How to Participate

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
AUGUST 15, 2009, 11:59 p.m.

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Fascinating and creative photographs can be submitted in the following categories:

  • AROUND THE WORLD
    Show us who Ismailis are, who you are and who your family and friends are.
  • CULTURE
    Show the diversity in our Ismaili culture from food and clothing to arts and celebrations. Tell us a tale through your Images.
  • LOVE
    Show us through your Images what love means to you.
  • HABITAT
    Show us where Ismailis live, your home, city, country from urban to nature.
  • COMMUNITY SERVICE & VOLUNTEERING
    Show us how Ismailis make a difference.

To enter go to The Competition.

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Ismailis Around the World

are invited to send their best and creative shots to the

2009 ISM Photography Competition

$1,500 in Prizes &
Your Image may be Published!

Vision

To share, inspire and celebrate the diversity of the Ismaili community through the art of photography.

"I, of course, start with the basic assumption that the world is a much better place because it is pluralist and multi-cultural. Imagine what it would be like living in a world of no diversity, a world where we were all the same colour, shape and size, ate the same biryani, told the same jokes and combed our hair identically. Aside from the fact that my comb, sadly, serves less purpose these days, I would find a world like that quite boring!"

- Excerpt by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Ninth Award Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, New Delhi, 27 November 2004

Mission

  • To produce a beautiful Coffee Table Book that will promote diversity and inspire unity of the Ismaili community.
  • To promote the art of photography within the Ismaili community.
  • Net proceeds from sale of books will be donated to Aga Khan Foundation Canada to support Aga Khan Development Network projects.

"The Aga Khan Development Network's (AKDN) mandate ranges from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, disaster reduction, rural development and the revitalisation of historic cities. The AKDN has been instrumental in developing schools and hospitals around the world to provide the poor with access to the best education and health care."

For more information go to www.akdn.org