Addendum to Underwood Application & Portfolio Submission

 Nancy Anne Underwood Photography Scholarship
Academic Year 2020-2021
$3862 Award
Deadline September 1, 2020

• Full-time Webster University student who will be of junior or senior status in the 2020-2021 academic year working towards a Bachelor of Arts in Photography in the School of Communications.
• Students home campus must be Webster Groves, MO.
• A printed portfolio consisting of ten of your best photographs.
• NOTE: (A portfolio on disk is not acceptable for this purpose unless the student is engaged in a full-time course of study at a location out of the United States.
• In that exceptional case, the personal statement should include a paragraph describing the size and type of paper that the portfolio would have been printed on.

All types of photographic work will be accepted for consideration. A panel of outside judges selected by the University will review your work. The panel will consist of two to three professional photographers.

A personal statement addressing why you have chosen photography as your future career. What are your short-term and long-term objectives? The statement should be a typed, double-spaced essay of at least 150 words.

Submit portfolio and personal statement to
Susan Napoleon – Sverdrup Room 203
Susannapoleon19@webster.edu

Tamron Spring-Summer magazine

 You can download the Tamron photo magazine Spring Summer issue here.

Call for work: Deadline Monday, 7 September 2020

Call for Entries
Photomontage
Juror: Tom Chambers

Image: Tom Chambers

Deadline:  Monday, Sept 7, 2020
Exhibition prints due: October 15, 2020
Gallery exhibition:  Oct 30 - Nov 20, 2020

Photomontage tells a story by combining separate elements into a single composite image. By creating a moment that never existed, successful photomontage engages the imagination and stirs emotions, with images enhanced by the beauty of the details, colors, and textures in the combined imagery. 

For this call for entries, we seek photomontage images of any subject. All capture and post processes are welcome.

We are very pleased that Tom Chambers will jury this exhibition. Tom will select 40 images for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery and another 40 for our Online Gallery. All 80 images will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog. 

PhotoPlace Gallery

 

Learn More & Upload Images Here

Nancy Anne Underwood Photography Scholarship

 Nancy Anne Underwood Photography Scholarship

$3862

Nancy Anne Underwood graduated from Webster University in 1990 from the School of Communications. In 1993, her growing career in photography ended when she was tragically killed in a car accident. Her husband, David Underwood ’88, established the Nancy Anne Underwood Scholarship Fund to honor her memory and her love of photography.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Applicant must be a full-time Webster University student who will be of junior or senior status in the 2020-2021 academic year, working towards a Bachelor of Arts in Photography in the School of Communications.

• All applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher.

• All applicants must have a FAFSA on file in Webster’s financial aid office and be eligible to receive financial aid.

Application Requirements:

• A printed portfolio consisting of ten of your best photographs. (A portfolio on disk is not acceptable for this purpose.) All types of photographic work will be accepted for consideration. A panel of outside judges selected by the University will review your work. The panel will consist of two to three professional photographers.

• A personal statement addressing why you have chosen photography as your future career. What are your short-term and long-term objectives? The statement should be a typed, doublespaced essay of at least 150 words.

APPLICATION, PORTFOLIO, AND PERSONAL

STATEMENT MUST BE RECEIVED BY TUESDAY

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020. PLEASE SUBMIT TO:

Susan Napoleon
Office of the Dean
School of Communications
Sverdrup, Room 203
(for information: susannapoleon19@webster.edu)

Name: ________________________________________________________________

Student ID#: __________________________________________________________

Email Address: _________________________________________________________

Mailing Address: _______________________________________________________

Phone #: ______________________________________________________________

__________ I will be of junior or senior status in the academic year 2020-21 and will be enrolled as a full-time student (13 or more credit hours) for both Fall 20 and Spring 21 semesters.

__________ I am working towards a BA in Photography in the School of Communications.

__________ I am qualified to receive financial aid.

__________ If selected as the recipient of this scholarship, do you give Webster University the right to release notification to the press?

Your Signature: ______________________________ Date: ___________________

Student Innovation Competition: Deadline 31 October 2020

 HEY STUDENTS: The Reynolds Journalism Institute’s 2020-21 Student Innovation Competition at the Missouri School of Journalism asks college students to tackle engagement with a news organization. A student or student team will partner will the news organization of their choice to devise an engagement idea that is innovative to that organization. Applications detailing the team’s idea are due by Oct. 31, 2020. Then the chosen finalist teams will implement their idea at the partner news organization for 3 months before presenting the results on Feb 26, 2021 in front of a panel of judges and public on Zoom. First prizewinner gets $10,000!