Expressions of Cape Town

About Expressions of Cape Town

Invitation to participate in a photographic exhibition
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, 12 to 21 October 2007

For the past couple of weeks, I and a few of my Cape Town Flickr buddies have been getting together to discuss where, when and how to host a public exhibition of our best photographs. We approached the V&A Waterfront with some of our ideas, and they have enthusiastically offered to host our exhibition in their Clock Tower Centre, under the title of Expressions of Cape Town.



Would you like to see some of your own photographs on display in this week-long exhibition? Could you imagine how many locals and tourists alike will visit and view, and perhaps even purchase your photographs at this event? Now you can finally get some real exposure and earn some real money from all your photographic efforts!

Where do I sign up, I hear you all ask? Well, this is more or less how it will work...

We are limited by floor space, so unfortunately we will not be able to accommodate more than 50 participants. Although any Flickr member may submit their photographs for this exhibition, we will appoint respected and independent local photographic experts to select the top 5 photographs from the top 50 contributors.

While the subject of this exhibition is Expressions of Cape Town, our judges will accept any image captured with any type of digital camera, and taken in any part of a region loosely defined by the West coast town of Langebaan and the East coast town of Hermanus. Although this does give you complete artistic freedom, you should be reminded that since our aim is to promote the natural beauty and cultural diversity of Cape Town, average photographs that strongly convey this subject will be judged more favourably than excellent images of a more abstract nature.

To participate in this exhibition you must first select between five and thirty of your own best photographs and submit them to this group. You may add, remove, or rename your photos at any stage before noon on the 17th September 2007, at which time our independent judges will begin the selection process.

Although you are free to include any title to describe your photographs, each photo’s description must include the following information;

1. The first line of the description must start with EOCT, followed immediately by a number from one to thirty (i.e. EOCT13), indicating your own order of preference. While our judges will consider your own favourites, they will not necessarily select your own top five photos.

2. The second line of the description must include the area where the photo was taken. Although precise locations are preferred, a general description of the area will be considered acceptable.

3. The rest of the description should include the type of camera used, and any additional technical information that you could offer (shutter speed, polarizing filter, etc).

Any submissions which do not include the above information will be removed by the administrators.

If your photographs are selected to be included in this exhibition, you will be required to pay an exhibitor’s fee of R100. We hope to receive sufficient corporate sponsorship to cover any additional costs, which would include the printing and mounting of the photographs and the cost of printing publicity posters and leaflets.

All photographs will be printed centrally on high quality photographic paper in one of three sizes; A3, A4 and A5. You will be required to mount your own photographs on an artist’s easel and board, which will be provided to you by the organisers.

Although you may offer copies of your photographs for sale to the visitors of this exhibition, you may not accept any money from anyone at this event. All re-printing of photographs will be done centrally on your behalf after the exhibition has been concluded.

This exhibition will be open to all members of the public, and for that reason we will immediately disqualify any submissions which depict or imply nudity, or are of an erotic nature.

Please feel free to invite all your Cape Town Flickr contacts to join this group.

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