Students can win money just by taking photos of friends and places at campus.
The Provost Communications Group, which develops the ASU Web site and several publications, is calling all students to submit photos for a competition running until March 7.
The first-prize winner will receive $500, second prize $300, and third prize $100, with an opportunity to be published in future ASU print, video, social or electronic media.
Photos will be judged by faculty, staff and students, and winners will be announced by April 1.
The competition gives students a chance to show ASU life through their lens. The photos can be submitted in four different categories: learning at ASU, living at ASU, campus culture and clubs and communities.
Each category will have winners.
Tanner Woodford, Web developer for the group, said the categories describe ASU.
“They define the ASU student,” Woodford said.
Photos can range from favorite hangout spots to a group of friends.
The Provost Communications Group was pulling together ideas of what to do for next school year’s publications and came up with the competition, said Woodford.
They reached out to a few professors about the idea and got positive feedback. The same week they thought of the idea, the photo competition was ready and waiting for submissions.
“In the past we’ve always bought or taken photos of student life and it came out of how students think of student life,” Woodford said.
The Provost Communications Group wanted photos that would show future ASU students how it is to live at ASU, said Cindi Farmer, the group’s lead multimedia developer.
“Groups or communities — those are the images that we would love to see. That’s something that we can’t go and pose,” Farmer said.
The group is hoping to get as many submissions as possible. They think more will come in toward the due date, but they might extend the deadline by two weeks if enough photos haven’t been submitted by then.
Evie Carpenter, journalism freshman, heard about the competition via e-mail. She plans to submit photos in the campus life and campus learning categories, but said she’s a bit nervous.
“I’d love to place — that’d be awesome just to say I won a photo competition, and the money would help,” Carpenter said. “This is the first competition that I have entered in and I think it would be a good opportunity.”
Reach the reporter at mpareval@asu.edu
