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December 1st- CALL FOR ENTRIES: “Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession”

November 13, 2009 at 5:16 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts, MUST JOIN, MUST SEE, MVS MUSTS

CALL FOR ENTRIES: “Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession”

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009

From the announcement:

In the spirit of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the New Deal in the 1930s, when photographers documented the hardship and proposed solutions,SocialDocumentary.net (SDN) is issuing a Call for Entries. We are looking for photo essays that provide insight into how ordinary citizens around the world are coping during these new “hard times” and how individuals, companies, industries, family businesses, communities, and governments are responding to the crisis.

We encourage a broad definition of the global recession. Suggested stories include those of people losing their jobs, homes, and health benefits; or the effects on vulnerable communities in conflict zones, global climate change; or how the UN’s millennium goals in economic development and health improvement have been stalled by lack of resources. We are also interested in how people and governments are working to overcome these challenges in creative ways such as agricultural development; wind, solar and other alternative energies; public health programs to stop the spread of disease; or technological innovations to reduce greenhouse gases and dependence on oil. These are just examples. We welcome new stories and approaches to documenting this important topic. If photographers are not sure if their stories fit into our definition of the global recession, they are encouraged to inquire at info@socialdocumentary.net.

First Place:
One photographer will be awarded:
A $1,500 cash prize.
Exhibition of their work in a group show with other winners at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, NY, from February 15 to March 14, 2010. SDN to pay for all reproduction, and hanging fees.
Invitation to participate on a panel discussion at the opening night reception at powerHouse Arena on February 16, 2010. (photographer will need to cover their travel expenses).
Exhibit featured in exhibition catalog printed by Meridian Printing, the leading printer of photography books in North America.
A featured exhibit on the SDN home page for two weeks and features in email spotlights.
A LowePro Vertex 300 AW backpack.

Honorable Mention:
Three photographers will be awarded: Exhibition of some of their winning work at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, NY in a group show from February 15-March 14, 2010. SDN to pay for all reproduction, and hanging fees.
Exhibit included in exhibition catalog.
Winning work featured on the website of SocialDocumentary.net and in email spotlights.
A LowePro Fastpack 350 backpack.

All competition winners will each receive five complimentary copies of catalog.

For more information visit: http://www.Socialdocumentary.net OR http://www.socialdocumentary.net/competition.php

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December 21st- Deadline for the PDN Photo Annual and Arnold Newman Prize

November 11, 2009 at 6:08 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, APPROACHING EVENT, Funding the Arts, MUST SUBSCRIBE, MVS MUSTS, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES

December 21st is the Deadline for the Photo District News Photo Annual

There has been a new prize added this year, the The Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation and Maine Media Workshops Scholarship and Prize for New Directions in Creative Photographic Portraiture. Photographers are invited to enter portrait photography for consideration in this new category.
The winner will receive $15,000 and a solo exhibit at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.

About the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation:

The Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation was established in 2007 and funded by a generous gift from Augusta Newman.  The Foundation’s mission is to further the legacy of Arnold Newman by supporting photographers and photography students and helping to disseminate Newman’s photographic works.  The Foundation supports the annual Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, scholarships at the Maine Media Workshops, lectures on photography and exhibits of Newman’s work.

 

The PDN Photo Annual  awards celebration for the winners will take place in May 2010 in New York, NY. The winners and their work will be featured in the May issue of PDN and on the Web site.

Also for students- Marty Forscher Fellowship

The Marty Forscher Fellowship recognizes students and young professionals with a talent for humanistic photography. The fund will award two grants in 2009. Photographers are eligible by entering humanistic documentary images to the PDN Photo Annual. The Fellowship is sponsored by Parsons School for Design and Photo District News.

Categories

Advertising
Magazine/Editorial
Photo Books
Photojournalism/Sports/Documentary
Corporate Design/Photo Products
Personal
Stock Photography
Web Sites
Student Work

Entry Fees

SINGLE ENTRY:$45
CAMPAIGN/SERIES:$55
ARNOLD NEWMAN PRIZE:$55
STUDENT:$25 (single or series)

For more details and to submit click here.

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Lensculture Awards

November 7, 2009 at 5:47 pm · Filed under Funding the Arts, MUST SEE, MVS MUSTS

Congratulations to all of the Winners and Honorable Mentions of this years Lensculture International Exposures Awards

The Portfolio Prize Winner for this years Lensculture International Exposures Award was  Marco Vernaschi for his work “Drug trafficking in
Guinea-Bissau”

The Single Image Prize Winners are:

Brad Moore
Winner, 1st Prize

Stella Johnson
Winner, 2nd Prize

Laura Pannack:
Winner, 3rd Prize

To View a gallery of the winners click here.

2009 Honorable Mention Winners:

Edmund Clark (Great Britain)
www.edmundclark.com

Sylvain Deleu (Great Britain)
www.sylvaindeleu.com

Julie Denesha (United States)
www.juliedenesha.com

Peter DiCampo (United States)
www.peterdicampo.com

Johan Ensing (Netherlands)

Kate Geraghty (Australia)

Leah Giesler (United States)
www.leahgiesler.com

Jan Grarup (Denmark)
www.noorimages.com

Colin Gray (Great Britain)
www.colingray.net

Jessica Hines (United States)
www.jessicahines.com

Elin Hoyland (Norway)
www.elinhoyland.com

Priya Kambli (United States)
www.priyakambli.com

Mischa Keijser (Netherlands)
www.mischakeijser.com

Rania Matar (United States)
www.raniamatar.com

Adam Panczuk (Poland)
www.adampanczuk.pl

Zubin Pastakia (India)
www.zubinpastakia.com

Paolo Patrizi (Japan)
www.paolopatrizi.com

Alexis Pike (United States)
www.alexispike.com

Michelle Sank (Great Britain)
www.michellesank.com

Olivier Sarbil (Thailand)
www.oliviersarbil.com

Mahesh Shantaram (India)
www.thecontrarian.in

Yisook Sohn (Korea)
www.yisooksohn.com

Daniel Traub (United States)
www.danieltraub.net

Raina Vlaskovska (Bulgaria)
www.obscurography.com

Danielle Voirin (France)
www.daniellevoirin.com

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December 5th- Deadline for the Camera Club of New York 2010 Darkroom Residency

November 4, 2009 at 3:39 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts, MUST JOIN, MVS MUSTS


December 5th, 2009- Deadline for the Camera Club of New York 2010 Darkroom Residency

From the announcement:

CCNY invites emerging photographers who are not enrolled in college or graduate photo programs to apply for a three-month darkroom residency at its facility at 336 West 37th Street, New York City.

A jury will select four residents for the 2010 year. Residents will receive cash stipends and will have access to CCNY’s darkrooms (both color and B&W) and shooting studio, with up to three printing/shooting sessions per week during a three-month term. (Please note that living accommodations not provided.)

Please mail a CD with 10 images (jpg files only, at 72dpi, approx. 1024 x 768 pixels, no more than 1 MB total each image) with CV and separate image description list (provide: title, date, medium, dimension for each image) and any other support materials to: Camera Club of New York (CCNY), 336 West 37th St, Suite 206, New York, NY 10018-4212. Postmark deadline is December 5, 2009. Please be sure to name and label your CD and include SASE for return of materials.

Decisions will be announced by December 20, 2009. The first residency begins Jan 4, 2010.

This program is supported by the New York State Council for the Arts. For questions, email CCNY at info@cameraclubny.org

For more details click here.

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REMINDER: SPE Scholarship deadline is TOMORROW, November 1

October 31, 2009 at 6:20 am · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, APPROACHING EVENT, Funding the Arts, MVS MUSTS, MVS On The Road, MVS PHOTO FAVORITES

The National SPE conference is being held in Philadelphia in early March 2010.

Click here to learn more about scholarship opportunities and how to apply.

Each year just prior to the start of the National, my colleague Susan kae Grant and I offer a closed-door Student Seminar for the scholarship winners and conference volunteers (only).  Our dedication to this annual event comes in part from our having met while serving as as students volunteers at SPE conferences throughout our college years.  We hope to see you there!

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In-Sight Photography Project’s 11th Annual Benefit Auction Exhibit- Ends November 1

October 26, 2009 at 2:14 pm · Filed under APPROACHING EVENT, Funding the Arts, MUST JOIN, MVS MUSTS

In-Sight Photography Project’s 11th Annual Benefit Auction Exhibit

Bidding ends Sunday, November 1

From the announcement:

Please consider helping us with our mission to offer programming to youth, regardless of their ability to pay, by bidding generously on prints and spreading the word to others who may do so before the auction ends on Sunday November 1st. Every dollar bid goes directly to helping youth learn new skills and become creative, positive members of our communities.  There is art for all budgets and some great investments to be had.
You may see the work and bid at http://auction.insight-photography.org/index.shtml

About the In-Sight Photography Project:

In-Sight’s mission is to provide local youth with a creative outlet away from school to develop a  visual language that will provide them tools to communicate with others while discovering something about themselves. In-Sight achieves this by offering photography classes to youth regardless of their ability to pay.
Visit their website to see more of the good things they do.

Here is a list of photographers who have donated work.

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December 31st- Deadline for Artist Business Career Development Grant

October 24, 2009 at 3:53 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts

The submission process is now open and the Deadline for receipt of submissions is December 31, 2009 for the  ARTWORKinternational, Inc. Artist Business Career Development Grant of $12,000.

From the website:

May 2009 commemorates ARTWORKinternational, Inc.’s first decade in business. As the only company of our kind on the globe we are pleased to announce the inaugural ARTWORKinternational, Inc. Artist Business Career Development Grant. This full-spectrum career development grant is open to contemporary visual artist applicants worldwide. Visual artists of any background, working in any media, in any stage of their career are eligible to apply.

This grant was conceived of in light of the current economic situation. ARTWORKinternational, Inc.’s Artist Business Career Development Grant allows our company to offer full-spectrum services at no cost to the artist, for a complete year.

Our mission is to create a global presence for visual artists. Thereby realizing each artist’s ultimate career potential.

Submission guidelines and additional information can be found at http://www.artworkinternational.com/grant.html.

For additional information, please contact:
ARTWORKinternational, Inc.
505 / 982 7447
grant@artworkinternational.com

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October 31st: HCP Juried Fellowship Competition Juror Brian Clamp

October 20, 2009 at 6:12 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts, MUST JOIN, MVS MUSTS

The deadline for this years Houston Center of Photography Juried Fellowship Competition is October 30th.

Juror is Brian Clamp, director of ClampArt

From the website:

HCP grants 2 fellowship awards annually which include a $2,000 grant and a solo exhibition at HCP. This annual call is open to HCP members, and juried by an internationally acclaimed specialist in the field.

The Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship is awarded to a Houston based photographer, and the HCP Fellowship is awarded to a national or international photographer. Fellowship recipients and honorable mention recipients receive an artist page on the HCP Artist Database.

Applications for the 2010 Fellowship award are online now, apply today!
This year’s juror is Brian Clamp, Owner/Director, ClampArt (New York, NY). The call for entries deadline is October 31, 2009. The exhibition of selected artists will open at the HCP galleries from May 7 – June 27, 2010

For more details click here.

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October 25th :DEADLINE Worldwide Photography Gala Awards “Four Seasons”

October 17, 2009 at 2:44 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts, MUST SEE

October 25th is the deadline for the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards call for Entries for their “Four Seasons” Contest.

From the website:

Worldwide Photography Gala Award’s mission is to recognize exceptional photographers through exhibitions, publications and by extensively promoting their work. Believing that everyone and every organization has a responsibility to contribute to the benefit of world humanity; WPGA donates a substantial portion of its revenues to established international organizations which advance the welfare of underprivileged societies. Save the Children is the humanitarian organization to benefit from these events.

THE FOUR SEASONS: There is one category, and as in other WPGA contests it is open to professional and non professional photographers who will compete together in color and black and white. The theme for this contest is the celebration of the Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Winter and Autumn. All images should have a seasonal element and be submitted based on the season appropriate to the location in which it was taken.

WPGA would like to see images celebrating the seasons -in landscapes, cityscapes, people at work or on holidays, as well as images expressing the impact of the seasons on living conditions. In this sense documentary images are also welcome provided they represent a story related to a specific season. Although documentary can but does not necessarily mean drama and tragedy: it can also relate the joy of a summer camp or the happiness of a good harvest.

THE JUROR: For this contest there will be only one juror, G.M.B. Akash, photographer from Bangladesh who has an extraordinary professional trajectory, having been awarded by World Press Photo 2006 and selected as one of the 30 emerging photographers by the magazine Photographic District News (PDN 30). He’ll be the juror and will host the winner in an amazing  trip to Nepal, India or Bangladesh (location to be decided by the winner) that constitutes the prize of The Four Seasons Contest.
THE PRIZE: The winner of WPGA The Four Seasons contest will be awarded a paid trip, including lodging, to Nepal, India or Bangladesh, where he will have the chance to work with G.M.B. Akash on a 10-day photographic project to be decided and agreed by both winner and juror. Date and location of the trip will be freely discussed and chosen between juror and the awarded photographer. In case the winner decide not to travel (or cannot travel) the award will consist in a cash prize of three thousand US dollars.

Additionally, the images produced in this project, together with a visual prologue by G.M.B. Akash and selected images of runners up in the contest will be published in the book WPGA – Asia and The Four Seasons. Images selected by the juror will be exhibit in Asia and in another European or US city to be determined at a later time. Artist commissions (40%) of exhibition sales terms and conditions, and donation to Save the Children (40%) can be seen in Rules of Entry.
Entry fees can be seen in the respective page in this site, and submission process in the page SUBMIT.
As in all WPGA contests, the selected works will be posted in WonderPick Gallery, at no cost, for sales online.

Final Deadline: October 25th, 2009

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Deadline EXTENDED :Call for Entries: Fellowship 2009 Competition

October 15, 2009 at 6:08 pm · Filed under APPROACHING DEADLINE, Funding the Arts, MUST JOIN, MVS MUSTS

The deadline for Silver Eye Center for Photography’s fellowship has now been extended to Friday, October 30th.

From the earlier post:

Silver Eye Center for Photography

Call for Entries:  Fellowship 2009 Competition

Deadline for Submissions Saturday, October 17, 2009 Friday, October 30th

From the website:

Silver Eye Center for Photography invites photographers from across the globe to submit work to our Fellowship 2009 Competition. This year, our juror Andy Adams will select one photographer to receive a $3,500 award and a one-person exhibition in Silver Eye’s main gallery in 2010. Ten honorable mentions will be awarded. These photographers will be invited to submit one work to the Fellowship 2009 exhibition.  Must be a member to submit work.

Fellowship 2009 Competition

Silver Eye Center for Photography invites photographers to submit entries to our juried Fellowship competition and New Works Galleries in October 2009.  You must be a current member of Silver Eye in order to enter. Also selected from these entries are the New Works Gallery and New Works Gallery Online exhibitors.

Submission Guidelines

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES

Entries must be postmarked or delivered on or before Saturday, October 17, 2009 and be complete upon submission.

Mail or deliver to:

Fellowship 2009 Competition

Silver Eye Center for Photography

1015 East Carson Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15203 USA

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Submissions are limited to ten images and must have been completed within the past three years. One cohesive, exhibition-ready body of work is highly recommended.

Submissions must be JPG files with a minimum 1000px wide image size. Assign a file name for each JPG that includes the checklist number and title of work. Label CD with your name and contact information. CDs will not be returned.

Entries must also include:

•  Printed checklist identifying name of artist, contact information, title of work and /or series, date of work and /or series, medium, print size and size and method of presentation of work (including final framed dimensions, if applicable).

•  Artist statement and short bio not to exceed one page.

Incorrectly formatted or corrupt files and incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

For details click here.

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