One Day of the Danube – PHOTO COMPETITION

The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in cooperation with The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Secretariat of the Ministerial Commissioner for Water Diplomacy, Export and the Danube Region Strategy, is calling for entries for the international photo contest “One Day of the Danube” as part of the program series of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region.

THE STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION

The countries in the Danube basin have been celebrating Danube Day since 29 June 2004. On this day, the Danube River Protection Convention was signed in order to ensure the protection of Danube and the other rivers in its basin. The raison d’être of the international day is to draw attention to this wonderful river and engender a sense of solidarity within the communities living within its catchment area, with the specific aim of preserving the inherent values of the river itself.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The theme of the competition

“One Day of the Danube”

The Capa Center, in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Ministerial Commissioner for Water Diplomacy, Export and the Danube Region Strategy, calls for entries to an international photo contest entitled “One Day of the Danube”. The competition, which will end on 1 July 2017, is open to all those who reside in the countries of the Strategy for the Danube Region (9 EU Member States: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia; and 5 countries from outside the European Union: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova, Serbia, the Ukraine).

The theme of the photo contest revolves around one day in the life of the Danube and the rivers found in its basin which flow through the 14 countries engaged in the Strategy. Only photos taken between 27 June and 1 July of this year are eligible for the competition.

The contest is intended to encourage the conveying of messages – in the form of photographs, insofar as they are taken within the specificed time period – falling within the scope of the aforementioned theme: one day in the Danube basin. We hope to receive photographs which illustrate the importance of the Danube to the life of the region and which showcase its various characteristics and unique nature, be it from a historical, natural, artistic, or cultural perspective. The entries may also accentuate the mythical, folkloric connotations of the Danube.

Bringing attention to the essential values of photography is among the objectives of the contest, together with shedding light on its inevitable documentary nature, through which it speaks to posterity – and of course to the present as well. The easy-to-use tools, which are available for everyone by now, are perfectly suitable for focusing on and exploring complex cultural, social and environmental questions.

Further inspiration:

On the official site of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (www.dunaregiostrategia.kormany.hu)
The official website of the European Commission (www.danube-region.eu)
Capa Center: images, videos.
Magris, Claudio: Duna [Danube]. Európa Publishing, 2012

CONTEST AWARDS

I. LEICA D-LUX camera + a voucher worth HUF 50 000, which may be used for scanning, printing or for analog photographic processing

II. A voucher worth HUF 50 000, which may be used for scanning, printing or for analog photographic processing + a book voucher worth HUF 25 000

III. A book voucher worth HUF 25 000

JURY

Éva Keleti
Kossuth and Prima Primissima Prize-winner photographer

Dániel Kovalovszky
photographer

György Lukács
senior advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary

Zsófia Pályi
photographer

Ábel Szalontai
photographer, Director of the Media Institution of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

THE TERM, SCHEDULE AND DEADLINE OF THE COMPETITION

The contest may only be entered electronically via drs.capacenter.hu

Monday, 29 May 2017
Announcement of contest

Tuesday, 27 June 2017 – Saturday, 1 July
Contest open between

Sunday, 2 July 2017 00:00
Opening of the competition

Thursday, 6 July 2017 12:00
The deadline for uploading entries

Saturday, 14 October 2017
Announcement of the winners and award ceremony

For further information please visit the website drs.capacenter.hu