Register for Local Testimony 2024
Photo: Moti Milrod | Local Testimony 2023
Call for Entries, Local Testimony 2024
Photojournalists and photographic artists are invited to submit entries for the photographic exhibition Local Testimony 2024. The exhibition will open at Muza – Eretz Israel Museum on December 24, 2024
Please note, entries may be submitted only via the Local Testimony website, from August 13 through midnight on August 31.
The competition is open to photo-journalists, documentary photographers, and professional artists, who are holders of press cards or whose work has been published in print and/or online media during the last year. Artists who have exhibited their work in solo or group exhibitions in contemporary art museums or galleries during the last four years are also invited to participate.
For further information, please read the instruction guide.
The categories of Local Testimony 2024
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News – Major current events covered in the main media channels. This category is only open to photographers with press cards.
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Religion and Faith – faiths, customs, rituals and ceremonies.
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Society and Community – ways of life and struggles of diverse communities living in the local reality.
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Urbanism and Culture – art, design, architecture and street photography
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Sports – professional, competitive and amateur sports – athletes and their fans
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Nature and the Environment – photographs of nature, flora and fauna, alongside issues that relate to ecology and preservation of the environment.
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Long Exposure – a photo-narrative which has had time and documentary depth dedicated to it, creating an individual, expressive visual language. A series in this category should include 15 photographs.
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Video – video works and short video clips that have appeared on social networks, produced between 2023 and 2024, that fall in line with the contest’s categories. The length of a submitted video should not exceed 7 minutes, and the file’s weight should not exceed 200 MB.
Video creators should register for the contest by 31.8.2024. The deadline for submission is 5.9.2024. The films will be transferred through websites that transfer large files to: info@edutmekomit.co.il or as a link. The participants will add a short description of the video that will not exceed 30 words.
Make sure to use your name in Latin characters as the filename.
Registered photographers
New photographers
Local Testimony Team, 2024
Anat Saragusti, journalist, photographer, documentarian and curator of Local Testimony 2024
Dana Wohlfeiler-Lalkin, founder and managing curator
Vardi Kahana, photographer and curator
Ami Steinitz, curator
Sandy Teperson, production manager
Noa Ehrmann, graphic designer
Jury
Oded Balilty, photojournalist and director of the photography department of the AP news agency in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Ilan Itzhayek, journalist and editor in the Yedioth Ahronoth Group and head of the journalism track at Sapir Academic College
Menahem Kahana, photojournalist at the AFP news agency
Eldad Rafaeli, photographer, artist and curator
Guy Raz, photography curator, MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Ami Steinitz, curator and Local Testimony board member
Osnat Trabelsi, producer and documentarian
Sagit Zluf Namir, artist, lecturer and photography curator
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