Who may enter:
Entrants must have an official connection with MSU through membership in one or more of the following categories:
MSU Student
MSU Faculty / Staff (including retirees)
MSU Alum and/or Alumni Association Members.
No entrant may submit photos in more than one category. Entries from individuals involved in contest planning or judging, and entries from professional photographers, are not eligible to win, place, or receive major prizes although they may earn "honorable mention".

What may be entered:
A maximum of three photographs per entrant may be entered. Entries must be the original work of the entrant, and must be photographs taken outside the United States. (The exception to this rule would be photographs taken by international students or alumni where personally meaningful intercultural interaction within the U.S. is depicted.) Entries must be in either slide format or print format. (No digital or video entries.) Although all styles of photography may be submitted, preference will be given to entries which artistically depict some connection between MSUs mission and the rest of the world, and which are of broad interest to a diverse viewing audience. Winners may be contacted and asked for more information about the winning entries. Such additional background information might be incorporated into such things as contest displays and later publications.

Return Policy: Contest organizers will return the submissions if and only if entries are properly labeled and entrants supply a self-addressed, adequately stamped envelope. We will do our best to return the entries intact and promptly. Winners will be contacted and required to supply the original negatives or slides of the winning works from which high quality reproductions will then be made for display purposes. These originals will also be returned as soon as possible. Although caution will be exercised with all work, we are not responsible for lost or damaged entries.

Copyright Policy: Rights are retained by the artist. By signing the entry form and submitting it, however, entrants are agreeing that, if chosen as winners at any level, they grant MSU's Office of International Studies and Programs and MSU's Alumni Association royalty-free use of the winning photographs in displays related to the contest and in their printed and electronic publications. The artist will be fully credited in all such displays and publications.

Model Release Policy: Entrants should be sensitive to the privacy of human subjects. Winning photographs which include people will require signed "Model Release Forms" in cases where the privacy of the individuals pictured may appear to have been infringed upon. Such cases would include but not necessarily be limited to ones where the artist appears to have been intruding on another's seclusion, making private facts public, or making the viewer believe something that isn't true about the subject. In order to facilitate full display options, artists must be prepared to provide release forms upon request.

Judging Criteria: Entries will be judged on artistic expressiveness and creativity; relevance to MSU's international mission; and the quality of the image. Judges also reserve the right to consider geographic and thematic variety in selecting the winners. All decisions of the judges are final. The contest organizers reserve the right to disqualify entries which do not conform to the stated contest rules and criteria

Submission Procedures: Entries must be in either slide or print (unmounted, 8 " x 10 " maximum size) format Each slide or print entry must carry, on the reverse side:
* the title of the work
* the complete name and city/country of the photographer
* when the photograph was taken
* where the photograph was taken
* proper orientation of photograph, if not obvious

Entries must be accompanied by official Entry Form, fully completed and signed by entrant.

Deadline for entries:
*** Friday, October 6, 2000, at 5:00 P.M. EDT

Mail or hand-deliver entries to :
MSU International Photography Contest
c/o Office of International Studies & Programs
207 International Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1035, U.S.A.

For more information contact us at the above address or:

Michigan State University Office of International Studies & Programs
Phone: 517-355-2350
E-mail: info@isp.msu.edu