Mission

The Chinese International Photography Competition is one of a series of international cultural arts contests sponsored by New Tang Dynasty Television. Its purpose is to increase the sharing of cultural arts globally among Chinese who love photography, to uphold traditional Chinese arts philosophy, to promote artistic works portraying intrinsic reality with implications of compassion, gracefulness, righteousness, as well as to revive age-old Chinese aesthetic conceptions.

Deadline

1. Preliminary: Entries shall be submitted to the Organizational Committee by August 31, 2008, 12:00 p.m. (EST) (to be validated by the official stamped date, if sent by post).
2. Submitted entries will be judged by the Organizational Committee, and selected entries will be publicized on the Competition’s Website in September 2008. During the first stage of the selection process, the Organizational Committee will inform the applicants, and ask them to submit full-sized photographs for the final competition. Submitted entries will not be returned to the applicants.
3. Evaluation: The panel of judges will determine the winners from all the full-sized photographs submitted, and the winning entries will be publicized on the Competition’s Website in October 2008.

Contents and Requirements

1. Theme:
   The overall theme of each entry is at the discretion of the photographer, but all the entries should seek to portray the intrinsic reality of the subject matter, and contain messages of compassion, gracefulness, and righteousness. Each work should be labeled with a theme or subject; entries without such a label lose points during the assessment process.
2. Categories:
   This competition includes four categories. Each participant can submit a maximum of 3 entries per category, not exceeding 12 entries altogether. The entries submitted should not be works that have been received awards in any other public competition.

   A: Society and Humanity	B: Nature and Landscapes
   C: Architectures and Views	D: People and Portraits

3. Format of entries:
   All the entries shall be in JPG format, and should be uploaded to the designated website. In case the file cannot be uploaded through the Internet for special reasons, a DVD with the entries in JPG format may also be sent to the Organizational Committee by post, or the files can be submitted in JPG format via email.
4. Eligibility:
   The Chinese International Photography Competition is meant to be a celebration of photography among people sharing Chinese ancestry. If you believe you are at least in part of Chinese descendants, you are most encouraged to enter the contest.

Dawn【Nature and Landscapes】Dave Lee

Judges' Critics

Memory【Nature and Landscapes】May Wang

Award Placement

1. One Special Award (US$5,000 or photographic equipment of equivalent value)
2. There are following awards for each category (Society and Humanity, Nature and Landscapes, Buildings and Views, People and Portraits)
   • One Gold Award (US$1,500 or photographic equipment of equivalent value)
   • Two Silver Award (US$800 or photographic equipment of equivalent value)
   • Three Bronze Award (US$500 or photographic equipment of equivalent value)
   • Ten outstanding performance awards (US$100 or photographic equipment of equivalent
     value)
3. All selected entries will be awarded a certificate of participation.
4. All selected entries will be exhibited at a photography exhibition to be held in New York City, USA.