Clicking that festival shot
The FasterLouder website, which is on an inaugural quest to find the best festival in Australia, has announced an additional category. This is for 'Best Published Festival shot' for 2008. If you're a budding snapper, submit a published photograph taken at any Australian music festival in between the dates of August 2007 to August 2008. It must be a low-res image - 15cm wide at 72 DPI. The Photo must be sent as a jpeg saved in the following format:
NameofTheFestival_Dateofphoto_Nameofthepublication_Photographersname. Submissions meeting these requirements should be email to: festivalphotos@staff.fasterlouder.com.au
Judges include the legendary Tony Mott as well as reps from Rolling Stone, Drum Media, Fasterlouder and the Australian Centre of Photography. All submitted photographs will be posted on www.festivalawards.com.au. The top 5 photographs will be showcased at the official awards ceremony on October 15th, at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney with Virgin Mobile presenting the award to the winner on the same evening.