and the Italian version, the latter will prevail.