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How are you behind a lens? Do you see art in your research? Can your camera take your research to the next level?

The UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage is pleased to invite all UCL students and staff to enter our fourth annual photo competition.

This year we invite entries that capture the concept of ‘Heritage through the Looking Glass’.

Heritage through the Looking Glass

During 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, many people have found themselves at odds with their surroundings. 'Heritage through the Looking Glass' (an ode to Lewis Caroll) invites you to view heritage 'through a lens'. ÌýIn a world where our daily rituals have been thrown out the window and so much of our social norms are 'backwards', the practice seems foreign to us. ÌýMaybe the ‘looking glass’ is our window, garden, front door, roof, patio or local streets, market or park. ÌýOr you could revisit old photographs and study them through the lens of our current situation...'through the looking glass', so to speak. Thus, we can reflect on our local environment and combine it with the perspective of the current global situation. Ìý

With people forced to stay home where possible and make the most of the nearest facilities,Ìýand workplaces and cultural and heritage sites closing to avoid health risks. Our theme this year hopes to encourage entrants to showcase views of their communities or local area that may now hold a different value through the lens of the current situation.

This could be unexpected examples of heritage you hadn’t noticed before, discovered whilst taking your daily exercise closer to home. You may wish to document societal changes and how this effects our cultural heritage as we move in to what has been dubbed as the ‘new normal’. Whilst stuck at home you may even have found time to look at back at old photographs, and have reflected on how the world has changed now in light of the pandemic.

Prizes

First prize – £100 Amazon voucher
Joint runners-up prize – £50 Amazon vouchers each

Judging Panel

• Professor May Cassar, UCL ISH Director
• Marcel Reyez-Cortez, Visual Anthropologist and Artist
• Ahmed Kawser, inaugural ISH photo comp winner
• Maija Powell, BSEER Communications Manager

The judges are not eligible to take part in the competition and all entries will be judged anonymously.

How to enter

By entering you agree to the competition rules as outlined below.

Entries should be emailed toÌýbseer-communications@ucl.ac.uk.

Each entry must include photographer’s name, department and position as well as a title and a short description to accompany your submission.

The closing date for entries is Monday 31 August 2020.

Previous winners

Browse the winning entries from previous years:

• Winners of the 2019 ISH Photo Competition announced
• UCL ISH Photo Competition winners announced
• Inaugural ISH Photo Competition winners announced

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