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Read our Nature in Focus photo exhibition terms and conditions.
Participants must live, work or play in Monash.
You must be the owner and photographer of the submitted photograph.
Councillors and staff members and their families are prohibited from submitting entries and participating.
Exhibition
All photo submissions will be exhibited for public viewing at The Track Gallery in Mount Waverley between 22 August and 2 September 2024.
The purpose of the exhibition is to showcase to the community the diverse and unique wildlife that lives within Monash.
A selection of images that best represent the diversity of wildlife in Monash will be chosen to be displayed as prints. The remaining eligible submissions will be displayed in digital form on a projected screen.
Council has nominated ‘feature photographers’ to be part of the exhibition to ensure a diverse selection of wildlife can be captured and exhibited to the community.
Council reserves the right not to exhibit any photograph submissions if they are deemed inappropriate, outside the eligibility requirements, or of insufficient quality for print or display.
Upon conclusion of the gallery exhibition, photographers with printed photographs have until 23 September to collect them before prints are destroyed.
Rights, promotion and permissions
The entrant agrees to Council reproducing the submitted photograph for public view.
The photographer will be acknowledged upon the display of any images.
The photographer retains copyright. You are required to agree to the statement: “Yes, I agree to the Terms & Conditions of entry and understand that my photograph may be reproduced for view by the public”.
The entrant agrees to allow Council to potentially promote submitted images at its website, social media and within Council’s Annual Report as well as more broadly as part of Council’s campaign to educate the community on its unique and diverse native wildlife.
The entrant must be the copyright holder for the photograph submitted and have gained parental consent prior to submission if under the age of 18. You are required to agree to the statement: “I am the copyright holder of the photograph and parental permission has been granted if I am under the age of 18.”
It is the responsibility of photographers to ensure images they submit have been taken with permission of any property owners (in the case private property may need to be entered) and do not infringe on any relevant laws (i.e. trespassing, etc).
Where photograph applicants no longer wish to participate at any time, they are to do so by emailing anna.mezzetti@monash.vic.gov.au
All personal information gathered by Council will be used solely for the purpose of crediting the submission to its photographer and your personal data is stored securely and privately by Council.
For further enquiries, please email anna.mezzetti@monash.vic.gov.au or phone 0459 750 850.