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Call for Photographs: EnFoco

Call for Photographs: Young photographers' showcase

EXCELLENCE IN PHOTOGRAPHIC TEACHING AWARD

CENTER
www.visitcenter.org
505.984.8353

CALL FOR ENTRIES
Center honors and reward photography educators for their passion for teaching, ability to excite students to learn, concern for students as individuals and enduring artistic curiosity.

JUROR
Joan Dooley, 2007 Teaching Award Winner
National Board Certified Photography Teacher, Bell High School Humanitas Academy, Los Angeles, CA

PRIZES
First Prize
// $2,500 Cash Award
// Adobe Creative Suite
// Complimentary Participation in Review LA

Honorable Mention (2)
// Adobe Lightroom
// Adobe Photoshop
// Complimentary Participation in Review LA

NOMINATION BY STUDENT OR COLLEAGUE DEADLINE // APRIL 21, 2008
Encourage a teacher to apply by nominating your favorite photographic educator. Students or colleagues can do so by emailing a statement describing why the teacher should receive this award. Teachers will be notified of their nomination and invited to apply.

INDEPENDENT SUBMISSION DEADLINE // MAY 12, 2008
Teachers in all areas of photographic education are welcomed to apply without nomination. Teachers submitting independently have as equal a chance to win as those nominated.

ENTRY GUIDELINES (ALL MATERIALS MAY BE SUBMITTED BY EMAIL TO lwzorek@visitcenter.org)
// A one-to-three page statement addressing teaching philosophy
// A resume reflecting education and teaching history
// Sample syllabus
// Three recommendation letters from current or former students
// $20 entry fee for Center members, $25 for non-members

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NEW YORK GALLERY OWNER JULIE SAUL TO JURY THE 2008 PHOTO REVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

Julie Saul, owner of one of New York City's most pretigious contemporary photography and art galleries, will be the juror for the 2008 Photo Review Photography Competition. The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 24th annual photography competition with a difference. Instead of only installing an exhibit that would be seen by a limited number of people, The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2008 competition issue and on its website. Thus, the accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people all across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.

Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the photography gallery of The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and will be exhibited on The Photo Review's website.

Because their work was seen in The Photo Review, past winners have been given one-person exhibitions, have had their work reproduced in other leading photography magazines, and have sold their work to collectors throughout the country.

Awards include a Microtek ArtixScan M1 Dual Media Scanner ($650), a copy of SilverFast HDR Studio digital camera RAW conversion software from LaserSoft Imaging ($499), a Lensbaby 3G Lens and Wide Angle / Telephoto kit ($359), camera bags from Lowepro ($200 and $100), a $250 gift certificate from Calumet Photographic, two $50 gift certificates from Sprint Systems, and $250 in cash prizes.

An entry fee of $30 for up to three prints, slides, or images on CD and $5 each for up to two additional images entitles all entrants to a copy of the catalogue. In addition, all entrants will be able to subscribe to The Photo Review for $35, a 20% discount.

For a prospectus and details, send a self-addressed, stamped business-size (#10) envelope to: The Photo Review, 140 East Richardson Avenue, Suite 301, Langhorne, PA 19047. The prospectus may also be downloaded from The Photo Review website, www.photoreview.org. For further information call 215/891-0214.

THE PHOTO REVIEW

Publishing since 1976, The Photo Review covers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for photography in the Mid-Atlantic region. The quarterly journal, printed on coated paper with high quality reproduction, contains reviews, portfolios, interviews, book reviews, and news. The Photo Review has presented previously unpublished images by Duane Michals, Weegee, and Frederick Sommer, and catalogues for a James VanDerZee exhibition, a show of Lois Greenfield's dynamic dance photographs, "Changing Visions of the American Landscape," and a widely praised catalogue celebrating the centennial of Stieglitz's Camera Work. Its writers include A.D. Coleman, Frank Day, Shelley Rice, Peter Hay Halpert, Barbara L. Michaels, Daile Kaplan, Jean Dykstra, and Mark Power. Subscriptions are $44 per year for the quarterly journal and the newsletter, issued eight times a year, which contains exhibition listings, exhibition opportunities from around the country and the world, and news.

The Photo Review 2008 International Photography Competition is sponsored by Microtek, Calumet Photographic, LaserSoft, Lensbabies, Lowepro, and Sprint Systems.

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What: Call For Entries!
Exhibition Title: Please Ring Bell, 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition
Juror: Rod Slemmons, Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
Entry Submission Deadline: must be received by Friday, May 9th, see www.pcnw.org for submission guidelines
Entry Fee: $40 for the first 4 jpgs, $7 per image after that, up to ten total
Exhibition Dates: July 11- August 28, 2008
Location: Photographic Center Northwest, 900 Twelfth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122

This annual juried exhibition draws entries from across the country and around the world, and remains among the most popular shows in PCNW's annual schedule. The competition is open to all photographers, all photographic processes, and all themes. The juror is looking for work that represents a larger, cohesive body of work and will be selecting a short series from each photographer chosen. From among those exhibited, our juror will select first, second and third prize winners to receive prizes of $1,000, $750, and $500. Submissions must be received by Friday, May 9th, 2008. See www.pcnw.org for submission guidelines. Please Ring Bell will run July 11 – August 28th at PCNW in Seattle, WA.

Juror: Rod Slemmons
Rod Slemmons has been the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago since 2002 where he has curated several exhibitions and teaches undergraduate photo history and graduate theory seminars. Slemmons previously taught at the U.W. in Seattle for 12 years. He was the National Chair of the Society for Photographic Education from 1990 - 1994. Slemmons was the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Seattle Art Museum for 14 years, producing 35 exhibitions and numerous catalogs.

Photographic Center Northwest gratefully acknowledges Getty Images for sponsoring this year’s cash awards.

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Calling All Filmmakers!

Have you ever dreamed of showing your film on the big screen in New York City? Well, here is your chance. New York Foundation for the Arts -- which has bolstered the careers of many well-known filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Tamara Jenkins and Todd Haynes -- is proud to announce that it is now accepting applications for the second annual ACE Film Festival (September 12-14, 2008), the only such festival in the city's Midtown area. NYFA, presenter of the ACE Film Festival, encourages all filmmakers to submit applications for review. This could be the opportunity you've been waiting for -- to have your film seen by industry professionals, distributors, moviegoers and fellow filmmakers, and right in the heart of Manhattan. Selected films will be reviewed by an impressive panel of accomplished judges for a chance to win prizes, cash, and more.

Submit Your Film
For complete application information about how to submit your film, please click here. The upcoming Late Deadline is May 9, 2008.

About ACE Film Festival
Founded in 2006, the ACE Film Festival provides an exclusive forum for domestic film and video magnifying the focus on this country's creative voice. For further information, please visit ACE Film Festival's web site.

About NYFA
NYFA offers a wide variety of programs serving filmmakers, including Fiscal Sponsorship, Artists' Fellowships, and NYFA Source. For a complete list of NYFA's programs, please see our For Artists page.

Some of the countless filmmakers NYFA has supported through unrestricted grants and fiscal sponsorship over the past thirty years include Zana Briski, Maryann De Leo, Todd Haynes, Reginald Hudlin, Tamara Jenkins, Nathaniel Kahn, Barbara Kopple, Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Kimberly Peirce, Yvonne Rainer, and Julie Taymor.

Said Todd Haynes: "At a time in my life when reputation or experience would have excluded me outright, the grant NYFA awarded me allowed me to pay the lab costs for the film I'd just finished, a film shot entirely with dolls called Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. As a result of that film's reception, I was eventually able to make my first feature, Poison, a film inspired by the writings of Jean Genet which NYFA would once again support. (These people weren't afraid of anything!) In many ways I owe whatever career I've had as a filmmaker to these fundamental acts of support. They not only helped pay the bills, they helped to protect the work of an emerging artist at a time when concerns of the market or career can surely crush the best in us."

NYFA has supported emerging filmmakers since 1976. The ACE Film Festival marks NYFA's first time as presenter of a film festival.

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Image 08 is a nationwide photo contest run by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and open to all professional and student photographers residing in the United States. Submit one or more of your favorite images that were created on or after January 1, 2007. The deadline for entry submissions is May 14, 2008. For more information on submissions see How to submit an image.

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The Print Center Open Portfolio • 2008
at the Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia
During Philadelphia Open Studio Tour (POST) • East of Broad Street • October 11-12, 2008

Calling all Printmakers, Photographers and Book Artists without a public studio space!

The Print Center in partnership with InLiquid, Philadelphia Center for the Book and Philagrafika will host the Open Portfolio event to support printmakers, photographers and book artists in the Philadelphia region whose studios cannot accommodate public visitation. This event will provide a venue for more than 30 individual artists during the weekend of October 11-12, 2008 as part of the citywide Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST), to showcase their fine art prints, photographs and artists books to the public in an art fair setting. Each participating artist will be given a table to display his or her work for the public from noon to 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday at the Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia, PA 19122.

Open to current artist members of The Print Center. $35 registration fee, advance registration is necessary as space is limited.

Go to www.printcenter.org for more information and to download a registration form.

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Call for submissions
May 16, 2008
Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
714-432-5703
http://occphoto.com/index.html

The Photography Gallery at Orange Coast College is seeking a wide range of work for exhibition during the 2008/2009 academic year. Please send an e-mail with a URL, PDF file, or powerpoint presentation to: rkraft@occ.cccd.edu.

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Professional photographers, amateurs, hobbyists, and students are all invited to submit original entries!

Photography at High Speed: A Historical and Contemporary Exhibit

Showing at the 2008 L.A. County Fair
September 5-28, 2008

This year's juried competition will result in a dynamic exhibit - potentially reaching 1.4 million viewers that attend the Fair annually - that displays both the winners and highlights key moments in photographic history, from pinholes to pixels! The distinguished jury panel comprises jurors from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, the UCR/California Museum of Photography, and Nash Editions. Professional and amateur entries will be judged separately. Entries are accepted online, so there are NO GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITATIONS. Shipping credit is available.

Student Discount!!! A group of students must enter a minimum of 10 photographs to receive the student discount of $3 per photo entered. To qualify, a professor or college administrator must contact the Photography Coordinator at photography@fairplex.com to receive the Student Group Discount Code.

Need more info? Visit millardsheetscenter.org and click on the Photography Competition logo, or simply click on the logo to the right.

Do you know a talented student who needs a summer job? Encourage him/her to apply for the Multicultural Undergraduate Exhibits Internship! Millard Sheets Center for the Arts is hiring one summer intern (June-August 2008) to assist with research, writing, design, fabrication, and installation of Photography at High Speed and an additional exhibit. The Exhibits Internship is a PAID position sponsored by The Getty Foundation, and interns will have unique opportunities throughout the summer to experience art tours, career guidance and networking events with peers and arts professionals. **Please Note** Only undergraduate students living or attending school in Los Angeles County, CA, will be eligible to apply. For details, click here.

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A Photographic Journey of Armenia's Natural Treasures

The Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) and Armenia Tree Project (ATP) are organizing a juried exhibition of photographs of Armenia’s natural environment. The exhibition, entitled “A Photographic Journey of Armenia’s Natural Treasures,” will be displayed in ALMA’s Contemporary Art Gallery from September 11 through October 9, 2008. The exhibition will run concurrently with a series of weekly events that highlight the exhibition’s theme and raise awareness of Armenia’s environmental challenges.

Eligibility
Anyone with photographs of Armenia’s landscape or natural environment is encouraged to enter their work for a chance to have it on display and available for purchase in this exhibition. Entrants need not be of Armenian descent or trained artists so long as their work is of sufficient quality.

Criteria
Images must adhere to the exhibition’s theme of depicting Armenia’s ecological heritage. The images need not be of present-day Armenia, but we encourage submissions that depict both Armenia’s natural beauty and the current challenges to Armenia’s environment. Photographs entered for judging should be in digital format, but hard copies are acceptable. (Please do not send originals as they will not be returned).

How to Enter
Entrants must review and complete the accompanying entry form. Up to 20 digital or hard copy photographs may be submitted for the judging panel to review. The submitted images must be titled/labeled and accompanied by a pricelist. Photographs that are chosen for exhibit will be shown in 16 x 20 simple black frames. Artists who want their photography to be in a different sized frame will be responsible for providing the frame and responsible for picking-up their work at the end of the exhibition should the work not sell.

Acceptance / Review and Selection Process
Submissions will be reviewed and selections made by a panel consisting of ALMA and ATP staff, and honorary juror Judy Ann Goldman (see entry form for juror details). In evaluating the work, the committee will consider the quality of the photographs and their relevance to the exhibition’s overall theme and mission. Additionally, the jury aims to select a wide-range of photography to appropriately represent Armenia’s diverse nature and landscape. No more than three photographs per entrant will be selected for display. Each chosen exhibitor will be notified by phone call no later than June 15, 2008. Exhibitors will be invited to attend a private opening reception, which will take place on September 14, 2008.

Exhibition Conditions
1. Exhibitors who accept the invitation to display their work(s) must sign ALMA’s Contemporary Art Gallery Exhibition Policies form.
2. Entrants should set reasonable price levels, keeping in mind that ALMA and ATP retain 40 percent commission for each sale.

Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) and Armenia Tree Project (ATP), ALMA, 65 Main St., Watertown, MA 02472, 617-926-2562 x 4, www.almainc.org or www.armeniatree.org

Contact: Christie Hardiman, christie@almainc.org

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The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Maryland University College is pleased to present a national contest for artists in all media and formats. We urge you to pass on this information to any students, faculty, or colleagues who might be interested in submitting works for:

© Monopoly: A Remix Contest

Do you mix and match? Copy and paste? Re-mix, re-use, and re-cycle content? . . . Would you like to try?

Pull clips, text, and images from the CIP's website or from the public domain and use them to create a new work of art in any medium. You can add your own content or mix it up with some Creative Commons (CC) licensed art. All submissions should be CC-Licensed.

We encourage you to make use of at least one item created by the CIP. In the end, your message should tie in with the 2008 Symposium theme: © Monopoly: Playing the innovation game.

Whoever gives us the most creative and coherent content remix will be awarded a prize valued at up to $300.

Contest details and a full list of rules can be found at: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/contest

This contest is being held in conjunction with our 8th annual intellectual property symposium:

© Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game
May 28-30, 2008
UMUC Inn & Conference Center, Adelphi, MD
http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/

The CIP is honored to have noted scholars Georgia Harper and James Boyle as our keynote speakers. Discounts are provided for early registrants and for students.

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Create Magazine is officially accepting entries for its 2008 Create Awards – one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting.

The 2008 Create Awards (www.thecreateawards.com) has once again doubled its prize pool from last year. More than $125K worth of the latest in software and hardware from leading creative industry manufacturers is up for grabs, not to mention national print and online exposure in Create Magazine.

New this year, every Create Awards Gold winner will receive an All-Access Full Conference pass to Create Chaos 2008, a one-week, multiple-event experience in Orlando, FL from October 13-17 (a $995 value). Winners will also receive a VIP ticket to the Create Awards Gallery unveiling party that week.

Prizes for Best of Show, Best of Student and Best of Industry winners include products from industry-leading companies such as: Alienware, Adobe, Nikon, Total Training, Wacom, Pantone, Microtek, Lasersoft Imaging, Lensbabies, Corel, Letraset, Booq Bags, Markzware, Maxon, Focal Press, Pixologic, Digital Juice, Extensis, Auto FX Software and Stash Media.

The first deadline for entries with discounted “early bird” submission fees is May 30. To enter the competition or receive more information, visit www.thecreateawards.com or pick up a copy of the Mar+Apr issue of Create Magazine on newsstands now.

The Create Awards is one of the top competitions for working creative professionals across the nation and is open to all creative professionals and students working in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting. Enter today at www.thecreateawards.com today to stay updated on prizes and entry deadlines!

Create Magazine’s mission is to inform, connect, inspire and educate creative professionals. First published in 2001, Create Magazine is an award-winning, bimonthly creative industry magazine published for those who produce or require creative services and products. As a networking resource, Create Magazine provides an insider's perspective on the people, news, trends and events that influence both local and national advertising and creative production industries. Each issue features articles by community leaders who are the trusted source for information and commentary on the Advertising, Design, Printing, Photography, Film and Video, Animation and New Media industries, in addition to national content from industry experts. To find out more, visit Create Magazine online at www.createmagazine.com.

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Blow-Up, a national competition for photography and photo-based media, is seeking submissions for its juried exhibition to be held from July 10 to August 23, 2008, at Bromfield Gallery in Boston, MA. Juried by New York-based photographer and educator Harvey Stein, the competition invites fresh, original interpretations of the theme: literal explosions, photographic enlargement, temper tantrums, inflatables, and any other play on words one can, and should, imagine. Even the movie with the same title, Blow Up (with a young John Travolta, his best until Pulp Fiction) is ripe for reinterpretation. Entry fee is $30 for five jpg-format images.

Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2008. Click here to upload your images online. Only digital jpg-format images will be considered.

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Photography Re-Imagined: 2nd Annual Juried & Historical Process Show

2^nd Annual Juried & Historical Process Show
Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Juror: Christopher James

All prints made using an alternative process are eligible and the exhibition is open to all subject matter. No digital, c-prints, Polaroid or solvent transfers, or gelatin silver prints will be accepted unless combined with an alternative process. For questions regarding eligible processes e-mail info@tiltgallery.com.

Work should have been completed in the last three years.

$30 for three images. Send any additional images for $5.00 per image. Jurying will be from digital images only.

First place will receive $250 and the artist’s winning piece will be included in a Tilt Gallery Retrospective Show, second place will receive $150, and third place will receive $100.

All entries must be received by 5pm on June 16, 2008.

Tilt Gallery, Tilt Gallery, 3116 South Mill Avenue # 215, Tempe AZ 85282, USA, 602-716-5667, http://www.tiltgallery.com/

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The Center for Fine Art Photography call for entries for All Things Horses
Deadline June 18, 2008
$900 in Awards

From Appaloosas to Zebras, country roaming to carousel rotating are welcome to this call for entry. Images of working horses, wild horses, dressage, tack, anything related to the life of our equine friends is welcome.

The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums and styles to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works, including new processes, mixed techniques are welcome.

Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

Information and online submissions at The Center for Fine Art Photography www.c4fap.org or email questions to cfe@c4fap.org.

Deadline: June 18, 2008

The Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 N. College Ave, Fort Collins CO 80524, 970 224 1010, www.c4fap.org

Contact: Bill, cfe@c4fap.org

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Call for entries: The Camera Club of New York’s 2008 National Photography Competition

Juror, PAOLO PELLEGRIN
Deadline (postmarked) by June 30, 2008
Accomplished photographers from around the country are invited to submit digital files of representative work. All photography-based works are welcome, with no limitations on technique or subject matter. Images should be of some thematic body of work that can support a solo exhibition if you are chosen the winner. We are most pleased that renowned photographer Paolo Pellegrin will be our juror.

PRIZES First place winner will receive a one person exhibition at the Camera Club of New York’s gallery, in 2008 and a $300.00 cash award. All three winners and entries of honorable mention will be included in a group exhibition in 2008 at the Camera Club of New York. Sales will be encouraged; there will be a 30% gallery commission on sales.

ENTRY The competition is open to all US residents 18 years or older except members of the Camera Club of New York or their families, and employees. Each entry will consist of 6 digital submissions. Multiple entries are accepted. No additional support material or freestanding pieces will be accepted. See Digital Submissions for specs.

Digital submissions Send only JPEG files, 72 dpi, approx 1024 x 768 pixels (no more than 1MB) on a CD only. Please make sure to write your name on your CD.

ENTRY FORM Complete the entry form including the number, title, medium, (silver gelatin, C print, digital C print, alternative process, etc.) and framed size of each piece, not to exceed 40 inches on any side. Each body of work requires a separate form.

FEE/mailing Fee is $40.00 for 6 images. Make check or money order payable to the Camera Club of New York, and send with your application, and return envelope to be postmarked by June 30, 2008, via US mail to:

2008 National Photography Competition Camera Club of New York 336 West 37th Street, Suite 206 New York, NY 10018

Do not send via registered or certified mail.

DATES Completed applications, CD, and check or money order must be postmarked by June 30, 2008. Finalists will be notified by August 2008. The winners will then be informed as to the deadline for receipt of their work for the winners’ solo exhibition and the winners’ group exhibition. All work must be framed and ready for hanging.

Shipping and or delivery and insurance of work to, from and during the exhibition is the responsibility of the winning artists. Although all reasonable care will be exercised, the Camera Club of New York cannot be responsible for any lost, stolen or damaged artwork.

checklist
• Completed entry form
• Check made out to Camera Club of New York
• Self Addressed Stamped CD Envelope (USPS) if the CD is to be returned

Do not send any other information or support materials; they will not be considered or returned.

Visit our website at www.cameraclubny.org for additional information about the Camera Club of New York. Review our history, membership opportunities, exhibitions, lectures, workshops and to see some of the past winners of our National Competitions.

The Camera Club of New York is a not-for-profit arts organization with a serious commitment to the field of photography in all its creative aspects for over 100 years.

The Club was formed in 1884 as The Society for Amateur Photographers of New York and became the Camera Club of New York in 1897. Some of the prominent photographers who have been members of the club and worked in its darkrooms include Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Gertrude Kasebier, Edward S. Curtis, Beaumont Newhall. Past lectures have included Margaret Bourke-White, Arnold Newman, Richard Avedon, Bruce Davidson, Sylvia Plachy, Antonin Kratochvil, and Henry Horenstein.

Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. Pellegrin is winner of many awards, including eight World Press Photo and numerous Photographer of the Year Awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006 he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. He is one of the founding members of the touring exhibition and installation Off Broadway along with Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli and Ilkka Uimonen. He has published four books. He lives in New York and Rome.

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Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008

The 2009 Conference Committee of the Society for Photographic Education seeks nominations from the membership for the Honored Educator Award given annually at the SPE's National Conference. The criteria for selection of the Honored Educator is as follows:

* The recipient has made a significant contribution to the field of photographic education.
* The contribution to the field could be made through classroom teaching, writing, publishing, museum education, or other areas of professional practice in the field of photography.
* The recipient is a full-career educator. There is no specific requirement for the number of years in the field, but 15 years would generally be seen as a minimum.
* The recipient has been a member of SPE.
* To be considered for the Honored Educator award, the educator must be nominated by a member of SPE. Nominations should include a letter of nomination citing specifics about the educator's contributions to the field of photographic education and a summary of the nominee's career. Nominations should be submitted to the National Office at the following address:

Society for Photographic Education
2530 Superior Avenue, #403
Cleveland, OH 44114
ATTN: Honored Educator Award
speoffice@spenational.org
216/622-2712 (fax)

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En Foco's New Works Photography Awards is an annual program selecting U.S. based photographers of African, Asian, Latino & Native American heritage through a national call for entries.

This fellowship serves as a creative incubator, enabling artists to create or complete an in-depth, photographic series exploring themes of their choice, and providing an honorarium and the infrastructure for a professional exhibition in the New York area.

DEADLINE: July 7, 2008
Download the Guidelines HERE

Juror: Deborah Willis, curator, photographer and Chair, Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU/Tisch

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Call for Entries - [Photography.Book.Now] celebrates the most creative, most innovative, and finest self-published photography books - and the people behind them. Take part in this international juried book competition, traveling salon, and symposium.

Submit your book by July 14 for the chance to gain worldwide recognition plus $25,000 to finish - or start - any project you want.

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CITY Magazine announces the launch of its second-annual ONE CITY, MANY DESTINATIONS travel photography contest, which boasts the ultimate grand prize: CITY’s cover shot. Amateur and professional photographers from around the world are invited to submit images that capture the essence of a city or other travel destination for juried competition and a chance at landing on the cover of CITY’s Fall ’08 Travel issue, on sale September 30, 2008.

Last year, CITY received more than 4,000 entries to the inaugural contest, with New York–based photographer Konstantino Hatzissaros’ stunning image of two Burmese monks in a Mandalay temple winning the coveted spot on CITY’s cover. The issue hit stands just as Burmese monks across Myanmar began their protests against the national junta government.

A jury of internationally renowned photography and travel aficionados will pick one winning image to appear on the cover of CITY’s Fall ’08 Travel issue. The grand-prize winner will also receive a prize package that will include an all-inclusive, weeklong trip for two to Austria, where he or she will have the opportunity to shoot a sponsored-editorial travel photography story for a future issue of CITY.

The work of 15 additional finalists will appear in a special travel photography portfolio inside CITY’s Fall ’08 Travel issue. All finalists will win a camera and/or additional prizes.

Visit www.city-magazine.com/photocontest for more information and to enter. The deadline for all entries is JULY 15, 2008. Sponsors for this year’s contest already include the Austrian Tourism Board and Ruffino Wines.

About CITY Magazine: CITY Magazine is hailed internationally for its cutting-edge photography and editorial coverage of the best in travel, fashion, design, food and city life. CITY Magazine has been selected as the in-room magazine by some of the finest hotels and sports clubs nationwide, including W Hotels group and Equinox. CITY Magazine was the 2007 National Magazine Award winner for Best Photo Portfolio and the 2004 winner for Best Photography, the highest honor in American magazine publishing. For more information, please visit: www.city-magazine.com.

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The Center for Fine Art Photography has announced two new Calls for Entry for photographers looking to submit in the summer season of 2008.

The first, the 2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography, will be juried by Hossein Farmani, Founder of the Lucie Awards, and will accept traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, experimental and mixed-media works.

The second, Our Environment, the Good, Bad and the Ugly, has as its theme the footprint of human expansion and development on our earth. Both competitions are open to all mediums, techniques, and levels of experience.

For more information click here.

2008 International Peace Corps Show

Alema Rose, Aler IDP Camp, Uganda, 2006, Heather McClintock The Center for Fine Art Photography in cooperation with Beet Street, will be hosting a show of photographs created by Peace Corps Volunteers during its long history. The 2008 Peace Corps Exhibition will take place in Fort Collins, Colorado during the International Peace Corps Reunion. Selected images will be exhibited in the Center's gallery during the reunion, August 20 - August 30, 2008 and on the Center's website for two additional years. There are also plans for a traveling exhibition.

2008 Int'l Exhibit. of Fine Art Photography

2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography will spotlight images from around the world. All subjects are eligible.

Our Environment - the Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Our Environment; the Good, Bad and the Ugly, will tell a story of the human foot print left on this earth. This exhibition is for those who consider themselves nature conversationalists and just photographers with a conscious. It's time to go green.

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MARY ELLEN MARK TO JUDGE FIRST BOOK PRIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY

DURHAM, NC-The Center for Documentary Studies and The Honickman Foundation are pleased to announce that celebrated photographer Mary Ellen Mark will judge the 2008 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.

Recently chosen by the readers of American Photo magazine as the most influential woman photographer of all time, Mary Ellen Mark has received international acclaim for her many books and exhibitions as well as her editorial magazine work. Mark's portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, brothels in Bombay, and her award-winning essay on runaway children in Seattle have confirmed her place as one of America's most significant and expressive documentary photographers. Among her most recent books are Twins (Aperture, 2003); a forty-year retrospective, Exposure (Phaidon, 2005); and Extraordinary Child (National Museum of Iceland, 2007). Mark is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. She has received a Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of Photography, a Hasselblad Foundation grant, an Infinity Award for Journalism, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Annenberg Foundation grant, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the World Press Award for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years; two Robert F. Kennedy Awards; and the Matrix Award for Outstanding Woman in the field of Film/Photography, among others. "Mary Ellen Mark's diverse and active career as one of our leading documentary photographers makes her a perfect choice to serve as judge for the First Book Prize," said Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies. "As a brilliant photographer, a sharp and experienced editor of her work, and the author of countless books of photography, she brings a rich perspective to this very important process."

Lynne Honickman, president of The Honickman Foundation, said, "Mary Ellen Mark's work is at once strong, compassionate, and empowering. She's a faithful reporter of reality who's totally comfortable with disturbing issues. She sees beyond surfaces into both the harsh and wondrous intricacies of the human condition-and gives us a new awareness. There are many books to argue the case, American Odyssey, Twins, Exposure, Extraordinary Child, and on . . . where her instinct is clear, focused, and right on the mark-because best of all, she a portrayer of Truth."

The biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize competition is open to American photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work and who use their cameras for creative exploration, whether it be of places, people, or communities; of the natural or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it; of objective or subjective realities. The prize honors work that is visually compelling, that bears witness, and that has integrity of purpose.

American photographers who are pursuing work of creative or social importance have too few opportunities for support and recognition. This is especially true when photographers are engaged in personal or in-depth projects that do not have direct commercial appeal. While there are other sources for grants and fellowships in photography, the chance to see a body of work in print, as a coherent book-length work, is rare. Concerned about this problem and recognizing their shared interests, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and The Honickman Foundation, based in Philadelphia, came together to create this new and important book-publication prize.

Robert Frank, one of America's most important and influential photographers, was the judge of the third competition in 2006. He chose Danny Wilcox Frazier, a freelance photographer, for the prize because of his "passionate photographs without sentimentality. . . . His work reaches out: let me tell your story, it is important." Frazier's dramatic black-and-white photographs of Iowa portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes.

Danny Wilcox Frazier received a grant of $3,000, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in an exhibition of prizewinners, set to open in 2011. Frank wrote the introduction for Frazier's book, Driftless: Photographs from Iowa, which was published in fall 2007 by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies.

Maria Morris Hambourg, founding curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Photographs, chose Steven B. Smith, a photography professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, to win the second biennial competition for his stunning black-and-white photographs of the surreal intersection of suburbia and desert in California, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado. Smith's The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West (Duke University Press/CDS Books) was chosen by Robert Pinsky as one of 2005's highlights in Slate magazine's The Year in Culture.

Renowned photographer Robert Adams, the prize's inaugural judge, selected Kansas-based photographer Larry Schwarm to win the first prize competition for his series of color images capturing dramatic prairie fires that take place in his native state each spring. Schwarm's book, On Fire, is in its second printing (Duke University Press/CDS Books).

Submissions for the 2008 competition will be accepted from June 9 to September 5, 2008. For more details about the prize, see the CDS Web site at http://cds.aas.duke.edu/bp/index.html.

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The IYP world photography contest "Focus on a global food" has launched; a photo competition to highlight the role of the potato as a source of food, employment and income in developing countries organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Nikon Europe.

The winning photographs will be chosen by a selection panel that includes some of the world’s leading professionals working in the field of photography. Winners in the professional and amateur categories will be awarded cash prizes totalling some US$11,000 as well as Nikon cameras.

For more details, you can visit the website: http://www.potato2008.org/en/photocontest/index.html

IYP World Photography Contest
United Nations International Year of the Potato 2008
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
www.potato2008.org
E-mail: iyp.photo@fao.org

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The editorial team at Daylight Magazine is currently looking for photographic portfolios focusing on Climate Change as well as multimedia content to be featured in our monthly podcasts. Please email info@daylightmagazine.org with proposals before sending images.

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Call for artwork for coffee shop in Cleveland. All mediums are accepted. We will help promote your work and if sold 15% of proceeds will go to coffee shop. Please email enough images to be representative of your work to erinhrobinson@gmail.com. We are also interested in purchasing artwork.

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Mary Ann Lynch, director of Not for Profit Network: Photographers Seeking Social Change, is seeking information on long-term projects for consideration for possible exhibition (gallery or online), articles, lectures, and panels. Contact her via email at mlynch3424@aol.com with a paragraph about your project, its duration, the community or issues involved, and venues and activities connected with the project-- beyond gallery walls--that further benefit the community/people/ or issues that comprise the focus in the work. Outreach and community involvement will be an essential part of projects accepted for inclusion. Up to three low-res jpegs can be included with your email. Please do not send any other work until it is requested. See www.maryannlynch.com, the Not for Profit page, for an overview of the NFPN and activities to date.

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NikonCampus: Student Photography Contest

Entries must be related to any theme and may be shot in any style: documentary, still-life, fashion or portrait. Entries may be in color or black and white. Entries must be the sole work of the entrant. Entries must be original, and the sole property of the entrant. To enter, go to www.nikoncampus.com and follow the electronic entry instructions.

Prizes: (1) Monthly Prize . A Nikon COOLPIX P2 , valued at no less than $300, or equivalent; (2) Grand Prize: a Nikon D2x digital SLR camera with lens and accessories (or equivalent); an annual subscription to PDN, A Gold Expo pass to PhotoPlus Expo 2006; and a portfolio review conducted by the photo editing staff of Photo District News.

Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia (.U.S..), age 14 and older, who are currently enrolled in photography classes in accredited colleges and high schools in the U.S..

NikonCampus.com c/o PDN Events, 770 Broadway 7th floor, New York NY 10003, 1-866-IPN-STOCK

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Photogeny Gallery is a new photographic space in culturally dynamic Camden Town. Founded by local photographers Ishmael Annobil and Abiy Mamo, the gallery plans to curate shows that challenge perception, through unique interpretations of the commonplace things and processes. In other words, work that seeks to show inner narratives as well as beauty. We run a monthly cycle of exhibitions.

We not funded by any public or corporate body, so we work on a percentage of sales basis only. We are also open to self-funded and managed exhibition proposals entailing hiring of our space.

We are interested in receiving submissions of all genres of photography from all over the world. All submissions should be on CD with a Word resume and posted with a return postage coupon or a stamped self-addressed envelope. Newcomers are welcome.

Deadline: On-going

Photogeny Gallery, Episode Cafe, 7 Camden High Street, London NW1 7JE, (+44) 0207 3880025, www.photogeny.biz (under construction)

Contact: Ishmael Annobil, ishmael.photogeny@gmail.com

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EDUCATORS - GET A FREE APERTURE SUBSCRIPTION FOR YOUR LIBRARY

Dear Photographic Educator,
Aperture magazine is offering free subscriptions to a number of libraries, and we hope you will help us (and your library!) by submitting your library to be part of the eligible list. In our upcoming holiday gift program, we are asking our subscribers to add an unspecified gift to their order, which will then be given to an appropriate library. If you'd like your library to be included in this program, please send the librarian's name, address and email if possible to magazine@aperture.org. Libraries which do not currently have an Aperture subscription will be considered first.

Thank you.
Dana Cowsert
Marketing Director, magazine

P.S. If you have the ability to donate a subscription to a deserving school or library, visit the following link save 50% off the regular price.

Aperture Foundation, 547 W. 27th St., NY, NY 10001
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CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS

Nueva Luz photographic journal reviews (black & white) fine art and documentary work by American photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage. Photographers are encouraged to review at least two previous issues (at libraries or bookstores; www.enfoco.org).
Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis.Send a portfolio of 20 images for consideration. We strongly encourage that your work show a definite and resolved grouping of images. Images must be RC prints, ink jet prints, slides or digital files on a mac formatted CD. Please do not email us images. Include a bio/resume noting your heritage and U.S. citizenship status, an artist statement and an information sheet for the images included. Send to: Nueva Luz, EN FOCO, INC., 1738 Hone Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461. A SASE and appropriate packaging must be included to ensure safe return. En Foco does not assume liability for any materials sent by mail. nuevaluz@enfoco.org, www.enfoco.org/programs/nuevaluz/submissions.htm

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Documentary artists who are interested in submitting work for consideration for an exhibition in the Center for Documentary Studies galleries should send the following information to the Exhibitions Program Director:

• Cover letter, including artist’s statement about the project,
• Background information and resume(s) on the documentarian/artist(s),
• Fifteen (15) to twenty (20) images in slide form (with caption sheet), and
• Self-addressed stamped envelope for return of materials.

The space available for exhibition in the Juanita Kreps Gallery is approximately 154 running feet (approximately 176 running feet with portable wall). The Lyndhurst and Porch Galleries are approximately 60 running feet. The University Gallery is approximately 58 running feet. Please allow four months for review of your proposal, and note that the Juanita Kreps Gallery is generally booked at least one year in advance.

From time to time CDS mounts “calls for submissions” for companion shows to be paired with larger shows planned for the Kreps Gallery. These calls for work are generally around a set theme (e.g. “HIV/AIDS“ or “youth culture”).

A listing and description of past and current exhibitions for the CDS galleries can be found elsewhere on this site. Before submitting an exhibition proposal, please review this listing to get a better sense of the exhibitions that CDS has presented in the past and to assess the suitability of your proposal.

If you’d like more information about any aspect of the Exhibitions Program at the Center for Documentary Studies, please feel free to call 919-660-3663.

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 1317 W Pettigrew, Durham, NC 27705, 919/660-3663, http://cds.aas.duke.edu

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I am creating this photoblog with a desire to provide a much needed platform for young photographers to showcase their work. Here I intend to present a selection of strong work which strengthens and stretches our current notions of the medium and creates a relevant dialogue. In future, I also intend to invite guest curators and writers to select and comment upon the submitted work. If you think that you are creating interesting work, then please submit 6 images as jpegs at 72dpi with 7 inches in the longer dimension at photosquare@gmail.com. There is no entry fee or category based distinction.

Rishi Singhal, photosquare@gmail.com

www.photosquare.blogspot.com

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