{"id":35443,"date":"2019-07-01T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newurl.com\/?p=35443"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:38:54","slug":"photo-contest-2019-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luganophotodays.ch\/en\/news\/photo-contest-2019-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo contest 2019 (update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: closure extended by one week, final deadline July 7th, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year the photo contest has two categories:&nbsp;<strong>Reportage and documentary<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Wildlife and nature<\/strong>. The <strong>total value<\/strong> of the prizes is <strong>more than&nbsp;CHF 10&#8217;000.-<\/strong>.<br \/>\nFor both categories participants have to&nbsp;submit a <strong>series<\/strong> (or more) composed&nbsp;<strong>from 6 to 12 photos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/luganophotodays.photocontest.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APPLY NOW TO THE PHOTO CONTEST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contest is open for all professional and non-professional photographers,&nbsp;who have reached the age of 18 on the closing date of the contest.<\/p>\n<h3>Overall winner prize<\/h3>\n<p>Among the winners of the categories &#8220;Reportage and documentary&#8221; and &#8220;Wildlife and nature&#8221;, an overall winner will be chosen who will receive, in addition to the category prize, also the &#8220;<strong>Premio Citt\u00e0 di Lugano<\/strong>&#8221; which consists of <strong>CHF 3000.- in cash<\/strong> offered by the <strong>City of Lugano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Jury overall winner &#8220;Citt\u00e0 di Lugano&#8221;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Luigi Maria di Corato<\/strong>, direttore Cultura Citt\u00e0 di Lugano (Switzerland)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ruth Eichhorn<\/strong>, photo editor and curator (Germany)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Gilks<\/strong>, picture editor BBC Wildlife (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe Petersburger<\/strong>, National Geographic photographer and professor in biology (Hungary)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lello Piazza<\/strong>, former photo editor Airone (Italy)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sergio Pitamitz<\/strong>, National Geographic contributing photographer (Italy\/France)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tino Soriano<\/strong>, National Geographic photographer (Spain)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Prize category &#8220;Reportage and documentary&#8221;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>unique prize: <strong>Fujifilm X-T3 Black Kit XF 18-55mm<\/strong> (indicative value CHF 2149.-) offered by <strong>FUJIFILM (Switzerland) AG<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>jury:&nbsp;<strong>Ruth Eichhorn<\/strong>, photo editor and curator (Germany),&nbsp;<strong>Lello Piazza<\/strong>, former photo editor Airone (Italy),&nbsp;<strong>Tino Soriano<\/strong>, National Geographic photographer (Spain)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Prize category &#8220;Wildlife and nature&#8221;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>unique prize: <strong>Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II Double Zoom Kit<\/strong> (indicative value CHF 4399.-) offered by <strong>OLYMPUS SCHWEIZ AG<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>jury:&nbsp;<strong>Tom Gilks<\/strong>, picture editor BBC Wildlife (United Kingdom),&nbsp;<strong>Joe Petersburger<\/strong>, National Geographic photographer and professor in biology (Hungary),&nbsp;<strong>Sergio Pitamitz<\/strong>, National Geographic contributing photographer (Italy\/France)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Prizes common to the two category winners:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>photo <strong>exhibition<\/strong> in Lugano (Switzerland) during LuganoPhotoDays 2019<\/li>\n<li>inclusion in the <strong>catalogue<\/strong> of LuganoPhotoDays 2019<\/li>\n<li>accommodation for <strong>2 nights in Lugano<\/strong> \u2013 single room with breakfast \u2013 on the occasion of the award ceremony (LuganoPhotoDays 2019 opening night)<\/li>\n<li>informal <strong>dinner<\/strong> after the LuganoPhotoDays 2019 opening night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Details and rules<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>category &#8220;<a href=\"\/en\/events\/contest-reportage-and-documentary-2019\/\">Reportage and documentary 2019<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>category &#8220;<a href=\"\/en\/events\/contest-wildlife-and-nature-2019\/\">Wildlife and nature 2019<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cover photo: Mattia Vacca &#8220;The forgotten war of Nagorno-Karabakh&#8221;, winner category &#8220;Reportage 2018&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: closure extended by one week, final deadline July 7th, 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