Introduction

Ever since men moved from a nomadic to a sedentary life back in the Neolithic there has been

a need to address to some superior being that would ensure the best conditions to the survival

of the community.

To establish this contact, human beings have always believed in the existence of some places

more favorable than others, such as temples or holy places. Sometimes those are natural

locations, but they may be enormous and complex engineering works or the most humble

structure. For some people those places are more of a mental state than a physical place.

These places, where men and deities are a closer of each other may be “found out” or

“created” in different ways; in the case of natural sacred places an important, a miraculous

event for the community may had happened. As for temples artificially built, its very structure

may contribute to the mystic contact, or sometimes where it is located, an iconic symbol or a

relic. When it comes to a mental state, a peaceful and harmonic location might be enough to

allow them detached from worldly reality and move on to a higher level.

Temples have always been common elements in all societies. However, their shape, meaning

and usage have changed through history depending on their origins and the beliefs and needs

of those who built them. Thanks to this there is a huge variety of unique images, shapes,

colors, mottos, etc. that allow us to identify or define a place or a culture.

Proposal

It is quite easy to identify places or temples of classic cultures, whether they have long ago

disappeared, such as the Inca culture, or they still exist, as Japanese tradition.

However, it is much more difficult to find out which are the temples of contemporary

civilizations, those that will identify them in the next centuries. Especially, in the transition era

we are living in, in which values that were respected and considered to be true are being

questioned and new trends start to come out.

This is the reason why Imatoria wants to propose this contest in which contestants are asked

to capture the image of that place or attitude that they consider the “temple” of 21st

century,

regardless of their origins or beliefs.

Contestants have absolute freedom to decide if the 21st

century “temple” is one of the temples

from the past, an already existent place that isn’t yet considered so, a place still to be built or

maybe if it is just about reaching a feeling or cause a certain change in the spirits of an

observer without the need of an specific structure.

General Criteria and Contest Organization

Categories and Criteria of Evaluation

The contest has a single category that must cover and represent in the best possible way the

ideas formerly proposed and the projects will be evaluated according to the technical quality

of the images as well as the conceptual representation of the idea expressed.

Additionally, two subcategories will be awarded taking into account individually the two main

evaluation criteria; this means that there will be a subcategory for technical quality and

another one for conceptual representation.

These two subcategories intend to value the merits of those contestants that have not reached

an excellent synthesis but that have shown outstanding aptitude in some specific field. This is

the reason why a there is a single entry and it will be up to the panel of judges to choose

which images are more suitable for each subcategory.

Technical Quality

In this subcategory the appropriate and intended usage of photographic techniques, such as

composition, light processing, sharpness or framing will be evaluated.

Conceptual Representation

In this subcategory the ability to communicate a concept, an idea or a feeling through the

image will be evaluated without taking into account the technical quality of that image. This

means that photographs taken with a compact camera by amateur contestants will be

accepted.

General Category

In the general category a correct combination and synthesis of the two former subcategories

will be evaluated. This means the ability to communicate a specific idea with a good level of

technical quality.

Submission

Images must be submitted in a digital format, but is up to the contestants to choose the

processing of the image before the final digital format.

Photographs can be taken with an analog or a digital camera and they may or may not be

processed with an editing program as long as the edition process is used to improve the

quality of the image, not to modify its content in an artificial way.

Images may have any proportion as long as they keep a unity as a single image, not as a

combination of images that form a diptych, triptych or any other kind or any other way of

grouping images.

Images may depict a fragment of an everyday moment or may be the result of a previous

studied scene in an outside or inside public location (studio photographs will not be accepted).

The percentage of space that the central element (the representation of the temple) has to

take up in each image must be predominant.

Submitting Methodology

Contestants must upload their images through Imatoria intranet, using the username and the

password that will be given to them in the moment they formalize their entry.

Photographs will be admitted neither in another support than the formerly mentioned nor

after the contest deadline.

Format

All images must be submitted in .JPG format with a minimum resolution of 1.500 pixels in its

largest side and a maximum size of 5MB per image.

Prizes

Three prizes will be awarded and ten honorable mentions in the general category plus twenty

additional mentions in different categories.

1st

Prize: €1,000 + 1 copy of the commemorative book of the contest published by Bubok

editorial + Presence in several exhibitions that will take place to commemorate the contest

(galleries detailed further in this document) + Photograph publishing in different digital media

+ Benefits generated from the sale of their images in the mentioned exhibitions.

2nd

Prize: €500 + 1 copy of the commemorative book of the contest published by Bubok

editorial + Presence in several exhibitions that will take place to commemorate the contest

(galleries detailed further in this document) + Photograph publishing in different digital media

+ Benefits generated from the sale of their images in the mentioned exhibitions.

3rd

Prize: €200 + 1 copy of the commemorative book of the contest published by Bubok

editorial + Presence in several exhibitions that will take place to commemorate the contest

(galleries detailed further in this document) + Photograph publishing in different digital media

+ Benefits generated from the sale of their images in the mentioned exhibitions.

10 Honorable Mentions in the General Category: Appearance in the commemorative book of

the contest published by Bubok editorial + Presence in several exhibitions that will take place

to commemorate the contest (galleries detailed further in this document) + Photograph

publishing in different digital media + Benefits generated from the sale of their images in the

mentioned exhibitions.

10 Honorable mentions in the Technical Category: Appearance in the commemorative book of

the contest published by Bubok editorial + Presence in several exhibitions that will take place

to commemorate the contest (galleries detailed further in this document) + Photograph

publishing in different digital media + Benefits generated from the sale of their images in the

mentioned exhibitions.

10 Honorable mentions in the Conceptual Category: Appearance in the commemorative book

of the contest published by Bubok editorial + Presence in several exhibitions that will take

place to commemorate the contest (galleries detailed further in this document) + Photograph

publishing in different digital media + Benefits generated from the sale of their images in the

mentioned exhibitions.

Publications

As sponsors of the contest, Bubok editorial will take care of the layout of the commemorative

book where all the awarded images will be present along with a picture of the author and

small biography of each one.

The book will printed in full color and gummed binding with the professional finishing with

which the editorial publishes all their books.

Once the book is published it will remain on sale in the virtual Bubok library so that anyone,

participant of the contest or not, is able to buy one or as many copies as they wish.

Expositions

Imatoria is constantly collaborating with several art galleries in different cities. Some of them

have already confirmed their interest in holding the exhibition of the awarded images (see

sponsors at the end of the document) while others prefer to wait to see the result to make a

decision.

During the exhibitions all the images will be on sale with the prize that each gallery consider

appropriate. In case an image is sold the gallery will keep a percentage of the benefits and

the rest will be fully credited to the author (the authors of the awarded images will receives a

contract with the detailed specifications, percentages, etc.)

Each gallery has a certain limitation of space. That may mean that showing all the images at

once may not always be possible. In those cases images will be distributed in different

exhibitions or will be part of a rotating exhibition, depending on the galleries choice.

Entries and licenses

All entries have to be formalized through our website filling in the respective form of any of

the offered payment methods. Some data about the contestant will be asked in the form as

well as the quantity images that will be submitted in order to calculate the price of the entry.

Once the contestants have entered, they can decide to increase (never reduce) the number of

photographs to be submitted following the instructions on the intranet and paying the

corresponding price.

Contestants can submit as many images as participation licenses they purchase, without any

restriction.

Being awarded for one image doesn’t exclude being awarded for any other images

submitted (in case of submitting more than one photograph). This means that one single

contestant may get more than one prize with different images.

Each image will not be awarded more than once, so if one photograph is awarded with some

prize in the General Category it will not get another prize in any of the subcategories.

Fares

Special registration period (June 21st

– June 30th

) €7/image

General registration period (June 1st

– August 1st

) €10/image

Jury

The panel of judges will be made up of a team of professionals in photography world, such as:

Janet Delaney

• Professional photographer and professor at the College of Environmental

Design of Berkeley University, California.

German Gonzalez Garrido

• Professional Photographer specialized in architecture photography and creator

of Proyecto Digital.

Tom Hoops

• Professional photographer specialized in portraits, whose reporting on Asian

and English cultures facial expressions have earned him many critics and

publications in magazines and newspapers around the world.

Siebe Warmoeskerken

• Self-taught amateur photographer, whose editing technique has earned him to

be one of the younger and most copied photographers of all flickr.

Mikel Muruzabal

• Professional photographer specialized in architecture photography. His

images have created symbols for the years. In 2006 won the National Zurich

Photo Adward and in 2007 the FujiPromaster to mention some.

Schedule

June 21st

Special registration period starts

June 30th

Special registration period ends

July 1st

General registration period starts

July 31st

General registration period ends

August 1st

Submitting deadline 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

Eligibility

Professional or amateur photographers of legal age in their country or underage

photographers with the express consent of their parents or guardian can entry the contest.

Under no circumstances can any member of the jury, organizer or anyone with a professional

relation of dependence with any of the formerly mentioned participate in the contest.

Copyright and Rights

Submitting an image to the contest implies that the author is the only holder of all its rights.

Any claim about copyright is contestants’ exclusive responsibility.

Imatoria will NOT keep the images rights in exclusivity. Imatoria keeps exploitation rights of

all images submitted for the contest for any event or publications with the purpose of

promotion or commemoration of the formerly mentioned, always properly mentioning its

author. Imatoria reserves the right to exhibit and sell the awarded images in art galleries,

receiving the author the profits of such sale (excluding the percentage of profits to be

attributed to the galleries).

Authors will keep all rights of their images for any other action, making it possible to publish,

sell or submit them in other contests (as long as they do not ask image exclusivity)

Other Considerations

• Imatoria keeps the right to make any change in the conditions of the contest (dates,

deadlines, requirements, etc.) as long as they benefit the majority of the contestants and

they contribute to a better development of the contest. Any change will be published in

our Facebook page to allow all contestants and interested people know about it.

• Entering the contest implies accepting its conditions.

Sponsors

Company in charge of printing the awarded images for their

exhibition.

Company in charge of editing and publish the book about the

contest.

Art Gallery in Barcelona that would expose

the winners.

Web portal about Architecture that would promote the

contest and their winners.

Art Gallery in Barcelona that would exhibit the winners

image of the contest.

Company in charge of printing the awarded images for their

Company in charge of editing and publish the book about the

y in Barcelona that would expose the exhibition of

Web portal about Architecture that would promote the

Art Gallery in Barcelona that would exhibit the winners