LONDON, June 23 Plan-UK
LONDON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ --
- With Photo
An online photographic competition for young people aged 11-24 will give
the winner a chance to win a trip to see their work exhibited in Quebec,
Canada as part of the World Youth Congress on UN International Youth Day
August 12.
The free entry Shoot Nations contest YOUNG PEOPLE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
opens May 1 until July 31. Entrants can submit up to three drawings or
photographs with a brief explanation on how they demonstrate their feelings
towards a changing climate.
A panel of professional photographers will choose their top shots and the
overall winner will be announced online on August 10. A UK exhibition of the
best images will be held at the OXO gallery in London from August 13-17.
Organisers international children's charity Plan and photography event
planners Shoot Experience, expect that the topical theme will attract around
3000 entrants.
Project co-ordinator Hamish Mackenzie, from Plan, says: "It's about
empowering young people to get involved with decision-making and for
governments to take their views seriously.
The smallest community or family issue in the most remote area of the
world can be photographed and displayed at the highest level of global
government, the UN."
Fred Doulton, of the UN's Youth programme, says: "International Youth Day
gives the world an opportunity to recognize the potential of youth, to
celebrate their achievements and plan for ways to include them in the
development of their societies."
Comments from 2007 winners: - "It was a rare opportunity to speak to the
whole world through my photographs about the basic problems in my community"
- Peter Gilbieri, 16, Ghana.
"Shoot Nations meant for me to show the world as I see it, to make
visible my own private collection of the world whilst giving it back to the
world itself."- Barbara Anastacio, 22, Portugal.
- For competition details and to submit entries
visit http://www.shootnations.org
http://www.plan-ed.org
Notes to Editors:
- Further information on Plan UK http://www.plan-uk.org and on Shoot
Experience http://www.shootexperience.com
- Information on International Youth Day
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/iyouthday.htm and on World Youth Congress
http://www.wyc2008.qc.ca
- For Press images and images from previous competitions
kerry@shootexperience.com
- Printing sponsored by http://www.photobox.co.uk.
- The Overall prize is a digital SLR camera from Olympus
http://www.olympus.co.uk/
Note to Editors:
A picture accompanying this release is available through the PA
Photowire. It can be downloaded from http://www.pa-mediapoint.press.net or
viewed at http://www.mediapoint.press.net or http://www.prnewswire.co.uk.
Contacts:
Hamish Mackenzie at Plan UK on +44(0)207-482-9777
Kerry Maisey at Shoot Experience on +44(0)207-0333-555
SOURCE Plan UK
