Common Boston'sbi-weekly photo contest
April-June 2007
This week's theme: UNIQUE
What makes your neighborhood different?
Photographs due: June 9th
This is your last chance to submit!
This week's AIA Principles:
-Identity: A "sense of place" gives neighborhoods a unique character, enhances the walking environment, and creates pride in the community
-Design Matters:Design excellence is the foundation of successful and healthy communities.
Check out last week's winning poster image on the subject DYNAMIC & diverse by Conor MacDonald with his picture of the North End.
Also checkout last week's submissions!
Imageboston's photos appear on Common Boston 07's poster! Right-click and "Save target as..." on the poster image on the left to download a PDF.
Many submissions for this contest have been used for the Common Boston 07 poster. Common Boston 07 is Common Boston's annual community and architecture festival. To find out more about the festival happening this June, go to www.commonboston.org/cb07.
To find out more about entering the ongoing imageboston contest, read below...
You and everyone you know who lives/works/plays in the city of Boston are cordially invited to participate in Image Boston, a 10 week long, bi-weekly photo contest hosted by Common Boston.
The contest is open to anyone and everyone from aspiring (and actualized) photo journalists to amateurs.
Here's how it works: Every two weeks we'll put up a new contest subject inspired by the American Institute of Architects' 10 Principles for Livable Communities on our website, and every two weeks you can submit a new photograph (or photographs) to imageboston@commonboston.org.* We hope that you'll use this opportunity to explore how Boston's neighborhoods stack up against the AIA's 10 Principles, to think about what it is that makes the places we live great, and to show us your city through the lens of your camera.
The winning photograph will be used to make our next poster and will be displayed right here on our website, and all submissions will be posted in our submissions gallery on flickr, as well as highlighted* at events during our
Common Boston 07 festival June 8th-10th.
Participating is easy!
- Spread the word to anyone and everyone you know who might want to participate.
- Take a photo of a dynamic building, place, space, or thing that provides or encourages diversity in your community.
- Submit the photo by June 9 by sending it to imageboston@commonboston.org (subject line: Unique). Make sure to rename the file to include the name of neighborhood and the word nature (ex: unique_ashmont.jpg). Let us know in the body of the email how you heard about this contest.
- Come back to the imageboston page to check out the winner, and go to our page on for a gallery of submitted entries.
- And last but not least, check out other upcoming events!
*all submitted images are property of Common Boston
