Playgroup | Creativity through play

Playgroup and printers Good News Press invite students, graduates and young photographers to submit entries to a photographic competition entitled “The Power of Play”. 

Winning entries will be printed in a high quality publication themed around play which will distributed to all the top creative directors in London and beyond. It’s the perfect opportunity to show off your skills and get some exposure with the most influential people in the industry. To launch the brochure Good News Press will also be hosting a special private view of the winning entries. 

Theme

The human need to play is a powerful one. As children we learn as we play, and through play we learn how to learn. Play holds no boundaries – it encourages an uninhibited, free-thinking, just-try-it-out kind of mentality that stimulates imagination and creativity.

"The true object of all human life is play."

G K Chesterton

Around children we are given permission to play, unrestrained by the need to conform to social norms of what is ‘acceptable’ grown-up behaviour. But while play is vital to child learning and development, it is also crucial for adults too – for our mental creativity, our health and our happiness. Play gives us a platform for new perspectives and enables us to generate ideas in an organic and fun way.

Brief

We’d like you to give us your interpretation of play. We’re looking to create a collection of striking images that give a sense of why play is vital throughout our lives.

All of the images need to be of high resolution and can be either colour or black and white. The brochure will be showcasing Good News Press’ new Staccato print process. Staccato printing is typified by extremely fine detail, excellent reproduction of subtle tones (like skin tones) and smooth gradations of tone or colour so we’ll also be looking for images that display some of these attributes.

Deadline

In the first instance please email your entries to Steve Cluett, Creative Director, Playgroup steve@playgroup.com Please include your contact details and a brief title/description of your shot(s). All entries will then be uploaded to a dedicated Flickr page at www.flickr.com/photos/thepowerofplay for viewing. For reproduction purposes all winning entries must be available as high resolution images (minimum file size 15MB). We are happy to receive photos via file sharing websites such as File Dropper (www.filedropper.com) if you prefer.

Closing date for submissions is Friday 11 September 2009.

Happy playing ;-)

Posted by Steve on 28 Jul 09, at 3:32 pm

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