Thanks in large part to outstanding contributions from Ottawa photographers,
Guerilla is the only Canadian magazine included in
10 Best 10, a groudbreaking global photo competition hosted by WIN-Initiative, an alternative stock photo agency based in New York City.
Launched on Friday, January 15, the 10 Best 10 competition involves innovative cultural magazines on every continent except Antarctica.
“All these magazines have common ground: They’re all forward-thinking, highly sophisticated visual magazines, completely in line with the culture that WIN strives to promote,” said WIN founder and award-winning photographer Hans Neleman.
In addtion to
Guerilla, the publications involved are
Time Out (New York),
Oyster (Australia),
Eyemazing (The Netherlands),
Zoom (Russia),
S Magazine (Sweden),
Reflex (Argentina),
FUXYZ (Spain),
The Outlook (China),
One Small Seed (South Africa), and
Let Them Eat Cake (England).
The competition has two stages. First, editors from each magazine pick a regional winner based on entries submitted (
Guerilla's region is Canada). Editors then assign the winner a photo shoot to be executed for their magazines. Each regional winner documents the entire production with a prize camcorder. In the second stage, the ten resulting magazine layouts are judged by an expert panel and one photographer receives a grand prize of US $3000.
Entry fee for the competition is US $10 (ten images can be submitted per entry). The competition is open to any creative photo artist and the subject matter may range, but editors are mostly interested in cutting-edge personal and commercial work.
For entry and deadline details visit
www.guerilla.tenbestten.com.
WIN-Initiative (
www.win-initiative.com) has 750 photographers throughout the world, including China, South Africa, Russia, Argentina, Brazil and New York City. Its stock library has more than 20,000 unique stock images.
