The Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development launched on 1 June 2009: JOIN!!
How do you see development? How can you portrait the human face of the development processes? How do you show that development initiatives and programmes improve the lives of people
The Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development launched on 1 June 2009 aims to promote and showcase visual examples of people winning the battle against poverty, social exclusion and marginalization by bringing light and life into the above questions.
Brasilia, 1 June 2009 – Development is often portrayed through images of desolation and despair, despite the immense number of initiatives, programmes, ideas and partnerships that are changing the lives of millions of people throughout our developing and transitional world. To raise the awareness of these global successes in the development process and share innovative and successful actions, the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) launches the Global Photography Campaign on Humanizing Development. Partners from all continents are supporting the campaign – from Brazil to Kazakhstan; New York to Abuja; Sri Lanka to Haiti; the São Paulo Metro Company to the Calvary School in Singapore. United Nations Online Volunteers are supporting IPC-IG in the organisation of this campaign.
Everyone can and is strongly encouraged to participate in this global effort and contribute with a photograph. All photographs should fit into one of the campaign’s fourteen different thematic areas related to the Millennium Development Goals, such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, expanding access to food, clean water, sanitation, education and health services for the poor, and promoting women's leadership and equal opportunity in education and employment.
It is very simple to upload your photograph onto the campaign’s website: http://www.ipc-undp.org/photo/
Some of the key outcomes of the campaign will include a photography gallery to be permanently displayed prominently at the IPC-IG office and open for public viewing; a series of photography exhibitions in several cities around the world; and a photography databasethat will be shared with the campaign partners and several United Nations agencies and departments.
Join us now in showing development through a different lens! Let’s promote and share successful development initiatives!
Contribute! Participate!
Visit the campaign website in all United Nations languages and Portuguese at:
http://www.ipc-undp.org/photo/
New: Excellent, this is much like
Excellent, this is much like what happened with facebook and their 'rights' grab blurb.
Looks like United Nations is also suffering funding downturn and feel they need to steal content and not pay.
Really quite sad.
regards
bazil
New: I feel it is important to
I feel it is important to point out that in entering this competition you hand over ALL intellectual property rights to the UNDP, allowing them the legal right to use, edit, manipulate and publish your image in any format and for any purpose, forever. Under the terms and conditions these rights are also transferrable, so the UNDP can effectively re-sell or pass on your image, and all rights pertaining to it, to anyone it so chooses.
Demotix is about photographer's rights, and at its heart is the belief that your images have intrinsic value, and as such their use should be rewarded. This competition is the equivalent of picture editors trawling Flickr for free content when they should be paying photographers real money for real product requiring real work to produce. Except in this case they don't even have to trawl to find the pictures they will use to fill their ad campaigns, brochures, and websites for the next few years, they've given you a brief so you will provide specific content for them.
Fine, if you win your pictures will be exhibited around the world, and you will get some good publicity, and maybe a couple of jobs. It could be a good way to kick-start a career. If you enter and win and are aware of what's going on, and think the loss of your intellectual property rights is worth the publicity, then great. Just be aware that for every winner there will be thousands of others who have submitted pictures which can still be used by the UNDP for any purpose at any time, each one representing a loss of revenue and devaluation of the photographer's work which will be hard to recover from.
I've attached the two most offensive clauses from the small print. Good luck!
Participants within the Humanizing Development Global Photography Campaign must agree to transfer, irreversibly and irrevocably, all intellectual property rights pertaining to their submitted photographs to the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the UnitedNations Development Programme, for use in accordance with these regulations, withthe result that the organizing body and its partners shall utilize and reproduce them at any such time and for any such means as it desires, without any limitation on space, time-
frame, language, quantity of copies and quantity of usage, by way of those media, format and channels which it has approved including but not limited to: magazines, newspapers, public and cable television, internet, telephone, cinema, media in general (conventional or electronic), catalogues, leaflets, reports, postcards, books, posters, bill-boards, back-lights, front-lights, paintings, banners, bills, invitations, direct mailings, labels, logomarks, logotypes, in whichever venue, conference, seminar, national or international display, or by other materials or media of any nature, provided that the photographs are correctly credited to the
photographer/Campaign participant
The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the United Nations Development Programme may transfer intellectual property rights of the winning photographs to whichever partner or to whichever non-profit body that it so desires, without obligation to make any payment to participants in the Campaign whatsoever
New: All people deserve very good
All people deserve very good life and business loans or just secured loan will make it better. Because people's freedom relies on money.