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Deadline December 7th: Photography Fellowships in Africa

SocialDocumentary.net | Management Sciences for Health
Call for Entries: Photography Fellowship in Africa
Deadline: Friday, December 7, 2012

Submission Fee: $25

SocialDocumentary.net and Management Sciences for Health are partnering to award this fellowship to global health-minded photographers to capture the breadth and impact of MSH’s work. MSH wishes to build up a library of photographs that captures its life saving work with people working at all levels of the health system—from the households and families to community-based health workers to the doctors and nurses in the health centers to government officials and ministers of health.

Three photographers will be awarded a $4,000 fellowship, plus travel expenses, to spend two weeks working in Africa to document the global health projects of Management Sciences for Health (MSH).”

Three selected photographers will receive:

  • $4,000 honoraria.
  • All expenses paid during travel including emergency medical insurance and visas.
  • Work will be featured in MSH publications (hard copy and electronic), website, social media, conference and event materials, and country and corporate reports.
  • Work will featured on SDN website and in email Spotlight.

Submissions will be evaluated by the following criteria:

  • Submitted work and résumé must demonstrate ability to photographically document challenging situations resulting in strong visual imagery and narrative.
  • Photographer must provide evidence of past experience working independently in the developing world and/or countries in conflict.
  • Submitted work must demonstrate ability to show dignity and hope while engaged in photographing challenging global health situations.
  • Submitted photographs must have been taken since 2007 or later.

To read the full prospectus and to apply via SocialDocumentary.net, click here.

Deadline December 9th: Silver Eye Fellowship 13

Silver Eye Center for Photography
Call for Entries: Fellowship 13, International Photography Competition
Deadline: Sunday, December 9, 2012, 11:59 pm EST

“Silver Eye Center for Photography announces a Call for Entries for Fellowship 13, our international photography competition. Now in its 13th year, this competition recognizes both rising talent and established photographers from all corners of the globe and from the state of Pennsylvania. In addition to two awards for photographers, we will inaugurate this year a $500 Multimedia Storyteller Award for a short documentary video or internet-based project.

Jurors
Sam Barzilay, Creative Director, United Photo Industries and Co-Founder, Photoville, Brooklyn, New York
Ellen Fleurov, Executive Director, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Awards

  • One International Award Winner receives a solo exhibition at Silver Eye opening mid-January 2013; $3,000 for exhibition-related expenses; an online gallery on Silver Eye’s website (with link to artist website); and media outreach and promotion.
  • One Keystone Award Winner receives a spotlight exhibition in mid-January 2013; $1,000 for exhibition-related expenses; an online gallery on Silver Eye’s website (with link to artist website); and media outreach and promotion.
  • One Multimedia Storyteller Award Winner for a documentary or internet-based project receives $500; a dedicated article with URL and/or video download via Silver Eye’s website; and media outreach and promotion.
  • Six Judges’ Commendation Winners will be named on Silver Eye’s website and press releases.

Eligibility
All U.S. and international amateur and professional photographers, age 18 and older at the time of submission, may apply.  Silver Eye staff and their relatives, Board members, current interns, and past Fellowship winners are not eligible to apply.

Fees
$85 for non-Silver Eye members.
$18 for current Silver Eye members at the $70 level and above, with membership valid through January, 31, 2013.

Submission Guidelines

  1. One-page Artist’s Statement in PDF format;
  2. Biography or CV in PDF format
  3. Sample of work:
    • International Award and Keystone Award: submit up to eight (8) images from a cohesive, exhibition-ready body of work created within the past three years. Or, if from an ongoing project, the portfolio must include images created within the past three years. Image files should be less than 2MB each, and sized around 1024 x 768 pixels @ 72 dpi.
    • Multimedia Storyteller Award: your multimedia submission may include either a video or an internet-based project. Please keep video files (.mov, .wmv, .flv) under 60MB and limited to a 3-minute clip. You may also submit one still image from your piece plus a link to your video on your own website. The link should be part of your artist’s statement.
    • Submitted work may not have been previously exhibited at Silver Eye or in the Greater Pittsburgh region.
  4. Submissions will only be accepted at silvereye.slideroom.com.”

Click here for the full prospectus.

Deadline November 16th: HCP Juried Fellowship Call for Entries

Houston Center for Photography
Juried Fellowship Call for Entries 2013
Deadline: Friday, November 16, 2012 at midnight

“Two fellowship recipients will be awarded $3,000 each and a solo exhibition at HCP in the summer of 2013. One Houston-based artist (residing within a 100 mile radius of Houston including the Beaumont, Galveston, and College Station areas) will receive the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship and another artist from anywhere in the world, outside the Houston area, will receive the HCP Fellowship.

Juror
W.M. Hunt, Collector, Curator and Consultant

Fees
There is a $35 entry, which includes entry for 10 images or video. The maximum number of images artist can submit is 10. You are not required to submit 10 images. You may submit more than one entry. Each entry is $35. All Entrants must be, or become, HCP members at the time of submission; click here to become a member.

Eligibility

  • Participants must be or become HCP members (any level) at the time of submission. Basic level of membership, $35, required for submission.
    *If you are an HCP Artist/Photographer level ($250) member or above you can waive the fee for one call for entry a year. If you would like to waive this fee please contact us at exhibits@hcponline.org and we will send you a discount code.
  • The competition is open to all artists working in photographic and lens-based work.
  • Any photographic process is acceptable as long as it is:
    • Original
    • Been made within the last two years
    • Has not been exhibited in a previous HCP Exhibition.

Rules for Entry

  • All submissions will go through callforentry.org, you can create a free account
  • Entrants should upload up to 10 images or videos, an artist statement, and a resume/bio
  • Acceptance will be based on the body of work by each artist rather than on individual images.”

For the full prospectus and to apply visit callforentry.org.

Deadline Extended, August 2nd: En Foco New Works Fellowship #16

En Foco has extended their deadline for the New Works Photography Fellowship Awards #16 to Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 12:00 am (midnight) PDT, 1:00am MDT, 2:00am CDT, 3:00am EDT.

For details and to submit, click here.

Deadline EXTENDED to January 31st: Silver Eye Fellowship 12: International Photography Competition

Deadline Extended to January 31, 2012

Silver Eye Center for Photography
Fellowship 12: International Photography Competition
Deadline: Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 11:59:59 pm EST
$15 for Silver Eye members with $70 membership | $65 for non-members

About
The Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh announces a call for entries for Fellowship 12, our international photography competition. Now in its 12th year, this juried competition identifies and recognizes both rising talent and established photographers from all corners of the globe and from the state of Pennsylvania. In 2012, the first prize International Award is $3,000 and a solo exhibition at Silver Eye Center for Photography. The $1,000 Keystone Award is open to any eligible photographer currently living and/or working in the state of Pennsylvania. The jurors will also select up to five artists for Commendation Awards.

Juror
Julie Saul is a pre-eminent art dealer and the owner and director of Julie Saul Gallery in New York City. Now celebrating its 26th year, Julie Saul Gallery specializes in contemporary photography and works on paper. Honored in 2010 by the Aperture Foundation for her contributions to photography, Julie has also worked as an independent curator and taught and lectured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; New York University and the School of Visual Arts; and at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. A frequent portfolio reviewer, Julie has also served on the board of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers.

Ellen Fleurov is Executive Director of the Silver Eye Center for Photography. The founding curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, Ellen has curated over 85 exhibitions for American and international museums, galleries and photography festivals. She is a frequent lecturer, grants panelist, exhibition juror and portfolio reviewer, most recently at Houston’s Fotofest and Portland’s Photo Lucida and Critical Mass.

Awards

  • One (1) International Award Winner receives a solo exhibition at Silver Eye opening in mid-May 2012; $3,000 for exhibition-related expenses; an online gallery on Silver Eye’s website (with link to artist website); and extensive media outreach and promotion.
  • One (1) Keystone Award Winner receives a spotlight exhibition at Silver Eye; $1,000 for exhibition-related expenses; an online gallery on Silver Eye’s website (with link to artist website); and media outreach and promotion.
  • Five (5) Jurors’ Commendation Winners will be named on Silver Eye’s website and press releases.

Submission Guidelines
Submissions will be accepted online only through SlideRoom.

  • Eight images from a cohesive, exhibition-ready body of work created within the past three years.  Or, if an ongoing project, the portfolio must include imagery created within the past three years.
  • Submitted work must not have been previously exhibited at Silver Eye (online or onsite) or widely seen in the greater Pittsburgh region.
  • A one-page artist statement and CV in PDF format.

Click here for the full prospectus.

Deadline October 15th: Women’s Studio Workshop Fellowships & Residencies

Women’s Studio Workshop
Upcoming Deadlines for Fellowship and Residency Oppurtunities

“The Women’s Studio Workshop awards offer artists the time, studio space and equipment,  to create new work, among a fantastic community of artists. Follow the links below for program details.”

Postmark Deadline of Saturday, October 15, 2011 for:
Art-in-Education Fellowship

Studio Fellowship

Ora Schneider Regional Artist Residency

Postmark Deadline of Tuesday, November 15, 2011 for:
Artist Book Residency
Art-in-Education Residency

 

Deadline September 16th: CPW’s 2011 Photographers’ Fellowship Fund (Regional)

The Center for Photography at Woodstock
2011 Photographers’ Fellowship Fund
Deadline: Friday, September 16, 2011

Fellowship Amount: $2,500
Juror: Peter Barberie, Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Free to enter
*Open to residents in these New York State counties: Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Montgomery, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Sullivan, Ulster, Warren, and Washington. Proof of residency is required.

Submission Guidelines

  • Application form and image list with titles, medium, year, and size
  • Artist statement and bio
  • Proof of residency
  • Portfolio of ten prints; print, slide or digital:
    • “Print Portfolios are strongly encouraged over the submission of digital files. Please do not submit print portfolios larger than 20×30 inches. If your work is larger than 20×30 please submit a smaller portfolio along with one sample print and the intended exhibition/display size.
    • Slide or digital file format. For digital files please submit JPEGS at 300 dpi, 4×5 inches formatted on a CD-ROM. All work samples must be labeled with your name, phone #, image title, date, size, and media. For CD-ROM submissions, please include an image script identifying the listed information.  *We will not accept submissions via email.”

See the full prospectus on CPW’s website here.

Deadline July 27th: En Foco New Works Photogrpahy Fellowship Awards

En Foco
New Works Photography Fellowship Awards

Deadline: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 12:00 am PST

Juror: Michael Mazzeo, Michael Mazzeo Gallery

About
“En Foco’s New Works Photography Fellowship Awards is an annual program selecting three or more U.S. based photographers of Latino, African or Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and Pacific, through a national call for entries.

New Works helps artists to create or complete an in-depth photographic series exploring themes of their choice, and provides the infrastructure needed for national visibility and a professional exhibition of their new work in the New York area.”

For details visit En Foco’s website.

Submission deadlines take place every July, and can be in any photo-based style or genre (documentary, autobiographical, landscape, abstract, digital, pinhole, alternative processes, etc). Have questions about submitting work? Check our Submissions page (scroll down for “New Works” specific tips.

Deadline May 31st: W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography

W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
Deadline: May 31, 2011
Fee: None

Grant: $30,000
Discretionary Fellowship: $5,000

About
“The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith‘s concerned photography and dedicated compassion exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist.”

Jury
The Fund’s Board of Trustees appoints a three-member international jury every year. The jury meets twice. At its first session it reviews all the applications and proposals, and selects finalists primarily on the basis of the substantive (and intellectual) merit of their project. The finalists are only then asked to submit a comprehensive photographic print portfolio, to write (if necessary) a more detailed and focused proposal, and to answer questions about their project.

At its second session, the jury reviews the new materials and proceeds to select the grant recipient and the beneficiaries of the fellowship money.

Applicants should include:

  • Written proposal that is concise, journalistically realizable, visually translatable, and humanistically driven.
  • Resume of educational and professional qualifications.
  • 20 to 40 images that demonstrate evidence of photographic ability.
  • The applicant must affirm that the proposed project is ongoing.

Please click here for grant details, application form, and complete submission guidelines.

Deadline May 17th: Aaron Siskind Foundation – 2011 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship

Aaron Siskind Foundation
2011 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship

Deadline: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 11:59 pm MST

“The Aaron Siskind Foundation (ASF) is offering a limited number of Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for individual artists working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients are selected 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.”

Eligibility
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 may apply. Recipients must provide legal proof of eligibility and a verifiable social security number.

Students enrolled in a college degree program may not apply (recent graduates are eligible to apply). Previous IPF Recipients are not being considered for new awards at this time.

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.
Film, Video; Internet projects, interactive multimedia are not eligible.

Application
Applications must be submitted through the CaFÉ application system at www.callforentries.org.

  • A portfolio of exactly eight (8) images showing representative, recent work.
  • Images must be Standard baseline JPEG files with the .jpg extension. For information about CaFÉ’s image preparation, click here.
  • Text descriptors for each image: Title, Medium, Year, Dimensions
  • 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 clear, concise and relate to the works that you are submitting.
  • Career summary, artist’s resumé or short bio: (500 words maximum).

For full details and to apply please view the prospectus here.

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