This competition is an opportunity for 14-25 year olds, using a camera phone, get what you’ve got to say about ‘home' out there, exhibited, seen and discussed!

Enter by email by 5th February 6pm, latest!

PEOPLE + PLACES = HOME

If an image is worth a thousand words -

What is it you want to say about where you live.

For this competition, what can your images tell the audience about ‘home’, the region, its people and places, the positives and the challenges? And how does your image tells your message / story?

You can submit up to 2 images per category.

The two categories are:

PEOPLE If you had to leave Dumfries & Galloway forever, who would you picture, as part of your life and how you think of home, friend, family, a local person?

PLACES Show some-one who has never seen it, the feeling of a local environment, outside or indoors, how you see home, a river, a room, village, Dumfries and Galloway, any place that is important to you.

If you live or have lived in Dumfires & Galloway you can enter!

The Prizes

ENTER for FREE and your image could be exhibited & WIN £100!

You can submit up to 2 images for up to 2 categories, which are:

• PEOPLE If you had to leave Dumfries & Galloway forever, who would you picture, as how you think of home, friend, family, a local person?

• PLACES Show some-one who has never seen it, the feeling of a local place, outside or indoors, how you see home, a river, a room, village, a place that is important to you.

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PRIZES

• Commended photographs will be exhibited as the online exhibition at Tidespace

• Highly Commended will and displayed as outdoor projected exhibition at Tidespace

• £100 is awarded to the Winning image

Awards and Winners - Announced February.

Exhibitions - February/March at Tidespace

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RULES TO ENTER

• 14 -25 years olds living (or previously living) in Dumfries & Galloway can enter

• You can submit up to 2 images for up to 2 categories: People and Places.

• Photographers can submit photographs that were created collaboratively in pairs. If in pairs each image submitted should have both surnames and full names listed in email.

• Format as a jpg at the highest possible resolution available for the phone being used.

• State if an App was used in making the image and if so which one.

• For images and portraits that clearly feature particular people, permission by must be asked for and granted.

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What to include in your email with your images:

• Email Titled:

SUBMISSION for Rural Youth Phone Photo Competition

• You can submit up to 2 phone photos per category for People and Places.

• Each Image must be: Labelled with Name/s of Photographer/s. Title of the Image/s in the email. Once images have been emailed these images may be used by Tidespace for the exhibition and for promotional material in print and online.

• Include the info below in the email:

_Photographer/s Name/s:

_Image/s Title/s:

_Photographer/s Age/s:

_Photographers/s Region: eg. Thornhill

• You are welcome to submit text (approx 3 paragraphs) to accompany each of your images

• Please include how you found out about the competition

• send email to: info@tidespace.uk

Judges are interested to see:

• Images that tells a story, the way you see the people, the places, that make up life in the region for you.

• A variety of ways of seeing things, images that have a connections to you and that you’ve hopefully had fun creating, images that are personal about things that matters to you.

• Images that come about from seeing and seizing the moment/s, fast or slow that happen around you - making the most of your camera always being on you, in your pocket!

TIPS 

Making an image is a bit like telling a story. The look and the mood of your image can help get across the message of the story want to tell e.g. sad, happy, still, energetic, upfront or mysterious. Below are a few tip that can help your image have a bigger impact.

• The composition - the way everything is arranged around one another - can make the image feel balanced or imbalanced, still or dynamic.

• Particular colour can create a specific message or mood.

• Light and dark- can help express what you are trying to say by picking highlighting something you want to emaphasize, or make mysterious the things that are less clear, what is in shadows, or a silhouette.

• Focus - clear, sharp crisp, or blurred and soft say different things depending how you use it, eg. blur can be romantic, mysterious, or sudden movement.

• Near and far. A close shot the information can come from the surfaces, colour, textures shape. A wide shot can have so much in it you need to direct the viewer to what you want to focus on eg. with composition eg perspective lines leading your eye in, or with light, colour, being central, or cropped. 

• Within the image’s frame/boundary, what is included, excluded or partly cropped in or out of of the shot, can help tell the viewer the story you are trying to tell.

• Tips on ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)An article with links to lots of different ICM photographers across the world:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/intentional-camera-movement-photography-part-1-introduction

Useful Apps - people generally use Slow Shutter Cam on the iPhone and FV5 on androids, easy to use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slow-shutter-cam/id357404131

https://www.camerafv5.com

Pointers on iPhone ICM: https://mcanany.net/icm-with-the-iphone/

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A selection of global and Scottish photographers that Coulson & Tenant, Leeming & Paterson appreciate

Savannah Crosby https://savannahcrosby.wixsite.com/mysite 

Margaret Mitchellhttps://margaretmitchell.co.uk

Sophie Gerrard https://www.sophiegerrard.com/work/

Andreas Gursky https://www.andreasgursky.com/en

Peter Dench http://www.peterdench.com

Matt Black https://www.mattblack.com

Stephen Shore http://stephenshore.net/index.php

Katie Ione Crane https://katieionecraney.com. 

Edward Burtynski https://www.edwardburtynsky.comcription