Getting work published and finding funds for new projects are two of the toughest challenges that photographers face but BJP and Nikon have teamed up to help. For the third year, BJP’s prestigious Endframe slot will include the Dream Project Challenge. All photographers who successfully submit their work to Endframe will be automatically entered into this competition, and at the end of the year, one lucky winner will be given £5000 to undertake their Dream Project.

To enter the BJP/Nikon Endframe Dream Project Challenge, simply submit a themed folio of your work to Endframe, together with a self-portrait and the appropriate personal details as well as a brief outline (not more than 50 words) of your Dream Project. Your Dream Project proposal must be for a specific body of work that you would like to undertake right now: the subject is completely open – from portraiture or sport, via architecture or fine art, to reportage or still life. At the end of the year a panel will meet to review the Endframe submissions and proposals, and eight people will each be awarded a £300 development grant to research their ideas in depth. No finished photographs will be required at this stage.

The eight finalists’ detailed proposals will then be examined, and one person will be awarded a £5000 grant to carry out his/her Dream Project. You should bear in mind that your proposal must fit within the £5000 budget: a detailed costing will be required at the development stage. Send to Endframe/BJP, Haymarket House, 28/29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX.

The winner’s work, and portfolios from each of the seven other finalists, will be promoted in various ways.

The copyright in all material, both weekly Endframe folios and the winner’s Dream Project, remains with the photographer. All eight quarterly finalists grant BJP and Nikon the right to use their Endframe folios, in full and in part, for all purposes in connection with the BJP/Nikon Endframe Dream Project Challenge only. In addition, the overall winner guarantees BJP exclusive first publication rights, and also grants BJP and Nikon the right to use the final project, in full and in part, for all purposes in connection with the

BJP/Nikon Endframe Dream Project Challenge only.

Rules:

1. Folios of work, of between six and twenty photographs on some theme, should ideally be submitted as high quality scans on a cross-platform (ISO9660) CD: scans should be of 20-30MB each, saved as RGB TIFFs. These should be accompanied with mono or colour print-outs of the work supplied.

2. Though scans are preferred, prints and transparencies are also acceptable.

3. A portrait of the entrant MUST be supplied. The appropriate credit, ie ‘Self-portrait’, MUST be supplied.

4. All submissions are non-returnable (unless exceptional arrangements have been agreed beforehand). Neither BJP nor Nikon will accept any responsibility for loss or damage of any submissions, however caused.

5. The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence concerning the Awards can be entered into.

6. The BJP/Nikon Endframe Dream Project Challenge is open to all; professionals, non-professionals & students. Entries from UK-based photographers only.

7. The written material supplied in support of your submission MUST include: Name; Age; Education; Influences; Theme (if your selection of photographs is thematically linked); Ideal job; Ambition; Dream Project (no more than 50 words); Contact (telephone/email/web address; Credits. NOTE: handwritten submissions are NOT acceptable.

8. With all entries a postal address MUST be supplied, please write your name and address on the back of the envelope/packaging your submission is sent in.

9. Entries not presented as stated within the rules will NOT be accepted for judging.

10. All entries MUST arrive no later than 5.00pm on Friday, 01 December 2006 at: BJP/Nikon Endframe Dream Project Challenge, British Journal of Photography, Incisive Media plc, Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX.

11. E&OE.

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