The Batroun Photography Contest is part of Batroun International Festival and BATROUN PHOTO.

The awards are open to all photographers, professional or amateur, around the world. By entering the awards, you accept these competition rules and their terms & conditions.

THE COMPETITION

Deadline for submission: 10 July 2025

Participating in this photo contest is easy and free. Just click "Submit" to upload your photo(s) and join the competition!

The judges are looking for photographs that epitomize the art and craft of the theme. This will mean different things to different judges. Your job is to impress the judges.

The Entries presented for judging must be photographic in origin (taken with a camera), but there are no restrictions on post-production except that any post-production must be the work of the entrant. You cannot have someone else edit or work on the image for you. We consider this part of the art of photography.

Entries must comply with the following specifications:

• AdobeRGB colour space, 8-bit;
• Measure between 4000 and 5000 pixels on the longest side (we need large files because they may be printed), 300 dpi.
• Be saved as a .JPEG .JPG .PNG.
• There is a maximum file size of 12MB.

JUDGING

Judging will be blind. This means no names, titles, captions or other indicators can be visible in or on the Entry.

Each Entry will be scored by 5 separate judges. The organizer reserves the right to replace the nominated judges should the need arise.

The judging process is as follows:

• Each Entry will be given a score out of 100 by each Judge.
• The Judges’ scores will be totaled to give a final score out of 500.
• The 50 Entries with the highest scores will be accepted for exhibiting in BATROUN PHOTO 2024.
• The 10 Entries with the highest score will be judged a second time, with the highest score being deemed First-place winner.
• In event of a tie, the images will be re-judged to produce the winner.13. Winners will be published on-line at the BATROUN PHOTO website.

THE PRIZES

The top three winners will receive cash prizes and a certificate. The first-place winner will receive $1,500, the second-place winner will receive $1,000, and the third-place winner will receive $500. An exhibition will commence after the photo contest and will feature the top entries.

The decision of the Organizer is final.

LEGAL

This is all the legal stuff that lets us promote the results, while protecting your copyright in the Entries.

Winning Entrants agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of their name and likeness for the purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity without additional compensation.

The Organizer reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify and/or remove any Entry that does not comply with the Competition Rules.

You warrant and represent, in respect of each Entry submitted by You, as follows:

• You are the sole owner and author of each Entry;
• You have the right to make Your Entry available to the Competition;
• Your Entry(s) does not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, profane or illegal content;
• Each entry does not infringe upon 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.

You agree to fully indemnify the Organizer in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person by reason of Your breaching any of the foregoing.

You acknowledge that the organizer retains full ownership of the copyright in each Entry.

All Entrants agree that any Entry submitted to the competition may be used by the Organizer, and its Event Partners for the purposes of judging the Competition, and marketing and promotional purposes of the Competition.

You acknowledge that it is Your responsibility for protecting any Entry against image misuse by any third party. The Organizer and its Event Partners assume no responsibility and are not liable for any image misuse

The Organizer assumes no responsibility for any incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Awards, and the Organizer assumes no responsibility for technical, hardware or software failure of any kind, for lost network connections, garbled computer transmissions, other problems or technical malfunctions with regard to the Awards. The Organizer assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, corruption, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of Entries. The Organizer is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail addressed to the Organizer on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Your or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Competition. If for any reason a contestant’s Entry cannot be viewed or is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failures, the Organizer assumes no responsibility.

In no event will the Organizer, its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and related companies, Event Partners, its advertising or promotion agencies, or its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, representatives or agents be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising out of any contestant’s access to and use of the website. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, everything on the website is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose or use or non-infringement.

To enter online, you will need to register with your real name and provide a valid email address which will be used to contact prize winners.

If the Organizer cannot contact a winning entrant by email within a reasonable time, the judges may award the prize(s) to another entry.

The Organizer's decisions are final. The right of rejection and or right of refusal are at the discretion of the competition Organizers and can happen at any time.

I hereby acknowledge and accept the terms and conditions.