Submissions. For each entry submit one 35 mm slide and a brief written description (including date and place of photo), with your name, age, course of study or job/profession, address and telephone (optional) and e-mail address. Mail entries to the address below. All submissions must be received by January 16, 2001. Winners will be notified March 20, 2001.
Prizes. First prize: All expenses paid to 6th Annual DGH General Assembly in the summer of 2001; copy of Health and Human Rights, A Reader. Second Prize: Copy of Health and Human Rights, A Reader; Third Prize: Copy of Where There Is No Doctor. Prize for Entry Under 15 Years of Age: Copy of Health and Human Rights, A Reader. All winners and Honorable Mentions will receive a DGH T-shirt. Limit of 1 prize per person.
Judges. Don Abrams, electrical engineer and photographer, Atlanta, GA; Mary Lee Barker, watercolor portrait artist of the poor in Washington, DC and El Salvador; Dominique Berthie, public relations for an NGO in France; Michele Brothers, Médecins du Monde Representative in the US and independent film consultant; Ceja Cooper, professional photographer and owner of ICU Photographics, Atlanta, GA; Tom Hansen, National Coordinator of the Mexico Solidarity Network, Chiapas Media Network; Michele Harvey-Blankenship, PhD, potter and medical student at the University of Toronto; Arthur Seiji Hayashi, MD; Keiichi Hayashi, MD, MPH; Gayla Jamison, Television Documentary Producer/Writer, Hispanic Telecommunications Network; Karen Kerney, Art Director, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Syracuse Peace Council; May Oo Khyne, coordinator for Women's Affairs Dept. of National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, New York, NY; David L. Parker, MD, MPH, Minnesota Department of Health, Park Nicollet Clinic; Amanda Rouse, MD, Mobile Clinic Doctor with Médicos Del Mundo in Timor; Mariu Suarez, Colombian Fine Artist, Social/Visionary Surrealism.
Rules. Entry is open to all persons without restriction (except DGH Board members). Students are especially welcome to enter. Limit of 3 entries per person. Accompanying written description should be in English, Spanish or French. Entries must be original, photographed by the person submitting them and must have never been published, submitted for publication or entered in another contest. DGH cannot return submissions or be held responsible for their loss. By submitting an entry you agree to give DGH first publication rights and use of the entries in a travelling exhibit.
About the Sponsor. Doctors for Global Health (DGH) promotes the concept of Liberation Medicine: "The conscious, conscientious use of health to promote human dignity and social justice." DGH is a Volunteer organization with no paid employees that does practical work promoting Health and Human Rights with communities in Chiapas (Mexico), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda and other areas in need around the world. If you would like information on how to become involved with DGH (we encourage volunteers from all walks of life), please contact us at the address below. Tax-deductible contributions can be sent to the same address. For more information on DGH, visit our web site.
