SPONSOR

The Sponsors is Photo District News ("PDN"), 770 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003.

TERM

The Student Photo Contest begins October 1, 2009, at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) and ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) December 7, 2009. An additional fee of $5 will be added to each entry received during the extended deadline period between 12:00 a.m. PST on December 7, 2009, and 11:59 p.m. PST on December 21, 2009.

WHO MAY ENTER

ALL submissions must be made by students currently enrolled in classes in college or high school. Winners will be required to submit a copy of a valid student ID and the name of their school and instructor before claiming their prize. Employees of Photo District News, and their affiliates and subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies, and their immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such individuals, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter or win a prize.

ENTRY FEES

The entry fee is $12 per entry for entries received between 12:01 a.m PST October 1, 2009, and 12:00 a.m. PST December 7, 2009. Submissions received between 12:00 a.m. PST December 7, 2009, and December 21, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. PST will be subject to an additional late fee of $5.

HOW TO ENTER

To enter your submissions electronically, please visit pdnedu.nielsencontests.com to register. Once the registration process has been completed, you will receive an e-mail confirmation. Simply log in to the website and follow the online instructions to upload images from your computer. Images formatted in JPEG measuring at least 1,000 pixels on their long dimension and 2 MB file size are preferred. Images may be color profiled in sRGB, Adobe-1998, or not color-managed. For more information on electronic submission guidelines see our FAQ.

CONTEST PRIZES

• WINNERS AND SELECTED HONORABLE MENTIONS will be featured in the Spring 2010 issue of PDNedu and on pdnedu.com.
• Additional Web winners will be featured on pdnedu.com and in our Winners Gallery.
• Grand Prize winners, one per category, will receive a Nikon digital camera and a Crumpler bag.
• Grand Prize winners will receive an portfolio consultation with a PDN editor The Pre College winner will receive a review with Dennis Keeley: Chair of Photographyand Imaging at Art Center College of Design.
• Student winners will also be displayed in an exhibit at The 2010 SPE National Conference is in Philadelphia, March 4-7, 2010.
• All winners and honorable mentions will get a one-year subscription to PDN.

THE POTENTIAL WINNERS ARE REQUIRED TO EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING: (1) AN AFFIDAVIT OF ELIGIBILITY AND LIABILITY RELEASE; (2) WARRANTY OF OWNERSHIP AND LICENSE; (3) PUBLICITY RELEASE; AND (4) ANY OTHER AFFIDAVITS AND/OR RELEASES OR ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE REQUIRED BY PRIZE SUPPLIER(S). UNLESS PROHIBITED BY LAW, THE POTENTIAL WINNERS MUST SIGN THESE THREE DOCUMENTS NO LATER THAN 15 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PRIZE NOTIFICATION IN ORDER FOR SPONSORS TO AWARD THE PRIZE. NONCOMPLIANCE OR RETURN OF PRIZE NOTIFICATION AS UNDELIVERABLE MAY RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION AND, AT SPONSORS' DISCRETION, SELECTION OF AN ALTERNATE WINNER.

JUDGING

• Contest consists of two (2) rounds of evaluation. In Round One, a panel of Photo District News experts in photography (the "Judges") will each review a portion of the entries and select a group of entries to proceed to Round Two on the basis of creativity (34%), sense of place (33%), and capturing the moment (33%) (the "Judging Criteria"). In Round Two, the Judges will collectively select a winner from each category and one Grand prize winner who will receive the trip prize.
• Winners will be selected on or about January 7, 2010, and notified by e-mail by the end of January 2010.
• Decisions of the Sponsors and Judges are final and binding.
• Sponsors reserve the right not to award all prizes in the event an insufficient number of eligible entries meeting the minimum judging criteria are received, as determined by Sponsors and Judges in their sole discretion.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

By participating, entrants agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless Photo District News, and each of their respective partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.
Sponsors assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Sponsors are not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants' or any other persons' computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading, or downloading of any materials related to this Contest.

CONDITIONS

This Contest is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Certain restrictions may apply. Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, incomplete or misdirected entries. Entries void if the Sponsor determines the entry to not be an original, or if the entries are illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, altered, counterfeit, produced in error or obtained through fraud or theft.
Participants also agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; (b) that the decisions of the Judges are final on all matters relating to the Contest; and (c) if he/she wins, that Sponsor may use the winning photographs and each winner's name, photograph, likeness, and/or voice in any publicity or advertising relating to the Contest or future promotions without compensation or approval (except in Tennessee and where prohibited by law). All federal, state and local taxes, fees and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. In the event that the selected winner(s) of any prize is/are ineligible or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and Sponsors, in their sole discretion, may choose whether to award the prize to another entrant.

RIGHT TO CANCEL OR SUSPEND CONTEST

If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, trojan horses, denial of service attacks, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsors that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Sponsors reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the entry process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest. If Sponsors elect to cancel or terminate the Contest, Sponsors will not retain any rights in the submitted photographs and will return the entry fees.

WINNERS LIST

Winners' names will be available online at pdnedu.nielsencontests.com after March 26, 2010, or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: PDNedu Magazine, Student Photo Contest, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.

NOTICE TO INDIVIDUALS: REMOVAL FROM MAILING LIST: Any individual (or other duly authorized person) may elect to exclude the name and address of that individual from all lists used by Sponsor to mail skill contests or sweepstakes. To elect to have an individual's name excluded from all such lists, submit a removal email request to info@nielsencontests.com. This notification system may be used to prohibit mailing of all skill contests or sweepstakes by Sponsor to such individual.