Photographer:
Jennifer Nichols
Announcing our 10th annual Lesbian Life Photo Contest! Here’s your big chance for fame and fabulous prizes! Just send us your favorite black-and-white or color images reflecting lesbian life in any of the five contest categories. We need all entries by February 1, 2005. Our esteemed panel of judges will announce the winners in an upcoming issue of Curve. So read over the rules, check out these prizes, and, ladies, get out those cameras!
GRAND PRIZE
Four days/three nights’ accommodations for two at one of the Joie de Vivre hotels in San Francisco, courtesy of the Damron Company.
CATEGORIES
First, second and third prize awarded in each category.
1) BLACK AND WHITE
First prize: $300 shopping spree for CDs at www.goldenrod.com from Goldenrod Music.
2) COLOR
First prize: 10 books from Bella Books and $100 gift certificate to the Curve Shop.
3) ALTERNATIVE PRESS (POLAROID, TRANSFER, PHOTOSHOP, DOUBLE EXPOSURE, ETC.)
First prize: $300 gift certificate good for accommodations at Pearl’s Rainbow, Key West, Fla.
4) PHOTOGRAPHER UNDER 25 YEARS OLD
First prize: $300 gift certificate for DVD titles from Wolfe Video.
5) SPECIAL CATEGORY: KISSING
First prize: $300 gift certificate to the Curve Shop.
ALL SECOND-PRIZE WINNERS
In each category, receive a CD pack from Vanguard Records.
ALL THIRD-PRIZE WINNERS
Get a fun pack from DaFridge.
All winners will receive a one-year subscription to Curve magazine.
DEADLINE: February 1, 2005
2005 PHOTO CONTEST ENTRY FORM
Name (Print):
Street, City, State, Zip:
Daytime Phone: ( )
E-mail Address:
Photo Description:
Category:
o black and white
o color
o alternative press
o photographer under 25
o kissing
I have read and understand all the rules and regulations of the Lesbian Life Photo Contest as printed below and accept all the conditions stated therein.
Signature:
Mail submissions to:
Curve Photo Contest
1550 Bryant Street, Suite 510
San Francisco, CA 94103
Please include $10.00 processing fee with each entry.
RULES
Who may enter: Anyone is eligible, except employees of Curve magazine and members of their families. A $10 entry fee is required for each entry.
Deadline: Entries must be received no later than February 1, 2005. The winners will be announced in an upcoming issue of Curve.
Entries and specifications: All photographs must be sent with the printed entry form signed to Curve Magazine Contest, 1550 Bryant Street, Suite 510, San Francisco, CA 94103 and labeled “Do Not Bend.” We cannot accept postage-due mail. The entry form must be completed and enclosed in the envelope. Each print/slide must be labeled with the name, address and phone number of the photographer and a $10.00 entrance fee. Contestants must know the names and addresses of all identifiable persons in their photographs. All entries become the property of Curve magazine and will not be acknowledged or returned. Curve assumes no responsibility for photographs. Do not send original negatives/slides. Do not e-mail submissions. Late, mutilated or previously published photos are not eligible and will not be considered. The contest coordinator’s determination regarding late, mutilated, lost or previously published entries shall be final. Photos containing nudity will not be considered.
Prizes: All winners will receive: a complimentary one-year subscription to Curve magazine. Other prizes to be awarded at several levels of recognition, including: Grand Prize Overall; First, Second and Third Place Prizes in each of five categories (Black and White, Color, Alternative Press, Photographer Under 25, and Kissing). Specific prizes at different levels are listed above.
Winners: Contestants formally designated as award-winners will be required to supply the original negative or transparency of the winning photograph. Winners also will be required to sign and deliver to Curve a publicity release. With submission of materials, all entrants consent permission for Curve magazine to reprint the photograph in various media, and this serves as an affidavit of eligibility. Also, your signature on the entry form is a guarantee that you have a signed release from every identifiable person in each photo submitted and that you are the sole artist.
Submission of materials: Submission of materials constitutes consent by winners to the use of their photographs, names and likenesses by Curve and their licensees for advertising; editorial purposes concerning the contest or succeeding contests in Curve, books, and elsewhere; and publicity, online uses and advertising purposes in connection with promoting Curve magazine, Curve personals, other contests, succeeding contests or in any other manner. Winners may also be requested to grant Curve consent to use their photographs for other editorial, trade and/or advertising purposes at a compensation to be mutually agreed upon. |
