I am so excited!
Back in July, I submitted three photographs for a Brattleboro photography contest and, lo and behold, I won second prize! Throughout the month of September, all three photographs will be displayed at The Latchis Theatre, our historic Art Deco theatre, which has been going through an amazing artistic renovation in the past several years. The theatre showcases the work of artists from all over the region, and I am honored to be one of them. My work will also appear in the 2011 Town Plan and other town publications, and in the Brattleboro Reformer Photo Journal.
Since the town of Brattleboro now has the exclusive right to publish the photographs, I can’t display them here, but I will provide links to them when they appear online or post copies when they appear in local publications. I love taking photographs just for the pure joy of it, but it feels wonderful to have my work acknowledged in my local community.
© 2010 by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
Mazel tov!
Look forward to seeing them when the links are up
Very nice!
Rachel, Your photos are all awesome and all deserve prizes. Glad to see you’re getting some recognition for them.
That’s awesome, Rachel! Your photography is great and I think it’s so exciting that you won!
Congrats! That rocks!
Yay! So glad you are getting deserved recognition.
Yay! Very exciting–looking forward to seeing the photographs!
That’s great! Is therte a website you have where you have posted other pictures you have taken?
Yes, it’s at http://www.sojournerartist.com. Enjoy!
You still own the photographs. All you have done is given the competition organisers a right to use license so that they can use the pictures in any way that they feel fit to do so. You can publish the pictures yourself on this blog or license other people to use them themselves.
Photo competitions are generally one way that marketing departments and magazines seek to obtain free images from the public rather than paying professional photographers for their work. If a competition states that they ‘own’ the pictures rather than license them from you then the competition is best avoided.
Hope that frees you to publish your pictures how you want to, rather than limit yourself by the legal mumbo jumbo.
David, I stand corrected; I still own the photographs. However, the contractual agreement states: “I hereby grant to the Town of Brattleboro and Planning Services Department to the fullest extent of my rights and interest therin, the unrestricted, irrevocable, and exclusive right and permission to use and reuse, publish, print, distribute, and reproduce for public display the submitted photograph in whole or in part, composite, or retouched in character or form.” The use of the word “exclusive” says to me that only the town gets to publish them–not me or anyone else. Elsewhere in the contract, I state that the photographs have not been widely published elsewhere, and I would be breaking that part of the agreement if I published them on my blog.
The contract also states that the photographs won’t be used for profit-making purposes, but only in town documents and websites, on behalf of the community. Rural towns are pretty hammered financially right now, so I’m happy to contribute to my town in this way.
just wanted to put in a quick “congratulations!” it’s good to hear.
Mazal tov.