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Project Development Grant | CENTER

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Due: February 19, 2015
Project Development Grant / CENTER
Juror: Sarah Greenough

The Project Development Grant offers financial support to fine art, documentary, or photojournalist works-in-progress. The grant includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the work’s final stages.

This grant is awarded to projects that are still in progress and have not been exhibited or published. It requires signing of a contract to participate in an exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts during Review Santa Fe.

GUIDELINES | FAQS | APPLY  Cost to enter $35 members / $45 non-members

2015 Juror

Sarah Greenough
Senior Curator & Head of the Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.

2015 Award Package

FIRST PLACE
// $5,000 Cash Award (some restrictions apply)
// Exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA)
// Complimentary participation in Review Santa Fe
// Santa Fe Photographic Workshops tuition voucher (some restrictions apply)
// A Photographer’s Showcase from photo-eye
// Special invitation to participate in the Art Photo Index
// Lenscratch publication
// Online exhibition at VisitCenter.org

2014 WINNER’S GALLERY
2013 WINNER’S GALLERY
2012 WINNER’S GALLERY

Call for Entry | Travellers

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Due: March 19, 2015
Travellers | Blank Wall Gallery

Submit your photos for free participation to Travellers exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery.

Forty photographs from the ones sent will be chosen to be exhibited by our gallery in April.

Photographs of people in ports, airports, bus stations and train stations. People with luggage, departing or arriving, taken in the street, in metro stations or bus stops, waiting for a taxi or getting out of one during day or night. All means of transport are accepted.

Blank Wall Gallery is calling artists to submit photographs for an exhibition with the theme Travellers.

Professional or amateur photographers from around the world, who are over 18, are eligible to participate in the contest.

The total cost of this particular contest (printing, matting, framing, press releases, leaflets, opening night, and invigilation) will be covered by Blank Wall Gallery. Blank Wall Gallery will provide both its floors for this exhibition.

All you have to do is send the photographs you believe that have a position in this exhibition. Forty photographers will be chosen to present their work.

How to Submit:

You can submit your work via email at: submissions@blankwallgallery.com

In the body of your email please include the following info:

Your Name
Exhibition Name
Titles of Included Photos with corresponding file name
(i.e. New York Train Station – firstname_lastname_1.jpg
Heathrow Airport – firstname_lastname_2.jpg etc.)

1. Submission is free

2. You can submit up to three photographs, taken by any photographic means: digital camera, film or Polaroid.

3. Prepare your files. Your photographs should be jpg files, 1200 pixels maximum, on the longest side, set to the highest quality, at 72 dpi.

4. The name of the files should be: firstname_lastname_1.jpg

5. The photographers who are selected into the exhibition will provide a high resolution Tiff or JPEG file for our gallery to print.

For more information click here.

Call for Entry | Focus: The Portrait

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Black Box Gallery

Due: February 10, 2015
Focus: The Portrait | Black Box Gallery
Juror: Amy Arbus

Theme: Portraiture

Black Box Gallery will host a juried group photography exhibition on contemporary portrait photography. Pose and Gesture, Image and Identity, Documentary and Street, Constructed Narrative, Self Portrait, Environmental, Vernacular and Snapshot, Fashion and Nude, all have visual arguments to make in the world of portraiture photography. What is the character, attitude and expression that binds this genre together?

Juror: Amy Arbus

Photographer Amy Arbus has published five books, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called The Fourth Wall her masterpiece. Her most recent, After Images, is an homage to modernism’s most iconic avant-garde paintings. Her advertising clients include Chiat/Day, Foote, Cone and Belding, American Express, Saatchi & Saatchi, SpotCo, New Line Cinema and Nickelodeon. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, Aperture and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, NORDphotography, Anderson Ranch and The Fine Arts Work Center. Amy Arbus is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Massachusetts. She has had twenty-five solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of The National Theater in Norway, The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

To view Amy’s work please visit her website.

Exhibition Dates: March 1 – 20, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2015 | 6:00  – 8:00 PM

Each exhibition will have 24 photographs included by the juror for exhibiton at the gallery. An additional 30 photographs will be selected for exhibition in our on-line gallery annex. All 54 photographs from the show will be included in a catalog available for purchase on Blurb Books.

For more information click here.

Residency | 2015 Woodstock A-I-R Program

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Woodstock A-I-R

Due: February 28, 2015
2015 Woodstock A-I-R Program | The Center for Photography at Woodstock

HOW TO APPLY:

We are now accepting applications for the 2015 Woodstock A-I-R program!

Download PDF application here to apply now!

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Please submit:

• 10-15 digital images/video on a DVD/CD-ROM of current work. (one copy)

Format still images as JPEGs with a width dimension no greater than 2400 pixels. Please limit video clips or excerpts to no more than 5 minutes (please indicate length of full video) and submit no more than 3 in total. Acceptable file formats include .mpg, .avi, .mov. Please make sure your three videos combined do not exceed 200MB and test your video files to make sure they play on a Mac and PC.

Individuals applying to the Critical Studies Residency should submit 2 writing samples of no more than 1,500 words per sample with visuals, including featured artist work samples and installation views if applicable. (four copies of each)

• Residency proposal (four copies of each) – see application form for guidelines to answering this question.

• Preference for time of residency (please list 3 options) *The program runs from June through September, please request your time accordingly. Residencies range from 3-6 weeks.

• Four copies of the following:

Artist statement (describing your current projects and artistic process) – limited to 500 words.

Resume (listing past exhibitions, residency, and related experiences) – limited to 3 pages.

Images script (thumbnails of your work with caption information) – see page 3 of the application form.

WOODSTOCK A-I-R participants are selected by a peer panel comprised of professionals in the field and have included past participants in CPW’s residency and exhibition program, curators, collectors, and art critics.

Download PDF application here to apply now!

Apply, $ | February Opportunities

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February Opportunities

Call for Entry:

  • On the Street Where You Live | Due: February 9, 2015
    PhotoPlace Gallery
    Juror: James P. Blair
  • Landscapes | Due: February 11, 2015 
    The Center for Fine Art Photography
    Juror: Chantel Paul
  •  Photography Now 2015 | Due: February 15, 2015
    The Center for Photography at Woodstock
    Juror: David Bram
  • FotoFest 2016 | Due: February 17, 2015
    Theme: Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet
  • 2015 DART Student Art Contest | Due: February 27, 2015
    Theme: Explore Your World with DART
  • LensCulture Portrait Awards 2015 | Due: February 23, 2015
    LensCulture
    Juror: International Jury
  • 2015 Woodstock A-I-R Program | Due: February 28, 2015
    The Center for Photography at Woodstock

Internship:

  • Internship | Penland School of Crafts | Due February 1, 2015

Scholarship:

  • Scholarships & Studio Assistantship | Penland School of Crafts | Due: February 17, 2015
  • Beinecke Scholarship | Due: February 20, 2015
  • SPESC Student Scholarship | Due: February 20, 2015
    2015 SPE National Conference Student Scholarship from South Central Region

 

Opportunity Calendar | Women’s Studio Workshop

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Women's Studio Workshop

Women’s Studio Workshop has an artist-centered philosophy and a deep commitment to the individual’s creative process. We support this vision through providing time and space in the form of grants, residencies and internships where artists-in-residence can come to work with 24-hour access to the studios.

Opportunity Calendar:

February 15
March 2
March 15
April 1
October 15
Nov 15

Ongoing

Click here for more information.

Call for Entry | The Hand Magazine Issue #8

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The Hand Magazine

Due: February 28, 2015
Issue #8 | The Hand Magazine

Submissions Details | Current Call For Entries:

There is NO THEME The HAND Magazine is printed IN COLOR!! Black and white and monochrome images are also accepted and will be printed accordingly. Any subject matter is acceptable, but all images must be done in a photographic or printed media only. No more than 5 images per submission, please. We are also accepting articles that describe a contemporary body of photographic or printmaking work or a recent or current exhibition featuring primarily works in those media. Art criticism is also welcome. You must include 4 images with your article with contact information/ releases from artists whose work you include. New! If two or more individuals living at the same address all wish to submit but do not want multiple copies of the magazine, they may do so by simply paying the single submission fee and each submitting images UP TO A TOTAL OF 5 IMAGES PER FEE. Please indicate this in the “notes to seller” prompt during the PayPal process and/or make a note of this in the email in which you send the images. Send all submission materials listed below to: thehandmagazine@icloud.com

Submission Specifications:

1) All images must be saved as jpg files, 300 dpi, 10 inches (3000 ppi) on the longest side. 2) Articles and submission forms can be attached as doc, docx, rtf, or pdf files: Please copy the text from the appropriate form and paste it into a Word Document (doc). Complete the entire form and include it as an attachment with your images:

  • Image Submission Form (PDF)
  • ImageSubmissionForm (Word Doc)
  • Article With Images Submission Form

Important note: If total message size exceeds 20 MB, please send two separate messages. Thank you. We apologize for this inconvenience. Your submission WILL NOT be accepted until you complete the submission fee. The cost difference is due to the fact that your submission also includes a copy of the issue you submit to and shipping costs are greater outside of the US. Please note: Submissions include 1 copy. For articles including work by multiple artists, the copy will go to the person who actually submits the article/ images. Thank you for understanding!

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Call for Entry | On the Street Where You Live

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PhotoPlace Gallery

Due: February 9, 2015
On the Street Where You Live | PhotoPlace Gallery
Juror: James P. Blair

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

Show us what’s going on where you live, work, or play. Street scenes, portraits, landscapes — we want to see 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.

APPLY 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.

Call for Entry | LensCulture Portrait Awards 2015

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Due: February 23, 2015
LensCulture Portrait Awards 2015 | LensCulture
Juror: International Jury

Seeking the New Photographic Portrait:

The LensCulture Portrait Awards is the 2nd annual call for international portrait photography. The importance of portraiture is present in cultures across the world, illustrating the power and endurance of human connection. With over 145 countries represented on LensCulture, in over 15 languages, we’re seeking new global perspectives on the modern day portrait. This is an open call for portrait photography from around the world. 6 Winners and 25 Finalists will be chosen.

Open to All Types of Portrait Photography From Around the World

STUDIO • CANDID • CONCEPTUAL • ENVIRONMENTAL • STREET • ALTERNATIVE PROCESS • SELF-PORTRAITS •
GROUPS & COUPLES • STAGED • COMPOSITES • SELFIES

Portrait photography is among the most iconic work created by photographers and enjoyed by people around the world. Last year, we saw work from over 145 countries and now we want to discover the best portrait photography of the 21st century. We welcome submissions by photographers from every culture and background; from professionals, to emerging talents, students and amateurs — using any and all techniques of photography.

The earlier you enter, the greater your chance for exposure! So, don’t miss this opportunityto be recognized as one of the best portrait photographers in the world.

There are no limitations on age, level, genre or location. For further information, please see our FAQ.

Call for Entry | Landscapes

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The Center For Fine Art Photography

Due: February 11, 2015 
Landscapes | The Center for Fine Art Photography
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.

Important Dates:
Entries Due |  February 11th, 2015
Notice Of Acceptance | February 27th 2015
Exhibition Dates | June 5th – July 18th, 2015
Public + Artists’ Reception | June 5th, 6-8 pm

Submission | Entry Fee:
MEMBERS | $24 for the first three images.
NON-MEMBERS |  $38 for the first three images.
ADDITIONAL IMAGES may be submitted for $8 each for members and $10 each for non-members. There is no limit to the number of images that may be submitted. Applicants signing up for membership at the time they submit will receive the automatic discounted entry fee.Note: Images selected by jurors for exhibition at the Center in the previous 12 months are NOT eligible. Images previously submitted but not yet selected for exhibition may be resubmitted.

For More Information about the Landscapes Call For Entries, click here