International Photo Contest

FADA - Father & Daughter Alliance

Theme: Father & Daughter Together in Education

The Father and Daughter Alliance (FADA) is an international movement of family men/fathers mobilizing traditional fathers around the world so they can enroll their daughters in primary/elementary school (instead of the girls just fetching water all day, or worse getting abused and trafficked). FADA is working in India and will also work in Afghanistan, Benin, Guatemala and Yemen.

Summary of this International Photo Contest: The theme is Father and Daughter Together in Education. Anyone is eligible anywhere in the world (see specific rules below). Use your cell phone, disposable camera, professional, amateur, youth, all are welcome. Photos should be submitted by e-mail only (no prints will be accepted) to BAdams@FatherAndDaughter.org Photos from only 25 countries will be accepted (see list of countries below), where in some cases there are 3 to 4 girls outside school per boy. First Prize is US$300, Second Prize US$200, and Third Prize is US$100. Deadline for submissions is June 15, 2009. Winners will be notified by July 31, 2009.

RULES:

Theme: The photographs need to depict a father and his daughter(s) in an educational setting or a situation related to learning, books, school or the like in line with the title of this International Photo Contest which is “Father and Daughter: Together in Education.” The specifics of the photo are left of course to the creativity and ingenuity of the person taking the photograph.

Focus Countries: Only photographs related to the following 25 countries will be accepted into this contest. These countries are lagging in regards to girls’ education, with many of these countries having 3 to 4 girls per boy out of school, as reported by UNESCO (see chart below).   The 25 countries are: Afghanistan, Chad, Niger, Yemen, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Benin, Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Guinea, Mozambique, Togo, Burundi, Ethiopia, Morocco, Guatemala, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Senegal, Ghana, Uganda, Mauritania, Malawi, and Gambia.

1)     Individuals and organizations in any of these 25 countries can submit photographs electronically directly to the contact person at the e-mail address provided below.
2)     Individuals and organizations in the United States, Europe, and other regions of the world not included among the 25 countries and interested in participating in this contest will need to submit photographs related to those 25 countries in line with the theme of this contest. Or they may contact individuals and/or organizations in any of the 25 countries and submit photographs as a joint effort. Credit for the photograph may be shared between those doing the joint submission.

Eligibility: Anyone 13 and older is eligible to submit photographs to this contest. Those younger than 13 years of age can submit photographs with the help and consent of their parents. Employees and directors of the Father and Daughter Alliance (FADA), their immediate families and individuals living in the same household as such employees are not eligible. To make this contest available to a wide range of individuals and organizations around the world, there is no entry fee. FADA reserves the right to verify, in its sole judgment, winner eligibility.

Jury: The jury is composed by individuals with expertise in the subject matter as well as communications and photography, representing different geographic regions and professions, including Dr. Arvind Singhal, Professor of Communication at the University of Texas, El Paso and Khaled al-Hammadi, Sana’a Correspondent and Photo Journalist with Agence France-Presse in Yemen. The judges’ decisions will be final.

Prizes: First Prize will receive US$300. Second Prize US$200 and Third Prize US$100. There may be Honorary Mentions at the discretion of the judges (with no monetary compensation). A special effort will be made to publish the winning photographs with a major magazine.   There may also be a special slide show of the photographs in the Huffington Post (a major Internet Newspaper).

Deadline: All photographs must be submitted electronically (by e-mail) by June 15, 2009. Winners will be decided and notified by July 31, 2009.

Conditions: Photographs should be submitted as taken originally, that is unmodified or unaltered.

1)     Photographs need to be submitted electronically by e-mailing them to BAdams@FatherAndDaughter.org. No prints/paper will be accepted. If the person taking the photo does not have the capability to submit photos by e-mail he or she may need to contact an institution such as a local school, or a NGO or a local newspaper and get their help, use creativity and imagination! Photographs will then be posted in an especially designated platform on Flickr for review by the jury. Photographs will not be returned.
2)     Up to 3 photographs per person (or joint submission) will be accepted.
3)     The individual or organization submitting the photograph to the contest will be the point of contact for any contest-related communications. Entrants must not infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person.
4)     When submitting a photograph, please include place in which the photograph was taken, who took the photograph, and a brief explanation of what the photograph is about. Also include a note on what kind of camera was used (all cameras are acceptable, including disposable cameras, pictures taken with cell phones, film or digital and the like, professional, amateur or youth).
5)     Those submitting photographs should include their full name, occupation, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
6)     Any photograph used by FADA shall carry the photographer's credit line and the photographer retains copyright of the photograph. However, FADA as the contest organizer may use the photographs in any media sponsor publication. All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by FADA for marketing and promotional purposes including in any media such as exhibitions, website, blogs, Flickr, articles, e-mails, electronic book, print and digital media directly related to the FADA competition, though there will not be monetary compensation for this use.
7)     The organizers reserve the right to modify or cancel this contest based on response and other factors. By entering, participants warrant that his or her entry materials are original, do not infringe on any third party’s rights, and that participant has obtained any necessary permissions from any third party if a third party or third party’s property appears in the photograph. By entering, participants release and hold harmless FADA and each of their directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or related to this contest, any prize won, any use of the entry materials by FADA, the warranties participants make, any misuse or malfunction of any prize awarded, participation in any contest-related activity, or participation in this contest. FADA and the organizers are not responsible for lost, damaged, late or misdirected photographs, or for uploading connections, garbled transmissions, unauthorized intervention or technical malfunctions.

Organizers:

The Father and Daughter Alliance (FADA),
5562 Baldwin Street, Warrenton, VA 20187
Contact: BAdams@FatherAndDaughter.org

The geographic areas represented are South and West Asia (where 2/3rds of children out-of-school are girls), Arab countries (60% of out-of-school children are girls), and Sub-Sahara Africa (where 40 million out-of-school girls live). Guatemala’s educational system is one of the neediest in Latin America and its gender ratio of primary completion for 15- to 24-year-olds is 0.82.

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