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After last year's enormous success FOTO8 and HOST gallery are pleased to announce the opening of entries to the second Annual Foto8 Awards & Summer Show 2009: a photographic award, exhibition and print fair. The show will follow Foto8's tradition of supporting new works by contemporary photographers and encouraging independent photojournalism. This year's event includes 1500 euros in Prize Money, The Experts Award and the People's Choice Award. Deadline May 30. Visit www.foto8.com

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) and the 2008/2009 student team are pleased to announce the third edition of the Photography Competition "Visualizing Democracy and Human Rights" dedicated to the theme "Human Rights in the Making". We look forward to receiving individual contributions through June 30, 2009. The competition is universally open and free of costs for participants.

The theme for the Prix Pictet 2009 is Earth. 'Earth' in this context refers not only to the planet and the soil beneath our feet, but also to the marks that man makes on the face of the land - either directly by creating mines, toxic waste, vast refuse dumps and blasted desert landscapes; or indirectly, through the scars left by fire, flood or famine. It also refers to the impact of natural disasters: earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes.

The universal human realities of place, time, and identity are presented in 'Bolivian World Tour' as simultaneously contrasting and complimenting worlds, to articulate a dialogue among past and imagined future manifestations of the Andean self during the age of globalization.