Sci560 Through Your Eyes
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About:
How do you see your city? Sci560: Through Your Eyes is a photography mentorship programme for young photographers (aged 18–30) that invites you to look closely at Bengaluru—not through its skyline or headlines, but through its details and daily choreography. We are offering six prompts to begin with: Adjust, Froth, Dust, Raste, Mane, Put Scene.
Each of these holds a world. Adjust is how you survive—sliding across a bus seat, finding your place in a queue, learning to make do. Froth is the lightness of filter coffee and craft beer—but also the thick, toxic bubbles of Bellandur Lake. Dust is everywhere: in demolition and construction, in erasure and possibility. Raste (roads) take you home, to work, to strangers and stories. Mane (home) is where your day begins and ends—or where it used to. And in this city, someone is always putting scene — turning up with a story, laying down a mood, or just hanging out with no agenda at all.
Respond to one or more of these prompts with your lens. Selected participants will be mentored by photojournalist Sameer Raichur and supported in further refining their submission that will be exhibited at Science Gallery Bengaluru and shared online. Interested participants can submit their photographs through the form linked below.
Prompts:
Adjust
Froth
Dust
Raste
Mane
Putting Scene
Timeline:
Call goes live: 12 May 2025
Call closes: 30 May 2025
Mentorship session: 14 June 2025
Showcase: 29 June 2025
Participation Guidelines:
- You must be between 18 and 30 years of age to participate.
- You must be based in Bengaluru or willing to travel to the city for the duration of the mentorship session and the showcase. Science Gallery Bengaluru is not able to cover the travel or accommodation costs of selected participants.
- Submit your response by 11.59pm IST on 30 May 2025.
- You can submit upto three responses per person.
- Your submission must be photographs.
- The minimum resolution of the photographs should be 300 dpi.
- The photo has to be made by the person making the submission.
- Your submission should not have won or placed in other competitions, or have been published in an official capacity in other magazines, exhibitions, etc.
- Your submission must have a text-based description/caption of between 50-150 words in in English. If you’re submitting in any other language apart from English, please add a translation in English.
- Your submission must have a brief bio of between 50-150 words in any language along with translation in English.
- Any copyright violations or issues with permission will disqualify your entry.
- By submitting photos/clips of children you expressly agree that you have secured permission from the child’s parent or guardian.
- Any conflicts/ issues/violations arising out of sharing of the photo will be the liability of the photographer and the subject. The organisers are not liable to any dispute arising out of the submission.
- Photos must not contain any nudity or any derogatory, racist commentary or visuals. Such entries will not be considered.
- You retain all the rights to your work. By submitting your work, you will give Science Gallery Bengaluru during Sci560. Your submission will be archived on the Science Gallery Bengaluru’s websites.