United Nations Environment Programme UNEP International Photographic Competition on the Environment

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• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  International Photographic Competition on the
  Environment 2004-2005 Focus on Your World
• Guidelines
• http//www.unep-photo.com

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2004-2005 Focus on Your World Celebrating
Diversity
With the sponsorship of Canon Inc., the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is holding
its fourth International Photographic Competition
on the Environment called Focus on Your World
and centred on the theme Celebrating Diversity.
UNEP, whose mission is to spread awareness of
environmental issues worldwide and focus
international efforts on creating solutions, is
using this competition to create a visual
journal depicting the critical situation our
Earth now faces. This competition, which is the
largest of its kind in the world, invites entries
from people of all nationalities and ages and is
open to both amateur and professional
photographers. The awards ceremony will be held
in Japan in March 2005. The winning photographs
will then be featured in a traveling exhibition
to increase awareness of the environment
worldwide. The global environment is worsening
and threatening the future of our Earth. You are
invited to enter Focus on Your World and
photographically express your interest, hope,
anger, sorrow, worry and other feelings and
thoughts about pertinent issues. Send us your
photographs. Show us your world.

Awarded Photo 1999-2000
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Organization
ORGANIZER United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) SPONSOR Canon
Inc. PARTNERS United Nations Communications
Group (UNCG) Junior Chamber
International (JCI) SUPPORTERS Japan Airlines
(JAL) TIME Magazine National
Geographic Society Earth Report
Television Trust for the Environment

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UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

• Mission Statement
• To provide leadership and encourage
  partnership in caring
• for the environment by inspiring, informing
  and enabling
• nations and peoples to improve their quality
  of life without
• compromising that of the future generations.
• UNEP Secretary General Klaus Topfer (Germany)
• Headquarter
  Nairobi(Kenya)
• Asia Pacific Area
  Bangkok
• West Asia Area
  Bahrain
• Latin America the Caribbean Mexico
  City
• Europe Area
  Geneva
• Africa Area
  Nairobi
• North America Area New
  York

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ENTRY CATEGORIES

• General
• Persons 25 or older on October 24, 2004.
• Youth
• Persons 15 to 24 on October 24, 2004.
• Children
• Persons 14 or younger on October 24, 2004.
• ?

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Prize
General Category Gold Prize (one) US 20,000
and plaque Silver Prize (one) US 10,000
and plaque Bronze Prize (one) US 5,000 and
plaque Honorary Mention (forty) plaque Youth
Category Gold Prize (one) US 5,000 and
plaque Silver Prize (one) US 2,000 and
plaque Bronze Prize (three) US 1,000 and
plaque Honorary Mention (forty)
plaque Childrens Category Gold Prize (one)
US 2,000 and plaque Silver Prize (one)
US 1,000 and plaque Bronze Prize (three) US
500 and plaque Honorary Mention (forty)
plaque The UNEP Executive Directors Special
Prize (one) The Canon Special Prize (one)

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AWARDS CEREMONY AND EXHIBITIONS

• 211. 1. Prize winning and honorary mentions
  photographs will be announced at
• the awards ceremony to be held in March
  2005 in Japan.
• The following winners will be invited to
  attend the award ceremony
• Gold Prize winner from the General
  Category
• Gold Prize winner from the Youth Category
• Gold Prize winner from the Childrens
  Category
• Winner of the UNEP Executive Directors
  Special Prize
• Winner of the Canon Special Prize
• 2. Other winners will receive their respective
  prizes by mail or courier
• subsequent to the awards ceremony itself.
• Prize winning photographs will be displayed at
  the awards ceremony and may be displayed globally
  through traveling exhibitions and the Internet.

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How to Entry (Hard Copy Entries)

• Entry Schedule June 5, 2004 - October 24,
  2004.
• No entries will be accepted before or
  after these dates.
• 1. A maximum of three photographs may be
  submitted by each entrant. These may illustrate
  separate subjects or be combined as a set of
  three photographs.
• Print no larger than 21 x 30 cm
• Transparencies any format
• Entries must be accompanied by a
  completed, signed entry form and a name tag
  attached to the back of prints or transparency
  mount which can be downloaded from the UNEP
  International Photographic Competition website,
  or by the form on the back of entry leaflet.
• All photographs must be carefully captioned
  stating country city or region in the case of
  flora and fauna add the species name. Also,
  provide a brief caption with particular reference
  to environmental issues your photograph
  illustrates.
• No entries, whether prints or slides, will be
  returned to entrants. No receipt of entry will
  be issued.
• Entries to be sent to a designated collection
  centre.
• Entry Forms may also be obtained from the UNEP
  Photographic Competitions website at
• http//www.unep-photo.com

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How to Entry (Web Entries)

• Entry Schedule June 5, 2004 - October 24,
  2004.
• No entries will be accepted before or
  after these dates.
• A maximum of three digital images may be
  submitted by each entrant. These may illustrate
  separate subjects or combined as a set of three
  images.
• Submit entries in JPEG format of a maximum file
  size of 2.5 MB.
• All photographs must be carefully captioned
  stating country city or region in the case of
  flora and fauna add the species name. Also,
  provide a brief caption with particular reference
  to environmental issues your photograph
  illustrates.
• No receipt of entry will be issued.
• Submission in the form of memory medium (CD-ROM,
  floppy disk, smart media, etc.) are not
  acceptable.
• Final selection of digital images will be judged
  as prints made on a Canon Bubble Jet printer
• Web entries to be submitted to
  http//www.unep-photo.com

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Application Form


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Collection Centres for Receiving Entries
South / North America New York / USA UNEP
Photographic Competition United Nations
Information Centre 2 UN Plaza, Room DC2-803, NEW
YORK, NY 10017, USA Washington DC / USA UNEP
Photographic Competition Regional Office for
North America (RONA) United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) 1707 H Street, N.W. Suite
300, Washington DC 20006, U.S.A. Toronto /
Canada UNEP Photographic Competition TIME Canada
Ltd. 175 Bloor Street East Suite 602, North
Tower, Toronto, Ontario M4W 3R8,
Canada Kingston / Jamaica UNEP Photographic
Competition Coordinating Unit for the Caribbean
Environment Programme UNEP CAR/RCU 14-20 Port
Royal Street Kingston, Jamaica Mexico city /
Mexico UNEP Photographic Competition Regional
Office for Latin America the Caribbean
(ROLAC) United Nations Environment
Programme Boulevard de los Virreyes No. 155 Col.
Lomas Virreyes 11000 Apartado Postal
10793 Mexico, D.F. Mexico Boulevard de los
Virreyes No. 155, Palacio Itamaraty, Av.
Marechal Floriano 196, Col. Lomas Virreyes AP
10793, 11000 Mexico, D.F Mexico

Rio de Janeiro / Brazil UNEP Photographic
Competition Centro de Informacao das Nacoes
Unidas Palacio Itamaraty Av. Marechal Floriano
196 20080-002 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Buenos
Aires / Argentina UNEP Photographic
Competition Centro de Informacion de las Naciones
Unidas Junin 1940 1er piso 1113 Buenos Aires,
Argentina Santiago / Chile UNEP Photographic
Competition Servicios de Informacion de las
Naciones Unidas Comision Economica para America
Latina el Caribe (CEPAL) Avda. Dag Hammarskjolk
s/n, Vitacura Casilla 179-D Santiago, Chile
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Promotion Tools 1

• Posters
• PR Leaflets
• Entry Leaflets
• English
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• French
• (To be delivered to each NOM
• Secretariat in the middle of May.)

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Promotion Tools 2

• Website http//www.unep-photo.com
• LINK on your NOM or LOM website
• Banner Data is available in COC
• Publicity on TIME, National Geographic, etc.
• Advertisement on your NOM or LOM Magazine
  
• Draft Data is available in COC
• Photo Exhibition
• Past Awarded Photo Panels are available
  in COC