Open Call

WHO CAN SUBMIT

• FotomotoPH welcomes submissions from photography enthusiasts aged 18 years old and above.
• FototomotoPH is interested in Philippine photography specifically, hence there must be some kind of verifiable Philippine context.
• If you are not a Filipino, but if you have taken the photos in the Philippines, then, as far as we are concerned, that is enough Philippine context.
• The photographer must be the author of the photographs submitted in their name.

ELIGIBILITY

A photographic image, at minimum, must involve the action of a light-sensitive medium as basis. This medium may be essentially chemical in nature (film, paper, plates and the like) or it may be electronic, such as a camera sensor. This irreducible quality of light sensitivity thus mandates a governed exposure. The use or absence of a camera, lens, shutter, etc. is of no consequence. As long as the medium is exposed to light, and reacts by creating an image (which may or may not need to be processed or rendered), we define that as a photograph.

The image may be post-processed, elements may be added or subtracted, and these elements may not involve a light-sensitive medium. The image may be manipulated, distorted, or otherwise transformed. However, if the basis was a photographic image, and that image is still the dominant visual element, then it remains a photograph.

We feel compelled to draw a line between photography and other kinds of art, and we believe this to be the boundary. If there was no light-sensitive medium involved, then the image must be called something else, for example “digital art”, if it was created on a computer. This is no less valid, but it simply is not a photograph.