Verzasca FOTO Festival 2020 Call For Entries - Photography competition

by Irena Sibila on Jan 29, 2020

◷ 29/02/2020 (deadline)

Call for photographers: Verzasca FOTO Festival 2020 Call For Entries is now open for submissions!

CALL FOR ENTRY: Verzasca Foto Festival is accepting entries for its Nera di Verzasca 2020 photography competition and invites all amateur and professional photographers to participate.

About ⇣

Submission to the main annual photography competition Nera di Verzasca 2020 of Verzasca Foto Festival now is open and all amateur and professional photographers are invited to participate!

The Verzasca Foto Festival is an annual event that offers open air exhibitions, photo nights with live music, meetings and portfolio reviews by professional photographers.

The festival aims to promote emerging international photographers and to support visual arts in Southern Switzerland, by giving free space through connection and dialogues with nature, offering access to different forms of expression and ways of visual storytelling.

Submission guidelines:

The choice of the theme is free. Every participant can submit a personal photo story with minimum 3 and maximum 10 images.

The format of the images must be: JPEG, colour or monochrome. The dimension of the longer side must be 2000 pixel.

No limitation of when the photo has been taken.

Both analogical (scanned from negative or slide) and digital images are allowed. Participants must own the original files.

Entry Fees:

The entry fee is CHF 25 Swiss Francs.

Eligibility ⇣

This photography competition is open to all people who have reached the age of 18 by the 22 January 2020, regardless of nationality or residence.

Prize ⇣

One 1st place prize winner will be awarded 2,000 Swiss Francs, a solo exhibition from the 4th September to 4th November 2020 in Sonogno, Switzerland and will be invited to the 2020 Verzasca Foto Festival. The organizers will also invite the 10 finalists to project their work during the festival + free board and lodging during the four days of the festival.