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VICE Magazine has collaborated with user generated youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift, to launch a unique photographic project that explores the global issues of Gender, Power and Poverty.
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The creative collaboration takes the form of an international competition, educating young people around the world on this major global development issue and inviting them to create photography inspired by this theme.
Competition winners will have their work featured in VICE and Ctrl.Alt.Shift magazines, displayed on CtrlAltShift.co.uk and exhibited in a London gallery– alongside work from campaign ambassador, legendary New York photo artist Nan Goldin – famous for her photographic collection The Ballad of Sexual Dependency – and a group of all-star project mentors:
- Alexa Chung, accomplished photographer & TV/fashion presenter
- Ben Rayner, regular contributor to Vogue, GQ, Observer, etc
- Valerie Philips, regular contributor to i-D, Dazed & Confused, Arena, etc
- Andy Capper, VICE editor
- Alex Sturrock, VICE photo editor
Gender, Poverty and Power
All over the world, women are routinely abused and deprived of their most basic human rights. It is women who make up the world’s poorest, most marginalised and discriminated against members of society. This ‘invisibility of women’ actively locks half the world’s community out of accessing and participating in the development process. Ctrl.Alt.Shift seeks to expose and tackle the structures that continue to perpetuate poverty.
In November Nan Goldin will travel to India – where a woman is killed every 93 minutes and 480 cases of crimes against women are committed each day – to capture a photo-diary which will highlight the practices that hold women back. VICE and Ctrl.Alt.Shift invite a global youth audience to do the same. Document your own interpretation of Gender, Poverty and Power.
Paint Your Picture
All work should offer cutting edge and unique points of view on issues surrounding gender, power and poverty. Photos must push boundaries, reframing the way these issues engage people, and provoking thought and action. Entries must choose which mentor they want to work with, and send their preliminary work to them. Each mentor will choose the photographers that show the most promise, and the help to direct the development of their entrants’ skill over a period of 8 weeks, working towards the creation of a final image.
Each mentor will choose 3 finalists from all of the photographers that they have worked with and submit these 15 photographs to Nan Goldin who will choose the grand prize winner. All runners up will receive a photography prize pack, while the overall winner will receive £1000 plus a brand new digital SLR. The 14 runners up, plus the winner, will have their work showcased at a major gallery in London, alongside the work of Nan Goldin and the five mentors.
Cultural Interventions
The VICE collaboration is part of a wider initiative called Cultural Interventions– a series of collaborations created to harness contemporary culture to stimulate interest amongst youth audiences around issues of global development. Each collaboration will focus on a particular issue in a global development context. Other projects include collaborations with The Baltic (War + Peace in Columbia) and Sadler’s Wells magazine (HIV + Stigma in Africa).
The final exhibition of photographic work from ambassador Nan Goldin, all mentors, competition runners-up, and the winner will run at a major London gallery for two weeks in late January 2009
For more information on the competition, submit your entry, and to join the fight against issues of global development visit www.ctrlaltshift.co.uk/vice.
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