Rules

• All competition entries must be submitted online using the GoGoPhoto website platform: www.gogophotocontest.com/PreservationConnecticut
• You must create a GoGoPhoto account in order to submit your photographs.
• Photographers may submit their work for consideration under the following categories:
  Black & White, Color, Detail, and Smart Phone
• Participants may submit up to 5 images as either a Serious Amateur or Student Photographer (active student under 24 years of age).
• Image resolution and file size requirements:
  • Resolution: minimum 300 PPI (DPI)
  • File size: maximum 10000 kB

Open to anyone ages 8 years or older. Photographs must be of Connecticut barns (in any condition) and taken within the past 2 years.


All entries must be received by 11:59:59 P.M. EST (midnight) on September 1, 2020.


$25 entry fee per submission. Entries cannot be submitted without payment. No limit on entries.

Your entry donations support Preservation Connecticut! Thank you in advance.


The Viewer's Choice winners will be four photographs (one in each category) with the highest number of public votes. Votes are cast by making a donation ($1 = 1 vote). The winners of the Viewer's Choice voting will receive recognition at the opening of the "Picturing History" Juried Photography Show at the New Britain Art League in October 2020 and be their photographs will be exhibited. Viewer's Choice voting ends on September 7, 2020. The Viewer's Choice voting, ranking, or winner has NO BEARING on the juried process of the "Picturing History" 2020 Photography Show, although they can be part of the jury's selection.


Photographers selected for the "Picturing History" exhibition will be notified by email on or before September 11, 2020. Photographers NOT selected will be notified by email on or before September 11, 2020.

• Works selected by the professional judges (and four Viewer's Choice winners) must be delivered to the New Britain Art League or Preservation Connecticut office for exhibition no later than September 30, 2020.
• Please include your name and the title of your work on the back of the print or frame.
• Exhibition photographs may be hand delivered or shipped in flat, reusable cardboard boxes, with bubble wrap. Works will be returned in their original packaging. All return shipments will be sent via UPS. Artists who wish to have Preservation Connecticut return their work are required to enclose a pre-paid UPS return shipping label when sending selected work. Hand delivered work that is not picked up by the deadline will not be returned and left at the artist's own risk.
• Selected photographers will deliver exhibition prints prepared as follows:
  • Serious Amateur/Student: Matted and framed with glass/plexi and hanging wire secured about 1/3 from top. No sawtooth hanging. Outside frame dimensions not to exceed 600 square inches. Please, no canvas prints. Acrylic and/or metal prints are acceptable; please supply proper hanging hardware.

Photographs will not be offered for sale during the exhibition. However, information on how to contact the exhibited photographers will be made available to visitors upon request.


Submission for entries acknowledges the right of Preservation Connecticut to reproduce any selected work for its promotional and publicity purposes.


Insurance for artwork in transit is the responsibility of the individual artist. Preservation Connecticut will insure works on its premises.

Your entry implies agreement to the above conditions. Thank you and good luck!