News & Press archive for March, 2010

Capture a picture representing “youth & fitness in my city”

To Enter

• Capture a picture representing “youth & fitness in my city” in any format
• Email it to us at competition@londonyouthrowing.com including your name, age and contact number
• The deadline is midnight on Friday 20th August
• Entries must be the original work of the entrant
• Entrants must be aged between 11-18

The Judges

Dominic Martin — Creative Director, BMB Agency. Dom has won high profile awards for his creative work as a copywriter and art director. He was also the brains behind BMB’s iPhone application, iPint, which still retains the title of the UK’s most popular app.

Peter Doherty — Brand Director, International Life. Peter has worked for brands such as Virgin, Random House Publishing, The Ritz and Home Office as well as for Indian TV, branding a diverse range of channels from English News, Bollywood Music to mainstream General Entertainment.

Yves de Contades — Fashion Photographer. Yves has spent the last 15 years in Paris, London and New York shooting film, video and photography for high profile campaigns and fashion magazines. Yves has featured in many programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky, including Ten Year’s Younger on C4.

Alexander Wills — Associate Creative Director, AKQA Advertising. Alex has completed projects for Nike as part of the Supersonic campaign and ‘In The Hands of the Gods’, a Nike supported football documentary film. AKQA is a global digital creative agency working with brands such as Nike, Coca Cola and Diageo. AKQA were responsible for designing the Xbox 360 interface.

The Rules

1. Entries must be emailed to competition@londonyouthrowing.com by midnight on Friday 20th August, 2010. The email must include name, age, telephone contact and the image as an attachment
2. Entrants must be aged between 11 and 18
3. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party. The entrants must be the sole owner of copyright in all photographs entered and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries or their parents/guardians if children under 16 are featured. Further, entrants must not have breached any laws when taking their photographs. By entering, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules and LYR reserves the right to exclude any entry from the competition at any time and in its absolute discretion if LYR has reason to believe that an entrant has breached these rules
4. LYR reserves the right to retain entries for subsequent publication or exhibition
5. Winners will be decided at sole discretion of the judges and will be based on content and artistry rather than absolute clarity of the picture
6. Winners and runners up will be notified by phone and email. If the winner is unable to be contacted after reasonable attempts have been made, LYR reserves the right to either offer the prize to a runner up or to re-offer the prize in any future competition
7. One winner will be selected and will win an iPod Touch
8. The judges’ decisions are final and correspondence will not be entered into regarding entries
9. LYR will not accept responsibility for any loss or damage of entries
10. LYR reserves the right to cancel this competition or alter any of the rules at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside of its control
11. These rules are governed by the laws of England and Wales. This competition is administered by LYR