Submission deadline: September 30, 2016, 11:59pm Hong Kong time; GMT + 8
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The WMA Masters (formerly WYNG Masters Award) welcomes photography submissions from all over the world on this year’s theme of MOBILITY. Images must relate to the theme and be made in or relate to Hong Kong. The deadline for submission is September 30, 2016 (11:59pm Hong Kong time; GMT +8).
From now till September 30 the WMA Masters invites both international and Hong Kong artists and image-makers to submit photographic-based work. The visual content must be related to Hong Kong and to the chosen theme MOBILITY. Finalists will be selected by a panel of international judges and their works will be exhibited in Hong Kong in spring 2017. A full-colour catalogue will be published to coincide with the exhibition. The WMA Masters will also host a series of talks, panels, and seminars during the exhibition period. The winner of WMA Masters will receive a cash prize of HKD 250,000. Each of the six additional finalists will receive HKD 15,000.
This year, applicants to WMA Masters who are Hong Kong residents will have a chance to be invited to submit an expression of interest for a professional practice residency at FORMAT International Photography Festival 2017. The winner of the residency will have an opportunity to visit FORMAT for the launch and have access to events, portfolio reviews, as well as have their work included in the FORMAT catalogue.
The WMA Masters’ international panel of judges is comprised of industry leaders in photography, art, publishing, and non-profit. They include Zoher Abdoolcarim, MaryAnn Camilleri, Abby Chen, Louise Clements, Kevin WY Lee, Leung Po-Shan Anthony, Christopher Phillips, Theme Judge (to be confirmed).
For details on how to enter please visit masters.wyngmedia.hk.
About MOBILITY
Mobility is freedom of movement—across oceans and continents, across cities, streets and neighbourhood, perhaps across race, religion or even gender.
Hong Kong is a compact modern metropolis with world class transport and logistics system, where people and goods are constantly on the move and commuters have their routes mapped out to the exact subway carriage number in order to save the most time getting to the exit on the other side.
Mobility means circulation. Blood needs to flow, so does Chi. Blockage or leakage means disease. Babies learn to move at an early age, but mobility can be a major challenge for the elderly. Money and deals, traffic and even population needs to move smoothly, preferably in the right direction.
Mobility is moving vertically up and down buildings, mountains and seas. It is human to aspire to move up the ladder, whether in the corporate, institutional or social. Hong Kong had always been the land of opportunity, where hard work might move one’s children, if not oneself, upwards.
Parents still scheme to get their children the best chance in life in the education system. But more and more social mobility is restricted, in one of the world’s most unequal communities, where poverty is prevalent in the midst of plenty.
Hong Kong is the so-called borrowed place on borrowed time, where people come to get rich and get out, and end up putting down roots in spite of themselves. Now we are caught in a dilemma. How do we build a future in a place where nothing stays still, or lasts? Can we all still get where we want to go? And when we arrive, are we ever allowed to stop? Are we moving? Or are we still? What happens if there is no mobility?
And what happens if mobility is endless?
About the WMA programme
The WMA programme is multi-dimensional and includes the WMA Masters, WMA Commission, the WMA Open, a series of talk-programmes and student engagement projects. The WMA programme is a non-profit series of events and programmes that were developed to generate awareness and engage the public on socially-relevant issues of great importance to Hong Kong.
The WMA Masters’ 2012 inaugural theme was POVERTY, followed by AIR, WASTE and IDENTITY. The theme of 2016/17 cycle is MOBILITY.
For more information, please visit wma.hk.
