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“Go! Green Thinker” Sino-Turkish Gen Z Photography Competition Officially Launched

11/09/2022

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Hosted by SPIC, the “Go! Green Thinker” Sino-Turkish Gen Z Photography Competition was officially launched on Nov. 9. The Chinese Embassy in Türkiye and the center of Yunus Emre Institute in Beijing serve as supporting units, and Beijing Foreign Studies University, Shanghai University, Middle East Technical University, and Bo?azi?i üniversitesi participate as partners.

The “Go! Green Thinker” Sino-Turkish Gen Z Photography Competition is one activity of the “Go Green for Future” Cross-Cultural Series. The series is divided into three parts: the Sino-Turkish Gen Z photography competition in early November, the “Go! Light Catcher” Sino-Turkish Online Photography Exhibition in mid-November, and the Award Ceremony of the “Go! Green Thinker” Sino-Turkish Gen Z Photography Competition and SPIC’s Online Open Day of “Go Green for Future” in early December. The series aims to show green development achievements, tell the story of cultural integration, and enhance the friendly conversation between Gen Z of China and Türkiye.

With “Go! Green Thinker” as its theme, the photography competition had four work units, i.e., “Power the Future”, “Green Mark”, “Cultural Diversity” and “Guardians”. All of these aimed to interpret the green value from the perspectives of young Chinese and Turkish people and to show the charming moments of the mixture of Chinese and Turkish culture through different dimensions of photography.

From Nov. 9 to Nov. 23, the competition will remain open to Chinese and Turkish youngsters from universities, companies, and young photographers all over the world. Contestants need to send their entries to the designated registration email address and post the entries on one of the social media platforms (Weibo/Facebook/Twitter) with the tag #GoGreenforFuture to join the topic.

The competition adopts the mechanism of expert evaluation. 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, and 3 third prizes will be selected, and corresponding bonuses will be awarded to the winners. During the entry stage, the organization committee will select outstanding works for the online exhibition on social media platforms. Winning entries will be awarded at the ceremony in early December.

“Go! Green Thinker” Sino-Turkish Gen Z Photography Competition’s schedule:

Entry period: Nov. 9 – Nov. 23

Evaluation period: Nov. 24 – Nov. 27

Award Ceremony: Early December (planned)

How to enter the “Go! Green Thinker” Sino-Turkish Gen Z Photography Competition:

1.Participants

Participants include young people from universities in China and Türkiye, young employees of Chinese and Turkish enterprises, and participants and witnesses of cultural conversation and cooperation between the two countries.

2. Competition Themes

3. Requirements for Submission of Entries

(1) The entries must be closely related to the four themes and must be positive. Shooting equipment, forms, and styles are not limited.

(2) Photos must be clear, with pixels higher than 1080*1080, preferably larger than 3MB, and the format is JPEG or JPG. Watermarked images are not accepted. Special notes are required if post-composition, deletion, or modification is used.

(3) Works photographed recently are encouraged. Photos can be in color or black-and-white.

(4) Participants should ensure that they hold the copyright of the entry or have obtained the consent of the copyright owner of the entry to submit for the competition. Issues including portrait rights, reputation rights, privacy rights, copyrights, trade rights and other matters of the entries should be borne by the participants.

(5) Any photo or video violating the laws of China and Türkiye, involving indecent content, offending social religious beliefs or with other impropriate elements will not be accepted.

(6) Entries that do not meet the entry requirements will be disqualified from the competition once found.

4.How to Submit Entries

Step 1: pack the registration form and the entries and send them to the designated email address: gogreenforfuture@spic.com.cn.

Step 2: After registration, participants should upload their entries to the following platforms with tags:

Way 1: upload entries to Weibo with the tag #来吧!碳想家# and @国家电投

Way2:upload entries to Facebook/Twitter with the tag #GoGreenforFuture and @ChinaSPIC and @SPICTurkey (Facebook)

5.Prize Setting

The event will set up 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, and 3 third prizes, with bonuses of 3,000 yuan, 2,000 yuan, and 1,000 yuan respectively, and corresponding bonuses will be awarded to the winners according to the rankings.

6.Selection Criteria

The selection criteria are a system of comprehensive scoring of content relevance, expressiveness and creativity as follows:

(1)Content relevance (50 points): the work can accurately represent the theme, meaning as well as being healthy and positive.

(2)Expressiveness (30 points): the style of the work is eye-catching. The framing, composition, exposure, tone, and clarity all meet the requirements of photography. the color and composition proportion are all coordinated.

(3)Creativity (20 points): the work has a unique shooting perspective, outstanding style, novel techniques and is strongly appealing to people.