SEVENTH EDITION 2023 of the ROMA FOTOGRAFIA International Photographic Call
AM I WHAT I WEAR?
ORGANISERS
The seventh edition of the ROMA FOTOGRAFIA International Photographic Call is promoted and organised by Roma Fotografia Association, in partnership with LEICA CAMERA ITALIA, in collaboration with 1th MUNICIPALITY OF ROME CENTER, IL FOTOGRAFO photo-magazine, TWM Factory, with support of Festival of Ethical Photography in Lodi.
INTRODUCTION / PURPOSE
The annual appointment with ‘Roma Fotografia’ in an international photographic context is back with its fifth edition, where we see Leica Camera, our partner in the unsettling and reflective theme “Am I what I wear?”-
For thousands of years humanity has given clothing an important role defining status, appearance, rebellion, freedom, or conversely, constriction and approval.
We are led to believe that what we wear corresponds to the expression of our identity, but are we sure that our style mirrors completely and profoundly?
Is following a trend, choosing a colour or an accessory really free from conditioning? And could nudity be an illusion of freedom?
The roles we play or which we have been assigned, the need to be seen, accepted and loved, the education we have been given, the dogmas, influence our choices and inevitably build our aesthetic sense both positively and negatively. If we were born in a different nation, in another social context, in a different religious context, in another body we would be inclined to wear other clothes and would be naturally pushed to follow other dictates. Perhaps it is the very alternation of styles and fashion could indicate that we are more prone to be wearers rather than stylists just as the belief that we don’t allow ourselves to be conditioned could reflect something just as important.
The question mark recurs more often to open us up, through photography, to a contemporary exploration and individual and choral narration on a multifaceted theme. The desired challenge is a horizon that opens into a natural inclusion and acceptance as well as a conscious awareness to sustainability because what we wear affects our future on the planet Earth.
We are asking professional photographers and amateur photographers to investigate with their photographs today the role that over the millennia humanity has given clothing to define status, belonging, rebellion, freedom, or conversely constraint and homologation.
CATEGORIES
The categories of participation are:
SHORT STORY: The work presented must be a project consisting of a minimum of 4 maximum 8 photographs. The participant can also send more than one project.
SINGLE SHOT: The participant can send one or more single images (even at different times).
Each author can also participate with multiple projects or single photographs in both categories.
THE PRIZES
FIRST PRIZE CAMERA LEICA
D-LUX 7 “A BATHING APE® Х STASH” OFFERTA DALLA LEICA CAMERA ITALIA.
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SECOND PRIZE The best photographs, selected by the jury, will be the protagonists of a collective photographic exhibition set up in autumn in some of the most iconic places in Rome such as Castel Sant’Angelo, Palazzo Altemps and Palazzo Massimo during the next Roma Fotografia event.
The selected works will be published in the magazine IL FOTOGRAFO with a critical text by the editorial staff.
The Artistic Committee/Jury will establish a winner, choosing between a SHORT STORY or SINGLE SHOT, who will receive the LEICA D-LUX 7 camera “A BATHING APE® Х STASH”.
The Artistic Committee/Jury will also establish the winners who will participate with a photograph in the collective exhibition.
TO REGISTER, READ THE FOLLOWING REGULATIONS and participate either in the Short Story or Single Shot Category, or 3 Single Shots.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Those who have reached the age of majority (18 years) professional and amateur photographers, foreigners and Italians, can join the initiative.
PARTICIPATION FEES (VAT INCLUDED):
The organisation of the events and the printing costs of the works selected by the Artistic Committee are borne by the Organization of the Call.
Participation will be subject to payment of the fee and completion of the form.
The registration fee is non-refundable.
images from previous editions
METHODS AND TERMS OF DELIVERY OF THE MATERIAL
It is possible to participate in the Call from 12 a.m. noon (CET) on June, Tuesday 20, 2023 to 10 p.m. noon (CET) on September, Saturday 30, 2023.
Beyond this deadline the works sent will not be taken into consideration.
IMAGE TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Published or unpublished photographs, in black and white and in colours with both vertical and horizontal and square shots, taken by any means, digital, analog or cellular, are allowed.
Photographs must be sent in low resolution maximum 1 megapixel exclusively in JPEG format (.jpg).
Photographs must not contain watermarks.
If selected by the Artistic Committee, the organising secretariat of the Call may request the same images from the participants, jpg format in high resolution, to be sent no later than 10 days after receipt of the communication. This is to facilitate the production of prints and the best display during projections.
Images that do not comply with the required specifications will not be taken into account.
Some articles published in the magazine IL PHOTOGRAFO of the previous editions
THE ARTISTIC COMMITTEE/JURY
The artistic committee/jury is chaired by the photoreporter Luciano Del Castillo for the ANSA News Agency, and is made up of Giulia Silvia Ghia, City Councilor 1th Municipality of Rome Center with responsibility for Culture, Giada Triola for LEICA CAMERA ITALIA, Federica Berzioli editorial coordination of IL FOTOGRAFO magazine, Alberto Prina for the Festival of Ethical Photography in Lodi, Riccardo Ferranti for TWM Factory, Maria Cristina Valeri, Alex Mezzenga, and Gilberto Maltinti for the ROMA FOTOGRAFIA Association.
The Artistic Committee, in total and unquestionable decision-making autonomy, will establish which individual photographs (SINGLE SHOT category) and portfolios (SHORT STORY category) that will participate in exhibitions and / or screenings and for other events in the rest of Italy.
Furthermore, where it is deemed appropriate, the photographic works (SHORT STORY category) can be extrapolated and included in an exhibition within the SINGLE SHOT category.
The individual photographs (SINGLE SHOT category) and the portfolios (SHORT STORY category) can therefore be selected to participate, simultaneously or at different times, in “ROMA FOTOGRAFIA” exhibitions and events.
The judgments of the Artistic Committee are and remain unquestionable and may be without specific motivation, both regarding the admission of the Works and regarding the participation, and therefore the curatorship, in the exhibitions that will be organised by ROMA FOTOGRAFIA and its partners.
Photographs from previous editions
WARNINGS
The organisation 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, 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 organisation of the Call are excluded from the tender.
It is mandatory to declare whether the photographs were made through the use of AI image generators, also through the combination of one or more different techniques (example linpainting, outpainting and prompt whispering).
PRIVACY, AUTHOR’S RESPONSIBILITY AND RIGHT OF EXCLUSION
Each participant is responsible for the material presented to the Call; therefore undertakes to exclude any responsibility of the organisers 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 organisers 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 authorises 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 freely use 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 organisation is automatically authorised 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 was 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 “AM I WHAT I WEAR?” authorise 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:
– authorises 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;
– authorises 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;
– authorises 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 realisation 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 realisation 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: photocall@roma-fotografia.it
PREVALENT VERSION
The original version of these Regulations is 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.