Call for Work: Deadline 9 March 2015

Windows, Mirrors, and Doors   Juror:  Seth Curcio Submissions close on Monday, March 9, 2015    Subject matter:    windows, mirrors, doors  Content :             reflection, repetition, isolation, distortion  Inspiration:          in, out, under, on, through, up, down, around  Genre:                 any genre  Parameters :       subject must be essential to the success of the image From top: ©Will Furman; ©Alan Whiteside; ©Ellen Jantzen We are very pleased that Seth Curcio will be juror for this exhibition. Seth will choose 40 photographs for exhibition in the gallery, and an additional 35 for the gallery's Online Annex.  All 75 photographs will be reproduced in an exhibition catalog. Submit up to 5 images for $30; $7 each additional.  Application form More information    About the Juror    Seth Curcio is the Associate Director for Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco. He previously served as the Director and Curator for Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as founder and Editor in Chief of the online contemporary arts publication DailyServing. Seth has written widely on contemporary art and photography for various publications, and regularly lectures and conducts studio visits at colleges and universities across the country. Seth is also an artist whose work explores the role of images in the construction of knowledge and experience. Working through collage, photography, and sculpture, his projects co-opt and fracture existing imagery to underscore the distance between the viewer and the original source. NEXT on our SCHEDULE: The Golden Hours: At Dawn and Dusk  Deadline for submissions: April 6, 2015 Eddie Soloway, Juror The golden hours: the period shortly after dawn and just before dusk, when ambient light is warmer, softer, diffuse. Inside or out, these windows of opportunity can be pure magic through the lens. DETAILS ON SUBMITTING YOUR WORK: To help artists defray costs and to encourage submissions from distant photographers, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes. Custom mat sizes and printing services are also available at moderate additional cost.     All selected work will be included in an exhibition catalog, available for purchase.  Further details about submissions here. Contact us: Phone: 802.388.4500 or email us here.

Free ASMP Webinar: Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Using CGI to Grow Your Business

with Photographer/CGI Producer Walt Jones

Wednesday, March 18, 2015
1:00 - 2:00 pm eastern

Additional Q & A at www.facebook.com/asmpnational from 2:00-2:30

Today, many types of photography are increasingly relying on CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) to bring new creative freedoms and realize cost efficiencies. Award-winning photographer and CGI producer/designer Walt Jones walks you through what CGI can (and can’t) do for your imagery and creative process while discussing how these incredible tools can open doors to new business. Whether you’re looking to provide new creative options to your existing clients or attract new business from untapped regions of your market, you’ll get the tools you need to take your imagery to the next level.

This informative webinar is free for all live attendees.
Join us Wednesday, March 18 — REGISTER TODAY!

Call for Work: Early deadline 13 April 2015

35th ANNUAL SPRING PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST presented by Photographer's Forum Magazine and sponsored by SIGMA EARLY ENTRY Date: APRIL 13, 2015 Early entry fee is $4.95 per photo entered (uploaded/postmarked on or before end of day April 13, 2015 EST) FINAL ENTRY Date: MAY 18, 2015 Final entry fee is $5.95 per photo entered (uploaded/postmarked on or before end of day May 18, 2015 EST) Enter Online at: www.PFMagazine.com/photography-contest/ To Enter Prints or Slides by Mail, Download Entry Form: www.PFMagazine.com/contest.pdf PRIZES :: OVER $7,500 IN CASH & EQUIPMENT FIRST PLACE GRAND PRIZE $2,000 cash award from Photographer's Forum magazine plus... • Sigma 35mm 1.4 DG HSM | Art lens ($899)* • Chimera OB2 PRO Kit #6024 (Octa 2 Beauty Dish reflector and Versi Octa Speed Ring) ($399) SECOND PLACE $1,500 cash award from Photographer's Forum magazine plus... • Sigma 18-35mm 1.8 DC HSM | ART lens ($800)* • Manfrotto Pro Light Camera Backpack: Bumblebee-220 PL ($279) THIRD PLACE $1,000 cash award from Photographer's Forum magazine FOURTH PLACE Five $125 cash awards 100 HONORABLE MENTIONS All Honorable Mentions will be listed in the November 2015 issue of Photographer's Forum magazine and will receive a gold embossed certificate of outstanding merit from Photographer's Forum. * Lens award for US residents only. First and Second Place winners in all other countries will receive additional award of $500 in lieu of lens. ENTRY GIFT: 2 FREE ISSUES OF PHOTOGRAPHER'S FORUM MAGAZINE $10 Value - Just for Entering! (U.S. and Canada only) WINNING PHOTOS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE NOVEMBER 2015 ISSUE OF PHOTOGRAPHER'S FORUM MAGAZINE AND EXHIBITED AT BROOKS INSTITUTE. ALL CONTEST FINALISTS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE BOOK BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2015.

Call for Work: Deadline 18 March 2015

Black & White 2015
Submission Deadline: March 18, 2015

SUBMISSIONS DUE March 18, 2015 Midnight MT USA
THEME |Black & White
JUROR |Roy L. Flukinger

As Senior Research Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Center, Flukinger assists in the development, administration and application of the collections. He has and continues to lecture and publish extensively in such fields as regional, cultural and contemporary photography, and the history of art and photography. He has produced nearly 50 exhibitions ranging from classical photohistory to contemporary photography, and from photographers' retrospectives to American/regional/Texas photography. He serves as juror, reviewer and evaluator for contemporary photographic events, institutions and support organizations, as well as aiding in the development and expansion of the Photography Department. Flukinger serves as liaison for the department with fellow professionals worldwide throughout the field of photography.

HONORS | AWARDS  
Juror's Selection: $500.00
Director's Selection: $250.00
Two LiveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks
Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and a three image submission for an upcoming call for entry.
Two Samy's Camera Certificates value $50.00 each

For More Information about the Black & White Call For Entries, click here

Emerging Photographer contest: Deadline 5 March 2015

Enter Emerging Photographer by March 5 for the chance to have your work publish in the Summer 2015 print and digital issue.

Each week, we've featured a different artist from the Emerging Photographer Winter 2014 issue in anticipation of the current submission period's deadline of March 5. This week, meet Teresa Castro, whose work is pictured above. The image is part of Castro's series "Pilgrimage," a personal collection of images shot while traveling along Interstate 5 from Los Angeles to Northern California. Castro's series has the feeling of a loose fashion narrative or stills from an indie flick, and she photographs her muse, friend Alexandra Sempel, in "in between" moments to evoke a narrative. You can see her full series in the Winter 2014 digital edition. Be a part of our upcoming issue! We are seeking fresh photo essays and projects consisting of up to 10 images per entry. The Summer 2015 issue will be polybagged with 5,000 copies of PDN and sent to a distribution list of 5,000 top photography creatives. The issue will also be available at photography festivals and events throughout the year, and the digital edition will be promoted to PDN's network of 200,000 followers. Visit www.emerging.pdncontests.com for all information on how to enter.

Visual Persuasion in the Digital Age: Webinar with Edward Schiappa

This webinar has some good insights into how we present ourselves online, and how visual images can be interpreted. It will get you thinking. And as a bonus, you can see the famous and extremely controversial "Daisy Spot" commercial from the 1964 presidential campaign, which was only aired once.

PDN Curator Awards: Deadline 9 April 2015

The Curator FIne-Art Awards aims to enrich the lives of undiscovered fine-art photographers, producing a group show for six artists and an award of $3,500 cash to one artist to fund his or her work.

Last year's gallery show for The Curator showcased intriguing concepts across the board. Alexander Hadjidakis, winner of the Student Work category, presented his series "Other," in which he explored the concept of a post-racial world and the homogeneity of humankind. The mixed media project presents two types of composites: digital portraits created from multiple images, each shot by Hadjidakis (pictured left), alongside ambrotypes that combine historical images from the Library of Congress with his own imagery (pictured right). Hadjidakis displays them together to reinforce each subject's shared heritage and to connect the past, present and suppositional future. Enter your fine-art work for the chance to be one of the six artists in this year's gallery show, print gallery in PDN and extended online gallery, in addition to a prize package from B&H, Moab Paper and PDN. One winner will receive $3,500 for his or her outstanding work. See www.pdncuratorawards.com/about.shtml for all information on prizes.	Portraits Still Lifes Abstract/Mixed Media Landscapes Urban Scenes Student Work

ASMP Webinar: Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Join us on Wednesday for ASMP’s February Business as unUsual Webinar

What’s Working in Social Media Today?

with social media guru Rosh Sillars
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
1:00 - 2:00 pm eastern, noon - 1 Central time

Additional Q & A at www.facebook.com/asmpnational from 2:00-2:30.

Social Media can help you build an engaged audience of dedicated clients and evangelists, or it can be an enormous time suck that takes you nowhere. Join us for a conversation with Rosh Sillars, who literally wrote the book on social media for photographers. Rosh will talk about what’s changed, what’s the same and how to make social media work for you.

This important webinar is free for all live attendees.

Join us Wednesday, February 18 — REGISTER TODAY!

Scholarships: Deadline 2 March 2015

Apply Now For NPPF Student Scholarships

Applications are now open for the 2015 National Press Photographers Foundation student scholarships. Students’ portfolios compete for $16,000 in scholarships, as eight $2,000 scholarships will be awarded. Applications are open to both graduate and undergraduate students, and all scholarships are open to any applicant..more

Call for Work: Deadline 11 February 2015

Landscapes Submission Deadline: February 11, 2015 Images: Left, Jonas Jungblut Right, Eddee Daniel   SUBMISSIONS DUE|February 11, 2015 Midnight MT USA   THEME |Landscapes JUROR | Chantel Paul Chantel Paul is the Assistant Curator at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego, CA. She has curated a number exhibitions at MOPA including Unusual Suspects: The Paintings and Photograph of Holly Roberts (2012), Staking Claim: A California Invitational (2013), which included an accompanying catalog, After Ansel Adams (2014). HONORS | AWARDS    Juror's Selection: $500.00 Director's Selection: $250.00 Two LiveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and a three image submission for an upcoming call for entry.    For More Information about the Landscapes Call For Entries, click here The Center for Fine Art Photography400 North College Ave. Fort Collins | CO | 80524

Carrie Mae Weems talk: Monday, 2 February 2015

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Colored People Grid), 2009-10. Full credit Monday, February 2 Carrie Mae Weems Bunny and Charles Burson Distinguished Visiting Lecture Color: Real and Imagined 6p Reception, Kemper Art Museum 6:30p Lecture, Steinberg Auditorium Artist Carrie Mae Weems will deliver the Bunny and Charles Burson Distinguished Visiting Lecture, titled Color: Real and Imagined, as part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series.   Over the past thirty years, Weems has worked toward developing a complex body of art that has employed photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. Her work has led her to investigate family relationships, gender roles, the histories of racism, sexism, class, and various political systems. All of her work reflects an overarching commitment to better understanding the present by closely examining history and the social fabric of identity. While African Americans are often her subjects, she wants "people of color to stand for the human multitudes" and for her art to resonate with all audiences. Weems has received numerous awards and grants, ranging from the Prix de Roma to the US Department of State's Medal of Arts to a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," which she discusses in the video above.

Call for Work: Deadline 9 February 2015

PhotoPlace Gallery 

Middlebury, Vermont

  

On the Street Where You Live 

Juror:  James P. Blair

Submissions close on Monday, February 9, 2015   

 

From front stoops to back alleys, subways to suburbia, Main Street to Wall Street, the streets we call home shape us. 

What's going on where you live, work, or play? Street scenes, portraits, landscapes -- what makes your neighborhood what it is?

We are very pleased that James Blair will be juror for this exhibition. Jim will choose 40 photographs for exhibition in the gallery, and an additional 35 for the gallery's Online Annex.  All 75 photographs will be reproduced in an exhibition catalog. 

 

Submit 5 images for $30; $7 each additional.

 

Information and application here

About the Juror 

 Jim Blair was a staff photographer at National Geographic for 32 years. Between 1962 and 1994, the magazine published 46 of his bylines and over 2,000 of his photographs. His work took him throughout much of the world, and to countless neighborhoods. 

Jim studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Today his photographs are represented in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery , the Museum of Modern Art, the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum of Art . Since retiring from the National Geographic Society in 1994, Jim has continued to photograph, teach, and lecture.  He is represented by both Getty Images, and the National Geographic Society's Image Collection.

DETAILS ON SUBMITTING YOUR WORK:

To help artists defray costs and to encourage submissions from distant photographers, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes. Custom mat sizes and printing services are also available at moderate additional cost.

   

All selected work will be included in an exhibition catalog, available for purchase. 

 

Further details about submissions here.

Contact us: Phone: 802.388.4500 or email us here.