Australians don't have a clear idea of all the things community groups add to our society in every field of activity. We want to make it easier for them. We are building up a gallery of photos that show the full extent of Australia's communities and the people who work with them - a free Photo Bank that can be drawn on by advocates, fundraisers, volunteers, newspapers, and writers.
The Community Photo Bank is open to any community group that needs to illustrate some aspect of the life of the community. You can plug these photos freely into your own projects, making it simpler to show how we work together and care for each other.
We want you all to contribute to documenting Australian community life in all its infinite variety, and to encourage you to participate we're throwing in $5000 in prizes.
Each prize will be worth $2,500 — $1,000 for the photographer, and another $1,500 for the community group that nominates them.
For everybody else who puts their photos into the community photo bank, you get the opportunity to open up an iconic image of your community and your organisation among people looking for images. If people are writing about you or your community, don't you want them to show you as you want to be portrayed?
The winner of the Most Popular Picture Award will be chosen by the votes of visitors to the website. The winner of the Community Groups Award will be chosen by a panel selected from the Australian community sector and representatives of Our Community and Australia Post.
Entry into the 2010 competition will be open from 31 May, 2010 to 15 October, 2010 . The winners will be notified in November 2010.
Submit your photos by uploading them to www.ourcommunity.com.au/marketing/photobank/ or posting them on disc (will not be returned) to: Photo Bank, Our Community, PO Box 354, North Melbourne, 3051
The group or individual that nominates the photographs takes responsibility for obtaining clearances from the people in them for the use and hosting of the pictures.
Photos will be placed on the site under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License, meaning that they can be used freely (but can't be sold or taken away from you or used for commercial purposes). Full terms of the license are available from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/au/legalcode.
Please note that photographs uploaded to this website will be available for public use. We reserve the right to apply discretion in photographs involving children.
Congratulations to Karen Alsop from the Hillcrest Rangers and Tracy Rockley from the Australian Rett Syndrome Association - the winners of the inaugural Australia Post / Our Community Photo Bank awards (2009).
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(PO Box 354 North Melbourne 3051 Victoria)
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