East African Photography Award 2023 - Stories

• The contest is restricted to citizens of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, 18 years of age or older.
• All entries must have been worked on in the last year, from August 2022 up until August 1st 2023. This will be confirmed via EXIF data.
• Each entrant can submit up to 2 stories. For each story a minimum of 10, and a maximum of 20 photographs should be submitted.
• ENTRY IS FREE.
• The jury will select 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. Prizes will be awarded for each place.
• The jury reserves the right not to award any or all prizes. All decisions by the jury will be final.
• By entering the competition the photographer confirms that they are the original author of the image(s) and that they own the rights to all the images they enter into this competition, or if they are an employee of a media organisation they have all necessary permissions from their organisation.
• Winning entries with explicit permission from the photographer can be part of our annual exhibition.
• Employees of FOTEA/UPPA, Visura, the judging panel and any family members cannot enter the contest.
• Employees of Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES), FOTEA/UPPA and the judging panel will not enter into dialogue with entrants.
• With the submission the photographer agrees to the Terms and Conditions.

• Only photographs in digital form will be accepted. There should be no watermarks, identifying marks or names of authors written on the photographs.
• Make sure for each photograph submitted you have a printable copy saved as highest quality jpg, at 300 dpi, minimum 3000 pixels on the longer side.

Jury: Paul Botes - Photo Editor, The Continent (SA); Sarah Gilbert - Photo Editor, The Guardian (UK); Luis Tato - Photo Editor AFP (JP/KE), Niamh Tracey - Curator FORMAT Festival (UK); Asha Iman Veal - Associate Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Photography (US)