Photography Competition Rules 2025

How to enter:

1. You must be either a day or night student in the Cork College of FET – Morrisons Island Campus for 2024–2025 and over 18 years of age in order to be able to submit an entry to the competition. You can also be a current member of staff in the college.

2. You may apply by entering a maximum of THREE photos by emailing them to the competition organiser David Tyrrell at dtyrell@morrisonsislandcampus.ie. Please specify the details of the device that you have used to take the photos such as with a particular camera phone or with a particular type of camera. The images should be submitted in jpg file format. Please give each of the photos a title as well to describe them. You must also give the course that you are completing in the Campus by day or night. If you are a current staff member of the Campus then please indicate your role in the Campus.

3. In entering the competition you must ensure that the photograph does not contravene any act, statutory instrument nor is it in any other way illegal, defamatory, seditious or blasphemous or an infringement of any copyright, trademark or industrial design and is an original photograph of the entrant.

4. The competition is open to amateur photographers only and entrants must not be professional photographers. For the purposes of this competition, a professional photographer is considered to earn more than half their annual income from the sale or submissions of their photography work.

5. Entry into the competition implies acceptance of these rules. On selection of winners the competition organiser may require proof of identity which may be either a valid college ID or a valid current passport or driving license or such other proof of identity.

6. Photographs entered must be taken within or around the island of Ireland and can be taken using a camera phone or with a camera.

7. To enter the competition you must submit your entry on or before 5pm on Monday March 31st 2025. Under no circumstances will photographs entered after this period be considered valid entries into the competition.

8. Winners will be selected based on the quality of the image, that the image reflects truly and accurately the subject title and also the uniqueness of the photograph. Winners will be notified either by email or phone call.

9. Winners will be publicly announced by early April 2025, once the competition judges have made their choice.

10. The judge’s decision in choosing winners is final and shall not be subject to review or protracted correspondence on the matte

11. The judge(s) of the competition will be chosen by the competition organiser.

Disqualification

· The competition organiser may disqualify you at any time if the competition organiser is of the view that you have not complied fully with the terms and conditions contained herein or if the competition organiser is of the view that you are not physically or mentally suitable to take part or to continue to take part in the competition.

Disclaimer

1. Neither the competition organiser nor any of its servants or agents shall have any liability whatsoever or howsoever arising directly or indirectly from your participation in the competition or the termination thereof whether by disqualification or otherwise and whether such termination or disqualification was lawful or not.

2. The competition organiser makes no representation, assurance or warranty (and as such is expressly denied and may not be implied) as to the condition or fitness for purpose of the prize.

3. The competition organiser accepts no responsibility for any errors or omissions for any printed documentation relating to the competition and calendar in connection with advertising or promoting the competition or the business of the Promoter.

Warranty

· You hereby expressly warrant without any qualification whatsoever that you are physically and mentally capable of partaking in the competition and you hereby covenant and agree that you shall not endanger yourself or others by your participation in the competition and shall in any event fully indemnify hold harms make good any and all losses, damages, claims and expenses (including legal expenses) incurred suffered and sustained by the competition organiser or any third party resulting directly or indirectly from your participation in the competition.

Right of Record

1. Give interviews to the competition organiser, its servants or agents.

2. Take part in publicity events and exhibitions relating to the competition organiser and the competition including any recorded sound as the Promoter shall request.

3. Ownership in such interviews, events and recordings and the copyright and all moral and intellectual property rights in them shall vest absolutely in the competition organiser who may exploit them entirely as the Promoter sees fit.

4. It is the responsibility of the entrants and winners to ensure that any necessary permission required to enter a photograph into the competition is obtained.

5. Entrants must ensure that any photographs containing people faces, have been taken with the permission of the person(s) in the photograph.

6. It is the responsibility of the entrants and winners to ensure that the photography supplied is original and their own work.

7. The competition organiser reserves the right to publish any photos entered into the competition and the names of any entrants/winners in connection with advertising or promoting the competition or the business of the competition organiser.

Promoter’s decision is final

1. By entering into the competition you accept absolutely irrevocably and without qualification that the decision of the competition organiser and all things relating to this competition and file and as participants shall be final, binding and conclusive. There shall be no appeal.

2. The competition organiser may, if it chooses, execute its discretion or make any decision in response to an invitation to broadcast to any party any particular matter, including the disqualification of any entrant.

General

1. This text contains the entire of the terms, conditions and rules of the competition, save where otherwise expressly stated herein, and you agree to be bound by them and them alone. You acknowledge, confirm and agree that the terms conditions and rules shall prevail over any terms, conditions, representations or statements inconsistent herewith and appearing in any advertisement, sticker, letter, flyer or any other document. Any terms, conditions, representations, statements, warranties or advertisements inconsistent with the terms, conditions and rules set out in this document are expressly excluded and the competition organiser is not bound by them.

2. No waiver by the competition organiser of any breach of the terms, conditions and rules shall be considered a waiver of any other breach of such or another term, condition or rule.

3. If any provision of the rules is held by a competent authority, court or tribunal to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, then the validity of the other provisions of the terms, conditions and rules and the remainder of that provision shall not be affected thereby.

4. The competition organiser hereby reserves the right to amend any of the terms, conditions or rules contained herein at any time without advance or another form of communication to the entrant.