Eligibility Criteria:
- The contest is open to all, Karunya Alumni and close family regardless of age, gender, or nationality.
- Deadlines – Oct 30th 2022 (Uploading early will help in promoting your picture for more likes)
- Photo Competition Karunya Category
Photo Competition General Category
Submission Guidelines - Entry is limited to original works that have not formerly been displayed or exhibited as any visual medium (including advertising, stock photos, and on social networking service accounts, etc.) and for which the entrant holds all applicable rights.
- Works that have won prizes in other contests or that have been submitted to other contests currently underway, including similar works, are not eligible.
Entries and the persons depicted therein are restricted to works for which the entrant holds the copyright or for which the entrant has received the prior usage permission of the right holder. - Before submitting a work, the entrant is responsible for taking all steps necessary to protect the right of publicity and other rights of persons depicted in the work, including but not limited to obtaining their permission, to avoid any problems related to the infringement of these rights.
- Entrants are responsible for the resolution of any legal issues arising from their submitted works and agree to pay any costs thereby incurred.
- Entries including content from (a) to (e) below may be disqualified at the organizer’s discretion:
- Content that infringes on any laws, or is defamatory or libelous
- Content that constitutes or encourages criminal behavior, leads to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any laws
- Commercial content that promotes any products or services
- Content in which animals were harmed or manipulated in the making of said content
- Content which infringes on the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity (whether individuals or companies), or violates any person’s rights of privacy or publicity, including: – trademarks owned by third parties (examples: billboards or signs on a street) – materials protected by third-party copyrights – names, likenesses, or other characteristics identifying celebrities or other public figures – entries containing screen credits
- Under the Karunya Category, photos can depict either the campus or life within the campus. A short description to be provided of the picture, year and batch of those in the picture to be highlighted.
- Under the General Category any picture of interest with description can be provided
All pictures will be displayed in “The Missing Link” pages for the year depending on the submission date. - One of the criteria for judging the picture will be the number of likes garnered for the picture.
Photo Guidelines
- Image data files created with any device capable of taking still images, including smartphones and digital still cameras (including medium and large format digital cameras).
- Images that have been retouched by using camera apps, photo editing apps, other software, etc. will be accepted.
- Both color and monochrome images will be accepted.
File size: up to 20 MB of image data per work
Image data file format: JPEG/150 dpi recommended - Entrants must hold all applicable rights to the final image, including any retouching or other image processing.
Note: Winners might be asked to provide higher resolution images for publication or display purposes related to the contest.