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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 24, 2006
Photographers in Developing Countries Invited to Submit Photographs
Communicating Health and Development Issues for 2007 Photoshare Award
May 18, 2007 - Deadline for Submission of Photos
BALTIMORE, MD – Amateur and professional photographers living in developing countries are invited to submit applications and photographs to the 2nd Annual Photoshare Development Photography Award. Photographs should communicate themes of public health and development. The award recipient will win a new Canon Digital Camera. Deadline for submission is May 18, 2007. Award applications can be obtained through Photoshare’s Internet address: www.photoshare.org.
Photoshare is a service of The INFO Project based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Program (CCP). It was developed exclusively for educational and non-profit purposes and is a one-of-a-kind photo collection covering a broad range of subjects in international development, with a focus on public health. Photoshare’s on-line image database currently contains more than 13,000 cataloged images related to global health.
To qualify for this award, applicants must submit a sample of five photos and a completed Award application.
Last year’s award recipient Nathalie Raharilaza, Madagascar, submitted images of rural health development in Madagascar, taken with a borrowed digital camera.
The 2007 award will be announced on June 1st, 2007. The Award winner will receive a new Canon Digital Camera. Winning photographs and photographers will be promoted through Photoshare’s Website and newsletter distribution. The photographs will become part of the Photoshare image database housed at the CCP.
For more information, contact David Alexander at dalexand@jhuccp.org or visit www.photoshare.org.
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The INFO Project, based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, envisions a world of interconnected communities where shared reproductive health information improves and saves lives. Our mission is to support health care decision-making in developing countries by providing global leadership in reproductive health knowledge management. The project receives support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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