The IMAGINED CITIES contests are returning as part of the grassroots activities of the VI URBAN REGENERATION FORUM – BIA 2024.
The IV PHOTO-BIA wants the focus to be on the diversity of the way of inhabiting the city, taken to be an extensive territory that includes both the urban environment, and the natural and rural setting. Photography is a way to depict reality, but it also implies a way of looking at and rebuilding the diversity and complexity of the constantly transforming urban reality, along with the ways of inhabiting and intervening in the built environment. The PHOTO-BIA contest is precisely open to that diversity of citizen viewpoints and experiences regarding the processes to change and transform cities, where different ways coexist of living in and circulating around the cities, of using the amenities and resources, along with a great mismatch in the ways of intervening and acting in urban spaces. PHOTO-BIA encourages the general public to take photos to explore the complexity of the urban fabric, along with the diversity of grassroots practices and cultures in their daily lives.
Scope of the contest: Bilbao / Bizkaia
Contestants
Anybody over 18 wishing to use this medium to express their vision of the subject of the contest may enter.
Neither the BIA organiser’s employees nor of companies that supply COAVN with marketing and/or promotion services related to or concerning BIA may take part in this contest or win a prize.
There is only one entry category.
Presentation
- The photographs, which must be originals, will be submitted digitally with a quality of 300 dip (pixels per inch) in black or white, or in colour. The printing of the photos shortlisted for the exhibition will be on photo paper on 5-mm thick mounting board, not framed, and measuring 50 x 70 cm (mount and photo).
- The maximum size of the photo will be (8268 X 5906) pixels.
- Each contestant may enter a single photograph.
- The author must keep a copy of the photo on digital medium with a definition that guarantees a comparable quality to the physical format, in order to make their public dissemination easier for the organiser if they are winning photos.
- If under age children appear in the photograph, the contestants must obtain the express authorisation of the legal representatives of the minors to photograph them and to enter the photos in the PHOTOBIA contest. The photographs will not be included in the exhibitions and/or publications that the Delegation organises, to preserve the rights of the minors.
Autor: Javier Barberena Gómez
Deadline
The deadline for entering the works is 13.00 hours on Friday 3 January 2025.
Modo de entrega
The photograph will be delivered as follows: filling in the web form that will include:
- Taglin
- Personal details of the contestant (name, surname(s), ID, address, email address and telephone).
- Place where the photograph has been taken (Only photos taken in Bizkaia will be illegible)and uploading the photograph to the platform enabled on www.biarchitecture.org
The date of entering the photo on the website will be the one that the organisers register.
Prizes
The prizes will be as follows:
BEST PHOTOGRAPH SINGLE CATEGORY
- First Prize: 750€
- Second Prize: 350€
- Runner-up: 150€
- Runner-up: 150€
Public´s choice special prize
Public choice special prize: 250,00€
Any participant will not be eligible for the cash prize if they are related by marriage or similar status and/or are a blood relative up to the fourth degree of kinship or related by affinity up to the second degree of kinship with any of the members of the jury and/or the organisers (who will be taken to be staff of COAVN, of the BIA volunteer groups and members of the different COAVN Management and Executive Boards)
Jury
The jury will be made up of three members, photographers and/or architects who are professional photographs. The Jury may not decide not to award the prizes, unless there are no entries, and may likewise name up to two runners-up. The decision of the Jury will be final. Under no circumstances may a single contestant be awarded two prizes, even though their work may be highlighted with a mention. Anybody who is related by marriage or similar status and/or are a blood relative up to the fourth degree of kinship or related by affinity up to the second degree of kinship with any of the contestants may not be a member of the jury.
The jury will shortlist the 20 best photos that will be exhibited at the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects, at Alameda Mazarredo 69, Bilbao.
Public´s choice special prize
All the entered photographs will be exhibited on the biarchitecture.org from 20 January 2023. The public can vote electronically on that website until 30 January 2025.
Prize-giving
The prize-giving ceremony will be held at the Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects, Alameda Mazarredo 69, Bilbao, in January 2025
Entries
Taking part in the contest means you agree to transfer to the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia the intellectual property rights you as the contestant hold, as the author, regarding the photographs entered into the contest (hereinafter, the entries). The COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia may reproduce, distribute, publicly display and transform the entries, without any limitation of time or place, and identifying the name and surname of the author of the work in question. Therefore, the Delegation may – including, but not limited to – publish the entries on the BIA website, in the BIA dissemination media in the internal and external areas of COAVN, in the mass media featuring news on BIA, in BIA leaflets, in BIA publications, common to the specific or grassroots activities of BIA_STORIES, in BIA exhibitions, etc.; for that purpose, the Delegation may alter the format of the entries, even when that means a loss of their quality.
Consequently, the photographs entered may appear on any type of printed or digital edited medium, linked to the organisation and the dissemination of its activities, provided that the author of the work is always cited. The author may use the entries for other situations or purposes provided that they expressly refer to the work having been entered into the Photo-Bia contest of the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia.
Observations
The contestants are liable for the authorship and originality of the entries, and for ensuring that there are no third-party rights on the entries that may be affected, particularly referring to the rights of minors. The contestants must hold harmless the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia against any claim that third parties may bring against the latter on the grounds of the breach of their rights, including image, industrial or intellectual property rights.
The fact of entering implies the full acceptance of these terms and conditions. The Delegation in Bizkaia of the Basque-Navarre Institute of Architects will rule on all aspects not envisaged in these terms and conditions.
Personal data protection
Pursuant to the Spanish Data Protection Act 3/2018 and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 regarding on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, we hereby inform you that your data will be entered in the COAVN database; the use of your data will be restricted to the holding of the BIA-PHOTO contest and the activities and/or publications referred to in the ‘Entries’ section of these terms and conditions. Entering the BIA-PHOTO contest implies authorising COAVN to disclose the name and surname(s) of the contestant to third parties to manage participation in the contest; to judge the entry for the purpose of awarding, as applicable, the prize in question; and for the activities and/or publications referred to in the “Entries” section of these terms and conditions.
The data controller of your data is COAVN, and the legal grounds for their processing is the consent given by the data subject when entering the contest, as that implies acceptance of these terms and conditions. Under no case will COAVN use the personal of the data subjects for purposes other than those mentioned above; it undertakes to treat them with the due professional confidentiality and to establish the necessary organisational and technical measures to safeguard the information in accordance with the requirements of current data protection legislation.
You as the data subject can exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, objection, portability and limitation of use by writing, accompanied by a copy of your official identity document, to COAVN whose registered office is at ALAMEDA DE MAZARREDO, 69, 1º, 48009, BILBAO (BIZKAIA) or to the email address: coavn@coavn.org. Should a contestant ask for his/her data to be deleted from the publications that the COAVN Delegation in Bizkaia may carry out, the Delegation may continue to include in the publication photograph entered in the contest provided that the contestant is identified as anonymous; however, that may not be taken to be a breach of copyright of the author.