One Week Left to Enter LabourStart Photo Contest

by Mike Hall, Sep 24, 2009

This photo of the UK’s National Union of Teachers’ one-day national strike was LabourStart’s 2008 Labor Photo of the Year.

There’s still time to enter LabourStart’s 2009 Labour Photo of the Year contest, but you’ll have to act fast: The deadline is Sept. 30. Click here for entry rules.

LabourStart, the global online labor news service, says the contest is designed to encourage and recognize the talents of worker-photographers around the world, and at the same time encourage them to tell the stories of workers’ struggles in photos.

The group’s first photo contest in 2008 drew several thousand entries. (See the winner accompanying this story and click here to see the 2008 finalists.)

First prize is a two-year pro account on Flickr.com. Four runners-up will receive a one-year pro account. The finalist photos will be featured on LabourStart and announced to news service’s 60,000 trade unionist subscribers. They also will be displayed in the art gallery on the Union Island in Second Life.

In addition, LabourStart will work to place the winning photos with labor publications (online and paper) worldwide and will make them known to labor galleries and art events worldwide. And, of course, the winner will be featured on LabourStart as a Photo of the Year.

Finalists will be selected by a three-judge panel. The judges are photojournalist and author David Bacon; Gretchen Donart, a communications organizer in Seattle; and Mac Urata, secretary of the Inland Transport Sections of the International Transport Workers’ Federation and a leading labor photographer.

The winner will then be selected by a vote of LabourStart’s subscribers. Visit the news service’s home page here and sign up at the bottom.

LabourStart provides daily labor news links in more than 20 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 700 trade union websites. News is collected from mainstream, trade union and alternative news sources by a network of more than 500 volunteer correspondents based on every continent.

It also conducts e-mail outreach campaigns, the Radio LabourStart network and UnionBook, an online social network for union members and activists. In August, LabourStart held its annual conference at the AFL-CIO here in Washington, D.C. Click here, here, here, here and here for coverage of the conference.

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