Are you passionate about photography?
Our departmental photo competition celebrates the visual side of engineering. We want to provide an opportunity for people in the department to exhibit their photography work and to have fun developing their photography skills.
The competition is open only to students, staff and alumni from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London.
Timeline
Entries must be submitted by 31 January 2025 at midnight.
Submissions format
The only type of images accepted are photographs. Previously published photographs, not created specifically for the competition are also eligible.
We will only consider entries submitted before the specified deadline through the form provided specifically for this purpose.
Please note that if you are selected as a winner, you will need to provide us with a 300dpi resolution file of your image that can be printed in minimum A2 size.
Each participant can submit up to three entries.
Photos may be black and white or in colour, taken with any kind of camera or device. Minor adjustments are allowed, such as minor changes in cropping, sharpening, contrast, etc. Significantly altered or artistically enhanced photos are not accepted. AI-generated images are not accepted. The judges may request the original file/RAW/negative of your photo to verify this.
Competition Criteria
This year the competition has two categories:
- “Engineering is beautiful”- Eye-catching, artistic or simply interesting engineering-related abstract imagery
- “People of Mech Eng”- photos celebrating the human factor in engineering, collaboration and team work; fun, unconventional, not so serious entries are encouraged
If taken on campus, images must adhere to Imperial rules on PPE use: in a space that requires lab coats and/or goggles, PPE must be used consistently and correctly by all those who appear in the photo.
You are welcome to submit photographs that have been taken any time between January 2024 and the submission date.
Prizes
- Our judges will choose a prize winner in each category, worth £150 each, a runner-up in each category, worth £100 each, and one overall winner for the competition, worth £200.
- We will also award a People's Choice prize worth £150 based on public votes.
Winning entries will be exhibited on our website. We also aim to display the work of all photo competition winners on campus. Prizes will only be awarded subject to receiving a high enough number of submissions and their quality standard being sufficient for display.
Judges
Bryan Luo- student representative
Yijia Guo- prize winner in the 2023 Mechanical Engineering photo competition
Honey Salvadori- Professional photographer; evening photography class tutor at Imperial
Terms and conditions of the competition
It is the responsibility of participants to ensure that the photographs they are submitting are their own work, that they own the copyright for them and that they do not infringe on the copyright or other rights of any third party.
It is the responsibility of participants to ensure that the images do not infringe any laws and that they have been taken with the consent of anyone who is identifiable in the image, or the consent of their parent/guardian if they are under 18.
Copyright for the submitted images remains with their authors. However, by entering the competition, participants are granting us irrevocable, perpetual permission for non-commercial use of the images online and in print, in any promotional materials related to the competition, and in an exhibition on campus.