TheUnited Nations Information Centre, Tokyo (UNICTokyo) and Sophia University are, as soon as again, co-organizing the student photo contest on SDGs with unique cooperation from Getty ImagesJapan The very first photo contest was released in Japan in 2015, generating an overall of 624 entries from 47 nations as everywhere as Afghanistan andBrazil We welcome currently registered college and university students, college students, and trade school students to use.
We ask that you select several of the 17 SDGs that interests you most, and reveal exactly what it indicates to you through a photo picture. We especially motivate entries that illustrate components of SDGs in your very own neighborhood. A style relating to the SDGs need to likewise exist within your very own nation. This year, we will be having the TOGETHER Award and the Concept Award as brand-new additions to the list of awards.
ContestDetails:
This contest intends to motivate students to “reflect on sustainable development from his or her own perspective, express it through a photo, and share it with others.” We welcome pictures that narrate; they might can be found in a journalistic kind, providing a clear issue, or might be abstract and innovative, representing your concepts and ideas. What can you do to alter the world? How will the SDGs affect the method you believe or act? How can you notify your pals, household, and neighborhood members of social concerns and trigger them to do something about it? The responses to these concerns will end up being crucial to accomplishing the SDGs. We hope you will make the most of this chance and use.
ApplicationDetails
An optimum of 3 pictures per individual that have messages worrying the SDGs might be sent.
If 4 or more pictures are sent, the 3 most current pictures will be practical.
Be sure to consist of the title and/or remarks of your pieces in English or Japanese.
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Deadline: Submit your photo( s) in between Thursday 20 April and Wednesday 30 August2017 The statement of the outcomes and the awards event is set up to be kept in combination with United Nations Day, on 24 October.
Qualifications: Applicants need to be currently registered in university– college and undergraduate students, college students, or trade school students (We welcome entries from candidates of any citizenship, consisting of those living abroad)
Submission of a Student ID or appropriate IDs to show one’s being a student is needed at a later point.
Awards( subject to alter depending upon the material and variety of applications):
GrandPrize (ForeignMinister’s Award) 1 Prize
Award of Excellence 3 Prizes
SpecialAward (TOGETHER Award) 1 Prize
SpecialAward (ConceptAward) 1 Prize
Award of Recognition
Judges
LeslieKee, Photographer
AkiraOno, Photo and Multimedia Editor, The Asahi Shimbun
YuichiKimura, Comedian, YOSHIMOTO CREATIVE AGENCY CO., LTD.
HiroakiMizushima, Professor, Department of Journalism, Sophia University
MarkGarten, Chief of the UN Photo Unit, Audio-VisualServices Section, United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI)
JudgingPanel for the TOGETHER Award: Representatives from the International Labour Organization (ILO), International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNIC Tokyo, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and United Nations University (UNU)
Judgefor the Concept Award: Getty Images Japan (assessing based upon how well the photo represents the principles of the SDGs and stimulates specific messages or feelings)
Organizers: UNIC Tokyo, Sophia University
SpecialCooperation: Getty Images Japan
Endorsed by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Global Compact Network Japan (GC-NJ),
JapanInternational Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan Civil Society Network on SDGs
CooperatingPartners: Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., Nikon Corporation, SIGMA Corporation
MediaPartner: The Asahi Shimbun
PrizeMoney and Goods:
GrandPrize (ForeignMinister’s Award) for 1 Person
- PrizeMoney JPY100,000
- Nikon D750018-140 VR Lens Kit
- SIGMA 30 mm F1.4 DC HSM?Art
- Goods with UN?SDGs logo design
- LeslieKee’s Photobook
- GettyImages’ Photobook
Award of Excellence for 3 Persons
- PrizeMoney JPY20,000
- Nikon D560018-140 VR Lens Kit
- Gift certificate supplied by SIGMA (JPY10,000)
- Goods with UNSDGs logo design
- LeslieKee’s Photobook
- GettyImages’ Photobook
SpecialAwards:
- TOGETHER Award for 1 Person
- 5 printed tee shirts with sent photo and TOGETHER logo design
- UNIQLO present card (JPY5,000)
- Goods with UN?SDGs logo design
- LeslieKee’s Photobook
- GettyImages’ Photobook
ConceptAward for 1 Person
- Membership to iStock, a neighborhood of innovative professional photographers around the world
- Portfolio evaluation by the Art Directors of Getty Images
- Goods with UNSDGs logo design
- LeslieKee’s Photobook
- GettyImages’ Photobook
Award of Recognition
- Goods with UNSDGs logo design
- LeslieKee’s Photobook
- GettyImages’ Photobook
All the granted pictures will be shown at a few of UNIQLO stores.
(Details will be readily available in due course.)Exhibiting shop list will be published at this HP after the contest.)
