Beyond The Doors: A Women’s Web Photo Contest

Wanted: Your creative eye for life beyond the four walls. Submit a photograph that captures women working, playing or just being – beyond the doors.

What stories?

Stories and characters are all around us if only we look for them: whether it’s your friend on her phone at a cafe, hawkers calling out their wares in their trademark styles, gutsy chasers of double-decker buses, the traveller checking off her to-do list, the mother feeding her child kulfi, the power-walkers or the beach bum, the park bench or the window seat occupant.

How to participate

Prizes

 Better Photography is the leading photography magazine in India for over 17 years now. With a primary audience that includes serious enthusiasts and amateurs, the Better Photography magazine covers a wide variety of content from techniques and equipment reviews and  interviews.

 

The 1st prize winner will receive a one-on-one mentoring session with a senior staff member from Better Photography magazine, a 1 year subscription to the magazine and a 1-day free pass for a tour around Mysore (for 2) courtesy goMowgli

5 additional participation prize winners will each receive a cool Women’s Web coffee mug

Rules

• Participation is open to anyone above the age of 18, irrespective of gender or location.
• Your photograph must have been clicked in India, irrespective of where you are currently located
• 1 photo per participant
• Photographs can be in colour or B&W, and must not have undergone significant digital manipulation (beyond basic colour/sharpness adjustment)
• Photos must be submitted as .jpeg or .PNG files
• All photos submitted for this contest will be available for public display on our FB page, and we may also publish a few short-listed entries on our website, www.womensweb.in
• By participating in this contest, you certify that the submitted photograph belongs to you, does not violate any other party’s copyright and that you have at least verbal consent from the person photographed

Judges

Author, Photographer and Gender Activist, Rita Banerji is the Founder and Director of the 50 Million Missing Campaign, an ongoing campaign to stop sex selective foeticide in India.

K Madhavan Pillai, the Editor of Better Photography, strongly believes that photography is as much a spiritual journey, besides being a creative pursuit. According to him, photography is not just about patience and contemplation… the act of making a photograph is also a labour of love.

Contest Partners

    

PhotoKatha is a website focused on travel expeditions, daily life, reviews, photography and hospitality.

Prajnya is a non-profit centre for research, public education and networking working on issues related to peace, justice and security.

Women’s Web’s decision on prizes is final, and we also reserve the right to reject entries that do not meet contest guidelines or violate the spirit of the contest in any form.

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