1. All submitted photos are reviewed by a panel of judges, including the FVE, FECAVA and IVSA Board representatives. The top three finalist will each win a 500 Euro Voucher.
2. All finalist photos will be displayed at the FVE General Assembly and on social media for an additional public choice prize (Round 1: Selected photos will be posted on FVE’s Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. Audiences will be provided with a method to cast their vote. The top 5 photos will move to round 2. Round 2: The top 5 photos from round 1 will be again posted on social media and audiences will be invited to cast their vote. The photo with the most votes will be declared the winner and will receive a 500 Euro Voucher).
Photos: Photos must be original and belong to you. We cannot accept photos that have previously been published, including in other photography competitions. However, it’s fine for the photos to appear on your own social media accounts. It is the entrant’s responsibility to get permission from the subject of the photograph. This includes seeking the owner’s permission if the subject is an animal. Entrants must be the sole owner of the copyright for each photo they submit. Entrants can only submit their own work and must not infringe on any rights of a third party.
By entering the competition, you are granting FVE a worldwide, non-exclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish and communicate your photo to the public. You retain the copyright of your image. Please submit the original photo (not a copy from social media) as we need your photo to be high quality. The file size for the image should be between 1MB to 5MB. We may contact the winners to ask for higher resolution versions later.