Competitions

Win a weekend break in Manchester, Don McCullin goodies and your own postcard set in our photography competition.

If you rate yourself as photographer, why not enter our open photography competition? Our theme is The Art of the City and we’re looking for unusual and inspiring images that sum up what the art of the city means to you. The competition is open to anyone in any city around the world, while entry is via our flickr group.

One lucky winner will walk away with a luxury break in Manchester, a signed Don McCullin exhibition book and tickets for a photography debate on ‘conflict and the camera’ that accmpanies his exhibition at Imperial War Museum North. The winning image, plus three runner-up photographs will be produced as a free limited edition set of Creative Tourist postcards.

The competition will be judged by Christian Payne, the photography, video and social technology expert otherwise known as @documentally; Paul Herrmann, director of the photography network Redeye, and Creative Tourist’s Susie Stubbs.

THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. The winner will be announced shortly.

Terms and conditions

1. This competition is open to those aged 18 years or over, except employees of Manchester Museums Consortium and its nine associated venues*; Marketing Manchester, Visit Manchester or any agency or company connected with this competition or family members of employees of these organisations.

2. You can enter by uploading your photograph to http://www.flickr.com/groups/theartofthecity. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the competitor agrees to abide by these rules. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The judges of the competition are Susie Stubbs, Paul Herrmann and Christian Payne.

3. If you enter the competition your photograph will be published on creativetourist.com and used in a postcard campaign that relates to the competition and creativetourist.com, a not-for-profit campaign for the Manchester Museum Consortium.

4.  All entries must be received by the closing date set out on creativetourist.com (12 Feb 2010).

5. The names of the winner and runners-up will be published on creativetourist.com on Wednesday 24th February 2010.

6. By submitting your photograph for entry into the competition you will retain your copyright and also herby grant to us a royalty free, non assignable, worldwide, non exclusive licence to use the photograph for publication on creativetourist.com and for a postcard relating to creativetourist.com only, for a period of not more than 12 months following the announcement date of the winners. We will produce a limited edition set of postcards, featuring three shortlisted entrants/winner, plus one additional image from Manchester. This set will not be sold or produced for any commercial gain, with shortlisted entrants/winner and owner of the Manchester image all receiving a set of the final postcards and the remaining sets being distributed for free via creativetourist.com and our social network profiles. If we want to use your photograph again, we will ask your permission and obtain your consent before doing so.

7. You warrant that any photographs you submit are your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights in such image. The image must also not have already been professionally commissioned.

8. Your moral rights will be respected; you will be credited if your photograph is published.

9. Any commercial opportunities that arise following the publication of the submitted photograph will be notified to the photographer who will be free to negotiate terms independent of the competition. You will be free to decline any commercial usage licences, this will not affect your chances of winning.

10. The prize is a signed copy of the major new book Don McCullin: Shaped by War, published by Jonathan Cape which accompanies the exhibition at Imperial War Museum North, a pair of tickets to Conflict & The Camera on Saturday 17 April 2010 and a short-break in Manchester comprising a one night’s stay at the 5* Radisson Edwardian Hotel (subject to availability on certain dates) and one evening meal at City Inn. The prize does not include travel to and from Manchester or any other costs incurred during a visit to Manchester. Any additional beverages or goods consumed or services used at any of the above mentioned venues have to be paid for by the winner.

11. No cash alternative is available. Prize is non-transferable, non-refundable and non-changeable. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

* Our members are: Cornerhouse, Imperial War Museum North, The Lowry, Manchester Art Gallery, The Manchester Museum, Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI), People’s History Museum, Urbis and The Whitworth Art Gallery. These venues, like Creative Tourist, will not share your data with any third party.