“diVine Insights: A Journey Through the World of Wine” – Photography Open Call full regulation

Open call

dotART and Exhibit Around APS associations, creators of the International Photography Festival Trieste Photo Days, are launching the open call for the new project “diVine Insights: A Journey Through the World of Wine”.
The Call is free and it is open to all photographers worldwide, professionals and amateurs.

Deadlines

The call is open from 1st March to 5th May 2024.
To submit your photos, simply log in or register in our user area at my.dotlogic.net, select the open call “diVine Insights” and follow the loading procedure for single photos and/or projects/portfolios.

Themes and Style

“diVine Insights” is a journey of discovery into the wonderfully rich and complex world of wine.
Born as a reflection on the importance of winemaking in the history of our region, with this call we are looking to explore how the passion for wine and winemaking worldwide has resisted the challenges of time, allowing viticulture to prosper and grow.

The call aims to collect testimonies by local and international photographers who offer their perspective on the world of wine and viticulture: their ecological, social and/or geographical impact on the territory, people and cultures.
Whether it’s a photo reportage or immortalizing a moment of pleasure with a glass in your hand, we can’t wait to see wine through your lens!

Each author is free to choose the genre of photography that best represents them: portrait, landscape, still life, social reportage, street photography, creative photography, documentary photography, fine art, etc.

Prizes

Exhibit Around APS and dotArt will choose the Best Author and the Honorable Mentions of the project, who will be rewarded with:

Best Author

• Free 2-night stay:
  • A weekend in a local Winery, or
  • In a hotel in Trieste, during Trieste Photo Days 2024 (1-3 November)
• Personalized special trophy 
• Photos exhibited at:
  • Trieste Airport, in September (final event of the project), and/or
  • Magazzino 26 during Trieste Photo Days  2024
• 1 free copy of the book
• A selection of free copies of photography books by Exhibit Around

Honorable Mentions

• Personalized medal
• A selection of free copies of photography books by Exhibit Around

There will be a further selection of the best photographers of the project, who will see their works displayed, together with those by the Best Author and the Honorable Mentions, in a large new exhibition at one of the most important locations of the festival.

Exhibitions

The best selected photographs will become part of a series of international exhibitions, accompanied by archive images from the Fototeca di Trieste, as part of Trieste Photo Days 2024 and Photo Days Tour, the review of events and exhibitions taking place in the Region (from June 2024).

Photographic volume

The best selected works will appear in the official photographic book “diVine Insights: A Journey Through the World of Wine”.

The volume will also contain a selection of the best shots from the photographic outings and local events linked to the project.

The book will be presented at the 11th edition of the International Photography Festival Trieste Photo Days 2024 and within the scope of Photo Days Tour 2024.A selection of photos will become part of the Trieste Photo Days 2024 catalog.

Multimedia document

A selection of the best photographs will be used for the project’s audiovisual document, created with the collaboration of Partners and Institutions. It will be a“behind the scenes”, which will be published on Exhibit Around APS and Trieste Photo Days’s socials.
The multidisciplinary document may be published on a variety of other platforms, and used both in schools and universities, by the institutions and partners involved and by the interested communities, etc.

The Best Author makes himself available for a series of interviews with Exhibit Around APS, for this purpose and for the creation of other promotional material.

Meetings and conferences

The project includes a cycle of meetings, conferences and related events, aimed at promoting and presenting the exhibition, the book and the topics addressed.

Selection and Fees

The open call is free.
No contributions are needed to join the project, nor for the presence in the book or in the exhibition – should you be selected.

The selected authors will be contacted by the Exhibit Around staff by the end of August 2024.

The authors who will be published in the book will be entitled to a special discount valid for the purchase of 1 copy of the volume (no free copies are provided, unless otherwise specified).All authors will receive a digital copy of the book in PDF format which will be published on the Exhibit Around website.

Guidelines

• Each photographer can upload up to 10 single pictures and up to 1 projects/portfolio consisting of a minimum of 3 photos and a maximum of 20 photos.
• Exhibit Around APS members will be able to upload up to 20 single photos.
  Subscribers will be able to upload a different amount of portfolios based on their subscription level: Photography Member: up to 3 portfolios, Photography Enthusiast: up to 4 portfolios, Photography Master: up to 5 portfolio and Photography LEGEND: up to 10 portfolios. The portfolios must consist of a minimum of 3 photos to a maximum of 20.
  For more information on how to sign up and become an Exhibit Around member, visit our dedicated page.
• We accept both colour and black and white photos.
• Projects and portfolios may be accompanied by a brief description, which Exhibit Around reserves the right to modify, edit and/or not publish. The author’s name will always be present.
• We will select a photo that will become the cover image and the official visual of the project. We therefore invite authors who wish to do so to name one of the candidate photos “Book cover”. The ideal image for the cover is evocative, represents the spirit of the project well and contains “empty space” for the insertion of the title.
• Photos should not contain signatures, watermarks, or frames.
• Please do NOT upload identical photos in the Portfolio section and in the Single Photos section (e.g. a Portfolio of 20 photos + the same 20 photos as 20 Single Photos). If necessary, you can upload a maximum of 1 or 2 representative photos of your portfolio in the Single Photo section as well.

Images Technical Specifications

• Format .jpg
• Colour method RGB
• Individual files must be less than 9 MB each
• Minimum size smallest side: 2000 px / maximum size longest side: 6000 px
• The file name (filename.jpg) must not contain any special characters (accents, apostrophes, symbols, etc.)

Upload

Each non-member photographer can upload up to 10 single pictures and 1 portfolio, while registered Exhibit Around members can upload up to 20 single photos and an increasingly greater number of projects/portfolios based on their membership level:

• Photography Member: up to 3 portfolios
• Photography Enthusiast: up to 4 portfolios
• Photography Master: up to 5 portfolios
• Photography LEGEND: up to 10 portfolios

The uploaded projects/portfolios must consist of a minimum of 3 photos and a maximum of 20 to be considered as such. For more information on how to sign up and become an Exhibit Around member, visit our dedicated page.

Copyright

Each photographer retains the moral rights and intellectual property rights to his or her entries. Each author grants the dotART and Exhibit Around APS associations the non-exclusive right to use the winning/selected images to promote/publicise the non-profit activities of the association, subject to official communication to the author (whose name will always be attributed to the work).