Graduate Photography Competition 2012

Following our highly successful Graduate Photography Competition in 2011, the Graduate Admissions and Funding team are once again calling for photographs taken by Oxford’s graduate students to develop and enhance the University's image library.

The photographs will appear in the revised Graduate Studies Prospectus for entry in 2013/14, to be published September 2012, and other print and online publications from the University.

In setting the theme of our 2012 competition, 'Beyond Brideshead: Research and Recreation', we hope to encourage entries that capture the many facets of academic life at Oxford, from labs to libraries, in order to give prospective students a glimpse of Oxford research in action.

We also encourage you to submit photographs which you feel capture daily life as a graduate at Oxford, particularly those that depict an alternative to the traditional perspective of Oxford and provide insight into the real depth and variety of the graduate student experience at the University.

To submit your entry to the competition, please complete our online application form and send your images via e-mail to our Graduate Recruitment Co-ordinator, Jennifer, at jennifer.orr@admin.ox.ac.uk. Any queries regarding the competition can also be sent via e-mail to Jennifer.

Photographs can be submitted to the competition at any time up until the deadline for entries on Friday, 11 May 2012 (TT Week 3).

Graduate Photography Competition 2012 branding based on the icon "Basic, Camera, Red icon" from the set Super Mono Basic by Double-J Design, via Creative Commons 3.0

Terms and Conditions

Entry is open to all current students studying on a graduate course at Oxford or recent alumni, who have completed a graduate course in the last two years.

All entrants must submit a completed application form, and must have the consent of the subjects of their photograph.

Photographic entries should be natural in appearance with minimal digital manipulation; frames and text should not be present on the submitted images.

Entrants may submit a maximum of 10 photographs each. If these are large files, they may be sent across multiple emails, each clearly stating your personal details.

All submitted entries must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other photographic competition.

The winner, both runners up and a number of other successful entrants will see their photographs published in the new graduate print prospectus for entry in 2013/14 as well as other graduate student recruitment materials both online and in print.

Full credit will be given to the photographer wherever the image is used.

All photographs must be 300dpi at A4. They must be no larger than 2.5MB, and no smaller than 400kb.

Entrants can submit up to ten photographs as JPEG files and should send these via e-mail to jennifer.orr@admin.ox.ac.uk. Entrants should also complete and submit the online application form. We are unable to accept postal entries.

The closing date for all entries is Friday, 11 May 2012 (TT Week 3).

Winners will be contacted via email in early June and then publicly announced on 15 June 2012 via the Graduate Admissions and Funding website, Facebook profile, and Twitter feed.

All winners agree to participate in publicity regarding the Graduate Student Photography Competition.

Entrants may be offered the paid opportunity by Graduate Admissions and Funding in the future to produce photographs for further campaigns and projects. 

All images must be the original work of the entrant. The entrant must be the sole owner of the entire copyright in all images entered. It is the responsibility of the entrant, and not the Graduate Admissions and Funding team, to ensure that he or she complies with this requirement.

By entering, entrants will be deemed to be bound by the rules and the University of Oxford reserves the right to exclude any entry from the competition at any time if it has reason to believe that an entrant has breached the rules.

If you have submitted a photograph of an individual or a group in a private setting, you must have obtained the person’s prior consent.

By entering the competition, you agree to your photographs (s) being used by the University of Oxford for the following purposes: (i) publication in the graduate print prospectus for entry in 2013/14; (ii) publication in the online graduate prospectus; and (iii) promotion of the University of Oxford in any other media.

All photographs used will be fully credited to the photographer.

The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into. If the winner is unable to be contacted, the University of Oxford reserves the right to offer the prize to a runner-up.

Graduate Photography Competition 2012 branding based on the icon "Basic, Camera, Red icon" from the set Super Mono Basic by Double-J Design, via Creative Commons 3.0 (CC-BY-3.0)

Winners of the Graduate Photography Competition 2011

Last year, the Graduate Admissions and Funding office received over 700 entries over the course of the Graduate Photography Competition 2011, on the theme ‘Graduate Student Life through a Lens', from around 120 entrants.

The winner, both runners up and a number of other successful entrants have seen their photographs published in the new graduate print prospectus for entry in 2012/13 as well as other graduate student recruitment materials both online and in print.

The winner received £250 in book tokens; the two runners up each received £75.

Winner

Yasemin Sengul

Ivy

Runners Up

Jaani Riordan

A Graduate Crew Prepares to Race in the Torpids Rowing Regatta

Rebecca Scott

Michaelmas at the Bridge of Sighs

Shortlisted entries