UNISCAPE – European Network of Universities for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention - launched the second edition of the international photo contest People’s Landscapes, to involve students in landscape awareness raising.

The participation to the contest is open to all university students (undergraduates, Master and PhD students) from 18 to 35 years old attending any pan‐European University or any International University study abroad program based in Europe.

For this edition the contest is divided into three sections:

• Urban landscapes
• Idyllic landscapes
• Landscape photography as social criticism

Each student can participate with a maximum of three digital images in color or in black and white.

The images must regard landscape as it is meant by the European Landscape Convention and must reflect the point of view of the observer with regard to the represented landscape. 

A specific Jury of landscape specialists has been appointed by UNISCAPE to evaluate the images. This year the Jury is composed by Rita Biasi (University of Tuscia, Italy), Daniela Gazova (University of Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Thomas Panagopoulos (University of Algarve, Portugal) Veerle Van Eetvelde (University of Ghent, Belgium). President of the Jury is the landscape photographer Carlos A. Schwartz. The proceedings of Jury are confidential. Participants may not, under any circumstance, contact the Jury either directly or indirectly, nor submit to it any letters of recommendation.

The deadline for submitting entries is the 15 of May 2011

by sending the images and the required documents to the e‐mail: peopleslandscapes@uniscape.eu

The images will become part of UNISCAPE’s photographic archive and can be used for any activity under the auspices of UNISCAPE.

The winner of each section will be awarded with a 300 euro prize.

Please find any information and the participation form on the UNISCAPE website: www.uniscape.eu