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Contest objective:to accumulate in a single online space the best works of Russian and foreign photographers and photography amateurs made from January 2024 to April 2025. Who can participate: all the professional photographers and amateurs aged from 18, regardless of their artistic genre, qualification level and the place of residence, are welcome to participate in the Contest. Contest participation requirements: one Contest participant may submit not more than 15 photographs (nominations and categories will be chosen by the participant independently). In order to participate you should register on the web-site and fill in the participant form in your personal profile. |
Evaluation process:
The voting is anonymous and by secret ballot: panel members will not see the names of nominees before the finalist list is published. The photographs should be taken no earlier than January 2024. More detailed information on the Contest. |
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Contest
Experts
«Dear friends!I congratulate us all on the start of the Photographic Contest and
Festival in the old Russian city of Yelets! This more than just a festival, it’s a
symbolic event for the city as well as for the photographer community, photography
enthusiasts and amateurs. It was not a random choice to choose Yelets as the site of
the new festival. This is the city where one of the first postal stamps in Russia was
printed, there is a crystal cross on one of the domes of the Great Duke’s Mikhail
and Alexander Church, which is very unusual both in Russia and abroad, it’s the
city where first grain elevator and the first Railway Professional School were
established… I wish you, dear participants, to strive to become number one! I also
wish everybody success and new creative achievements!»
Konstantin Leyfer (
Russia
)«Dear contest participants! Having been on panels of judges in a lot of
photographic contest, I can list a number of qualities that you need to win: 1 Love
for photography; 2 Belief in yourself and certainty that what you do is right. These
are key qualities, but they are not enough by themselves. You also need to define
your creative goals. This is why point 3 is also important – find your theme, your
grand purpose. You need to understand for yourself why you make photos. What is
it that you want to communicate to the rest of the world. Such things should
be formulated in a very concrete and concise way. Lisette Model expressed it
very well saying: «Don’t try to make just a “beautiful photo", they to make a
photo of something».Good luck to you!»
Irina Tolkacheva (
Russia
)«I want to specifically underline the new nomination - NEURO IMAGING PHOTOGRAPHY, i.e.photos created with the use
of generative AI. Digital technologies are amazing in the ability to create images
“from nothing”, practically using only the power of your imagination! In order to
create a neuro photograph you don’t have to sneak up on wild animals, wait to see
the sunset over a sea or ask models to show a mysterious look on their faces, it’s
enough to correctly formulate your objective in text request (prompt). This is not
very easy either, but I recommend that you should try it and acquire first hand
experience of this new approach to image creation in hyper reality».
Dmitry Soshnikov (
Russia
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