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The Ninth International Student Photo Contest "Garyacha Kryga" ("Hot Ice")

The Ninth International Student Photo Contest "Garyacha Kryga" (further – Contest) is held in April 2018 within the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Topical Issues of Modern Design" among students, masters and postgraduates of educational institutions of Ukraine, other countries of Europe and the world.

The Contest is supported by the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (NSPAU) and Exhibition Federation of Ukraine (EFU).

The aim of the Contest is to develop and implement creative potential of students-photo designers.

Tasks of the Contest: to create conditions for the development and implementation of creative potential of young people in the sphere of photo design, photo art and exhibition activities; to demonstrate results of the creative work of young photo designers to public and potential customers; to assist in getting higher education for future specialists in industrial and creative industries; to learn to use new technologies for photo products market promotion via exhibition technologies; to popularize the creative work of young photo designers; to distribute among students and young photo designers current trends of world photo art; to create conditions for strengthening and developing relations between the creative youth of Ukraine, other countries of Europe and the world.

Nominations of the Contest: "World around you", "Fashion-photo", "Creative activity".    

Contest photo works are evaluated by the following criteria:

– technical excellence;

– compositional perfection;

– conceptuality (content, ideological expressiveness);

– technological skills (using special techniques and effects when shooting and processing).

The process of evaluation of photo works is as follows:

– jury members assess photo/series of photos by 20-point scale (for each of the four evaluation criteria, points are assigned from 0 - the minimum value, to 5 - the maximum value);

– points assigned by all members of the jury are summed up and the average value is displayed for each photo/series of photos;

– the final discussion of photo works by the jury members is held (arithmetic values may not match with the results of the discussion).

In each nomination of the Contest the first three places are awarded, the winners of which are awarded with diplomas and prizes (it is possible to award several prize places in each nomination). Photo works, that have been pre-selected, participate in the photo exhibition and are posted online (web-site of KNUTD). The authors of these photo works receive diplomas of participants.

 

The terms of participation and the Program of the Contest