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Call for Entry | This is it

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Due: January 16, 2016

“This is it”

We want you to send in a selection of 5 images that you’ve made and gotten that electric rush of excitement and felt like “this is it, this is why I love photography.”
The images should range over time from when you first started–your first success to your most recent one.
This is not about how many “likes” your image has gotten on social media, this is about you and your love of photography. Dig deep, get personal, be honest.

Send 5 images (jpegs) as attachments to streithousespace@gmail.com with the subject line “this is it.”
300dpi, sized at 1500px on the longest side.
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Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines will not be considered.

For the full prospectus visit: http://streithousespace.com/Submissions.

Call for Entry | Thin Line

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The 2016 Call for Entries began on September 1st. The Call for Entries will end on the below dates.

Early Bird Deadline is September 30, 2015

Regular Deadline is November 30, 2015

Late Deadline is December 22, 2015

As long as you complete the online submission process and pay by the deadline, your submission will count. You then must ensure physical delivery of your submission (if applicable) ASAP. We MUST receive all submission materials by the end of business on December 30, 2015. Otherwise, your submission will not be considered.

Fees:

Submission fees are in US Dollars and are non-refundable. Thin Line reserves the right to disqualify a submission, without a refund or credit, if eligibility requirements are not met or if eligibility status changes. Each entry must be accompanied by the appropriate fee. One submission is defined as one film, one band or musician, and one photo. Submission fees may be paid by credit card only (Visa, MasterCard, Discover).

NOTE: Students get 50% off Film, Photo and Music submission fees. Your submission must be flagged as ‘student’ when asked and you must e-mail a photo/copy of your student ID to submissions@thinline.us.

Eligibility

Entrant confirms and warrants required legal authority to submit the entry into the Festival and to use all music, images, and content in the entry.

Student works are accepted.

The exhibition is open to all photographers worldwide, both amateur and professional. All genres accepted. You will have the chance to specify a category during submission. However, Thin Line reserves the right to place your images in any category.

Essentially, festival preference is for minimal editing; and any editing should “maintain the integrity of the photographic images’ content and context.” Cropping is allowed in all categories. Absolutely NO editing (other than cropping) is allowed in the Light Painting sub-category. If you have any questions related to this point, please feel free to e-mail us atsubmissions@thinline.us

Copyright: By entering, you retain copyright and remain the owner of your images. You agree that the images you submit may be used in printed publications, on Thin Line’s websites, in a slideshow and screensaver, may be uploaded on Thin Line’s social media channels, or in any other media, and may be copied and displayed in any country provided that you are afforded appropriate attribution as the photographer.

  • All entrants will be notified by e-mail or phone of their submission status no later than January 20th, 2016.
  • Multiple entries are allowed. If submitting multiple works across different festivals; you will be required to submit two transactions, one for each festival.
  • Make sure to tell us any special information about you or your submission. Some key points could be that you are a Texas-based artist. Or does your work have anything to do with the University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University, or Denton County?
  • Submission materials will not be returned, nor will they ever be used for any purpose other than what is stated in these rules.

Photographs submitted during the process should be no more than 1000px on its longest side @ 72dpi and in the JPG format. Name your photo submissions using the following naming convention: last-first-photo_title-desiredcategory-TL2016.jpg

  • Where “last” is your Last name.
  • Where “first” is your First name.
  • Where “photo title” is a brief description of the photograph
  • Where “desiredcategory” is the category you think your submission falls under.
  • Please make sure to include TL2016 at the end of your file name.

Entrants are encouraged to submit a series of photographs (up to 5 in a series).
Thin Line cannot be responsible for lost, damaged, late or misdirected entries, or for faulty uploading connections or technical malfunctions.

If You Are Selected

  • You must execute a release agreement wherein you (i) accept responsibility for obtaining any and all clearances necessary to exhibit your film, photo, or music at Thin Line 2016; (ii) warrant that you have the rights necessary to exhibit your film, photo, or music at Thin Line 2016; and (iii) indemnify and hold harmless Thin Line Fest, its parent company, its affiliates, and subsidiaries and any of their respective directors, officers, employees, and representatives against any claim arising out of exhibition of your film, photo, or music at Thin Line 2016.
  • You authorize Thin Line Fest to exhibit your selected work during the 2016 festival.
  • You authorize Thin Line Fest to use your selected work for festival promotion purposes.

If your photo is selected for print, the Photo Program Committee will determine print-size and format for display at the various photography exhibitions. You must provide a high-resolution, print-ready format of the selected photo(s).  If your photo is selected for a digital gallery, you must provide a lossless 1920×1080 file of your photo(s).

If selected, you may opt in or out of the Photo Sale program. For Sales, all interested parties will be asked to contact sales@thinline.us at which point we will work with the artists to determine print requirements and pricing. Net proceeds will be split 50/50 with the artist.

Invited Works/Artists

  • Thin Line, at its sole discretion, may invite select films/musicians/photographers to participate in the festival.
  • All invited works are ineligible for competitive awards.

Awards:

  • Unless otherwise agreed by the Festival in writing, awards will be fulfilled approximately 10-14 weeks after the closing date of the festival.
  • Award eligibility is subject to any restrictions or conditions imposed by applicable laws and regulations (international, federal, state or otherwise), and the award recipient is responsible for all applicable taxes, customs, tariffs, insurance and similar charges or costs (if any).
  • 2016 Awards listed in the below Festival sections are subject to change.

Best of Category Awards – $250 in Cash and prizes- One for each category. One photo will be chosen from each of the four themes. This award is given to the photograph that most well represents each category. The 2016 categories are:

  • Natural Beauty
  • It’s About People
  • What Moves Us
  • There’s a Thin Line
  • Zef

Instant Film Award – $250 in Cash and prizes. One photo will be chosen from the Instant Film event that will occur during the Thin Line 2016 Festival.

A Thin Line of Light – This award is given to the most outstanding Light Painting. Absolutely no editing is allowed. Images will be judged on originality, technical mastery, difficulty, and visual aesthetics. One photographer will receive $250 in cash and prizes.

Photo entries will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact, and artistic merit. The story behind the photo may influence the judges’ decisions. Decisions made by the judges are final.

Photo Sales: All interested parties will be asked to contact sales@thinline.us at which point we will work with the artists to determine print requirements and pricing. Net proceeds will be split 50/50 with the artist.

Outstanding Graduating Senior | Madeline Potter

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Congratulations to Madeline Potter for being featured as an Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Texas Woman’s University paper, The Lasso.

Take a look at the feature here.

Madeline currently attends Texas Woman’s University working on her BFA in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration. She will graduate in Fall 2015.

Call for Entry | ONWARD Compé ’15

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Due: January 5, 2015
Compé ’15 / Project Basho
Juror: Elinor Carucci

For more details and submission: http://compe.onwardphoto.org/2015/details/overview/

About ONWARD:
Project Basho presents ONWARD Compé, an international juried competition for emerging photographers. Each year Compé culminates in a group show of framed prints from the selected finalists, with an opening reception at Summit, ONWARD’s annual photography festival in Philadelphia.

Juried each year by a leading figure in contemporary photography, ONWARD Compé spotlights new, envelope-pushing work that continues to further the medium. Now in its eighth year, Compé has solidified its standing as a highly respected international competition, drawing submissions from across the U.S. and around the globe. The competition seeks to increase the exposure of talented image-makers, create outlets for artists’ work, and present compelling photographs in a cohesive and well-curated exhibition.

ONWARD Compé has an open theme and accepts submissions from any photographer who has never had commercial gallery representation.

Compé and Summit are two components of ONWARD, a multifaceted photography happening that encompasses a photography festival in Philadelphia, an international competition, Workshops for discerning photographers, and Galerie, an online gallery featuring selected photographers.

Juror:
Every year ONWARD invites a distinguished photographer to lend a discerning eye to Compé, serving as guest juror. The guest juror is responsible for choosing 56 noteworthy finalists and ultimately two outstanding grand prize winners from among hundreds of talented competitors.
Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-born photographer who has lived and worked in New York since 1995. Her recent monograph Mother (Prestel, 2013) was included in the New York Times Top 10 Photo Books of 2013 and the Los Angeles Times Year-End Spread of Bold, Inventive Photography Books.

This year’s guest juror is Elinor Carucci.

Carucci began working on Mother when pregnant with twins in 2004, and continued to photograph her family’s daily life over the course of nearly a decade. The result is a startlingly emotive series that, through intensely personal views of both blissful and painful moments, paradoxically reveals the universal experience of family intimacy. A similar theme is present in much of Carucci’s earlier autobiographical work, including the series Closer (2002).

Houston Center for Photography Call

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Due October 24, 2014

2015 FELLOWSHIPS CALL FOR ENTRIES Juried by Paul Kopeikin, Owner, Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) Deadline is October 24, 2014 at midnight. Two fellowship recipients will be awarded $3,000 each and a solo exhibition at HCP in the summer of 2015. One Houston-based artist (residing within a 100 mile radius of Houston including the Beaumont, Galveston, and College Station areas) will receive the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship and another artist from anywhere in the world, outside the Houston area, will receive the HCP Fellowship. Paul Kopeikin, Owner, Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) will jury the fellowship selection.

The competition is open to all artists working in photographic and lens-based work. – Any photographic process is acceptable as long as it is:

  • Original work
  • The body of work is still in development within the last two years
  • The body of work submitted as a whole has not been exhibited in a previous HCP Exhibition.
FEES:

There is a $35 entry, which includes entry for 10 images or video. The maximum number of images artist can submit is 10. You are not required to submit 10 images. You may submit more than one entry. Each entry is $35.

RULES FOR ENTRY:

All submissions will go through CALLFORENTRY.ORG, you can create a free account – Entrants should upload up to 10 images or videos, an artist statement, and a resume/bio – Acceptance will be based on the body of work by each artist rather than on individual images.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
  1. Verify your HCP Membership If you are a member but do not know your membership number please contact Sinai Tirado at 713-529-4755 x16 or sinai@hcponline.org If you are not a member of HCP you can become one online HERE YOU MUST BE AN HCP MEMBER TO COMPLETE YOUR SUBMISSION!
  2. Prepare your images and all related texts. Carefully edit a group of no more than 10 images or videos that describe your current lens-based work. Images should be 72 dpi and larger than 1920 px. You will also need to have the following information available:
  • an artist statement
  • a resume, c/v, or bio\
  • specific information for each piece: Title (for identification purposes) Year of exposure Size (height X width) Medium of finished work (inkjet print, chromogenic print, etc.) Pricing (estimate of final print value)

3.  Uploading Images and text to CALLFORENTRY.ORG Create a free account on callforentry.org or log in to an existing account to upload your images and text. Upload images to My Profile.

4. Apply to Houston Center for Photography’s call for entry

  • log on to callforentry.org and make sure you are logged into your profile
  • on the top tool bar click Apply to Calls
  • scroll through the list to find Houston Center for Photography (it is set default to sort alphabetically so we should be almost halfway down the page)
  • click APPLY TO THIS CALL
  • accept the agreement for submission
  • Copy/Paste all text (Artist Statement, Resume, CV) into appropriate text boxes
  • Answer the remaining questions (you will need your membership number)
  • Add the images from your profile you would like to submit for this call for entry
  • Save your application
  • Complete your submission

5. Submit and Payment Confirm that you are a member of HCP. If you are unsure of your membership please email info@hcponline.org. If you are not currently a member of HCP please sign up for a membership HERE before completing your submission. We will contact all non-members at the close of the call and notify them that their submissions will be ineligible for selection and will not be included in the submissions reviewed by the Juror. After you receive an email receipt of payment, your submission process is complete.

Lucky 7

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Due October 3, 2014

What is the “Lucky Seven” exhibition?
“Lucky Seven” is an exhibition in the Visual Arts Gallery to showcase programs in the Visual Arts. Each program concentration area advisor will choose one BFA student and one MA or MFA student in each program to have work in the show. Two students (one undergrad and one grad) representing the photography area will be selected by instructors Susan Grant and Danielle Khoury.

Since each area within our department can put forth one undergrad and one grad student to be included in the exhibition, the photography area will once again open this opportunity as a “call for submissions.” Advanced instructors will review and select one photo undergrad and one graduate student to be included by October 10th.

Eligibility for Application:
  •  Applicants must be either an advanced undergraduate student with a major concentration in photography or an MFA student with a concentration in photography.
  • Chosen students must be prepared to exhibit 2 professionally presented works, framed and ready for installation.
  • October 20th: Chosen students must be ready to deliver works to the gallery by the date specified.
Application Requirements & Procedure:
  • PDF including 5 images from one body of work
    Each image in the PDF must include label with your name, year in school,
    degree, title, media, size, and date of artwork.
  • Email PDF to one of your photo instructors:
    Susan Grant SGrant1@twu.edu
    Danielle Khoury: Danielleg@mail.twu.edu

Photographers Needed

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Susan G. Komen North Texas is seeking volunteer photographers to photograph the 3rd Annual Denton Race for the Cure on September 28, 2013. Email Hannah Beaty at hbeaty@komennorthtexas.org for more information.