RULES

Participants in the 2017 Voies Off festival agree with and will abide by the rules below.

Participation
No restriction regarding age or nationality. Participants in the Voies Off Prize are: all amateur or professional photographers, artists, associations, collectives, groups, galleries, agencies, or schools… using photography as their medium.
A commission will select the applications presenting originality and a personal approach. The works must be organized as a series showing coherent thinking developed through a theme, a personal vision.
The main criterion considered by the commission will be a personal and creative vision.

Jury and awards
Around 60 applications will be chosen by the selection comity to be part of the 2017 Voies Off Night Screenings.
Among these applications, the jury composed of renowned professionals and the artistic director of Voies Off will choose the winners of the competitions in July.
The jury is sovereign in its decision that shall not be appealed.
The 2017 Voies Off Prize is 5,000 euros.
The 2017 SAIF Discovery Award is 2,500 euros.
The 2017 lacritique.org Award consists of the publication of a portfolio and a critical text online.

Calendar
Results will be emailed to the participants.
The result of the jury’s selection for the 2017 festival will be announced in May 2017.
The winning portfolio will be announced in July 2017.

Copyright and liabilities
The participants are responsible for authorizations and releases from their models and subjects.
By paying the registration fee, the photographers become members of Voies Off Association until december 31, 2017.
The participating photographers agree, once selected, to add a link to the Voies Off website to their own websites [http://www.voies-off.com].
Participants agree that Voies Off’s allowed to use freely and fairly their photographs from the selected portfolios for promotion purposes.
Participants must be aware that the festival may canceled at any time in case of a major emergency. Voies Off shall not be held responsible for any financial damage.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

Any submission that shall not abide by the following rules shall be rejected.
Applications for the 2017 Voies Off prize shall include:

Texts:

+ ONE (and one only) pdf document including CV and a short statement describing the intentions and work of the author of the portfolio. Any relevant or useful information can be added to this document.
The pdf file will be titled as follows : [participant’s first name] _ [participant’s LAST NAME]
Ex: Winston_SMITH (first name+underscore+last name)

Photographs:

+ Applicants may submit up to 3 series of photographs per photographer.
They will have to create a folder for each series on the Voies Off application page.
The folders will be titled as follows: [participant’s first name] _ [participant’s LAST NAME] _ [title of the series]
Ex: Winston_SMITH_Around-the-world

+ Each series must contain 15 to 35 photographs:
jpg format at the highest quality (lowest compression) / about 1500 pixels x 2000 pixels (for projection purposes), resolution set at 72 dpi / RGB or Gray Scale / Unlocked files
Image files shall be named as follows :
The folder containing all the required files shall be named as follows: [participant’s First Name] _ [participant’s LAST NAME]
Ex: Winston_SMITH
Numbering can indicate the order in which the photographs should be projected.

WARNING!
For the name of your folders and files, avoid using spaces and special characters:
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