A double challenge opens the Sirmione Award for Photography 2023!
On 2nd April the Sirmione 10% Photo Marathon and 10th April the Lake Garda Block Notes Photo Contest
Sirmione Award for Photography
14th edition
5 photographic contests
12 months of exciting challenges for photographic enthusiasts and experts, tourists and all lake Garda lovers
Put your skills into play, dive into the wonders of Sirmione and lake Garda and take part in these unmissable photographic events!
SIRMIONE 10% PHOTO MARATHON
2nd APRIL 2023
Just one hour to take the picture that will complete
NOTES. Photographic composition of Lake Garda
the photographic exhibition dedicated to the Sirmione Award for Photography 2022, open in Palazzo Callas Exhibitions from Saturday 1st April.
Appointment Sunday 2nd April 2023 at 7:00 am, in Piazza Carducci in Sirmione.
Before the start, at 7:30 am, you will discover the theme to develop (the participation is free and you do not have to enroll before). The time will run fast: at 8:30 am the Sirmione 10% Photo Marathon will finish and then you will have time until 11:59 pm on Monday 3rd April to send your photograph.
The Jury will choose 4 photographs to complete the exhibition NOTES. Photographic composition of Lake Garda.
LAKE GARDA BLOCK NOTES PHOTO CONTEST
10th APRIL – 7th MAY 2023
Tell with your pictures the world around you and take part in Lake Garda Block Notes Photo Contest 2023.
Divided into four different sessions, each lasting one week, the Block Notes Photo Contest is open to everyone and the participation is free.
Each photographer can take part with a photograph for each week, to be sent before 11:59 pm on Sunday.
The pictures can be taken everywhere, it is not necessary that they are related to Sirmione and lake Garda.
4 weeks, 1 theme for each week to explore the world around you with your camera
THEMES:
ME (from 10th to 16th April)
MY HOME (from 17th to 23rd April)
MY NEIGHBORHOOD (from 24th to 30th April)
MY CITY (from 1st to 7th May)
For each of the 4 weeks each participant can present a photograph referring to a specific spatial, social and existential dimension. As the titles of the themes suggest, the intimate and individual dimension becomes increasingly public and collective. The photographers can tell about themselves, their home, their neighborhood, their city through images that depict people, spaces, objects, animals.
PRIZES
Weekly winner
Exclusive guided tour for 2 people “To discover secrets and hidden places of Grottoes of Catullus”.
Publication of the photograph on the official tourist portal and on Facebook and Instagram channels of Municipality of Sirmione.
FINAL PRIZE (for those who took part in all the 4 weeks of the contest)
A stay in Sirmione for two people (2 nights and breakfast).
LAKE GARDA PHOTO CHALLENGE
BEFORE 31st OCTOBER 2023
Lake Garda Photo Challenge is a photographic contest open to everyone and dedicated to Sirmione and lake Garda.
In addition to the two themes Sirmione and lago di Garda, you can express your creativity with a fourth photograph, choosing between one of the two additional themes:
Arie del Garda and Cantine del Lugana di Sirmione.
Enrollment: online (10€) sending pictures before 11:59 pm on Tuesday 31st October 2023
FIRST PRIZE: 1.500€
SIRMIONE PHOTO MARATHON
8th OCTOBER 2023
4 themes in 8 hours to live to the core the passion for photography
Enrollment: online (12€) before 11:59 pm on Sunday 1st October 2023
FIRST PRIZE: 1.500€
Sirmione Award for Photography is sponsored by
Azienda Agricola Nunzio Ghiraldi – Azienda Agricola Pasetto Emilio – Bertoldi Boats – Cà dei Frati – Cà Lojera – Corte Anna – Cantina Sgreva – Casa Scaligeri – Cascina Maddalena – Direzione regionale Musei Lombardia – Don Lorenzo della Grillaia – Garda Tours – Hotel Catullo – Hotel Continental – Ristorante Antica Contrada – Ristorante Casa dei Pescatori – Trattoria il Vecchio ‘800 – Villa Pioppi
