Spring is finally here and it’s time to open the shutters and get behind your cameras to enter a photography competition to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new Life Sciences building. In March the concrete foundations of the building will be completed and somewhere under the concrete will be buried a Time Capsule containing a selection of items to represent the past, present and future of the University, including the winning images. In 30 years time we hope that the future occupants of the building will excavate the Time Capsule so that they can see what we were up to in 2009.
The theme of the competition is “Bringing Science to Life” and this is open to personal interpretation. However entries must have the bioscience world at their heart – that is any of the sciences that study the structure and behaviour of living things. Among our panel of judges are the Emmy award winning photographer David Barlow and nature photographer and TV presenter Chris Packham. Both are graduates of the University and former students of the School of Biological Sciences.
The competition is free to enter and up to four electronic images in colour or black & white can be submitted to one of four categories:
1. Year 11, 12 and 13 students studying at a School or FE College located in Hampshire. Entries should be submitted for each School or College by a member of teaching staff on behalf of the individual entrants. Up to four images per School or College can be submitted and the School or College concerned will be required to obtain the necessary parental consent for their students’ participation in strict accordance with the competition rules.
2. Undergraduate students – anyone enrolled on an undergraduate programme of study at the University of Southampton.
3. Postgraduate students – anyone enrolled on a postgraduate programme of study at the University of Southampton who is not also employed by the University.
4. Alumni – anyone who is an alumnus of the University of Southampton.
Full details are available at www.soton.ac.uk/estatedevelopment.
The closing date for entries is Friday 13th March 2009.