PHOTOVOICE DETAILS

• Anyone can participate
• Submission Deadline: April 30, 2024
• Submit up to 4 entries
• Your submission releases to your photo and caption to be used by the San Luis Local Foods Coalition.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

• We want to hear from all corners of the SLV
• What does food and agriculture look like from your perspective?
• We’ll use your photos and captions in our Community Food & Agricultural Action Plan as well as display them here, on our website, and for a in-person PhotoVoice Exhibition.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Take a photo that illustrates any of our themes:
   • Barriers or Solutions to healthy food access #FoodAccess
   • Opportunities for family farms & ranches to thrive #Opportunities
   • Water, Air & Soil Health #EnviroHealth
   • Inequities or Inclusion in our food system #Inequity o #Inclusion
   • Emergency Food Plan / Who do you turn to in a food crisis? #FoodPlan
2. Write a caption for the photo. Examples:
   • Who, what, why, when, where
   • Tell the story of the photo
   • How does it address one of the themes?
3. Include the hashtag #SLVFoodProject (and any others you wish).
4. Include the corresponding theme hashtag (above in bold).
5. Submit up to two photos, with caption and hashtags for each, to one of the places:
   • Google Form (Gmail account required)
   • Text to 575.999.5319
   • Instagram (be sure to include #SLVFoodProject so we can find your photo)
6. All submissions will be displayed on our website.
7. We will select 30 submissions for an in-person PhotoVoice Exhibition.
   • We will print the chosen photos with captions to go along.
   • Selected submissions will be announced around May 31st, 2024.

PHOTO RELEASE

Photographer of Submitted Photos, hereby grants permission to San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition and the SLV Community Food & Agricultural Assessment Project to reproduce any portion of the photo images listed below that have been taken by me, the photographer of submitted photos for the purpose of SELF USE and or SELF PROMOTION publications which can include but is not limited to, Local Guides, calendars, invitations, printed showings and websites without any more compensation or recognition given to me. Furthermore, I grant creative permission to alter the photograph(s). I do not grant permission to resale or use the photographs in a manner that would exploit or cause malicious representation toward me or my company and associates.

We will credit your photo in the PhotoVoice Exhibition as well as on PhotoVoice webpage as part of the project. However, we may also use it in other ways that don’t allow for a photo credit.