Eligibility to enter
Entrants must be:
- aged 18 years or over at the closing date for entries
- an Australian citizen or resident (including Australian citizens who live overseas), or an overseas member of Australian Photographic Society (‘APS’)
Judges are not eligible to enter. Staff of MRAC are not eligible to enter.
The entries
- Each entry must be a still work that has been substantially produced by photographic means, including analogue and digital photography, collage and mixed media.
- Each entry must be accompanied by an Artist’s Concept Statement of no more than 100 words. The statement must not identify the author.
- Each entry must not have been previously selected as a finalist in a Prize or exhibited at a major public institution.
- The entry title must not identify the author and must not include dates. A simple title is all that is required, and it should be precisely what would be used on exhibition cards or catalogues.
- Watermarked images will NOT be accepted.
- An entry may be either a single image or a series of 3 or 4 images.
- Entries must have been created in the twelve months preceding the closing date for entries.
- A maximum of four (4) entries may be submitted by any one entrant.
All works selected as finalists for exhibition must be for sale. The final sale price must be inclusive of 30% MRAC sales commission along with any relevant agent fees and commissions and GST if required. An ABN or completed Statement by Supplier form must be provided by authors of selected finalist works.
Entrants must warrant that each work submitted is original and does not infringe the copyright, moral rights or other rights of any third party and that the entrant owns all rights and interests in the work submitted. All entrants must indemnify and keep indemnified the APS, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre (MRAC) and MyPhotoClub against any claim by a third party in relation to their entries.
Entries selected as finalists must not be used in promotional material for any other event or exhibition until the conclusion of the MCPP 2021 exhibition.
Entrants must warrant that their entries are their original work. They must be the sole copyright holder and intellectual property owner of their entries in accordance with Australian law and warrant that any intellectual property rights and moral rights of a third party have not been infringed. Intellectual property rights in entries remain with the entrant as the copyright owner. It is a condition of entry that, if selected as a finalist, the entrant grants to the acquiring gallery (MRAC) and APS without conditions, a perpetual royalty-free licence to use, publicly display, publicise, reproduce the entry or part of an entry, including in electronic form and broadcast, for publicity, promotional, educational and administrative purposes associated with the MCPP and MRAC, in both digital and print mediums. For example, the work of previous finalists may be reproduced in publications promoting the MCPP or MRAC in future years. It is a condition of entry that the entrant grants to APS and MRAC without conditions, permission in perpetuity to supply copies of selected finalists to third parties for purposes associated with the MCPP or MRAC. All necessary acknowledgements of authorship will be duly made. Copyright of the work will remain the property of the artist.
Where required by law, entrants must warrant that they have obtained the consent of all persons whose likenesses appear in their entries. This includes the requirement that those persons understand their rights regarding the photograph being taken. Such consent must include use of the entry in perpetuity for all marketing, educational and publicity uses of such photographs and ensure that no additional consents or licences are required in respect of names, trademarks, designs, works of art or any other intellectual property depicted in the work. The persons must be informed that their image may be displayed in the exhibition and its tour, as well as featured in accompanying promotional and advertising material in print and online format. Where information is disclosed about any person in the artist statement, the entrant must also obtain permission for that information to be used in conjunction with the image. If a person is not able to legally give consent (for example, for reasons of age or administration), entrants are required to obtain the consent of someone who is able to give consent on their behalf. If an entrant’s work is selected for exhibition, APS might require them to provide written evidence of such consent.
Submission of entries
Each entrant may submit up to four entries for selection for the MCPP.
Each entry must be accompanied by a fully completed entry form as part of online registration of entry.
Entrants must submit an artist statement of maximum 100 words as part of the entry form. Where an entry is a series, only one artist statement is required. MPCC may edit artist statements for consistency prior to publication.
Fees
The non-refundable entry fees are:
| Total number of entries (including both single and series entries) |
APS Members |
Non-APS Members |
| 1 |
AUD $40 |
AUD $70 |
| 2 |
AUD $50 |
AUD $90 |
| 3 |
AUD $60 |
AUD $110 |
| 4 |
AUD $70 |
AUD $130 |
Payments must be made with a debit/credit card using the MyPhotoClub payment portal.
Entrants whose payments cannot be processed will be considered ineligible.
Each entry must be submitted via the MPCC’s MyPhotoClub link as one digital file for single image entries, or 3 or 4 separate digital files for series entries. Each digital file (maximum 5 Mb) must be a JPG at up to 300 DPI, at least 2400 pixels wide or tall. Prints (hard copies) of entries will not be accepted for the judging and selection process. Entries will be accepted from 10 AM AEDT Friday 29 January 2021 until 11 PM AEST Friday 23 April 2021.
Size limits apply to finalist exhibition prints. No work is to measure more than 200cm on any side or exceed 20cm in depth, including the frame. Weight shall not exceed 25kg.
Prints may be framed; or may be unframed to be pinned to the wall. Please allow sufficient border for pinning unframed works.
Meet the Photographer Floor Talk Events
Available finalists/exhibitors are encouraged to spend time at the Gallery during the exhibition between 10 AM and 4 PM Mondays to Saturdays for ‘Meet the Photographer Floor Talk Events’. Exhibitors will be asked to notify the Gallery of their availability. Having photographers at the Gallery is very beneficial and available exhibitors are encouraged to make the effort to spend a couple of hours at least once during the exhibition period – it’s also a good time to encourage friends/family to meet at the Gallery.
FAQs
Q: What is Conceptual Photography?
A: Conceptual photography is photography that illustrates an idea. Conceptual photography means that you have a very specific idea you want to share with your audience. It can be something rather simple like happiness or sadness or something more complex such as gender identities, existential issues and so on. The ‘concept’ is both preconceived and, if successful, understandable in the completed image.
Q: I’d like to enter a series instead of a single photograph. If all the photographs in the series meet the criteria, is this possible?
A: Yes, a series of either 3 or 4 images may be submitted as one entry in the Series section. Those entries will be judged alongside those in the Single Image section.
Q: Are diptychs/triptychs/etc allowed?
A: Yes. So long as they are uploaded as one file and, if selected as a finalist, printed for exhibition as one work.
Q: The rules state that “each entry must not have been previously selected as a finalist in a Prize or exhibited at a major public institution”. Does this include FIAP-approved Salons/Exhibitions, or does it refer to prizes such as Head On or the National Portrait Prize? And is it a problem if the entries are entered in other competitions after the entry deadline (recognising that they may then go on to receive Awards or be exhibited after the entry deadline?)
A: The reference to Prizes or exhibition at major public institutions does not include FIAP-approved salons. It is about such things as the Head On Photo Awards, the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize, the Olive Cotton Photographic Portrait Prize, the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Prize, the MORAN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PRIZE, the William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, the Heritage Bank Awards, the Fremantle International Portrait Prize, and so on. Since the words in the Terms and Conditions say “must not have been previously selected” there is no barrier to entering the same images elsewhere after the closing date for the MCPP 2020.
Q: If I am an accredited photography judge does that mean I cannot enter?
A: It is only the judges of MCPP 2021 that cannot enter MCPP 2021.
Q: Since a warrant is a legal document, do I have to get a JP to confirm my statements?
A: No, the word warrant, as used in the terms and conditions, is a verb and simply means “to guarantee or provide assurance”.
Q: Can I use a courier to collect work from the Gallery after the exhibition concludes?
A: Yes, provided the Gallery is advised that you have authorised the courier to collect your work.
Q: Does the finished work have to be paper based? Are prints on acrylic or metal allowed?
A: The choice of medium rests with the finalists.
Q: Do finalist’s prints have to use acrylic glazing or Perspex if they have been printed on acrylic or metal?
A: Not necessarily. Special care should be made with packaging to protect exposed edges and particularly corners which are very vulnerable during transport.
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