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Women Doing Fieldwork

Photo Contest

WAU 2025 Congress

Info/ Photo Series Registration: https://filmfreeway.com/WAU2025CongressPhoto

Deadline: May 31, 2025

For decades, a limited vision of who "should" be doing fieldwork has erased and made invisible women anthropologists and social scientists. This limited vision has resulted in a lack of recognition for the photographic record of women doing fieldwork, and their image has not become a common symbol in the public understanding of social science disciplines.

The WAU 2025 Congress Photo Contest seeks to highlight the importance of women in fieldwork, to reverse decades of invisibility in photographic repositories, and to provide images that show the diversity of scientific work by women social scientists, especially anthropologists.

Rules of the Photo Contest:

  1. Participants: any person of legal age (18 years old +) may participate with a series of photographs whose central theme is fieldwork carried out by women in social sciences, especially anthropologists.

  2. Series Format: the series must include between three (3) and five (5) photographs.

  3. Description of the Series: each series should include a summary of up to 250 words.

  4. Description of Photographs: each photograph should include a description of up to 100 words, including:

  • Full name of the person photographed.

  • Place and date of field work.

  1. Resolution of Images: all photographs must have a minimum resolution of 3000 pixels on the longest side. For print purposes, the resolution should be 300 DPI (dots per inch).

  2. Images from Personal Archives: You may submit scanned or digitized photos as long as they are your own or you have permission to reproduce them.

Prizes:

The WAU 2025 Congress Organizing Committee wishes to encourage participation by offering the following cash prizes:*.

1st place: $3,000USD

2nd place: $2,000USD

3rd place: $1,000USD

The three winning series will be part of the WAU 2025 Congress Photo Exhibition and will appear in the exhibition book (open access) along with other series and photographs selected for the exhibition.

The WAU 2025 Congress Photo Contest Judging Committee will make a selection of photographs for the exhibition and the exhibition book.

All selectees, whether winners of the contest or participants in the photo exhibit and book, will be notified by September 1, 2025. The awards ceremony will take place during the WAU 2025 Congress, which will be held in Antigua, Guatemala, November 3-8, 2025.

WAU Congress 2025 Privacy and Image Usage Statement

This Privacy Statement describes the data handling practices of the World Anthropology Congress organized by the World Anthropological Union (WAU), the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) in connection with the WAU Congress 2025 Congress Photo Contest.

Emails and Personal Information:

WAU, WCAA and IUAES will retain the email addresses and other personal information of contest entrants, regardless of whether or not their photographs are selected, to facilitate communication and organization of the event.

Use and Retention of Photographs:

  • By entering the competition, participants agree that their photographs may be used on open access platforms, including but not limited to Wikimedia Commons, and in archival, educational and promotional materials related to the World Anthropological Union Congress or WAU.

  • The Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA) will keep a copy of all digital photographs entered in the competition and will organize them according to its internal archival practices: organization, description, codification and access through the Online Catalog. The printed photographs selected for the exhibition will also be under the safekeeping of CIRMA, ensuring their long-term preservation and care. CIRMA will only act as a repository of the photographs without taking possession of reproduction rights and authorization to third parties on the images.

  • All photographs submitted to the contest will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), allowing their use, modification and distribution, as long as the author is duly credited and shared under the same terms.

Use and Distribution Rights Agreement:

  • Participants whose work is selected will be required to sign an additional agreement specifying the terms under which their photographs may be used and distributed on public platforms and open access repositories, ensuring respect for their copyrights.

Data Security:

  • WAU, WCAA and IUAES will take reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality and security of participants' personal information. However, it is cautioned that the complete security of data transmitted over the Internet cannot be guaranteed.

Questions and Contact:

  • If you have any questions about our use of your information or privacy practices, please contact us at org@waucongress.org

Updates to the Privacy Statement:

  • This Privacy Statement may be subject to changes, which will be communicated to participants. The most recent version will be available on the official website of the World Congress of Anthropology.

  • By participating in the WAU 2025 Congress Photo Contest, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Statement, and your participation implies your consent to the data handling practices described herein. Last updated: November 25, 2024.

  • The cash prizes will be awarded at the WAU 2025 Congress, November 3-8, 2025, and will be made via bank transfer or through a payment platform (e.g. PayPal). The country of residence of the person and the date of the congress will be taken as a reference for the exchange rate. The Organizing Committee will try as far as possible to absorb the transfer fees or the charge for using payment platforms.

Ricardo A. Fagoaga-Hernández

Chair

Organizing Committee

World Anthropological Union (WAU) 2025 Congress

Antigua, Guatemala

October-November, 2025

The World Anthropological Union (WAU) is an inclusive and cooperative forum that invigorates transnational anthropologies. WAU serves as the interface that unites the missions of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA), promoting international person-to-person dialogues and fostering cooperative exchanges among anthropological associations. As a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), WAU represents the ethical and scientific values of the field as the leading international organization of the discipline. For more information, please visit the WAU website: https://waunet.org.

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