I just thought I would help out Alexandra in the press office at Shoot Experience with another big up for this fantastic event. A panel of judges including representatives from Plan, Shoot Experience and MTV will choose their top images, which will then be exhibited at the Oxo Tower from 23rd-27th September 2009.
Time is running out to submit your entry for the Shoot Nations MTV worldwide photography competition.
With just a few weeks left hundreds of budding young photographers have already entered their best efforts in a bid to be crowned the 2009 winner.
The competition is open to anyone between the ages of 11 and 25, with winning entries showcased at the powerhouse of global decision-making – the UN headquarters in New York.
Run by in international children’s charity Plan and photographic organization Shoot Experience in partnership with MTV, the competition offers young people a unique opportunity to express how they feel about the world they live in through pictures.
Georgia Arnold, Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility, MTV Networks International, says: “We are delighted to be the media partner for the 2009 Shoot Nations competition, helping to give a voice to thousands of young people all over the world, through which they can make a difference to their own community.”
Shoot Nations is free to enter and the deadline for this year’s competition is July 31st. This year’s theme is ‘Growing Up in the 21st Century’.
Shoot Nations is an online competition, making it accessible to young people all over the world. Entrants are encouraged to submit photographs, drawings or graphic designs relating to their own changing world.
Over the past three years the competition has received over 2,500 entries from 108 countries. Over 15,000 people have attended exhibitions of Shoot Nations photographs on four different continents.
This year, selected photos from the competition will be presented to the United Nations Headquarters as a light-box installation in New York to celebrate International Youth Day on August 12th.
Plan spokesperson Sharon Goulds, says: “A great photograph can tell you so much about a person’s life; it’s such a powerful, immediate and impactful medium.
“I’m always very impressed by the standard of the entries from young people right around the world, and I’m sure this year will just as good if not better.”
Two age group categories will be open for entries, 11-16 years and 17-25 years.
Competition organisers expect about 2,000 entrants to submit up to three images each, with a brief explanation of why each photo demonstrates the photographer’s feelings towards growing up in the 21st Century.
In particular, gender will have a strong influence over the competition, with entrants being asked to look carefully at their place in the world and whether they feel there are any limitations or opportunities that come from being born male or female. The briefs for the competition are: Because I am a girl/Because I am a boy, What’s holding me back? and Taking control – what could I be?
