Share your Perspective!
The GU World View Photo Contest celebrates the global perspectives of the Gonzaga community through photography. Photos can be taken either inside or outside the United States.
Important Dates for 2025
- Photo submissions accepted now through October 31, 2025
- Judging for categories 1-4 (see categories below).
- Photos entered into the 4th category will be voted on through the Gonzaga Center for Global Engagement Instagram @gonzagacge from November 10th - 11th, 2025
- Winners announced on November 17th, 2025
This Year's Categories:
- People of the World
- Places of the World
- Global Zags (Representing Gonzaga gear, clothes, logo, etc.)
- People's Choice (Free Category, any type)
Judging
Photos entered in People of the World, Places of the World, and Global Zags will be judged on creativity, photographic quality, and fit with the category. Photos entered in the People's Choice category will voted on the Gonzaga Center for Global Engagement Instagram (@center_for_global_engagement), with the winners determined by largest number of "likes".
1st and 2nd place winners in each category will be announced, and prizes will be awarded. First place in each category will be awarded $100 Bulldog Bucks or Gift Card and an 8x10 copy of entry. Second place in each category will be awarded an 8x10 copy of entry. The winning photos will be displayed in the Center for Global Engagement suite (Hemmingson 102) and around the Hemmingson building during International Education Week, starting November 17th, 2025.
Eligible Participants
All current Gonzaga University students are encouraged to enter!
Entry Instructions
Each Entry consists of a single image. By submitting a photograph, the entrant agrees to all contest rules.
As a representative of the Gonzaga community, we expect that each contest entrant keep the following in mind:
- Choose photographs that depict people truthfully while displaying dignity, equality, support, and equity.
- Acquire the full understanding, participation, and permission of the subjects whenever possible.
- Be aware of and learn about the cultural norms and history of the area where you are taking photos so that you do not assume what is or is not acceptable to be photographed.
- Pay close attention to and follow local laws, as photography is not allowed in some places/contexts.
- A focus should be placed on complexity rather than showing or reinforcing stereotypes, sensationalizing, or exoticizing the subjects of the photograph.
There is a maximum of three (3) total entries per person. Each entry must comply with the following requirements:
- DIGITAL FORMAT: The photograph need not be taken with a digital camera; all digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller, must be in JPEG or JPG format, and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide (if a horizontal image) or 1,600 pixels tall (if a vertical image). All digital images must be entered on line using the submission form below.
- Photographs must have been taken within four (4) years before the date of entry.
- Only minor burning, dodging and/or color correction is acceptable, as is cropping.
- Photographs that include sculptures, statues, paintings, and other works of art will be accepted as long as they do not constitute copyright infringement or fraud; provided entrants must be prepared to provide a release form as described below in "Release." 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 art.
- The photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the Contest entrant. By entering the Contest, entrant represents, acknowledges, and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant, that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim, or interest in the photograph.
- The photograph must not, in the sole and unfettered discretion of the Sponsor (the Center for Global Engagement), contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content.
Release
All photographs submitted electronically will become property of the Center for Global Engagement and may be displayed on campus and used for promotional purposes.