Photo competition

CALL FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

DEADLINE 15TH OCTOBER 2008

KARAT Coalition together with its partners has the pleasure to announce a call for the submission of photographs addressing

THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION OF WOMEN FROM: ALBANIA, AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA, BELARUS, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA, GEORGIA, KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, MACEDONIA, MOLDOVA, MONTENEGRO, SERBIA, UKRAINE, AND UZBEKISTAN

The competition is part of a large regional, development education project co-funded by the European Commission called “Through Their Eyes, Through Ours: Raising the public’s awareness about development problems faced by women from developing countries in the EU Eastern Neighbourhood, Balkans and Central Asia”. The project is implemented by KARAT Coalition in partnership with GenderMediaCaucasus Journalists' Association (Georgia), Permaculture and Peacebuilding Center Ppc Shtip (Macedonia), Slovak Centre for Communication and Development (Slovakia), Women in Development Europe - WIDE (Belgium), WOMNET (Germany)

The competition will lead to a series of exhibitions in various EU cities (Brussels, Warsaw, Berlin and Bratislava). It will provide an opportunity for showing images produced by women, and depicting women from the developing countries of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in their socio-economic context, in a way that undermines existing stereotypes about the role of women in the society they live in (be it their country, family, town, region, village, workplace or community) or simply show women’s lives in those countries. The photographs are expected not to perpetuate existing stereotypes but at the same time they are supposed to depict the current reality of women’s changing lives.

THEMATIC SCOPE

The photographs must be taken in Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, and be a commentary on the economic situation of women in those countries in the context of development. They can address any of the issues listed below, but do not have to be limited to them:

• Existing stereotypes about the economic role of women versus reality
• Women in non-traditional occupations or professions
• Reconciling paid employment and family responsibilities
• The diversity of women’s economic activity
• Obstacles to women’s economic activity
• Development problems faced by women
• Women’s expectations, ambitions, goals related to their professional life
• The economic position of women in the context of the EU Neighbourhood Policy
• The link between the economic situation of women in Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan and EU
• Feminism and the economic situation of women
• Social expectations of women versus reality
• Women and poverty – breaking the cycle
• The interdependence, correlation, and challenges in relations between the EU and the aforementioned developing countries

Read more here about the selection process and awards:

http://karat.org/index.php?pageId=278