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Slovenia World Photo Contest – Picture Slovenia
PictureSlovenia.com in cooperation with the Slovenian Tourist Board and
other partners, announces the global photography competition, through
which it wants to increase the visibility of Slovenia in the world and to
encourage visitors, fans and friends of Slovenia to get involved in the
presentation of Slovenia.
This year`s PictureSlovenia.com World Photo Contest is published in the
light of celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the independence of the
Slovenia. Open to all who have permanent residence outside Slovenia and are
able to provide photographic work within the scope and quality in line with the
contest conditions. The contest starts on June 25th 2011 and ends on May 22nd
2012, at the twentieth anniversary of the admission of Slovenia to the United
Nations. Publication of winners will be on June 4th 2012. The objective of the
contest is to increase the visibility of the Republic of Slovenia and its nature,
people, culture, architecture, tourism, and other attractions.
The competition takes place in three categories: Best Photography, Best Photo
Reportage on Slovenia and Best Photography with a Mobile Phone. We will award
three main prizes. The objective is to increase the visibility of the Republic of
Slovenia and its nature, people, culture, architecture, tourism, and other
attractions.
1. The Best Photography will be selected that best presents Slovenia. We
kindly invite authors to submit their photos according to the rules of the contest
in the section Upload Photos. Prize: 10.000 euros (gross).
2. In the category Top Photo Reportage, a jury will award the author, who
will within the dates of the contest publish the best photo reportage online,
either in established media, web 2.0 (blog etc.), social media and similar. Among
all, the jury will select a photo reportage that through photo and written
reportage most interestingly and pervasively represents Slovenia. The jury will
look upon following factors: innovation, photo quality, likability by readers (social
media for example), the quality of content, reputation of the online medium and
newsworthiness. Prize: 3.000 euros (gross).

3. The category Photography with a Mobile Phone is intended to award best
photography taken with a mobile apparatus, so in this category a jury will select
a photography that was created by using a mobile phone camera. We kindly
invite authors to submit their photos according to the rules of the contest in the
section Upload Photos. Prize: 3.000 Euro
(gross).
We kindly invite authors to submit link of
the respected photo and written
reportage, accompanied with basic
information (author, address, e-mail
contact, date of publication) to the
following email address:
pictureslovenia@gmail.com.
PictureSlovenia.com is an online place for biggest photo contests in Slovenia - so
far it has been visited by over 160,000 people from 65 countries worldwide. Web
part of the project was just the beginning of a long-term project and this year
and next year Picture Slovenia found its place in the form of physical exhibitions
around the world, mainly in Europe. Such an exhibition during May and June
2011 are being hosted by Spain (Valenica, Barcelona), Germany (Munich, Berlin),
Luxembourg, Mexico (Mexico City) etc. This will be followed with the exhibitions
in 25 countries that will take place by 22 May 2012.
The purpose of the Picture Slovenia project is to show the world the beauty of
Slovenia. You are invited to follow the project on www.pictureslovenia.com.
More information:
Primož Žižek
pictureslovenia@gmail.com
pzizek@gmail.com