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Deadline May 29th: PPAC’s 3rd Annual Contmeporary Photography Competition & Exhibition
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Call for Entries: 3rd Annual Contemporary Photography Competition & Exhibition
Deadline: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Fee: $40 for 5 images
The Philadelphia Photo arts center (PPAC) announces it’s annual call for entries. Selected entries will be exhibited at PPAC from July 12 – September 8, 2012 and will be included in a book of the exhibition.
The competition is open to all subject matter, photographic techniques and processes. The entry fee is $40 for a maximum of 5 images. entry fees are non refundable. all entries must be received or postmarked by Tuesday, May 29th, 2012. For more info please email: info@philaphotoarts.org.
Jurors
Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography of the New York Times Magazine
Natasha Egan, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Submission Guidelines
- Submissions are accepted online at www.philaphotoarts.slideroom.com OR by mail on a CD. Submissions submitted by email will not be accepted. Images should be formatted as 72dpi JPEGs, no larger than 1024 pixels at longest dimension.
- Each JPEG should have a file name with the photographer’s first name, last name, corresponding number from the entry form, and image title (e.g. Johnsmith_2_untitled.jpg)
- Include artist statement, bio, and CV/resume in digital format (Word document or PDF). Please do not send hard copies.
- The CD and CD case must be labeled with the artists name and PPAC’s 3rd Annual contemporary Photography competition and exhibition
- Artists will be notified by June 12, 2012 via email
- All works selected must be available for sale at a price (inclusive of frame) determined by the artist. artists will receive 60% of the sale price.
- Submission materials will not be returned.
- All work must be delivered to PPAC by July 9th. PPAC will not pay for or coordinate any delivery or return shipping. PPAC staff will handle work carefully, but PPAC is not responsible for damage to any work.
Click here to submit online via Slide Room.
Click here to download a PDF of the submission guidelines and entry form.
Deadline May 15th: Daylight Photo Awards 2012
Daylight Magazine
Call for Entries: Daylight Photo Awards 2012
Deadline: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 8:00 pm ET
Fee: $40 per portfolio (4 portfolios max)
“Daylight is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing art and photography via our book, magazine, and multimedia programs. By exploring the documentary mode along with the more conceptual concerns of fine-art, Daylight’s uniquely collectible publications work to revitalize the relationship between art, photography, and the world-at-large.”
2012 JURY
- David Bram, Fraction Magazine
- Alexa Dilworth, Center for Documentary Studies
- Jim Estrin, New York Times
- Taj Forer + Michael Itkoff, Daylight
- Paul Moakley, Time Magazine
- Jessie Wender, New Yorker Magazine
1 Daylight Photo Award recipient wins:
- $1000 Cash prize
- Solo exhibition at the Daylight Project Space
- Feature in Daylight Magazine
- Daylight Multimedia podcast production
- Complete set of Daylight Books (published to date)
5 Juror Picks win:
- Portfolio feature in group Daylight Multimedia production
- Copy of Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers’ Essays”
Submit on line here: https://daylight.slideroom.com.
Deadline May 18th: “Gift of Gift of” Call for Entries
Gift of Gift of Call for Entries
Deadline: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 11:59 pm CT
No entry fee.
“Gift of Gift of (GoGo) was started in 2009 as a way to give young art lovers a chance to support emerging photographers and have a great time doing it. Each year GoGo hosts an annual Exhibition & Vote Party for folks who love photography and want to have a say in what works are “museum worthy.” The exhibitions feature photographs found through an open call for entries. The photographs are by artists of all ages from around the world who consider themselves to be emerging and are looking for the recognition that comes when their work is acquired by renowned museum. Money from Vote Party ticket sales are pooled together to purchase as many of the exhibited artworks as possible. Partygoers vote on the art to decide what will be purchased and offered as a gift of Gift of Gift of to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston permanent collection.
- The exhibition is a chance for emerging photographers to gain exposure.
- The party brings artists and art lovers together, encouraging them to discuss the work and lobby for their favorites, while having glamorous good time.
- The voting gives art lovers the opportunity to have a tangible impact on a large collecting institution.
Eligibility
GoGo supports emerging photographers. In order to be eligible to submit work for consideration, artists should not have work in a major museum collection and must be producing artwork that is priced at $300 USD or less. Only original work produced in the last five years will be considered.
Submission Guidelines
- NO ENTRY FEE!
- Fill out the online entry form and email your images, resume/bio and artist statement to giftofgiftof@gmail.com, Subject: LASTNAME_ENTRY_2012 by midnight on May 18, 2012
- Submit up to 10(max) digital image files to be considered (jpegs, max 300 ppi resolution, 1600 x 1600 pixels maximum). The maximum size for total entry should not exceed 20MB. Slides and/or prints will not be accepted.
- Number/name each entry to correspond with the submitted entry form. All image titles should be labeled with your last name. (Example: 1_LASTNAME_TITLE_YEAR.jpg, 2_LASTNAME_TITLE_YEAR.jpg, etc.)”
Deadline Extended to May 15th: Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts
Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts
Deadline: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Artists are invited to submit applications postmarked by May 15, 2012.”
Deadline May 18th: PCNW 17th Annual Photo Competition
Photo Center Northwest
Call for Entries: 17th Annual Photo Competition “Equivalents”
Deadline: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm PDT
Fee: $40 for 4 images (each additional image is $7, up to 12 total)
“The Photo Center NW is pleased to announce Equivalents: 17th Annual Photo Competition Exhibition, and our esteemed juror, W.M. Hunt. This year the theme is open. Selected entries will be exhibited in Seattle, WA at the Photo Center August – Mid September 2012. All photo processes are welcome. Maximum frame size is 32 inches on the longest side. Artists will be responsible for shipping their framed work to and from the gallery. The competition is international and open to all photographers.
Juror
W.M. Hunt is a champion of photography – collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York. He is the author of “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious” published in 2011 by Aperture in the US, Thames & Hudson in the UK and as “L’Oeil Invisible” by “Actes Sud” in France. Highlights from his collection have been seen at the George Eastman House and in Europe in Arles, Lausanne, and Amsterdam. more»
Awards
First, second, and third prize winners will take home $1000, $500, and $250 as well as a $75 Blurb Inc. Scrip Certificate for each winner. Photo Center gratefully acknowledges Blurb Inc., Glazer’s Camera, and Panda Lab respectively for their award sponsorships.
Entry Fee
The entry fee is $40 for 4 jpgs (minimum). You may add additional jpgs for $7 a piece up to 12 total. You must submit a minimum of 4 images to be reviewed with a artist’s statement (digital file). Payment must be in U.S. Dollars. Entry fees are non-refundable. This juried show is our gallery program’s annual fundraiser and the entry fees help to support our gallery program offerings throughout the year.
Submission Guidelines
- Print out the PDF entry form from our website and fill it out legibly. Click Here.
- Burn up to 12 jpg images on a CD – no DVDs please – (no dvd drive on our office computer-we’re working on it), and include a PDF file on the CD that has your Artist Statement, Print Sizes, Print Types and Your Name. (The juror will view this PDF). Entries by email are not accepted.
- Must submit a minimum of 4 jpgs, and up to 12 total.
- Jpeg resolution 72 ppi, RGB preferred, approx 1000 pixels wide.
- Jpegs must be titled in this format: photographer’s name, correlating letter to match the printed out entry form & the title of the image (JohnDoe _A_Untitled.jpg).
- Required PDF file on the CD that includes your name, artist statement or project statement. This statement should be no longer than 4 paragraphs. After the statement, list the image size of your work and print type. (for example: 16 x 20, Silver Gelatin Prints). Do not send a hard copy of the statement-it won’t be used.
- The CD and CD case must be labeled with the photographer’s name.
- Put everything in an envelope and mail with your payment to (materials will not be returned):
Photo Center NW
17th Annual Contest
900 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122.
Deadline May 18th: Newspace Center for Photography 2012 Juried Exhibition
Newspace Center for Photography
Call for Entries: 2012 Juried Exhibition
Deadline: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 6:00 pm PDT
Juror: Laura Moya, Executive Director of Photolucida
Fee: $40 for 5 images
“Newspace Center for Photography, located in Portland, Oregon, invites you to enter our 8th Annual Juried Exhibition. Winning images will be shown at the Center during the month of July 2012. The competition is open to all photographic themes and processes, but the work should have been created in the last five years. 35 images will be selected for the exhibition and one photographer will be selected for a solo show at Newspace in 2013 and awarded $500. Regional, national, and international entries are accepted.
Exhibition Details
Those accepted into the show will be notified within two weeks after the deadline and will be posted on our website. Selected photographers will exhibit at Newspace from Friday, July 6th through Sunday, July 29th, 2012 with an opening reception Friday, July 6th 6-9pm.
Entry Details
To enter you can fill out the entry form and mail it in with your CD of images OR you can use our new online entry system below.
The entry fee is $40 for 5 images and you may enter as many images as you like. Newspace Toy Camera level members and higher may enter at no charge. To submit your 5 free members images you must fill out the entry form and submit it with your images on a CD. (Sorry we are unable to customize the online system to accommodate this) All other entries may use this form or our new online entry system below. Entry materials will not be returned.
If using the mail in form, the images need to be 300 dpi jpg files no larger than 7 inches in its longest dimension. Each jpg file must be titled with your last name, first initial, “underscore” and the correlating number to match the entry form. For instance Mike Smith would be SmithM_1.jpg. The CD itself must be labeled with the photographer’s name. Materials will not be returned. Sorry no slides or prints.
Instructions and guidelines for online entries will be found once you log into the online system.
Send your completed entry form with a CD of images to:
Newspace Center for Photography
Members’ Showcase
1632 se 10th ave.
Portland, OR 97214″
Click here to download the entry form or to submit online.
Deadline May 18th: Aaron Siskind Foundation – 2012 Individual Photographers Fellowship
Aaron Siskind Foundation
2012 Individual Photographers Fellowship
Deadline: Friday, May 18, 2012 at 11:59 pm MT
“The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for artists working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest judges on the basis of artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievement in the medium in its widest sense. The Foundation seeks to support artists/photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field, who are professionally active or employed in the field.
Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens and Legal Permanent Residents of the United States, who reside in the U.S., and who are at least 21 years of age. Recipients must provide legal proof of eligibility and a verifiable social security number.
Who May Not Apply: Students enrolled in a college degree program (recent graduates are eligible to apply). Previous IPF recipients are not being considered for new awards at this time.
Eligible Work: There are no restrictions on subject matter, genres or processes of past or projected work. Works submitted may be traditional photography projects or experimental works; Photographic techniques must be pivotal to the works submitted. The submission should consist of a mature, coherent body of work. Non-Eligible Work includes: film, video, interactive multimedia
Fellowship recipients will be notified in the summer of 2012. Names of recipients and panelists will be announced shortly thereafter. The decisions of the Aaron Siskind Foundation and its designated judging panel as to who receives fellowship support will be final, private, and without appeal. As required by law, award funds must be used to further the artist’s creative endeavors. Recipients will be asked to provide a summary of the uses to which award funds are put. Award funds will be taxable to recipients in Tax Year 2012.
Entries must be submitted through the CaFÉ application system, details here.
Required Submission Materials
- Applicant Profile: Name and contact information
- Work Samples: A portfolio of eight (8) digital images showing representative, recent work. If your work is best communicated visually by showing its physical or installed nature, or aspects of detail, use one or more of the eight images for that purpose.
- Exactly eight (8) images must be submitted, no more and no less. They will be projected for the panelists via high-definition digital projectors and viewed at roughly 30”x40” per image.
- With regard to the order of your images, please consider that they will be projected in two groups of four images at a time (Images # 1-4 are shown first, followed by Images # 5-8). Images must be Standard baseline JPEG files with the .jpg extension.
- The recommended color profile is sRGB.
- Maximum file size is 1.8 MB. Image size can be no larger than 1920 x 1920 pixels (smaller images will be shown against a 1920 x 1920 black background). Images should be 72 DPI, any higher will unnecessarily increase your file size.
- Text descriptors for each image: Title, Year Completed, Medium, Dimensions
(Note: There are also fields for image “Value” and “Description” in the application. We don’t include this information in our review process. “Description” can be left blank. $0.00 can be entered for image “Value”. Whatever you enter in these fields — it will not be seen by jurors.) - Work Statement: (350 words/2000 characters, maximum) The purpose of the Statement is to give the panel a better understanding of your work while they are viewing it. It should be very clear and concise, and relate to the specific works you are submitting.
- Career summary, artist’s resume or short bio (500 words maximum).”
Spaces Still Available for the New England Portfolio Reviews!
New England Portfolio Reviews
Hosted by: Griffin Museum of Photography | Photographic Resource Center
Call in Registration May 4-9, 2012
Click here for details on calling in your registration.
From a previous post about the reviews:
“The New England Portfolio Reviews will be held at Boston University this year and will take place on Friday morning, May 11, and all day Saturday, May 12.
This year we will offer a portfolio walk. All photographers will have the opportunity to share their work to all the reviewers, other attendees, and special guests invited by the Photographic Resource Center and the Griffin Museum of Photography on Saturday following the afternoon review session.
The New England Portfolio Reviews is an opportunity for emerging and established photographers to meet with curators, teachers, gallerists, and other image professionals. The Reviews will serve individuals who are just embarking on their careers and those who have several years of experience and are hoping to reach new audiences by initiating connections with leading figures in the busy New England photography world.”
To get information about registration, reviewer schedule, rate, and more, visit newenglandportfolioreviews.com.”
Deadline Extended to May 10th: PDN The Great Outdoors Photography Competition
PDN
The Great Outdoors Photography Competition
Deadline: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 11:59 pm EDT
Fee: $45 for professionals | $22 for amateurs for each image
Judges
Jeff Divine, Photo Editor, The Surfer’s Journal
Lila Garnett, Photo Editor, Audubon Magazine
Sandra Cheung, Art Director, Outdoor Canada
Dave Reddick, Photo Editor, Powder Magazine
Prizes
- One professional grand prize winner will receive a one-week photography workshop of their choice at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. ($2,200)
- One amateur grand prize winner will receive a MatadorU full curriculum Photography Course and one year of MatadorAccess.
- Eight professional and amateur first-place winners will each receive a $100 Adorama gift certificate and a $100 Canson Infinity gift certificate.
- All professional first-place winners will receive a PhotoServe.com portfolio ($860 value).
- All amateur first-place winners will receive one year of MatadorAccess.
- All first-place winners will receive Nikon Coolpix AW100 Digital Camera .
- Winning images will be featured in PDN’s August issue which has an additional print circulation to 5,000 photography industry creatives!
- Winning images be printed and displayed at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show August 2-5, 2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The gallery will be on display for the event’s 21,000 attendees which includes 1,000 outdoor brand representatives and related media players. PDN’s Outdoor Photo Expo, a new trade show celebrating travel and location photography, is held nearby in Salt Lake City August 1-4, 2012. Winning images may be viewed by attendees of both trade shows-this is the world’s largest gathering of it’s kind!
Click here for the rules. Click here to submit to the contest.