What is crime? - Photography competition
Photo competition on harm, injustice and crime launching soon!!
Violent events caused by businesses and the state; hidden violence against women, children and the elderly; the way in which poverty hurts injures, hurts and kills; the impact of environmental pollution - all of these rarely attract the same level of political and public concern as `conventional' crime.
In September 2008 a photography competition will be launched by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College London as part of our `What is crime?' project. The competition will invite images which confront and challenge the different contexts in which the powerful inflict violence and harm upon the powerless and challenge popular ideas about crime is, who commits it and who gets harmed.
COMPETITION CATEGORIES:
- environment
- finance
- violence
Photos will be judged on whether they move the judges and challenge thinking on what is harmful, unjust or criminal under one of the three competition categories. Photographs must be submitted in digital format using the facility on which will be available on our website from September and can be taken using anything from a mobile phone to a high spec digital camera. The deadline for entries will be in March 2009.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information will be available on our website soon and circulated at the time of the competition launch in September 2008. Once launched, information about prizes, exhibition, entry details, publicity materials and special resource pages will be available here.
For more information about the What is crime? initiative, click here or visit the project's resource page.
Please get in touch if you have any queries or email your contact details to if you would like to receive notification when the competition launches in September.