photo competition

 

 

Support in promoting photo competition to students and staff in your department

The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), a research centre established in partnership with the Gauteng Provincial Government, the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg – has just launched a photographic competition open to students and staff members at tertiary institutions within the Gauteng City-Region (GCR). As part of our research project, Creative Visualisations, we wish to encourage students and staff at tertiary institutions in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) to show how they perceive the GCR through photography. Therefore the project is focused on giving voice to the imaginary of the space and place that is the Gauteng City-Region.

The photographic competition comprises five themes of entry: the region’s life and people; its space and how we occupy it and move around in it; making a living, trade and business activities; how we use or sustain its resources and environment; and its politics and governance.

We would be grateful if you could help by encouraging students and staff in your department to enter as we think the competition and the themes it engages with speak to some of the issues and questions your field of study engages with. Therefore, we were wondering if you, or an appropriate member of staff, would help in promoting the competition to the students in your department. We have also thought the competition could be integrated into an assignment or project which is exploring questions of identity and meanings of space and place. The department/institution would also have access to the submitted photographs as long as they would be used for educational purposes only.

For more information on the competition please follow this link:

http://www.gcro.ac.za/photocompetition

Thank you and regards,

Potsiso Phasha 
GCRO (Gauteng City-Region Observatory)
University of the Witwatersrand
4th Floor – University Corner 
11 Jorissen St (Cnr Jorissen & Jan Smuts Avenue)
Braamfontein
Telephone: +27 (0) 11 717 7280
Fax: +27 (0) 11 717 7281
Cell: +27 (0) 73 731 6829
E-mail: Potsiso.Phasha@gcro.ac.za     
http://www.gcro.ac.za/