Photo competition for all exchange students at UiT

Categories: Nature, City & coast, Interactions, Details, Other

Deadline: 31th of October 2024

Submit your entry here

Purpose

• A platform for communication about life in Northern Norway
• Foster creativity, visibility and engagement among exchange students
• Promote inter-campus activities

Instructions for Participants

• Take a picture/make a drawing of something that made a positive impression on you in North Norway.
• Only exchange students in their first semester can participate.
• One entry per participant.
• Only original photos taken with a mobile phone or hand-drawn sketches are allowed.
• No advanced image processing.
• Submit as .jpg file in 3:4 format into one of the five categories announced.
• Add your personal information, a title and a 15-word justification for the picture.
• The author gives permission to publish all the information digitally or in print under the CC BY 4.0 license.
• Prizes and certificates for the winners.

Be Aware of

• Useful techniques in photography: https://iphonephotographyschool.com/iphone-photography-tips/
• Ethics in photography: https://greatbigphotographyworld.com/ethics-in-photography/ 

What are we going to do with your information in the exhibition?

The selected pictures will be printed with the title, author name, country, home university and campus. By submitting a picture, you agree that we will handle these personal data. The material will be made available at the exhibition and online under the CC BY 4.0 license, which means that it cannot be replicated without credits.

Itinerant exhibition 2024

21.11.-26.11. Polar Night Celebration at Bazinga Cafeteria, Campus Tromsø. Prizes and certificates.

21.11. Online at UiT campuses

29.11.-2.12. Narvik

3.12-5.12. Harstad

6.12.-9.12. Alta

Selection

• Assessment by a wide jury from UiT
• The three main selection criteria are agreement with the category, photographic quality and uniqueness.
• Depending on the category, other characteristics like expression, message, simplicity and humor will be valued; geographical area of origin may be considered.
• Final selection: 19 pictures

Organisers and jury

• Craft Research Lab
• Centre for Arctic Humanities
• UiT Environmental Humanities Network
• International Section/ Polar Night
• Student Parliament
• Erasmus Student Network
• Studentsampskipnaden