The Stop TB Partnership – a partnership hosted by the World Health Organization – has recently launched the “Images to Stop Tuberculosis” Photo Award. The Award aims at obtaining outstanding photos depicting prevention and treatment of TB and community activity to raise awareness about it. Photographers are invited to submit their work for consideration. An international jury will select the winning photographer who will receive a grant to produce these photos, which will be exhibited at the Partners’ Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in March 2009.

Background

Tuberculosis is widely considered a disease of the past, even though it kills more than 4000 people every day. This project will seek to raise awareness about the current status of the disease.

The Project

The project seeks to obtain outstanding photos depicting tuberculosis (TB) prevention and treatment and community activity to raise awareness about it. An international jury will be established to select a photographer who will receive a grant to produce these photos.

The jury will include photography experts from around the world and representatives from UN and other partnering organizations.

The award will be organized in collaboration with institutions and organizations specialized in photography.

Rules

Who may enter:

Photographers aged 18 and over-except for individuals affiliated with the World Health Organization; or Eli Lilly and Company, including employees, regents, trustees, interns, volunteers, fellows, research associates and their immediate families (children, siblings and spouses) and others living in their households-are eligible.

What to enter:

Ten to 15 photographs depicting health-related issues. We are looking for photos that give a human face to diseases and the fight against them. Cropped photos are eligible. We do not accept digitally or otherwise enhanced or altered photos. Minor adjustments, including spotting, dodging and burning, contrast and slight colour adjustment or the digital equivalents, are acceptable. If our judges see that a photographer has obviously altered his or her photo, they reserve the right to disqualify the photographer.

An entrant must hold all rights to a photograph. Photos that violate or infringe upon another person’s copyright are not eligible. Captions for all photos in the portfolio must be submitted with your entry and appropriately cross-referenced with the photos.

How to enter:

Please upload the following.

1. A completed entry form that includes captions for submitted photographs

2. The 10 to 15 photos you are submitting for consideration. These must be labelled with your name and numbered for cross-referencing with captions.

Entry deadline:

All entries must be received by the Stop TB Partnership by 30 October 2008.

Judging, grant and award:

The Stop TB Partnership will convene an international to select the winning photographer. Submitted photographs will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact and artistic merit.

The winner will be notified of his or her status by 17 November 2008.

The name of the winner will be announced at the Angkor Photography Festival, on 26 November.

The winner will receive an award of $5000 and an additional $5000 to be used towards travel expenses to produce a series of 20 – 30 photographs depicting tuberculosis (TB) prevention and treatment and community activity to raise awareness about it. These photographs must be submitted to the Stop TB Partnership no later than 30 January 2009.

Photographs will have to be taken in one or more of the 22 countries heavily affected by tuberculosis (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russian Federation, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe )

With regard to the series of 20-30 photographs, for a photo in which a person is recognizable, the photographer must secure a model release from the subject or, in the case of a minor, the subject’s parent or guardian and provide it to the Stop TB Partnership on request.

Photographs previously published or pending publication, or photos that violate or infringe upon another person’s copyright, are not eligible. Each photo submitted will have to be accompanied by a caption providing the names of all people photographed, the name of the place where the photo was taken, and a description of the activity depicted in the photo.

Legal Conditions

By entering this competition, contestants agree to these entry rules and the following legal conditions:

The Prize winner agrees to grant the copyright on the series of 20-30 photographs taken for this award to the World Health Organization. The name of the photographer will always be included in the copyright line.

By entering, participants warrant that their entry materials are original, do not infringe on any third party’s rights, and that they have obtained any necessary permissions from any third party if a third party or third party’s property appears in the photograph.

Exhibition

There will be an opening reception of the photographs followed by an exhibit at the Stop TB Partners’ Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on or about 21 March 2009.

The Award is supported by:

Angkor Photo Festival

Lilly MDR-TB Partnership

About Tuberculosis

TB is a global pandemic. Worldwide, in 2006, there were more than 9 million new cases of TB annually and 1.7 millions deaths. TB is a disease of poverty, affecting mostly young adults in their most productive years. TB also is a leading killer among people living with HIV, who have weakened immune systems. About 200 000 people living with HIV die from TB every year.

The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 to eliminate tuberculosis as a public health problem and ultimately to realize a world free of TB. It comprises a network of more then 700 international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, patients’ organizations and nongovernmental and governmental organizations working together to achieve this goal.

Contact

Vittorio Cammarota – Special Events Officer
Tel. : +41 22 791 5549 – Mobile: +41 79 50 90 646 
Email: cammarotav@who.int

Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, Communications Officer, Stop TB Partnership
Tel. +41 22 791 29 67, Mobile +41 79 254 6835
 Email: schmidj@who.int