FAQ

• What are you announcing?

  We’re announcing a photography prize for student photographers all over the world. Entrants can share their work on Google+ and the winners will see their work displayed in the Saatchi Gallery, London in 2012.

• Who is the competition open to?

  Students in higher education, 18 years or older on the submission date. It is not required you study photography.

• How many entries can one person have?

  You can have only one entry. You need to pick one category out of ten available.

• How many photographs do entrants need to submit?

  You can submit up to eight shots.

• When is the deadline for entries?

  31st January 2012.

• What prizes are you offering?

  In addition to having photos displayed to million of people online, there are some great prizes to be won. All details are in prizes section.

• Why only students?

  We decided to narrow the contest to students because we know there’s a very active student photography community on the web who will hopefully be keen to accept the challenge.

• Who will be judging the entries?

  • Shortlist: Curators appointed by Saatchi Gallery will evaluate all submissions and will choose 100 best submissions.
  • Finalists: A jury of photography professionals will choose 10 finalists. Winner: Jury will select 1 overall winner from the ten finalists.

• How will they be judging?

  Scores will be made up of the following criteria, each of equal weight:

  • Creativity
  • Innovative use of the medium
  • How well they represent the category

• What are the categories? Why did you pick these?

  • Me
  • Food
  • Travel
  • Fashion
  • Action
  • Street
  • Sport
  • Night
  • Sound/Silence
  • Point of View

  We chose categories that relate to student life, are interesting creatively and shared frequently on the web. We’re excited to see what creative efforts students come up with.

• Will you be using social signals like +1 in the vote?

  +1 will not be a part of the voting.

• How can you prove entrants are students and not pros?

  When you accept the T&Cs you also state that you are a student. All shortlisted participants (top 100) will undergo a review process - we will require student ID verification.

• What format and size photos should be submit in?

  Any file format will be accepted. There is no equipment restriction; mobile photos are very welcome. Only restriction is on size: Resize your photos to 2048 pixels along the longest edge when uploading to G+. However please keep your originals as we will need these if you make the final shortlist!". Please follow our Google+ content policies when sharing your photos

• What’s this got to do with Google+?

  We recently announced that in just the first 100 days, more than 3.4 billion photos were uploaded to Google+. Google+ plays host to a vibrant photography community and students will be sharing their entries on there for others to discover and share.

• How can users discover the entries?

  You can use hashtags to mark your entries; each category has a dedicated hashtag # (e.g. #travelgpp, all hashtags are here). Everyone can search for this # Google+ to see all submission. We will also be sending updates from the official Google Photography Prize Page to users that have added the Page to their circles.

• Who owns the copyright to the photographs submitted?

  Students retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in the entry. Google will not commercially exploit the Photographs.

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