Cooking Green Goodness Magazine Share Your Veganism: 2020 Photo Essay Contest

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Entries are no longer being accepted.

Photographs are one way to tell about something beautiful. A photograph demands that the audience commit to get to know the origin story, the boundaries of its meaning, and the power behind its voice. The Share Your Veganism: 2020 Photo Essay Contest showcases, through the beauty of artistic expression in a photograph, those things that empower how we choose to nourish our bodies.

Click HERE to watch Cooking Green Goodness Magazine’s interview with activists Sue Spahr and Alec Bosse of the podcast Calling All Vegans, to discuss the details of the Share Your Veganism contest and this magazine’s ‘unique, effective, and relevant form of activism.’

Contest Details
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Closing Date: Entries should be submitted by September 18, 2020, 11:59 PM EST.

No purchase is necessary for entry in the contest.

Categories
Food There are many ways to embrace vegan living. Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude all animal products, and as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose. You’ll find that the one thing in common among vegans is an entirely plant-based diet avoiding all animal foods such as meat (including seafood and insects), eggs, dairy, honey and gelatin. How do you connect spreading your message and the benefits of a vegan diet through food? How are you turning adversaries into allies to reshape our food system?

Activism: Environment, Animal Rights/Welfare Mother Earth is abundant and provides us with all that we need, as long as we protect her and live in harmony with her. It is our collective responsibility.

Lifestyle How do you connect spreading your message through lifestyle choices?

Contest open to vegan enthusiasts with a good, or professional level of photographic experience! Illustrations will also be accepted. By entering the contest, you accept these contest rules, terms and conditions.

The Prizes
$500 CAD First Prize
$250 CAD Second Prize
$150 CAD Third Prize

There are no alternatives to prizes available for prize winners.

Contest winners will be announced on October 21, 2020. Contest details, submissions, and winners names will be published online at the Awards website, shareyourveganism.org, and in upcoming issues of Cooking Green Goodness Magazine, both in print and online.

Each week, Cooking Green Goodness Magazine will share some of our favourite submissions on our social media channels. Follow us here.

Eligibility
Contest now open to accept entries outside of Canada. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older.

To enter, you will need to register with your real name and provide a valid email address which will be used to contact prize winners. Any entry made giving another person’s (or a false) name or other dishonest information will be disqualified.

Entries
How should I submit my photography for this contest? First you will need to complete the below pre-qualifier registration form, filling in the necessary details. Once you have submitted the form, you will receive a follow up email within 24 hours with instructions to submit your photographs should you qualify.

The contest closes at 11.59pm EST on 18 September 2020. All entries must be received before this time. Only one entry per named entrant and email address will be accepted.

Entrants may submit a minimum of three photographs in one of the following categories: Food, Environment, Animal Rights/Welfare, Lifestyle.

All submissions must be the entrant’s own work, and they must own the copyright to any photographs entered.

A photo essay is a series of photographs that tell a story. Submissions can be an individual or team effort. Submissions must include three to eight photos supplemented with a caption, no longer than 250 words each.

Entries must comply with the following specifications:

Total entry must be under 25MB.
Be saved as a JPEG, high resolution.
Only minor burning, dodging and/or colour correction is acceptable, as is cropping of photographs.
Photos must not contain any logo or watermark.

Photographs must have been taken within two years before the date of entry and may not previously have won an award in any other contest/competition.

Photographs must not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libellous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, profane or illegal content.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Entries are no longer being accepted. Contest winners will be announced on October 19, 2020. Contest details, submissions, and winners names will be published online at the Awards website, **shareyourveganism.org**.

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Copyright, Publicity and Personal Data
Publicity may be given to the winners, winners names and photographs. By entering the Share Your Veganism: 2020 Photo Essay Contest, you agree to allow Cooking Green Goodness Magazine to publish your photos in the magazine, on their website and social media channels. The winning entries may also be used by Cooking Green Goodness Magazine in marketing material relating to the contest for up to two years. Winners must co-operate fully for publicity purposes if so required. Entrants must own the copyright to any photographs entered. Entrants will retain copyright to the photographs.

All personal data submitted by an entrant in connection with this contest is submitted voluntarily. All personal data collected from entrants will be used by the promoter for the purpose of administering the contest and by entering this contest, entrants’ consent to promoter using this information to contact them in respect of the prize.

Entrants may consent to receiving Cooking Green Goodness Magazine’s email marketing containing the latest issues, events, contest and offers, by ticking the relevant box on the entry form. If at a later stage you wish to withdraw your consent to receive such materials please select the “unsubscribe” link which can be found at the bottom of the email marketing.

You are under no obligation to consent to emails or direct marketing material and this in no way affects your eligibility to still enter the contest.

Judging Process
The head judge is Eartha Lowe, Founder and Managing Editor, Cooking Green Goodness Magazine.

All entries will be moderated by Eartha Lowe, who will compile a short list of top entries in each category.

The shortlist will be sent to an independent team of 5 judges (names to be released at a later date). The independent judges will in turn select their top three entries for each of the four categories, who will become finalists. Judging will be blind. No names, titles, captions or other indicators are allowed in or on the entry.

Each entry will be given a score out of 100 by each judge.

The judges’ scores will be totaled to give a final score out of 500, then divided by 5 and presented as a percentage figure out of 100.

Eartha Lowe will then collate the judge’s scores to determine the overall prize winners, who can be selected from any of the three category winners. In the event of a tie, the photographs will be re-judged to produce the winner(s).

1st, 2nd and 3rd place finalists will be notified by e-mail on or before October 10, 2020. Decisions of the judges are final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.

Finalists will be contacted using the email address provided at the time of entry. Once notified, finalists must reply within 5 days. If a selected finalist is unreachable, ineligible, disqualified or fails to claim the prize within 5 days of notification being sent by the Promoter, that finalist automatically forfeits the prize; the judges may award the prize to another entry as the winner.

Each prize winner will also receive a PDF certificate honouring their achievement.

Miscellaneous
Entrants indemnify the promoter, its agents, representatives, associates, and affiliates against any and all claim, losses, costs, damages, liability and expenses arising out of the entrant’s breach of any of these terms and conditions.

Each entrant by entering this contest expressly releases the promoter, its agents, representatives, associates, and affiliates from any claim, action or demand arising out of or in connection with the contest or their prize, if any.

The promoter reserves the right to modify these rules, suspend or discontinue the contest at any time, including without limitation where it is necessary to do so due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control or if it cannot be guaranteed that the contest can be carried out correctly for technical or legal reasons or if the promoter suspects that any person has been manipulating the administration of the contest or has acted unethically in any other way.

All terms and conditions of the Share Your Veganism: 2020 Photo Essay Contest are subject to change without notice prior to the close of the contest September 18, 2020, 11:59 PM EST, with the exception of copyright and usage clauses.