Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC) announced its first photo contest in hope to broaden people’s understanding and love of Cambodia. If a picture is really worth a thousand words, then the eight photographs of beautiful place and scenery of Cambodia to be selected by the CJCC committee will be worth nearly ten thousand words, which will be published in the its Calendar of 2008 as well as in other publications.
Well, I’m going to give myself and my film camera Nikon F75 a good try. However, one of the rules say: ‘if the object of the photo is a person, please obtain the subject’s consent to the application for the contest.’ Actually a portrait of a girl I took in Ratanakiri province is at one of the waterfall sites in the jungle. How could I contact her for a consent? I think I’ll need to scan my recent films, those I used to take picture during Pchum Ben festival for this contest.
Some of my favorite and highly rated photographs among several hundreds I have to include in my submission to the CJCC contest secretariat:
A Cambodian girl, with a gentle smile, picking fruits in Ratanakiri jungle
taken in May 2007
An old Khmer lady carrying some pieces of wood [featured in some articles in Radio Free Asia news web site for a couple of times]
taken in May 2007
A Cambodian girl picking vegetables in the site of Preah Khan temple
taken in May 2006
I’ve never been very much organized with all the films I have. The contest secretariat will need them if I were awarded a prize. Before it’s too late, I need to be more organized, not only for any photo contests, but for future use.
It has to be an interesting competition, I think. Weeks ago I received an email from Sophal, a system engineer for an IT firm by day and student at Norton University by evening; he has Canon EOS 350D, which is a good one for starter.
Also, the third annual Angkor Photography Festival is approaching. The evening is taking place for about two weeks in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and expected to see professional and passionate photographers from all over the world. Please take a look at its up-to-date Web site at http://www.angkorphotofestival.com/.
Yeah, I noticed this rule as well and I think that it sucks. They really ought to reconsider this requirement. I cannot and will not be able to find most of the subjects of my photographs, nor am I willing even to ask people to sign a consent form in the future.
Another example of people who are thinking as though they are at home - in this case in Japan - when they are, in fact, here in Cambodia.
Its a truly silly rule and it will really limit the number of people who enter the contest and the number of great photos that will be entered as well. Unless people forge (fake) documents, something that I am certianly also unwilling to do.
BAD BAD BAD!
Oh well… so it goes.
Finally I ended up without having my photographs sent to competition. Let’s try again next time, if possible.
Are you going to join to the Angkor Photo Festival contest? You should. It would be interesting, I guess.
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