About the Competition
Highland Exposure is a major digital photography competition running throughout the 2007 Scottish Year of Highland Culture. We want to find and showcase the most stunning and inventive expressions of "distance" in the contemporary Highlands and Islands, within the context of the Culture Year themes: Arts, Environment, Heritage, Language, Science and Sport.
How do you define distance?
"Distance" is a concept usually perceived from a geographical perspective. We want to challenge you to also look at other types of distance:
- distance related to human relationships (emotional, perceptual)
- distance related to social and cultural dynamics (economic, political, generational)
- distance related to space and time attributes (historical, scale, migration flux)
We invite you to draw from these examples of distance and offer your own personal interpretation and definition.
How do you define the Highlands and Islands?
The Highlands and Islands is the area covered by Highlands and Islands Enterprise, which is in itself the Scottish Parliaments Highlands and Islands Constituency area. It covers the Highland, Argyle, Moray, Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles Council areas. It also includes the Clyde Islands of Arran and Cumbrae. To put it the other way, the only hilly, lochy bit of Scotland not covered by HIE is Loch Lomand and the Trossachs. We are only looking for photos that are of and from the Highlands and Islands, but of course photographers can live anywhere.
Deadlines
1st May 2007 for prizes and June exhibition. Other deadlines TBA for future exhibitions. Please join our mailing list to be kept up-to-date with the latest news.
The Winners
A judging panel will award one grand prize and five honorary mentions to those photographers judged to have taken the most striking and memorable of all the entries - £250 for the grand prize and £100 for each honorary mention.
Young Photographers
A special prize will be awarded to photographers who are 17 or under.
Digital Guidelines
- Entries must be digital images entered online. Submit your image
- Please only submit photos taken personally by you for non-professional and non-commercial purposes
- Submit photos as JPEGs at the highest possible quality setting
- Please keep a copy of the original photo as we may request a hi-res image for the exhibition
- You may submit as many images as you like
- You may enter a series of photographs. A series is 2-5 images with a unifying theme. A theme will be judged as a single submission
- You must accept the terms and conditions of this competition
Judges
To be announced. Please join our mailing list to be kept up-to-date with the latest news.