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Decade of Change
From 1854 and British Journal of Photography, Decade of Change is a global photography award and collaborative exhibition dedicated to the defining issue of our time: the climate.
Spanning humankind to wildlife and cityscapes to ecosystems, the award explores the many facets of the climate crisis: the strength and fragility of the natural world; the indirect impacts on communities and everyday people, and our global efforts to turn things around.
Why enter
Help transcend traditional barriers
Reports, statistics and articles are all invaluable resources. But the power of the image is universal. Through photography, we can help translate the reality of climate change to both public and private sectors — celebrating all that we have to protect, and cautioning all that we have to lose.
Get exhibited worldwide
Decade of Change curates some of the world’s most powerful creative responses to the climate crisis in an internationally-touring exhibition. Past venues have included Hong Kong’s Museum of Climate Change and the Nest Summit as part of New York Climate Week.
Get judged by industry leaders
Decade of Change is a cross-sector initiative, uniting prominent figures in art, politics, research and activism. Last year’s jury included Angela Glienicke, picture editor at Greenpeace; Miranda Massie, founder and director of the Climate Museum, NY, and Terry Tamminen, former CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
“There is a transformational potential that comes through the arts, the painted canvas or the power of the camera that is not achieved by other tools”
— Christiana Figueres, global climate leader & architect of the Paris Agreement, in conversation with BJP
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
Terry Tamminen
Former CEO, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Muyi Xizo
Reporter and Video Producer, Visual Investigations Team, The New York Times
Angela Glienicke
Picture Editor, Greenpeace
Paul Dickinson
Founder and Executive Chairman, CDP
Tim Brooks
Vice President of Environmental Responsibility, Lego
Kathleen Lei Limayo
Asia & Pacific Video Producer, 350.org
Miranda Massie
Director and Founder of the Climate Museum, New York
Categories and Submissions
Decade of Change 2021 is split between three categories: the Series Category, the Single Image Category and the Moving Image category. Across all three, the brief is broad and wide-ranging, inviting work that both immediately relates to the climate crisis as well as subject matter that is more indirect.
Possible themes to consider include people and the anthropological causes/effects of the crisis; action and protest; urban life, and the ways in which cities and towns are implicated; the natural world and changing life underwater, on land and above air; questions of science, progress and innovation; possible futures, or something altogether more conceptual or abstract.
Exhibition Partners
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Joint runner-up for the BJP International Photography Award 2020, Elena Helfrecht’s Plexus considers how trauma ripples through familial generations in an abstract series of still lifes
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Under the back garden of an unremarkable family home in Las Vegas is an extraordinary 16,000sq ft, all-pink, bomb-proof bunker. Inside are decadent bedrooms decorated with crystal chandeliers and baby pink wallpaper, and a bathrooms with a hot-pink toilet, white marble hot tub, and opulent golden fittings. Surrounding the house is a hand-painted mural of the countryside, and an underground garden with a swimming pool and fake trees growing out of a carpet that stands in for grass.
“It’s basically a house within a house,” explains Juno Calypso, who spent three days of solitude in the bunker, for her project What To Do With A Million Years. Designed to be safe from any disaster or intruder, the bunker was built in 1964 by Avon cosmetics founder Gerry Henderson and his wife, who were terrified of a potential nuclear breakout in the advent of the cold war.
Calypso is currently showing the series at London’s TJ Boulting gallery, and has transformed the basement space into a version of the garden, complete with fake plants, eerie mood lighting, and a soundtrack of soft romantic rock that plays against the continuous sound of running water from a stone fountain in the corner.
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I’m not an 1854 Access Member, how do I purchase an entry?
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Can I enter more than once?
Yes, you may enter as many times as you choose.
I have a promotional code, how can I use it?
Please first choose the type of entry you wish to make (eg, one series entry). On the next page you will be able to enter your promotional code, and after submitting that form you will see your discount applied.
I have a promotional code, but it doesn’t work?
Please note that most codes are time-limited. If the deadline for using your code has passed, it will not be usable.
I bought too many entries / ran out of time, can I get a refund?
Sorry, but all entry fees are non-refundable, as stated in the terms and conditions that you accepted on entry.
Can I upgrade my entry?
No unfortunately we can not upgrade your entry once a purchase has been made
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You may have already received an email from us with your entry link. If so, submit your images through the link provided.
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Professional and non-professional photographers from all over the world are eligible to enter.
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Entries can be shot using any camera model (film or digital) or electronic device, and images may be portrait, landscape or square in format.
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1854 Media reserves the right not to show the submitted work
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Each entrant will be deemed to warrant that they own the entire copyright for the work or that they have permission from the licensee and/or copyright owner/s for the uses.
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Each video must be a maximum of 10 minutes. All submissions must be made by providing a link to a video platform. Please do not upload videos to the system.
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Each image can be a maximum of 10MB in size. All images must be submitted as JPEG files – any files submitted in any other format (including TIFF, PDF, PSD etc) will be discarded.
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You may submit a title (200 character limit) and caption (750 character limit) for each photograph entered. For the Stories Category, you can also provide an artist’s statement (1000 character limit). All accompanying text must be written in English.
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The deadline for entries is 2 December 2021 23:59 (UK Time).
Judging will take place shortly after the deadline.
Entrants have an additional 24 hours following this deadline to finalise and submit their entry.
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Once your images and captions have been uploaded to the system you will see an option to submit your entry. Once submitted, your entry cannot be altered. Only submitted entries will be viewed by the judges.
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The winners must be available to supply high-res files promptly for exhibition purposes.
Digital files of the winning images will be created for press and publicity purposes.
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1854 Media & British Journal of Photography cannot be responsible for any loss or damage to submitted work.
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No copyright is transferred to 1854 Media & British Journal of Photography in respect of any work entered or accepted.
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1854 Media & British Journal of Photography reserve the right to display, reproduce and publish in any media, any entry, without payment, for the sole purpose of Decade of Change – this year and in future – and its promotion and publicity.
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1854 Media will organise and cover costs from the framing, printing, curation and production of the Decade of Change show.
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A selection of images will be published through 1854 Media & British Journal of Photography digital channels.
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Please note that 1854 Access members entering awards as part of their membership (as opposed to a paid entry) will be required to remain a member throughout the periods when awards are judged and exhibitions/outputs are planned, for their entries to be eligible.
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