Patrick Witty, International Photo Editor for TIME Magazine and Kirsten Elstner, Director of National Geographic Photo Camp will be guest curators for the 2011 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights. The awards are for photographic and multimedia productions to do with upholding human rights.
The call for submissions says: “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
Submission deadline: December 31, 2010
Notification of selected photos & multimedia projects: February 1, 2011