1.1 By entering the Competition You hereby accept these Competition Rules and the Terms and Conditions.

1.2 .1 The competition is free for everyone to enter with a maximum of 2 photographs each. If more are submitted the first two or a random two will be entered.

1.2.2 The Youth category is open to all members of the public aged 17 and under on the closing date of the competition.

1.2.3 The Adult category is open to all members of the public aged 18 and over on the closing date of the competition.

1.3 Entries must be submitted between 1 February 2025 and 31st August 2025.

1.4 By entering the Competition, You agree and acknowledge that the eye4change is permitted to receive your registration data. All personal information will be used by eye4change in accordance with its Privacy Policy.

2. To enter, you must upload your image via the eye4change website following the on-screen instructions carefully.

2.1 Images must be taken in the last 12 months to be eligible and Entries should be based on the theme of ‘Observations’.  Entrants can submit a photograph that they have taken, entered in another competition, won an award, or been published in books, magazines, newspapers, online and printed editorials, self-published websites, and gallery exhibitions between 1 January 2024 and 31 August 2025.

2.2 Images should be no smaller than 1MB and no larger than 4MB. Images should be JPEG files.

3.1 Winners will be selected after the competition closes between September 2025 and November 2025.

3.2 The winners and highly commended will be announced in December 2025.

3.3 The Youth and Adult Competition winners will be voted for by the Judges. The winners of the Youth and Adult Competition, will be notified by email. 

3.4 The decision of the Judges and eye4change is final and no negotiation will be entered into with respect to any such decision.

3.5 Each Entrant can submit up to two (2) images for free. Judging will be based on the single image and not a series of images.

4. Your Entry may feature manipulation, but where Entries are manipulated, the extent of which must be described in the image description section when submitting. For the avoidance of doubt, all Entries must originally be from either an analogue or digital photograph which may have then been manipulated. Computer generated content cannot be the origin of the Entry. Should a question arise through the judging process regarding the extent of your Entry’s manipulation you may be requested to submit the original photograph and image file to verify.

4.1 eye4change reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify and remove any entry that does not comply with the following requirements, even after the entry is submitted on the Website. You warrant and represent, in respect of each entry submitted by You (“Entry”), as follows:

4.1.1 You are the sole owner and author of each Entry

4.1.2 You have the right to make Your entry available to the Competition

4.1.3 Each Entry does not contain personally identifiable information about You or any other person(s)

4.1.4 Each Entry does not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane content

4.1.5 Each Entry does not contain any material that could constitute or encourage conduct which would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law

4.1.6 Each Entry does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity, or violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity, and Your Entry does not include:

4.1.6.1 Trademarks owned by third parties

4.1.6.2 Copyrighted materials owned by third parties (including movie dialogue or musical compositions)

4.1.6.3 Names, likenesses, voices or other characteristics identifying celebrities or other public figures, living or dead

4.1.7 Entries which contain any commercial content that promotes any product or service other than that of eye4change.

4.1.8 Entries containing screen credits

4.1.9 No animals or people were harmed or manipulated in the making of the image

4.2 You agree to fully indemnify eye4change in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person by reason of Your breaching any of the foregoing.

4.3 You confirm that each person depicted in the Entry has granted permission to be portrayed as shown. Any costumes, props or other materials used must be rented or borrowed with the permission of the owner, and all other relevant permissions must have been obtained.

4.4 In accordance with clause 3.2 and 3.3 all shortlisted and winning photographers will be contacted by email. If eye4change does not hear from the entrant by the date specified in any correspondence and is therefore not able to ratify the entry that entrant will be disqualified and replaced by another photographer. 

5.1 Child protection - If you are under 17, you have Your parent’s or legal guardian’s consent to participate in the Competition.

5.2 Child Protection - If eye4change does not receive a valid signed parental or legal guardian consent form for any winner under the age of 17 within 7 clear days of the Entrant being declared a winner (excluding the day on which such declaration is made by eye4change) eye4change will be entitled to select an alternative winner from among the Entrants.

6. eye4change may run an online rating process whereby members of the public may vote for a favourite photograph. If there is sufficient evidence (in eye4change’s sole discretion) to suggest malpractice and manipulation of the rating process, then eye4change has the right to remove the relevant Entry or Entries and, if necessary, award the prize to a different Entrant. The decisions of eye4change are final.

7.1 Copyright - eye4change recognises You, the author of the image, retain full ownership of the copyright in each Entry.

7.2 All Entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by eye4change, and its Event Partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of You the author and the event only, for a maximum of three years after the announcement in December 2025. You hereby grant eye4change a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence in each Entry throughout the world for three years in all media for any use connected to the promotion of You the author and eye4change event and/or competition, including, but not limited to: Entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by eye4change, and its Event Partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the event only, for a maximum of three years after the announcement in December 2025. You hereby grant eye4change a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence in each Entry throughout the world for three years in all media for any use connected to the promotion of eye4change Event and/or Competition.

7.3 All Entrants understand that the image information, including image name and description, may be shared with Event partners and media as per clause 7.1, 7.2 and 8. For the avoidance of doubt the “image information” does not include any personal information of You the author.

7.3.1 Should entrants elect to opt-in to sharing data, the email data and name will be shared with our event partners.

7.4 All entrants are required to enter under their correct names, and all entrants are responsible for providing this information accurately. The Competion programme is structured around providing opportunities and exposure to individual photographers and as such we do not award anonymously or accept pseudonyms.

8. Any photograph used by eye4change shall carry a credit line. Any failure to provide such credit line shall not be deemed to be a breach, as long as eye4change uses its reasonable endeavours to rectify such failure within a reasonable period from the date of notice of such failure.

9.1 Judging the Competition - We will appoint judges (“Judges”) to judge submissions into the Competition. We will appoint Judges based on our own criteria and at our sole discretion; it may not be a requirement of ours that the Judges hold any particular photography qualifications.  We may change the Judges at any stage of the Competition.

9. Use of images - Displaying the winning entries and runners up at public exhibitions promoting the eye4change and organised by eye4change

9.1 Inclusion within the Website, an eye4change competition book, magazine or similar

9.2 Inclusion within any materials promoting of the Competition and/or any exhibition organised by eye4change, in the promotion of eye4change

9.3 Inclusion on Competition- and exhibition-related products to be sold by eye4change or any third party following the individual agreement by the author

9.4 Sub-licensing the Entries to the press for reproduction in connection with the Competition and any related exhibition

9.5 Allowing viewers of the Website and/or eye4change competition applications to view images on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on a PDA or mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for their personal, non-commercial use only. Please also refer to clause 10.

10. eye4change assumes no responsibility for any incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised in the Competition, and eye4change assumes no responsibility for technical, hardware or software failure of any kind, for lost network connections, garbled computer transmissions, other problems or technical malfunctions with regard to the Competition. eye4change assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, corruption, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of Entries. eye4change is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail addressed to eye4change on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Your or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Competition. If for any reason a contestant’s entry cannot be viewed or is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failures, eye4change assumes no responsibility.

11. In no event will eye4change, its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and related companies, Event Partners, its advertising or promotion agencies, or its officers, directors, employees, representatives or agents be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising out of any Entrant’s access to and use of the Website. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for purpose or use or non-infringement.

12. You agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of Your name and likeness for the purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity without additional compensation.

13. All Entrants must be able to supply a high-resolution image suitable for printing in media and an exhibition should the image be required.

14. Prizes - There are no cash alternatives available for prize winners.

14.1 Prize winners may receive digital imaging equipment as part of their prize and in such cases equipment may be sent to them. In some countries income tax may be applicable to prizes. It is the winner’s responsibility to pay any income taxes related to the prize in compliance with their own country’s law. In such cases the Winner agrees to indemnify and keep eye4change, its parents, affiliates or partners indemnified against any tax liability, charges, fines, penalties or interest or any other liability incurred by the winner which liability arose as a result of prizes provided to the Winner.

15. Winners will be announced online and via email.