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Are you a professional photographer with an interest in street photography? Want your work reproduced professionally on an HP Z-series printer? Want to exhibit with some of the world’s best photographers? HP’ s Street Photography online gallery gives you a chance. Photographers can display their work for free through the Street Photography online gallery at http://www.hypegallery.com/streetphotography  . They can also enter the competition to have their images displayed at the Recontres d’Arles photography festival in July 2007, where they will be reproduced professionally on an HP Z-series printer, and even attend the festival with Stuart Franklin, a leading Magnum photographer and the current Magnum president. 1
Riding on the success of the HYPE galleries, the Street Photography gallery encourages photographers to look at the urban landscape in innovative or unusual ways.
Cracks in the pavement, peeling walls, shadows cast by stairwells, could all be included in Street Photography.
By following the instructions on the Street Photography website, photographers can upload their images to the gallery where they are displayed online. 2
The gallery works in a similar way to the HYPE galleries through which thousands of participants have exhibited their work online and seen them printed to a professional standard on HP Z-series printers in capital cities across the world including London, Berlin, Paris and Singapore.
The most recent Hype event in Berlin in November 2006 had 13,000 visitors to the exhibition and 60,000 unique visitors to the online gallery.
After the competition closes, Magnum president Stuart Franklin – publisher of several books on photography and award-winning photojournalist – will select the best 30 to be exhibited at the Arles festival, which runs from July 3 to September 16.
These images will be printed on an HP Z-series printer, using premium HP papers such as HP Satin Premium Instant Dry photo paper and HP Universal Instant Dry Photo semi-gloss.
The Z2100 and Z3100 printers are causing a stir among photographers by using pigment ink and world-first technologies such as an inbuilt spectrophotometer that will consistently ensure that the competition images are museum-quality with 200 years’ fade resistance.3
The top 30 winners will also receive their own copies printed on the HP Z-series printers to add to their portfolios.
From these 30, Franklin will ultimately choose one winner to receive the grand prize: a paid-for trip to the festival, including an exclusive lunch with Franklin to gain valuable insights into the work of an internationally renowned photographer.
“Street Photography is a hugely significant part of documentary photography,” said Franklin. “I am delighted that HP is supporting this endeavour through the Street Photography gallery and competition.”
“Given the runaway success of the HYPE galleries, we’re expecting Street Photography to perform equally as well and given the diverse and personal subject matter, we’re anticipating some great images. By using our Z-Series printers we’re looking forward to showcasing how the best technology can complement the best photography,” said Francois Martin, EMEA Graphic Arts marketing manager, HP.
Competition closes June 10, all entries must be submitted by then. However, the online gallery will continue to run after this date and for the rest of the year, creating a comprehensive collection of Street Photography.
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Provided they are within the bounds of taste and decency and adhere to the Street Photography theme.
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Based on December 2005 competitive landscape and similarly priced printers, HP internal testing.
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