We want to know what culture means to you! Breeze Arts Festival is a multi-arts festival organised by young people, for young people aged 11-19. This year the festival’s young people’s management team are hosting a photography competition for 11-19 year olds, and the winners will have their photos exhibited in Trinity Leeds!

With Leeds bidding to be European Capital of Culture 2023 and the city developing a new Culture Strategy, we’re really keen to find out what young people think and feel about culture. So, the theme of the competition is “What culture means to me”. There is culture all around us, but we want to know what this means to you (so there is no wrong answer)!

Stuck for ideas? “Culture” could include your city, its history or architecture, your family heritage, the different cultures represented in Leeds, teen culture, fashion, technology, web culture, British culture, food, music, art, subcultures… the list goes on!

Whether you just use your phone, have a disposable, digital or SLR camera, get creative and show us your perspective of culture in your city.

Up to three entries to the competition can be submitted per person.

The winners!

20 images will be selected by the young people’s management team and showcased in Trinity Leeds during the Breeze Arts Festival from Sat 23rd – Sat 30th July 2016.

For more information about the Breeze Arts Festival, Capital of Culture 2023 and the new Culture Strategy please visit:

www.breezeleeds.org/breezeartsfestival

www.leeds-2023.co.uk

www.leedsculturestrategy.org

Terms & Conditions

By entering the competition you are confirming that you own the rights to your photographic entry and if you are under 16 you have the required parental consent to enter.  You are agreeing to the publication of your photographs in all media formats in print and online. You will not receive a fee, but will retain your rights.

By entering the Breeze Young Creatives: #whatculturemeanstome photography competition you hereby accept the Terms and Conditions of the competition rules listed below. Breeze Arts Festival (Leeds City Council) reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition or the Rules and terms at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be posted via this web page.

General

The competition opens on 3 May 2016 and finishes at midnight BST on Sunday 12 June 2016.

1. All information detailing how to enter this competition forms part of these terms and conditions.
2. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the competitor agrees to abide by these rules.
3. Details of the winners will be published on the website and in the exhibition at Trinity Leeds.
4. The competition is open to young people aged 11-19 who live or attend school, college or University in Leeds.
5. The competition is open to all non-professional photographers. A non-professional photographer does not get paid for their work.
6. Young people under the age of sixteen will need to confirm their parent’s or legal guardian’s consent to participate in the competition. Confirmation can be confirmed through the Curator Space website when applying.
7. You must gain consent from any person/s who appear in submitted photographs. By submitting your photograph you are confirming you have the required permission, and if there are young people in the photos who are under 18 then a parental consent form must be completed and returned to us by Wednesday 6 July. This form will be provided to successful winning entries.
8. Submission of an entry will be taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.
9. Entries should be submitted via the Curator Space website application form.
10. Image files must be no bigger than 5MB in size. Entrants should include their own name, email address and telephone number. We regret that we are unable to accept postal entries.
11. All entries must be received by the advertised closing time and date.
12. Three entries are allowed per person. Late, illegible, incomplete, defaced or corrupt entries will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for lost entries and proof of transmission will not be accepted as proof of receipt. Entries must not be sent through agencies or third parties.

Regulations

13. Photographs that are obscene, vulgar, pornographic, hateful, threatening, racist, sexist, discriminatory, or which otherwise violate any local or international laws, will not be accepted.
14. The judges ‘decision shall be final in deciding whether the picture breaches the preceding section and they shall have absolute authority and discretion to act upon their findings including excluding the picture from the competition.
15. You must be the sole owner of each entry.
16. No entry may infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity, or violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity.
17. Your entry must not include anything which may be seen as advertising for a third party.
18. No entrant will be entitled to any financial reward, compensation or equivalent.

Prizes

19. Twenty entries will be shortlisted and showcased in Trinity Leeds during the Breeze Arts Festival – Sat 23rd to Sat 30th July 2016.
20. Photographs may appear in an exhibition later in 2016 and may be used for future publicity by Breeze Arts Festival and Leeds City Council.

Judging

21. All entries submitted will be judged blind. This means that no names will be shown to judges during the judging process.
22. Entrants who are shortlisted will be contacted and informed that their image will feature as part of the Breeze Arts Festival.
23. The final judging will be undertaken by a panel of young people, photographers and sponsors and the pictures shall be judged for their clarity and how well they meet the competition guidelines.
24. The judges’ decision is final in all matters and they will not enter in to communication on any matter relating to the competition.
25. Events may occur that render the competition itself or the awarding of the prizes impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the Breeze Arts Festival and accordingly the Breeze Arts Festival may at its absolute discretion vary or amend the promotion and the entrant agrees that no liability shall attach to Breeze Arts Festival as a result thereof.

Copyrights

26. By entering the competition you are agreeing to publication of photographs in all media formats in print and online, without fee, whilst retaining rights.
27. The photographer keeps the copyrights and all other rights of submitted competition images.
28. Where possible any image used by Breeze Arts Festival will carry the photographer’s name.
29. All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by Breeze Arts Festival & Leeds City Council for marketing and promotional purposes and the entrant may not claim any monetary compensation.
30. The entrant agrees to participate in related publicity and to the use of their name for the purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity without additional compensation as decided by Breeze Arts Festival.
31. Each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to Breeze Arts Festival to feature any or all of the submitted pictures in any of their publications, their websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition.

English law applies and the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts shall prevail.