| Event |
Slow Dancing Photography Competition |
| Dates |
Submission: from August 21 to 24:00 September 6, 2009
Online Voting by viewers: from August 21 to 24:00 September 11, 2009
Winner notification: September 30, 2009 |
| How to participate |
Submit your work before 24:00 September 11, 2009
Step 1. Image should show the interplay in Slow Dancing exhibition, echo or imitate its idea and create original piece of dancer’s movement.
Step 2.Upload pictures to Slow Dancing--Catch the Moment Photography Competition website.
Step 3. Invite all your friends and family to vote online |
| Process |
- Phase I: online submission. Fill in your personal information and upload the entry photography. It will be displayed on official competition website once it succeeds in uploading.
- Phase 2: online vote. Viewer can vote after viewing all the entries and leaving personal information online. Each e-mail account is restricted to vote once only every day.
- Phase 3: jury selection. The jury is invited by TAF. Winners will emerge from the result of jury’s selection adding online votes up.
- Phase 4: winner list announcement.
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| Entrant qualification |
It is open to all local and foreign legal residents in Taiwan who love arts and photography. Only online entry is accepted. |
| Competition prizes |
First Place Grand Prize (one winner): digital camera (market value NT$ 8,000)
Second Place (two winners): one session of adult class in Cloud Gate Dance School (market value NT$ 7,400)
Third Place (three winners): 8G memory disk (market value NT$ 1,800)
Forth Place (ten winners): one free ticket of 2010Taipei Arts Festival international program (market value NT$ 1,000)
Viewer’s Favorite Online (one winner): digital photo frame
Lucky online voters (ten winners): Aesop travel kit |
| Outline of judging |
*Integrity 40%
*Creativity 20%
*online votes 40% |
| Winners Announcement |
Competition result will be made public on TAF and Competition websites. All winners will be notified by text messgae and email by September 30, 2009 |
| Image specification |
Image should have a dimension of 1024 pixels and 768 pixels.
Image should be JPEG/ JPG format.
Image’s size of file should not exceed 2MB. |
| Conditions |
- The work should be the entrant’s original photography work, not generated or mixed or altered with any computer or camera effects. By entering the Competition, entrant represents, acknowledges, and warrants that the submitted image is an original work created solely by the entrant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim, or interest in the photograph. Entrant’s rights will be terminated if the alternative occurs. TAF accept no liability in respect of the failure of the above.
- The entrants will lose entitlement to take part in this Competition if the entries are irrelevant or illegal images. Site supervisor will eliminate the violated work without further notification. If the legitimacy of entry as copyright for instance is challenged by the third party and proved to be questionable. TAF would disqualify the entry and recover its prize or presents. The entrant will take all liability in respect of the violation of copyright and cover all the damage of TAF accordingly if there is any.
- Any malevolent ways to win or stop people to win the competition such as invading the voting system with information technology, having more votes improperly or any other malevolence is not tolerated. TAF has right to disqualify the violator and recall the prize or presents. The vacant position will not be filled.
- The entries must not be obscene, offensive or defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal. The image and words of entry cannot be related to commercial or advertising purpose, for instance, advertisement posting or product information. The rights of entrants will be terminated and the loss of TAF will be claimed if the alternative occurs.
- The moral rights of every entry belong to individual creator. All the rights and interests are reserved to the creators until they win the competition. TAF is allowed to use parts of entries as non-profit promotion and marketing purposes.
- By entering the Competition, entrant grants TAF a royalty-free license to republish the rewarded works in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format, and the photographer’ name will be indicated.
- In compliance with law of tax in Republic of China, one has to include the prize in his consolidated income tax once he wins the amount of money of prize over than NT$ 1,000. Winners cannot claim the prize without filling in an official receipt. If the amount of money is over NT$20,000, the winner has to pay 10% of it as tax. Any winner refuses to cooperate with this will be deemed to waive his rights.
- TAF will declare the winner announcement via three ways: official competition website, e-mail and text messages. Please pay attention to our website in particular. Any winner does not claim his prize in two weeks will be deemed to waive his rights.
- Employees of the presenter and the organizers are not eligible to enter this Competition.
- TAF reserves the right to suspend, terminate or modify this competition under unexpected circumstances. TAF reserves the right to verify the validity and originality of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant's identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these rules or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by TAF to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
- Please read the rules carefully. By entering the Competition, entrants are deemed to agree with the rules of Competition and other related notifications.
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