First Annual Department Photo Contest | Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Spring 2022 contest winners:

View the winner’s photo gallery here.

CULTURE

First Place: Jack Frésquez

Second Place: Adrian Martinez

Third Place: Spencer King

LANGUAGE

First Place: Eric Jimenez

Second Place: Dylan Gerstel

Third Place: Tia Chitty

LIFE

First Place: Alexander Rubalcava

Second Place: Adrian Martinez

Third Place: Adrian Martinez

Spring 2022 Instructions:

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to participate in our first annual photo contest. Our goal is to share a variety of cultural perspectives through photography.

Participants	The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Photography Contest is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students of Spanish and Portuguese.
Themes and Categories	All photographs must reflect local manifestations of Hispanic and/or Portuguese language, life, and culture at Yale and in the Greater New Haven area. Inspiration can come from landscapes, urban art or street art, social groups, interculturality, cultural manifestations. The photo contest consists of three categories: LANGUAGE: Uses of the Spanish or Portuguese languages in expressions of street art, urban art, or other visual form. LIFE: Photos of cultural elements such as architecture, dance, gastronomy, artwork, music, family, technology. CULTURE: Photographs that express human complexities, such as solidarity, cooperation, education, community, customs and traditions.
Submissions	Each participant may submit up to one (1) digital photo in each of the three categories. All photographs must have been taken during the summer of 2021, fall of 2021, and spring of 2022 in the Yale campus, or the Greater New Haven area. Submissions must be uploaded using the online submission form provided at https://span-port.yale.edu/span-port-photo-contest-entry-form Photographs must be the original work of the person submitting them. Each photograph must include a title. · Photographs must be submitted in .jpeg format, at least 1500 x 1200 pixels, with a minimum of 150 DPI (to facilitate enlargements for exhibitions) and no more than 20 mb. Entries that do not meet these requirements will be disqualified. DPI can be changed using InDesign, Photoshop, or using http://convert.town/image-dpi or similar websites. Photos must be minimally edit (e.g., without use of filters, Photoshop, etc.). A signed photo release form is required at the time of submission. Email submissions or printouts will not be accepted. Photos showing the use of alcohol, cigarettes, drugs or any inappropriate content or behavior will be disqualified.
Judging criteria	Judges will look at technical merit, composition, artistic expression, creativity, and quality of the image, as well as whether the photo shows a clear relation to Hispanic or Luso-Brazilian life and culture.
Meet the Jury	Qualified jury and subject matter experts will evaluate the participants’ photographs. Learn more about the members of the jury here: https://span-port.yale.edu/about-jury.
Deadlines	The submission period opens March 11^th and closes April 11^th at noon. Winners will be notified via email by April 22^nd.
Decisions of the judges	The decision of the winner will be made public through the contest page https://span-port.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese-photo-contest Winners will be notified via email.
Awards	The judges will award a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each of the three categories. All winners will receive a CERTIFICATE AND GIFT CARD TO USE AT A NEW HAVEN RESTAURANT.