Chachipe Youth invites young people to use photography to present how they see Roma and their lives. The contest has three categories: "My Street, My Neighborhood," "My Colorful Life", and "What Is Wrong?" An international jury will award a prize of EUR 1,000 to the winners in three age-groups - 12 to 15 years old, 16 to 19 years old, and 20 to 25 years old - within each of these categories.
Photos submitted for the contest must have been taken since the beginning of 2005 in one or more of the countries participating in the Decade of Roma Inclusion (http://www.romadecade.org): Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain
Chachipe Youth is an online photo contest. Digital photos can be submitted at http://photo.romadecade.org, where detailed contest conditions are available, from October 30 through December 15, 2008. The announcement of contest results is expected in January 2009.
A selection of the best photos submitted to the Chachipe Youth contest will be displayed in an exhibition hosted by Centralis Galeria in Budapest in early 2009. OSI and OSA Archivum also plan to exhibit this selection of photographs in other Decade countries during 2009.
