Competitions

Terms:

By submitting an entry, each contestant agrees to the rules of the contest and states that, he/she is the parent or legal guardian of the Child, who is featuring in the photo.

Who may enter:

Any parent or legal guardian, whose kid(s) is below 18 years.

What to Enter:

Please refer to the cover page photo of inkiddos.com

The contestant certifies that he/she is the sole creator and copyright owner of the submitted photograph.

For a photo in which a person is recognizable, you must be prepared to provide a model release from the subject or, in the case of a minor, the subject’s parent or guardian, to inkiddos upon request. A sample model release is available here.

Similarly, entrants whose photos depict other people’s work (such as sculptures, statues, paintings, and other copyrightable works) must be prepared to provide a release from the rights holder to inkiddos upon request. When photographing the work of others, it must be as an object in its environment and not a full-frame close-up of another person’s creation. 

If the entrant is unable to provide all required releases, inkiddos in its sole discretion reserves the right to disqualify the submission, seek to secure the required releases, or permit the submission to remain in the contest.

Photos that violate or infringe upon another person’s rights, including but not limited to the copyright, are not eligible.

Photos that contain sexually explicit, nude, obscene, violent or other objectionable or inappropriate content, as determined by inkiddos in its sole discretion, are ineligible for all categories of this contest.

The contestant certifies that he/she is the sole creator and copyright owner of the submitted photograph.

How to Enter:

Please submit photographs and requested information online through our website. You may submit up to 2  photographs per category  In order to be displayed on our website’s cover page without being stretched or distorted, photographs must be submitted in .jpeg, .jpg or .gif format, edited for web in sRGB color space, at least 2,000 pixels wide and no larger than 10 MB. You may have to complete a separate form for each photo submitted.

We do accept photographs submitted through the mail and do not accept more than one contestant per e-mail address. High-quality scans of non-digital photographs are acceptable. Digital photographs should be taken at the highest resolution possible.

Inkiddos may collect a photograph’s metadata upon entry.

You retain your rights to your photograph; however, by entering the contest, you grant inkiddos  (and those authorized by inkiddos) a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publicly display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or later developed, for any purpose, including, but not limited to, advertising and promotion of the magazine and its website, exhibition, and commercial products, including but not limited to inkiddos’s publications. Any photograph reproduced may or may not include a photographer credit as feasible. Inkiddos will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.

Submit your entries to [email protected]