REGULATIONS

I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 The regulations of the organized contest – exhibition (hereinafter referred to as the Contest) determine the purpose and tasks of the Contest, the participants, the procedure and time of organization and implementation, requirements for photographs, evaluation criteria and the procedure of awarding the winners of the Contest.

1. The Mažeikiai Museum, the Mažeikiai District Municipality, the Mažeikiai Photo Club and the Union of Lithuanian Photographic Artists are the organizers of the Contest.

II. PURPOSE, TASKS AND TOPICS OF THE CONTEST

3. The purpose of the Contest is the educational environmental protection activities.
4. Contest tasks: to influence the viewer with photographic images to think what we are about to protect the nature; to attract humanity’s attention to the problems of the environment; to strengthen responsibility for one’s own destiny and that of the Earth, in order to stop the destruction of nature, pollution of air, water, and ground.
5. Contest topics:
a) human influence on nature (positive or negative);
b) human contact with the world;
c) environmental protection;
d) ecological problems.

III. CONTEST PARTICIPANTS AND ORGANIZATION PROCEDURE

6. All citizens of the Republic of Lithuania and other countries can participate in the competition, except countries, subjected to EU sanctions, related to the war in Ukraine.
7. The invitation to participate in the Contest must be publicly announced not later than

till 1^st of March, 2023.

8. Participants must preset the photographs in the manner as specified in the Regulations, Chapter IV, not later than on 1^st of May, 2023.
9. Photographs will be rated by the jury of Mazeikiai Museum (hereinafter the Jury) till 1^st of June, 2023, dividing the participants in three groups of age: under 20 years, 21-40 years; 41 years and over.
10. Photographs rating criteria: fulfillment of all mandatory requirements, compliance with the theme, original interpretation, long lasting/artistic value.
11. The Jury evaluates photographs anonymously, without knowing the authors.
12. Rated by the Jury, the best 100 photographs, will be selected for the exhibition.
13. The exhibition of photographs will take place in the Mažeikiai Museum from the 19^th of September till the 7^th of November (the organizers keep the right to change the period of the exhibition in case of unforeseen circumstances).
14. The presentation of the exhibition and the award ceremony of winners will be held in Mažeikiai Museum during the period of the exhibition, with the exact date and time being publicly announced not later than 10 days before.
15. Information about the Contest and its results will be published on the Museum’s website www.mazeikiumuziejus.lt and on the Mazeikių Museum Facebook account.

IV. REQUIREMENTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS

16. The contestant must present not more than three photographs made in 2013-2023 year for one selected topic (or each of the selected topics). The same photograph cannot be presented to multiple topics.
17. Photographs that have already been presented to previously organized contests „Thoughts of the living Earth“ can not be presented for this Contest.
18. Participants must present photos to the Contest by email GZM0023@gmail.com.
19. Photographs presented to the Contest must be in JPG or TIF format (300 dpi, long side 2000 px). Photographs will not be edited.
20. When presenting photographs to the Contest, the following must be specified:
    a) name and surname of the author;
    b) age of the author;
    c) the citizenship of the author;
    d) email address;
    e) title of the photograph(s);
    f) the topic that the photograph is presented for.
21. Photographs, that do not conform the requirements of the Regulations, will not be rated.

V. AWARDING

22. The Jury will select one best photograph, the author of which is awarded the main prize and the diploma.

23. The Jury will select another 9 best photographs (3 in each age group), whose authors will be awarded laureate prizes and diplomas.

24. All Contest participants, whose photographs exhibited, will be awarded „Thoughts of the living Earth 2023“ catalogs at the presentation ceremony.

VI. COPYRIGHT AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

25. All the Contest participants guarantee a free, irrevocable, permanent right with a non-exclusive license to use photographs free of charge in all ways specified in Article 15 of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Copyrights and Related Rights, for the entire period of validity of the author’s property rights worldwide, including, but not limited to: reproduction, copying, distribution, displaying photographs (specifying the author’s name and surname) when presenting the Contest and promoting it in all types of media now or any time after; printing in publications with selected photos of the Contest or publicly announcing the presented photograph(s) on the Mažeikiai Museum’s social network profiles. The museum has the right to forward these specified rights to third part.

26. The presentation of photographs to the Contest will be considered as the authors’ agreement with these conditions.

VII. FINAL PROVISIONS

27. Information about the Contest is provided by the Museum (tel. no. +370 443 25798, e-mail: GZM0023@gmail.com