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ipernity is proud to be official partner of the Festival at Sony World Photography Awards, taking place in Cannes, France from 14th to 19th April 2009.

It's a week-long celebration of the photographic culture, history and image. The City of Cannes will host over 50 photographic exhibitions throughout eclectic city landmarks, public and private venues - all open for the public to attend. For the professional, amateur and photography enthusiast, there will be a choice of seminars, book signings, meetings with the artists and exhibition tours – all part of the week-long schedule of events that offer something new each day.

► The 2009 Festival Programme

Your benefits

How lucky we are: the next iperMeeting will take place in Cannes on 18th-19th April 2009!

So here are more reasons to come:

And also

• we'll reward the top 50 photographers of the Campaign Award with an ipernity PRO account
• winner photos will be published in ipernity and members could give their feedback (commenting, faving etc...)

More details soon.

About the Festival

Every year, for one week in April, the City of Cannes takes a step back from the moving image and celebrates the birth of film through the photographic medium.

Throughout the Palais des Festivals, along the famous Croisette, selected hotels, city landmarks, streets and beaches, will showcase dozens of unique photographic exhibitions, welcoming the residents and visitors of the Cotes D'Azur.

The week-long celebration will include evening film screenings, retrospectives of renowned photographers such as Elliott Erwitt, book signings, special events including 'Evenings with the Artists', exhibition tours led by the artists, after parties and of course the centrepiece event: The Sony World Photography Awards Ceremony, Cocktail Party and Gala Dinner, hosted in the Palais des Festivals.

For the photographic industry, there will be many tailored events. These will include talks on topics such as book publishing, portfolio reviews by known industry experts, networking venues and events, an international student programme, exhibition tours, focus media events and discussions hosted by some of the world’s most renowned photographers, editors, publishers, gallery owners, curators and other industry experts.

A significant portion of this week-long festival will focus on the annually chosen central theme, using the power of the photographic image to teach, educate, discuss and share the information from countries across the globe.

The World Photography Awards chosen theme for 2009 is The Environment. Dedicated blocks of activity pertaining to the global environment as shown through photography and will form an important part of the daily festival schedule.

The Festival is aimed for the general public and welcomes families, locals, foreign visitors and all those with a love for contemporary art, the still and moving images.

► The Sony World Photography Awards official website

► Explore the pages that ipernity has dedicated to SWPA

* 2008/03/18 update * winners announced!

Thanks to our partnership with the Sony World Photography Awards, we are proud to offer the ipernity community access to the (beautiful) shortlisted images for the 2009 Amateur competition.

We invite you to explore the pages that ipernity has dedicated to SWPA. You will come across outstanding images!

Play with us & have you say!

For each category, vote for your favorite image adding this comment: "My choice" or "My vote"... We will count your votes and compare the result with the official one. A PRO account will be given to ipernity members whose choice will match the Judging Committee judgment.

About the SWPA 2009 Amateur competition

The Sony World Photography Awards are entirely international, welcoming people from across the globe to submit their photographs into an exciting amateur competition, which is run alongside the Professional Awards.

Amateur photographers have the opportunity to be judged by the World Photographic Academy in the hopes of taking the stage in Cannes to receive one of the most sought after prizes in the competition: The Sony World Photography Awards Amateur Photographer of the Year.

Each photographer may submit up to a total of 3 photographs into the competition for free. The 3 photographs can be submitted into any one amateur category or spread across two - three different categories.

The Judging Process: images will go through various pre-selection rounds by SWPA officially selected 2009 Pre-Selection Committee, iStock.

A shortlist of top ten amateur photographers per category was announced on 24th of February, 2009.

The 8 Category Winners, will be showcased as part of the official 2009 Finalists exhibitions in Cannes and announced to the worldwide press as Sony World Photography Awards Category Winners on 17th of March, 2009. These winners will also have the opportunity to be part of an annual SWPA Global Tour and showcased on the SWPA website for all of 2009.

One grand prize winner will be selected from the 8 category winners by the 2009 Judging Committee and be awarded The Sony World Photography Awards Amateur Photographer of the Year.

► Official website

ipernity continues to grow and is now available

in Czech!

Translation was led and mainly made from Esperanto by:

Vladimir Türk
We'd like to warmly thank him for bringing ipernity to Czech people.

Thanks also to Maru and Roman for their help.
And thank you Paul, for linking us to the Esperantist community.

It's now time to invite you Czech friends to join ipernity!
Check your address book!

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Portuguese-Brazilian, Japanese, Russian and Icelandic.

We need more volunteers to help us to complete translations.
If you want to join our translators team, please contact us!

Hello everybody!

We've just improved the Network and Explore pages.

The Network pages

Latest publications pages

• Latest docs, albums and posts published by your network are now more accurate.
• Several time frames are available.
• At last, you can choose to display 1 or 5 docs max by member.

The members list page

• Several filters are available (last added, last visited ...).
• Display the people you may know (those in relationship with your friends and family)!
  You might want to add them to your network.

The Explore pages

• New layout for the main page, with a better content enhancement. We did our best to consider the various aspect ratios of photos.
• Same for the "What's hot" pages. Photos, Videos and Posts are displayed separately for a better reading.

And also..

• You can now choose between "Thumbnails" and "Details" view for albums.

Comments and suggestions are welcome. Give us your feedback.

Of course, we know your wishlist is long and you are still waiting for features such as collections or password access to albums. Be sure we are doing our best.

The ipernity Team