Photography and Visual Arts Contest - Call for contributions

April 2021 - WorLd Heritage

Win a chance to get published on ESACH's social media and online publication! 

If you are a photography enthusiast or a visual artist, this is your chance to get your work featured in the ESACH activities. The images selected by this contest will be featured in the association’s website and social media channels, to offer a view of the youth engagement with cultural heritage and present new perspectives on the relevant and ongoing related issues.

Deadline: 13th May 2021

Our publication team would invite contributions corresponding to the topics and themes of the ESACH Talks!, which are held once every month. The selected 2D visual representations (such as photographs and drawings) will be featured in the association’s activities to visually address the themes of the ESACH Talks! 

Accordingly, your work could be featured on ESACH’s social media, website and on The ESACH Quarterly - the new international, peer-reviewed magazine of the European Students’ Association for Cultural Heritage, that provides an Open Access space for the discussion and publication of grounded university and independently carried research, professional activity and personal engagement into all aspects of cultural heritage, visual arts included.

The second call covers the April topic of the ESACH Talks!, namely 'World Heritage'. 

Topics and description

The April session is centred on World Heritage Challenges and Opportunities.

Topics can include young and innovative perspectives on World Heritage related to:

• Management, maintenance, tourism, and local impact
• Nomination and designation process
• Endangered Heritage
• Interventions in World Heritage: Values, Principles, Degrees, and Criteria 
• Defining and assessing Outstanding Universal Value
• World Heritage Committee Bodies and Doctrinal charters
• And much more!

For more details on any of the above topics and on the April conference in general, please visit ESACH Events.
 
Submission Guidelines

1. A maximum of two images will be accepted from one person per topic (in case of exceeding submissions, only the first two will be considered and the following will be discarded);
2. Images must relate to the topic in focus;
3. Photographs can be in both landscape, portrait or other modes and formats;
4. Drawings can be both physical and digital, and a combination of techniques of visual  representation is accepted (e.g. collages, reproductions of assemblages, and the like);
5. Submissions are made electronically, using the related form that is included at the end of this page;
6. The submission should be done in HD format. The submitted material will be the final one with .jpeg and .pdf formats accepted only, and no further editing will be needed from the ESACH staff part;
7. The images should be named as  ‘image number_surname_topic_image title’
   For example: 01_Gupta_Word Heritage_Image of the city;
   
8. The images must be accompanied by a short bio (30-50 words) and a one-two line description of the material submitted.

Submit your images here. 

Selection criteria

The submissions will be reviewed and judged by the ESACH Publication team based on the following criteria:

1. Adherence to the brief.
2. Command of the representation technique employed (composition, chromatic balance, and the like).
3. Originality and creative display through the medium.
4. Theme chosen for individual photographs.
5. Clarity in one’s ideas as expressed by the image description.

Deadline for the Submission: 13th May 2021

We look forward to receiving your submissions!