The Australia Post, Our Community Photo Bank Awards

Entry into the competition has now closed and successful entries will be announced late in December.

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 want to build 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 anybody who needs to illustrate some aspect of the life of the community. To download the brochure please click here.

What's the prize?

1. The most popular picture
2. The picture that best exemplifies the work of Australian community

Each prize will be worth $2,500 — $1,000 for the photographer, and another $1,500 for the community group that nominates them.

And 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 illustrations. If people are writing about you or your community, don't you want them to show you as you want to be portrayed?

Who's eligible?

1. has taken a good photo that they can release for public use (see below) and
2. is nominated or represented by an Australian community group.

How will the winners be chosen?

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 from the staff of Our Community and Australia Post.

When?

Entry into the competition has now closed and successful entries will be announced late in December.

Voting has closed for 2008.

How?

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

Rights clearance

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.