Art. 1. - Sirmione Photographic Award Art. 2.

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Sirmione Photo award
Sirmione photographic award VII edition, 2016
GUIDELINES
Registration procedure and competition's execution, technical regulations, Jury, prizes and award ceremony.
Art. 1. - Sirmione Photographic Award
The Municipality of Sirmione promotes the Sirmione photographic Award – 7th edition, a photographic prizewinning competition dedicated to Sirmione (det. n. 998 of 9.12.2009)
Art. 2. - Involvement
The competition is open to everybody with the exception of the Directors and Employees of the Municipality
of Sirmione.
Art. 3. - Subject
The subject of the competition is: Sirmione
Art. 4. - Registration costs
Admission is free
Art. 5. - Photo Section
Only a max. of 3 photos, black&white or/and coloured and printed size 20x30 are allowed per participant.
The limit of 3 photos is independent from the author’s chosen theme.
People can not present photos that participated to previous editions of the Photographic Award.
Photos must be professionally printed in a traditional way on photographic paper.
Images must have no white border, no kind of writing or personal logos. There must be title on the back of
each photo.
Photos must also be presented on digital form (CD, DVD or USB key).
Characteristics of the file:
JPEG format
300 dpi resolution
Image: min 8 megapixel
File: max 16 megabyte
The file’s name must be so composed:
surname name– title of the photo
Ex. rossi mario – nightview of Sirmione
(only lower case, no capital letters, no accents, no punctuation marks, no apostrophes)
Postage
Comune di Sirmione
P.zza Virgilio, 52 – Sirmione (BS)
t 030 9909184 – f 030 9909101
www.comune.sirmione.bs.it
[email protected]
Premio Sirmione per la fotografia e gli audiovisivi
- Sirmione photographic Award – 2016
The duly packed envelope containing the photos must arrive within the 30th September 2016 at the following
address:
Premio Sirmione per la fotografia
Comune di Sirmione - Piazza Virgilio, 52 - 25019 Sirmione (BS)
tel. +39 030 99 09 184 – fax +39 030 99 09 101
[email protected] - www.sirmionebs.it
The envelope must contain:
the printed photo/s and the digital CD, DVD or USB key
one enrolment form (1 for each presented photo) completely filled out and signed to accept all the regulations
in all parts.
Art. 6. - Exclusions
Failure to comply with conditions reported in art. 5 will result in the exclusion from the competition
Art. 7. - Copyright
For each sent work the participant at the Award must take responsibility for the following:
• to be the author of the work and own all its rights.
• that the presented work does not belong to a third party and does not break any law.
• declares and guarantees he is the sole owner of the rights for the work presented.
• relieves the organizers of the Award of any responsibility, costs or fees that might be sustained due to the
contents of the work presented.
• allows the Sirmione Municipality a complete license, not exclusive, irrevocable, undetermined in time and
for free. The name of the author will always be mentioned.
Art. 8. - Jury
The Mayor of Sirmione is chief of the Jury of the Award. The Jury is composed as following:
1) Mayor or delegate
2) Councillor to Culture or delegate
Representants of Tourist Offices
3) Delegate of the Civic Library
4) Delegate of local Proloco
5) Delegate of the Consortium of local tourist offices
Photo Experts
6) Antonello Perin (Professional Photographer)
7) Gianfranco Zarantonello (Photo Expert)
8) Luigi Brozzi (Professional Photographer)
All Jury’s decisions are unchallengeable and final. The Jury has final rights on all decisions regarding any subject
not mentioned in this set of regulations.
Art. 9. - Prizes
First prize - € 1.000,00
Second prize - € 400,00
Third prize – A long week end for 2 in Sirmione (2 nights in B&B)
The Jury reserves the right to assign additional prizes or, if appropriate, to not assign all expected prizes.
Additional prizes will be communicated on the website official page and website of Sirmione
All prizes are personal and not-transferable and must be claimed personally by the winners during the Award
Ceremony .
Prizes cannot be combined with other prizes
Art. 10. - Publication of the works
All works could be published on the website of Sirmione.
Premio Sirmione per la fotografia e gli audiovisivi
- Sirmione photographic Award – 2016
Art. 11. - Rendering of the works
None of the works presented in this competition will be returned
Art. 12. - Communications
The Organizers of the Prize will contact the participants only by email or sms. Participants are obliged to give
both these addresses.
Art. 13. - Acceptance of the Regulations
To participate in the competition implies the acceptance of the contract’s conditions.
Art. 14. - Office and Delivery address
Premio Sirmione per la fotografia
Comune di Sirmione - Piazza Virgilio, 52 - 25019 Sirmione (BS)
tel. +39 030 99 09 181 – fax +39 030 99 09 101
[email protected] - www.sirmionebs.it