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Deadline February 29th: Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition
Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition
Deadline: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Entry fee: None
The Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition gives photographers the opportunity to win cash prizes and have their work recognized at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in 2012, as well as on the website pdnonline.com. This juried competition is sponsored by BD, a medical technology company dedicated to improving people’s health throughout the world. BD relies on imagery to tell stories about a wide range of diseases in which its people, products and initiatives play a significant role.
Judges
David Griffin, Visuals Editor for the The Washington Post
Jon Jones, Photo Editor for the Sunday Times Magazine, UK
Laara Matsen, Photo Editor for D2 magazine
Kira Pollack, Director of Photography for TIME Magazine
Marcel Saba, Director of Redux Pictures
Prizes & Categories
- Best Global Health Story: $5,000 Cash
- Best Global Health Image: $2,500 Cash
- Best Global Health Multimedia: $2,500 Cash
All Winners Will Receive:
- PhotoServe Portfolio ($860 value)
- 1 year subscription to PDN
- 2012 PDN PhotoPlus Expo Gold Expo Pass
- All-access Big Love Pass to the 2012 LOOK3 Festival
All winners’ work will become part of Hope for a Healthy World Photo Exhibition, a traveling Global Health exhibit sponsored by BD that will debut at LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia June 7-9, 2012. Also, all winners’ work will be placed in the contest gallery hosted on PDNonline.com and represented in the PDN Photo Annual, June 2012.
Deadline March 2nd: NARS Foundation emerging Curator Call 2012
New York Artist Residency & Studios Foundation
Call for Entries: Emerging Curator 2012
Deadline: Friday, March 2, 2012
Application Fee: $10
“The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to announce its second annual Emerging Curator Open Call. The Emerging Curator Program offers an opportunity for a young-in-career curator to present a group show at the NARS Foundation Gallery. The aim of the program is to encourage new dialogue and to create a platform for artists and curators to experiment and exchange ideas. The curator is provided with exhibition space and administrative support to present innovative ideas and artworks in a unique gallery surrounded by an artist community and studios.
Applicants must submit a completed application form including a detailed exhibition proposal, a printed copy of the curator’s C.V. and the following information on a CD or DVD. Applicants will be notified by email in late March.
Download Application Form and Guidelines for more information.“
Deadline March 2nd: Palm Springs Photo Festival Emerging Photographer Scholarship
Palm Springs Photo Festival
Emerging Photographer Scholarship
Deadline: Friday, March 2, 2012
“This program is open to current full-time students and recent graduates (within 12 months) of an Undergraduate or Masters program at an accredited institution in the United States. Applicants selected to receive scholarship must register and participate in a Connect 2012 three-day Workshop in order to redeem scholarship check. Scholarship recipients will be recognized and presented with their scholarship check during one of the four Evening Presentations during the Festival.
Several Festival sponsors have graciously offered to “adopt” an emerging photographer by contributing a $500 rebate to help defray some of the costs for a select group of talented emerging photographers to attend the Palm Springs Photo Festival, April 1 – 6, 2012.
Submission Guidelines
- Letter of recommendation
- Digital portfolio of no more than 20 images. Your file must be in PDF format and must not exceed 3MB. Make sure your full name is in the file name along with the word ‘portfolio’ (ex: Bob_Smith_portfolio.pdf).
- Brief description of your work.
- 500 words or less statement explaining why you should be selected as one of the honored Emerging Photographer Scholarship recipients at Connect 2012. Your proposal must be uploaded in either .pdf or .doc format and not exceed 1MB. Make sure your full name is in the file name along with the word ‘proposal’ (ex: Bob_Smith_proposal.pdf.”
Deadline March 2nd: 17th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition: EXPOSURE 2012
Photographic Resource Center
Call for Entries: EXPOSURE 2012
Deadline: Friday, March 2, 2012, 11:59 pm EST
Entry Fee: $35 for 10 images (+ current PRC membership)
“Juror Alison Nordström, Curator of Photographs and Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House, will select work by ten contemporary photographers to exhibit their work in the PRC Gallery for the seventeenth iteration of the PRC’s highly regarded annual juried exhibition.
Awards
- Ten entries selected by juror will be invited to exhibit in the Exposure 2012 exhibition, June 5 – July 18, 2012.
- Best of Show: Selected by juror from winning entries. $500 cash prize.
- Staff Picks: PRC staff will select two entries to be exhibited in Loupe, the journal of the PRC, and in NEO, the PRC’s monthly online gallery.
Submission Guidelines
- You must download and read submission instructions.
- You must be a member of the PRC through July 31, 2012 in order to enter EXPOSURE 2012.
- Artists are asked to submit up to ten images and an artist statement online.
- If you have been chosen in any of the past five EXPOSURE exhibitions, you are not eligible to enter EXPOSURE 2012.
- You are required to adhere to all published schedules, specifications, and guidelines. Not doing so will disqualify your entry, and your entry fee will not be refunded.
- Selected photographers will be notified on April 5th.”
Deadline EXTENDED to February 17th: 2012 Our World Portfolio Review
Deadline Extended to Friday, February 17, 2012 at 5:00 pm PST
PhotoAlliance
Call for Entries: 2012 Our World Portfolio Review
Deadline: Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:00 pm PST
Application fee: $40
“A fantastic opportunity to show your photographs to professionals who publish, exhibit, write and teach. Get new ideas, make connections, and find opportunities to distribute, publish and exhibit your work. This will be the 6th annual event.
Timeline
Work must be received by Feb. 10th – CD Entry due (please send us an email letting us know you are applying, so we can anticipate receiving your application photo@photoalliance.org). Accepted photographers will be notified by Feb 20th. The review event is March 9-11 in San Francisco.
Registration
- An initial review of portfolios submitted by CD. A panel of jurors will be pre-screening all of the entries. 60 photographers will be selected for the weekend portfolio review.
- Sixty portfolios will be selected from these submissions for the weekend review. An additional $575.00 payment is then required for final participation if selected.
Submission Guidelines
- All two-dimensional works, using any photographic process including digital and/or analog, are eligible for review.
- 20 images
- A non-refundable entry fee of $40.00.
- JPEG images on CD only. Image size should be no larger than 2Mb or:
- Horizontal – 8 inches, Vertical – 8 inches
- Resolution 150 pixels/inch
- Files named as follows: Lastname_Firstname_01.jpg, Lastname_Firstname_02.jpg
- Optional: submit an accompanying sheet with a list of name, title, date, medium, and dimension of each piece.
- CD’s will be returned only if a self-addressed stamped envelope of appropriate size and with appropriate postage is submitted with entry.
- Completed Entry Form, which can be downloaded as a PDF here.”
Send USPS entries to:
PhotoAlliance / Our World Portfolio Review
PO Box 29010
San Francisco, California 94129
Send FedEx or UPS entries to:
PhotoAlliance
616 Key Boulevard
Richmond, California 94805
415-425-5608
Deadline February 24th: Renaissance Photography Prize 2012
Renaissance Photography Prize, Call for Entries
Deadline: Friday, February 24, 2012
“The Renaissance Photography Prize is an international photography competition which raises money to support younger women with breast cancer. Finoa Gifford founded the competition in 2007 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 34. Four years on, the competition has become an established fixture in the photography world.
By entering, you get the chance to have your work judged by some of the top names in photography, be exhibited in the prestigious Mall Galleries in the heart of London and win over £8,000 ($12,000) worth of prizes. You’ll also be donating to breast cancer as all of your entry fee is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care. Renaissance is run entirely by volunteers. Every penny goes to charity. Everyone gives their time and expertise for free which has allowed us to raise over £150,000 so far.
Judges
Monica Allende – picture editor of The Sunday Times magazine
Mary McCartney – portrait and fashion photographer
Brett Rogers – director of The Photographers’ Gallery
Michael Hoppen – photographer and owner of Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Brigitte Lardinois – curator, associate director of the Photography & Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London
Categories
Environment – Expression – Memory – Perspective – Disorientation
Fees
£15 for a single Entry ($23*)
£25 for up to 3 Entries ($40*)
£40 for up to 6 Entries ($60*)
Fees for more than 6 Entries will be calculated using the above tariff.
*Dollar figures are approximate and for guidance purpose only.
Submission Guidelines
The Competition is open to professional and amateur photographers worldwide. If you are under 16 you must have a parent or legal guardian’s permission to enter.
All Entries, whether taken digitally or on film, must be submitted electronically at Renaissance Photography’s website. Scans from film or prints are acceptable. Entries will not be accepted by post or hand.
Entries must be JPEG files of no more than 1024 pixels on the longest side and not more than 1Mb in file size.
Entry files should be named as such: smithp01.jpg, smithp02.jpg, smithp03.jpg (with no spaces, capital letters or unusual characters).
Click here for the full prospectus and here to enter the competition.
REMINDER: Deadline EXTENDED to February 1st for CENTER AWARDS and REVIEW SANTA FE
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012, 11:59 PM MST
CENTER
2012 Call for Entries
Deadline: Monday, January 30, 2012, 11:59 pm MST
“The 17th Annual CENTER Awards provide serious photographers with a prestigious and international program designed to give support and exposure. Jurors from TIME magazine, Getty Museum, Rizzoli, the Victoria & Albert Museum and others make for a world-class opportunity to submit your hard work to be seen.
Prizes Include: $10,000, Exhibition, Publication in Fraction Magazine, admission to Review Santa Fe, and more.
Submit: 20 images from a body of work, artist statement, resume, $35 members/$45 nonmember.
Prizes Include: Exhibition, Publication in Fraction Magazine, admission to Review Santa Fe, and more.
Jurors: Stefanie Braun – Senior Curator, The Photographer’s Gallery, UK; Ashley Givens – Assistant Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK; Jamie Wellford – Senior Photo Editor, The Newsweek Daily Beast.
Submit: 1-4+ images, $25 members/$35 nonmembers per category OR $60 members/$75 nonmembers for all 3 categories.
PROJECT LAUNCH
Prizes Include: $5,000, Exhibition, Publication in Fraction Magazine.
Juror: Virginia Heckert – Associate Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum
Submit: 8-10 images from a work-in-progress, artist statement, resume, $25 members/$35 nonmember.
REVIEW SANTA FE
JUNE 2012: This weekend conference and juried portfolio review event is designed to facilitate relationships with industry professionals looking for new work. Scholarships and payment plans are available.”
Click here for the guidelines and application.
Deadline February 1st: Call to Arizona Artists “Red: A Juried Invitational”
Etherton Gallery • Temple Gallery
Call to Arizona Artists for Red: A Juried Invitational
Deadline: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 12:00 pm
“Etherton Gallery is pleased to invite Arizona artists over the age of 18 to submit work in any 2-dimensional media for consideration in the juried exhibition, Red, at the Temple Gallery. The exhibition will run in conjunction with the Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Red by John Logan, winner of six 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Play. Red opens April 7 and runs through June 1, 2012. Submissions will be juried by Terry Etherton and the staff of Etherton Gallery, which manages the Temple Gallery. All work included in the exhibition will be for sale.
Submission Guidelines
Artists must have a current address in Arizona and be at least 18 years of age.
Size/Media:
Finished work in any 2-dimensional media may be submitted. The maximum size is 24 x 24, including framing. All work must be ready to hang on the wall for exhibition. Freestanding works will not be accepted. No phone calls, please.
Submission Format:
Artists must submit work digitally via email or on a CD. Artists may submit up to 3 images in JPEG format (300 dpi, 5 inches on the short side). Entries must include all contact information along with the title, date, media, and dimensions of work submitted. The works submitted must be the sole creation of the exhibiting artist(s). Submission materials will not be returned. Do not submit original artwork; it will not be returned. Please write “Attn: Artist Submission for Red” in the subject line of the email or on the envelope for a CD; drop off or mail CD to Etherton Gallery, 135 S. 6th Ave., Tucson, Arizona, 85701. Please send email submissions to dawne@ethertongallery.com. No phone calls, please.
Artist Statement:
Submitting artists must include a short Artist Statement about the piece(s) submitted via email or on CD. As Mark Rothko said, “There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.”
Deadline January 27th: American Photography 28
American Photography 28 – Call for Entries
Deadline: Friday, January 27, 2012
American Photography is the leading juried annual, regarded by creative professionals as the number one resource for today’s finest photographers. Selected work will be published in hardcover and distributed worldwide November 2012.
Eligibility
All photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography living, working or studying in North American with work created or published anywhere for any purpose. International photographers living abroad who have North American representation or have been published or exhibited in North America are also eligible.
AP28 Entry Fees
$35 per single photograph in any category.
$95 per series of 10 images from a book, catalog, annual report, calendar or video.
$95 per editorial, advertising, promotional or unpublished, personal series of up to 10 related images.
Student Fees
$10 per photograph –or-
$60 per portfolio of up to ten images by an individual, class or department.
Publication Fees
Publication fees for winning images are in addition to entry fees for Selected and Chosen images:
Selected – $95 per image for publication in the book and on The Archive.
Chosen – $50 per image to be presented on The Archive only.
Publication fees are waived for winning student submissions and not-for-profit organizations.
Categories
Editorial: Individual images or stories on any subject for magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals in both print and digital media. Including assigned outtakes.
SUBCATEGORIES required: Photojournalism/News; Portraiture; Fashion/Design; Food; Travel/Lifestyle; Sports; Conceptual; Other.
Books: Covers, individual images and sequential series from trade books, limited editions, children’s books, graphic novels, comic books and self-published editions.
SUBCATEGORIES required: Children’s Books; Monographs; Adult Fiction/Non-Fiction; Graphic Novels/Comics; Other
Advertising: Ads in consumer and trade magazines, newspapers, websites and all other media. Entire campaigns or individual images accepted from print and digital media.
Graphics/Promotional: Images and all forms of designed material for brochures, annual reports, catalogs, direct mail, announcement cards, CD covers, calendars, posters, websites, point-of-sale or merchandising and self-promotion pieces from print and digital media.
Posters: Designed promotional, political, music and theater posters for commercial or not-for-profit clients and self-generated projects.
3-D: 3-D vinyl and plush toys, products and installations for either not-for-profit or commercial purpose.
Video, Animation and Motion Graphics: Live action and animation for feature films, television commercials, documentaries, websites, games and music videos. Includes any image or design that moves. Up to 10 still images accepted per project.
Unpublished: Self-generated personal, experimental and fine art work.
SUBCATEGORIES required: Personal Work; Fine Art; Nudes, Other.
Students: Any work by full or part-time students completed in 2011. Students may submit individually or as part of a department or class.
Click here for the list of this year’s juror’s.
Click here for the full prospectus and to enter.