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Auckland Photo Day
Saturday 7 June 2008 - midnight to midnight - 24 hours, one day, one city
The 2008 Festival welcomes back Olympus as the key sponsor for this annual photographic competition.
THE OLYMPUS AUCKLAND PHOTO DAY (initiated by the festival in 2004) is an open access public competition run over a period of 24 hours. For one day only photographers are asked to capture an image which reflects their Auckland. And if the photo is good enough to show your friends and family - your built-in audience - it might be good enough to win 1st prize in Olympus Auckland Photo Day.
OLYMPUS Auckland Photo Day is conversational, it allows anyone, anywhere in Auckland, to share their perspectives of our city. It creates democratic visual conversations about the place we live, work and play. We want to see the fascination in the everyday, what is supringsly different and what is comfortingly familiar.
Groups, individuals, families, children and anyone who has access to a camera is encouraged to submit the scenes, people and places that reflect their Auckland city.
This event celebrates the many individual pockets of culture and identity present in New Zealand's biggest city by building cultural currency. Whilst celebrated in a spirit of fun this event also fulfills the important role of documenting our life right here and now in the world we live in. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF Auckland. Use your eyes and show us your vision.
PRIZES - TOP 30 - OLYMPUS AUCKLAND PHOTO DAY
Saturday 7 June 2008 - midnight to midnight - 24 hours, one day, one city
The winning photographer will win 1st prize package:  and 
An Olympus E-410 DSLR with 14-42mm and 40-150mm lenses (Twin Lens Kit) and joint first prize is Nitro Coffee Machine - total joint prize value over $4000!
And a sheet of  of their own photo personalised stamps (50 cents face value per stamp).
ALL TOP 30 runners up will get a sheet of of their own photo personalised stamps (50 cents face value per stamp) and boxed pack of select coffee.
The whole 2008 Top 30 selected will be shown in a public display at the end of the Festival/July at a venue to be confirmed.
For past years winning images check out the SELECTED IMAGES section.
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
1) You must be the copyright owner.
2) The photos must be submitted via the Festival website (minimum 300 dpi). Any photos taken on film must be printed and scanned and submitted by digital entry via the Festival website. Please save the files with your name and title of the photograph. Eg JHarrisUntitled
3) Entries are limited to 3 photo entries per person.
4) The photos must have been taken in Auckland region on June 7th 2008. (between midnight and midnight).
5) The finalists will be required to outline the background to the photograph for promotional purposes.
6) Entries to be received before 5pm 13th June 2008.
7) Work should capture the theme of Olympus Auckland Photo Day which is "Your Auckland".
8) Copyright will remain with the photographer, however by entry for selection the owner irrevocably licenses the Auckland Festival of Photography Trust the right to publish the photograph or arrange publication through third parties in any form or media to promote the competition and exhibition in all territories now and in perpetuity. And be managed as part of the Auckland Photo Day photo archive for publication.
9) Submitted/e-mailed images will not be returned to entrants. Entrants are advised to retain copies of their images.
10) Entrants must provide contact details - name, address, phone and email and title of the photographs.
11) Judges decision is final.
Please submit jpg entries through the Photo Submission page available from midnight 7th June 2008 by 5pm on Friday 13th June: NO POSTAL ENTRIES PLEASE.
Getting Started
- Identify people and places in your local area that might make good subjects, e.g. sports grounds, markets, church services, pool halls.
- After you've made a list of Auckland places that you could photograph, choose three that you think would be the best to photograph.
- Check out photography exhibitions at public and dealer galleries or on the web, e.g. www.photoforum-nz.org.
- When you see a photograph you like, try to identify the things that you like about it.
- Look at photographs in family albums. Try to guess which shots are 'staged' and which capture spontaneous moments.
- Borrow photography texts from your library.
- Purchase a disposable camera and experiment.
- If you use a camera that uses film, try borrowing a digital camera from a friend - and vice versa. Afterwards, discuss the advantages of each.
- Clip newspaper and magazine photographs and decide what gives them impact or appeal.
- Sort a group of photographs into piles depending on a) their use of contrast b)how they fill the frame c) show human emotion d) capture an unexpected moment.
Youth
Youth culture and its active participation is a vital ingredient to the success of Auckland Photo Day. A number of schools over the Auckland region have used this event as a class project, an initiative which has produced inspiring results.
Anyone can pick up a camera and take photographs. Young people without the limitations of conventions are eager to shoot the world around them. Student groups, introduced to the art form of photography via Auckland Photo Day impressed the festival with their entries.
Whether the students regarded photography as an art form or a way to record daily lives and identity depended on the individual. What was more significant was the acquired confidence that developed from these projects and the resulting comprehension of visual language and the media.
In 2004 respected Auckland photographers Wayne Wilson and Amos Chapple showed their work to the students of Wesley School - talking about composition and 'filling the frame' - and gave students feedback on their photographs. Prepared and confident the students set out on June 12 2004, taking more than 500 digital images as they walked around Auckland City and visited FESTIVAL photography exhibitions.
This resulted in three of the student's photographs making the overall competitions top 30, two were short-listed in the top six, and one was judged the winner. Of 35 images the students entered in the Photo Day competition, Wesley Tumai's picture of students by the Aotea Centre fountain, won top prize - ahead of 400 other entries!
The students' success prompted Wesley Primary to buy three digital cameras for students and teachers, motivated by the success of the project, to use.
In 2005 this Photo Day event proved a winning formula again, as Wesley School participated and got a top 30 placing and produce another winning top 6 image.
Wesley visit Street exhibition
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Photographer Henry Jen talks about his work
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