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2011 Anthropographia Award For Human Rights Call For Entries

Anthropographia is a volunteer-run non-profit organization that generates awareness of under publicized human rights issues through visual story telling. The volunteer board of directors and advisors consist journalists, photo journalists, professors of photography, and leaders in the multimedia industry.

The Anthropographia Award for Human Rights gives photojournalists working in various communities and cultures opportunity to share their story or stories of witnessed human rights issues with an international audience.

The Call for Entries for the 2011 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights is now open. This competition, which is free to all, offers an opportunity for photographers to exhibit their work and demonstrate their commitment to human rights issues.

Submission deadline: December 31, 2010
Notification of selected photos & multimedia projects: February 1, 2011

For the 2011 edition of the Anthropographia Call for Entries, we will be selecting 16 photo-essays and 8 multimedia projects out of the entries submitted. These will be selected by a team of curators, including Matthieu Rytz, Founder of Anthropographia, and two guest curators that Anthropographia has identified as definitive in their field. From the selected photo-essays and multimedia projects, two awards will be granted by the team of curators that recognizes the particular achievements of two photographers in representing human rights issues.

These awards are:
The Anthropographia Award for Photography and Human Rights
The Anthropographia Award for Multimedia and Human Rights

For more info, visit the Anthropographia website.

Subway essay contest for homeschoolers too

Dayton Daily News staff writer Kelli Wynn’s reported on Subway’s exclusion of home-schoolers from its current essay contest.

The contest had four purposes:

1. Get more people to buy more Subway goodies.
2. Encourage to kids to be more physically active.
3. To support local school physical education with donations.
3. Give kids an opportunity to use their communication skills for fun.

Parents like Jen Hunter of Kettering are not happy with Subway.

“Hunter said her 11-year-old son, Jonah, loves Subway and would have liked to have entered the contest called Every Sandwich Tells a Story,” wrote Wynn. Hunter called Subway and complained about the exclusionary rules.

Obviously, Subway took Hunter seriously because there is now an official Every Sandwich Tells A Story contest coming that will include home-schoolers too. Here is what Subway’s contest page for home-schoolers says:

We at SUBWAY® restaurants place a high value on education, regardless of the setting, and have initiated a number of programs and promotions aimed at educating our youth in the areas of health and fitness.

We sincerely apologize to anyone who feels excluded by our current essay contest. Our intention was to award the grand prize of $5000 in athletic equipment to a traditional school with the unfortunate knowledge that many schools are removing physical education from their curriculum. Knowing this, we would be able to impact as many children as possible with this prize.

To address the inadvertent limitation of our current contest and provide an opportunity for even more kids to have the benefit from prizing that encourages physical activity, we are creating an additional contest in which home schooled students will be encouraged to participate. When the kids win, everyone wins!