Pre-screening 2010 submissions

We are in the process of pre-screening last month’s 751 submissions for the Viewbook PhotoStory 2010 contest. It’s very different viewing and screening stories build up of series of images, as opposed to single images. The extra dimension that series of images have, results in an exponentially growing diversity of idea’s, angles and concepts, which are more often discovered between the images than in the images itself. It requires deep concentration and an unprejudiced mind to perceive. Sometimes it’s difficult to empathize with truths of other cultures, where religion, humor and value’s are so very different to our Western culture.

Looking at each submission we ask ourselves; is this a story, a coherent narrative? Is there enough consistency in photographic quality throughout the series? The ones that meet these requirements are published on the website and run in the contest. All together the level of entries this year is remarkably high and to make a rough estimate, about 60 percent seems to pass the pre-screening.

All pre-screened stories have just been published on the website. The long lists will be sent to the judges tomorrow and the public voting started today. We also started the preparations for the books and exhibition. November 5th the winners will be announced.