Euro-Med Movement

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
< CROSSING GLANCES >

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership:
A shared vision of the future

Deadline : 3rd July 2006

Funded by the European Commission within the Euromed Programme, « Crossing Glances» is realized by Intesa & C.P. in order to promote and make deeper the knowledge between the European Union and the Countries of the Mediterranean Sea.

In the 1995 in Barcellona, 27 countries of the Mediterranean Sea layed the grounds for a new partnership between the two shores of the Mediterranean.

Grounded on common values and goals, amongst which the region’s stability and prosperity and mutual understanding between its peoples, the Euro-Mediterranean partnership establishes the centrality of human beings.

For more than 10 years, the European Union and the Mediterrean Countries have been working jointly to make the Mediterranean a common space of peace, stability and prosperity through political dialogue, economic agreements and cultural exchanges. The main idea of the Partnership launched in Barcellona is to favour mutual understanding between people.

Aware of the importance of young generations, the European Union has been fostering for over ten years numerous actions aimed at facilitating exchanges between the youth of the two shores.

This is why «Crossing Glances» is launching a photographic competition for young photographers under 30 years old from the North and the South of the Mediterranean Sea in order to make young people of the two shores express their point of view using one of the most appreciated expression tool: photography.

Taking photos is observe, choose, report, know and exchange beyond the barriers of language and culture. Images stimulate emotions but also reveal a way of life, the point of view of “others” and a host of other differences in an ever-more homogeneous world.

The contest is open to young photographers, either amateur or professional, born between the 1^st of January 1975 and the 3^rd of July 1988 and residing in one of the following Countries: Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Israel, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

The young photographers shall especially focus on the following topics:

Sharing the same vision for the future
The relations between the North and South of the Mediterranean
The importance of intercultural dialogue
Exchanges between young people within the framework of an ever-closer cooperation between the inhabitants of the two shores of the Mediterranean
The photographic dialogue between the two shores of the Mediterranean

The deadline has been postponed to the 3rd of july

An international scientific committee will judge the photographs from the 17 countries involved and will choose 17 winners, one per country. The leading representatives of the media world, entertainment and photography will sit on the panel of judges. (Journalists, photographers, photo editors)

The jury will focus special attention on photos capable of:

Enhancing dialogue and tolerance
Providing an original and innovative outlook on topical issues
Fighting prejudice, clichés and stereotypes
Focusing on the collective imaginary and on mutual representations
Highlighting the richness of the peoples living on the two shores of the Mediterranean and pointing out both the challenges and the enriching factors of such a comparison
Enhancing the right to diversity

A brief caption explaining every photo would be greatly appreciated. The young photographers who might wish to do so, can also include in their work a short digital video documenting the images and placing them in their context.

The 17 winners artworks will be displayed in a collective exhibition which be held in Rome in the next october 2006 and then it will go around the countries involved in the project.

Secretarial office:
Intesa & C.P. S.r.l.
Via dei Banchi Vecchi, 58 – 00186 Roma
Ph. ++39.06.6832740 fax. ++39.06.6832770
mail : fotovisioni2005@intesacp.it
www.euromed-crossingglances.org

For more information, you are kindly requested to look at the regulations: www.euromed-crossingglances.org