Aims & Objectives
Photography: Aksgar (Urdu for photographer) features compelling narrative photography work from around the world in the form of photo essays.
Aksgar is not limited to featuring work from one genre or on one particular subject/theme. Your work can be photojournalistic, fine art, documentary, wildlife, or portraiture in nature. The only criteria is the narrative strength of your photo essay.
You could be a famous photographer or someone who picked up a camera just the other day, as long as you have a strong photo story that shows something new, something important and something powerful you are welcome to submit your work to us. Your work should have the ability to move the viewer or highlight that which was hidden in plain sight. In short, we are looking for photography that expands horizons and pushes boundaries. Just write to us and tell us your ideas.
Editorial Articles: Aksgar will give space to well written articles looking at photography and multimedia as an art form. For example, your article can look at the cultural importance of photography, review a recently released book of a photographer or his/her exhibition. Please keep your articles between 500- 3000 words.
Multimedia: Multimedia work that uses the photographic image as a base to construct a visual narrative is also showcased on Aksgar. If your work straddles video & photography then do get in touch with us.
Selection Process
All submissions (except for invited submissions) will go through an editorial review. Only upon successful completion of the review will the work be published on Aksgar. The review process will, among others, look at the narrative strength of the submission, topicality, quality and ability to engage.
If your work is selected for publication on Aksgar.com, we will notify you as soon as possible.
Some work will, in total or part, be selected for publication in the print version of Aksgar. If your work is selected for the print version, we will get in touch and, if you are interested, request high resolution files of your images.
How to Submit
Below are a few points that need to be considered when submitting your work to Aksgar. Please note that submissions not following these guidelines will not be considered.
- The photos you submit can be digital, or high quality digital versions of film. We cannot accept physical submissions of film negatives, slides or prints.
- Digital manipulation and post processing should be kept to the minimum possible, without affecting your creative vision. Nonetheless, photos that look excessively manipulated will have a less chance of being published on Aksgar.
- Resize your files to around 1200 pixels on the wider edge (never less than 1024 pixels). We can only accept jpg files at 100% quality. If we require higher resolution files, we will ask you.
- Please name your photos in the order you wish them to be viewed. For example: 1-yourname.jpg, 2-yourname.jpg and so on.
- All the files should have embedded metadata. At a minimum, title, caption and author should be included.
- Do not include borders or watermarks unless your submission is some sort of montage that requires them. In this case, ask before you submit.
- Please include a description of your photo essay and a brief bio of you along with your submission.
- Zip your files together and upload them as a single file using the form below. Fill in all the required fields.
- If you are submitting multimedia work please send us a url to your video first where possible.
- For written work send us a pdf (or online link) of your article.
- Submissions with large file sizes might receive an error message. In such cases please email your submission in the above mentioned format directly to submit (at) aksgar (dot) com (up to 25 MB). If you are submission is larger then 25 MB then please email us first and we will inform you of other submission options.
Honorarium
It pains us to say so, but at the moment we cannot offer financial compensation for your work. We know that a credit does not pay your bills, but it’s all we can afford to give you.
We are working hard to change this in the future. If you know or represent any Foundation or other organization that would be interested in supporting our efforts, please get in touch.
Editing
By submitting your work to us you also agree to our editing it, both in terms of length or order, to present in the best possible way on Aksgar.
Copyright info & Disclaimer
By submitting your work for publication in Aksgar, whether photos or articles, you are stating that you own the copyrights to these works, or have permission from the copyright holder to submit these works.
If your submitted work is accepted for publication, Aksgar will have a non-exclusive right to use your work on Aksgar.com and keep it on the published archives during the life of the website.
If your images/article/videos are chosen to be featured on the print version of the magazine, in addition to the rights above, Aksgar will have a worldwide, non-exclusive right to use your images/articles/videos for distribution on the electronic print-ready (pdf format) version of Aksgar as well as in print. Your work will be credited at all times.
Copyright for the published images/articles/videos, unless otherwise mentioned, remains with the copyright holder.
Aksgar cannot be held liable for copyright violation in case of images/articles/videos submitted by a third-party without the proper consent of the copyright owner.
Submission Form
Please fill in all the required fields. Your files should be zipped into one and uploaded using the form.
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