"Photography.Book.Now is a new photography book competition celebrating self-published photography books and the photographers behind them. Photographers are invited to submit their most creative, most innovative, and finest self-published photography books."
Check it out. Grand prize of $25,000 is at stake.
[Via PhotographyBlog]
I just received an entry form for the 19th Annual Gordon Parks International Photo Competition. The contest deadline is June 29, 2007. Winners will be announced at the Fourth Annual Gordon Parks Celebration of Culture and Diversity from October 3 through 6, 2007. If you have any questions please direct them here.
Mark and Tanya Bohr are pleased to announce the fifth annual scholarship for emerging photojournalists who demonstrate financial need to continue their careers. The award may be used to attend any of the photojournalism workshops at The Maine Photographic Workshops.
The $2,000 scholarship is offered in memory of Yarka, who was a passionate photojournalist. She was drawn to photograph people often ignored by society – the homeless, the aged and the ill. Finding great humanity in her subjects, she attempted to show this through her imagery.
The ideal applicant will not only be interested in photojournalism, but will have demonstrated social awareness in the spirit of Yarka’s work. While the award will be based upon need, the applicant must also provide a portfolio of recent work. Portfolios and proof of need for financial assistance should be submitted in digital format, as the awarding committee is not centrally located. For further information and application forms, see this site and this site.
Application deadline: 5:00 PM on Tuesday, April 20, 2007. The award will be announced on Yarka’s birthday, April 25, 2007.
P.S. It is unclear whether The Maine Workshops is still in operation. I was under the impression that it had shut down. I'll post an update as soon as I can confirm its status.
ESPN's Darren Rovell's latest article talks about how the ABC network will now host the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest. The contest has steadily moved from the shadows to the nation's limelight, often featuring desi kids. Among Rovell's top eight picks to win it all this year are three desis.
For an interesting perspective on all of this read Amar Shah's take on the contest called Keepers Of The Hive. To access it you will need a ESPN Insider account – sorry.
Want to know more about this cultural jamboree? Watch the movies Spellbound, Bee Season or Akeelah and the Bee. Or, read American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds.
Tempted to give this a shot yourself? If you are an armchair word warrior, you may want to receive Anu Garg's excellent A Word A Day to start brushing up. ESPN's SportsNation has a fun [but good God, tough] spelling test. Take it and post your score here.
WHAT IS THE NEW DOCUMENTARIAN AWARD?
This award does not refer to a new photographer doing documentary projects, (though a new photographer can certainly enter this contest). But rather, the New Documentarian Award refers to a new approach to showing, sharing, and promoting documentary photography.
WHAT DESIGNATES DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY?
Documentary photography can take one of several different approaches. There are socially-concerned documentary photographers who hope to help bring about change (like Lewis Hine who photographed child laborers in America at the turn of the century) and there are photographers like Berenice Abbott, who, in the 1930’s, used an 8x10 camera to document New York City’s buildings, with the intention of preserving a place and time.
If you can answer yes to one of the questions below, then your project qualifies for the New Documentarian Award.
1. Does your project educate people about something significant?
2. Do you hope to make a difference with your documentary project?
3. Does your documentary project preserve a time and place?
WHAT DESIGNATES A LONG TERM PROJECT?
A long-term project is several things:
1. It is a project that the photographer has become deeply connected to based on the amount of time spent on the project.
2. It is a project that is stylistically and thematically unified.
3. It is a project with a message or goal.
CRITERIA
The entrant cannot have a published book or one about to be published.
WHO SHOULD ENTER?
Any professional, amateur, or student photographer who has not had a book published.
FIRST PLACE PRIZE includes:
* Publication of project images in Rangefinder Magazine
* Online Featured Gallery at The Julia Dean Photo Workshops Website
* A three-day workshop of your choice at the Julia Dean Photo Workshops, including roundtrip airfare to Los Angeles and hotel accommodations for three nights in Venice Beach, California
SECOND PLACE PRIZE!
Epson Stylus Photo R2400 Printer
THIRD PLACE PRIZE!
Mountainsmith Parallax Camera Pack
HONORABLE MENTIONS!
Lifetime magazine subscriptions from Rangefinder Magazine
DEADLINE: July 17, 2006
(Entries must be received by 5 pm on July 17th. No drop offs.)
JUDGING: Mon., Aug. 21, 2006
ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNER: Fri., Aug. 25, 2006
JUDGES
Bert Fox, National Geographic Magazine
Gail Fisher, Los Angeles Times
Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times
Get the application form here.
For more information contact Julia Dean Photo Workshops here:
The Julia Dean Photo Workshops
3111 Ocean Front Walk, Suite 102
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
310-821-0909 phone
310-821-0809 fax
Amy Gahran, now the editor at Poynter's E-Media Tidbits writes in her own blog that Stanford University is offering a fellowship that is conceivably open to bloggers and so-called Citizen Journalists.
The fellowship is at the Center for the Study of the North American West and includes between $3500-$7000 plus access to the Center's library.
Apply, if you qualify and if you are interested.
[This blog post is sponsored by Seshu's Pipal Productions – Wedding Photojournalism: Elegant. Memorable. Real.]
Announcing the third and fourth Bliss Book Offer winners. Waqim, from Surrey in British Columbia and Ruchita in Gurgaon, India, have won the third and fourth copies of The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar's new novel.
Two more copies of the book to go. Simply follow the directions and you too could win a copy of Umrigar's book [valued at $24.95].
Announcing the second Bliss Book Offer winner. Zin, from Minneapolis, has won the second copy of The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar's new novel.
Four more copies of the book to go. Simply follow the directions and you too could win a copy of Umrigar's book [valued at $24.95].
I heard from a faithful reader of this blog today that my instructions for receiving Thrity Umrigar's novel The Space Between Us was, well, a bit ambiguous.
So, let me set the record straight. To qualify for the giveaway:
1) Go check out my new wedding photojournalism blog called bliss
2) Sign up to subscribe to the Feedblitz feed on that site - you will see the subscription form on the right hand side [yes, you may unsubscribe after this contest if you wish]
3) Confirm your subscription - you will receive an automatic email from Feedblitz asking if you really want to sign up for bliss
4) Email me your name, address, telephone number from your email account. The email address you should send me this info to is - tiffinbox [at] pipalproductions [dot] com. Subject line should read: “Tiffinbooks Offer: Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us.”
5) I'll verify that you have indeed subscribed to bliss and will put your name in a hat with others
6) One randomly chosen name will be the recipient of one copy of the book. Once you win, your name will be removed from the hat. To remain in the contest through the next seven weeks you have to remain subscribed to bliss.
Simple, right? So, good luck.
Please note: All names and contact information will be kept confidential and will not be sold, rented or bartered away. I take your time and privacy very seriously. I hate getting spammed and I hate spammers too. The information you provide me will be used to send you the book, should you win. You may also occasionally receive information about my photographic projects. You are free to unsubscribe from my mailing list(s) at any time.
I have six books left, now that Zehra Khan has laid claim to the first giveaway of the week. Thanks for playing Zehra.
Technorati Tags: bliss, books, contest, Pipal Productions
It's the holiday season and hey I am all about giving ya'll freebies whenever I can. So here is one for the Macintosh maven among you.
I have TWO free subscription offers to Macworld to give away by December 31st.
Email me at tiffinbox [at] pipalproductions [dot] com with your name, address and telephone number. You better be legit because I will call you before I commit your subscriptions.
The second and sixth email wins (2 and 6, get it?)
Via NPPA
The Gordon Parks Center for Culture & Diversity at Fort Scott Community College began the Gordon Parks International Photography Competition in 1989 to honor Fort Scott's most famous photographer, Gordon Parks. Each year the college awards prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250 to photographers whose images reflect the important themes in the life and works of Gordon Parks. The competition has become a showcase for the best of American documentary and news photography.
2005 Gordon Parks International Photo Competition is now seeking your entries.
Via Dave Winer
When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced recently some bloggers took to arms about the award bestowed to the Associated Press for photography.
Conservatives often claim liberals are just a bunch of whiners. Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
Via Arun Venugopal
"You must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation to be considered in one of its annual competitions for Fellowships. The Foundation receives from 3500 to 4000 applications each year and is able to make about 220 grants. No one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition. There is no pre-screening. Applicants will be matched against others working in their own field and then against all others in the competition in a rigorous selection process. The work of artists will be reviewed by artists, scientists by scientists, historians by historians. The Foundation has a network of several hundred advisers who either meet at the Foundation offices to look at applicants' work or receive application materials to read locally. These advisers then submit reports on their ranking of the applicants in their respective fields. After this review, a final Committee of Selection weighs the applications field by field and determines how many awards to make in each area."
Four desis have won the coveted Guggenheim Fellowships this year.
Pico Iyer, Writer, Santa Barbara, California: Reflections on the fourteenth Dalai Lama.
Rohinton Mistry, Writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Fiction.
Santosh Srinivas Vempala, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Algorithmic convex geometry.
Meenakshi Wadhwa, Curator of Meteoritics, Field Museum, Chicago: Analysis of solar wind returned by the Genesis spacecraft.
Well, actually calling all photojournalists to submit work created in 2004 for the 2005 SAJA Photoforum to be held during the SAJA convention. The convention and job fair will be held from June 16 through 19, at Columbia University.
I am coordinating the photo exhibit and will play judge for the photo awards. Other judges will be announced shortly. Please download the PDF for instructions on how to submit your work [content & quality], what will be considered for the show and the annual photo awards. The deadline for this is April 18.
Please note that print and broadcast journalists with submissions your postmark deadline was today!
Photobloggies, the awards ceremony for photobloggers will announce winners sometime today.
Each year, The Asian American Writers' Workshop honors outstanding achievement in Asian American literature through the Annual Asian American Literary Awards. Now in their eighth year, the literary awards are again taking submissions for eligible works in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.
The postmark deadline for submitting work is Friday, April 22, 2004. Please read through the guidelines below to see if your work is eligible.
Books may be nominated by literary agents, publicists, or authors. All entries must be accompanied by an application form. To download an application, please check this page.
To find out more about the literary awards, visit the AAWW website.
Well, it's official. The 2005 SAJA PHOTOFORUM is on. They are looking for the very best in photojournalism from South Asia; from those who work in South Asia or who have focussed on the South Asian diaspora.
Only digital entries will be accepted and they will be due on April 18, 2005. For the entry form and how to submit yourr entry, please click the Adobe Acrobat icon you see here to the right. 
You will need Acrobat Reader to view the file.
They are doing things a bit differently this year. For the first time, they are combining entries for the SAJA Photo Awards and the SAJA PHOTOFORUM. So, your entries will be judged for the photo awards and may also be exhibited in front of 600 journalists at the SAJA annual convention, held at Columbia University.
Please let your friends and colleagues know about this opportunity. Forward the downloaded PDF or email them the following link.
The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship has been established by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma in order to build a cohort of journalists better prepared to report responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events, including crime, family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war, and genocide.
The Dart Center provides six or more expense-paid fellowships to mid-career journalists who want to apply knowledge of emotional trauma to improving their reporting of violent events.
Fellows will attend a two-day seminar on the role emotional trauma plays in coverage of violent events, then will have access to all events and speakers in the annual conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. The 2005 ISTSS conference will be held November 1-6, 2005, in Toronto.
Fellowships are open to: print and broadcast reporters, photographers, editors, and producers with at least five years of journalism experience.
Program information and application forms are available at the Dart Center web site.
Photo District News has announced the 2005 Top-Knots competition for wedding photographers.
You can bet I will be entering this year. Will share with you my final choices. Perhaps I'll set up a poll where you all can vote on them. We'll see. I have so much first to do to set my office up at home, that this may just take a back seat till the early part of May.
Polaroid has announced the winners of the 5th International Awards.
There are links to the first four contests as well. In this day and age of digital, all awe inspiring.
One gripe and it's a big one - why can't one enlarge these images to see what they really look like? The postage stamps are perhaps meant to deter swiping them, but gee whiz, drop a watermark or something and be done with it.
Surya Sen has been recognized at the 2004 Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo Awards, in the General News Single category.
Instituted by The Indian Express Group as part of the birth centenary celebrations of its founder, Ramnath Goenka, the India Press Photo Awards attracted 2,795 entries from across India, from regional newspapers and English-language national newsmagazines, from agency regulars, sports photographers, conflict-zone junkies.
CAPTION: Sarita's former husband M. Mahendra Reddy drank pesticide and died, leaving behind a pregnant wife and a two-year old daughter. Photography © Surya SenExpect to see more of Sen's work here in the next couple of days.
Writer, photojournalist and blogger, Joshua Newtown has won the 2004 Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award.
His photograph of a Chamar Dalit woman falling into frenzy at a prayer session in an Uttar Pradesh village was chosen for the Special Prize under the category of ‘Women and new slavery’. He will receive Euros 1500 (Rs. 78,000 approx) and a citation. The award is instituted by global humanitarian organisation Médicos del Mundo based in Madrid, Spain.
A former freelancer with Associated Press and Blitz Weekly, Newton has reported for over fifty print and web publications around the world. He runs a popular blog-column called REPORTAGE.
Newton will attend the awards ceremony in Madrid on January 25, 2005. An exhibition of award-winning photographs will tour European countries for the next two years. Interested in submitting your work for this competition? Click here to download the PDF.
Abir Abdullah, an award-winning photographer and friend from Bangladesh and Harish Tyagi, a budding photojournalist based in Delhi, India have won awards at the annual UNICEF Photo Of the Year 2004 competition.
Abir won second place for a gruesome image of rescue workers pulling the limp body of a six-year old child after a six-storey, 100-year old building collapsed at midnight on June, 9 2004 in Dhaka.
Harish Tyagi's image of a child navigating his way in a garbage dump received an honorable mention.
What Abir and Harish have in common (other than working in South Asia) is that they are both deeply committed to documenting children and the environment they live in.
The American Journal of Nursing (AJN), the largest and oldest continually circulated nursing journal in the world (first published in 1900; 340,000 subscribers) is calling for entries in a photojournalism contest.
Nurses provide care to people who are experiencing dimensions of life that we often don't want to think about: illness, dying, labor, bodily functions out of control, pain, suffering, immobility, and ignorance about how our bodies work and how to care for them, among others. If you are fortunate, nurses are with you when you are born, when you are sick, and when you die. Nurses serve as sentinels in hospitals, in your home, schools, industry, and other settings, as they monitor health and illness, intervening to prevent deterioration and promote recovery.
Today, there is a serious global nursing shortage. A visual portrayal of nurses at work would do much to inform and to communicate to the public the important work of nursing, contemplate that social contract, and inspire some individuals to pursue a nursing career or encourage others to do so. The American Journal of Nursing seeks compelling contemporary photographs portraying nurses at work. Selected photographs will be used on the cover of the journal, included in a public exhibit in May in New York City, and possibly published in a book or in a DVD.
Prizes
First prize : $2,500
Second prize: $1,000
Third prize: $500
Honorable Mentions: Nine additional winners, along with the top three, will appear on the covers of AJN and will be part of an exhibition in New York City in May 2005, and possibly other venues. Winners will be notified by telephone or mail by April 10, 2005. There will be additional judge's choice winners that will be part of the exhibition.
How to Submit
You may enter up to five photographs. Each entry must be accompanied by an application form. Send in an 8 x 10 print and a CD (jpeg or tiff files, 300 dpi resolution minimum). Print photographs should be labeled on the reverse side with your name. Unless the photo is taken in an open, public setting, a release form is required for all subjects in the photo who can be identified. Photos should not be posed.
Deadline
All submissions must be received by March 1, 2005. There is no fee to submit.
Terms
AJN will retain nonexclusive permission rights to use the photographs in print, online, and as part of a photography exhibit, and possibly other mediums. Materials submitted will not be returned. Photographs awarded nonfunded prizes (honorable mentions, judge's choice) will receive remuneration at a standard rate.
Send Entries to:
American Journal of Nursing
C/o Wolters Kluwer Health
Attn: Dana Carey, Photojournalism Contest
333 Seventh Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10001
For more information, contact Dana Carey, 646-674-6602.
Via Pooja Bharadwaj
Seeking Talented Musicians !
SAAFA (South Asian Films and Arts Association) a not for profit films and arts promotion organization is presenting the music competition - Rock n Dhol.
Rock n Dhol invites all aspiring musicians to submit their original music to win the opportunity to be published on the soundtrack of the new film My Bollywood Bride starring Jason Lewis (Sex and the City fame) and Kashmera Shah. If that isn't enough they can also win cash prizes amounting to $20,000.
Entry forms are available here. For further questions please contact Pooja Bhardwaj.
Via Greg Mironchuk
Applications Now Being Accepted for the 3rd Annual Yarka Vendrinska Scholarship
Mark and Tanya Bohr are pleased to announce the third annual scholarship for emerging photojournalists who demonstrate financial need to continue their careers. The award may be used to attend any of the photojournalism workshops at The Maine Photographic Workshops.
The $2,000 scholarship is offered in memory of Yarka, who was a passionate photojournalist. She was drawn to photograph people often ignored by society the homeless, the aged and the ill. Finding great humanity in her subjects, she attempted to show this through her imagery.
The ideal applicant will not only be interested in photojournalism, but will have demonstrated social awareness in the spirit of Yarka=92s work, which can be seen on her site, www.yarka.net. While the award will be based upon need, the applicant must also provide a portfolio of recent work. Portfolios and proof of need for financial assistance must be submitted in digital format, as the awarding committee is not centrally located. For further information and application forms, see the Maine Workshops scholarship site.
Scholarship application deadline: 5:00 PM on Tuesday, March 1, 2005. The award will be officially announced on Yarka's birthday, April 25, 2005.
To read more about the Foundation, please visit www.yarkasfund.org.
On a minor tangent, friend and fellow photojournalist Robb Hill won this scholarship the first year it was offered. He attended The Maine Photo Workshops on that award and studied under Eugene Richards, the famous documentary photographer, for a week.
"The Indian Express group has instituted the Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo Awards 2004, as a part of the group’s ongoing series of events to commemorate the centenary year of its visionary founder Ramnath Goenka."
Deadline is December 3. This contest is only meant for photogs based and working in India.
Macworld magazine has announced the 7th annual Macworld Conference & Expo Digital Art Contest. The contest is in conjunction with the annual Macworld Expo in January, in San Francisco, California. Deadline is November 18, 2004.
The 2003 gallery hosts an eclectic group of inspiring winners.
No, you don't have to own a Mac to enter or win. Just skills.
The Online News Association has announced finalists for the 2004 Online Journalism Awards.
Documentary photographers, get your applications in for the annual FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photographers. The deadline is October 15, 2004.
The Asian American Writers' Workshop announced today that Vijay Vaitheeswaran is one of the three winners of The Seventh Annual Asian American Literary Awards.
From Vaitheeswaran's web site: "Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is The Economist’s Environment and Energy Correspondent, covering developments in politics, economics, business, and technology as they relate to energy issues."
Vaitheeswaran's book Power to the People discusses the coming environmental revolution and claims that it is larger than the Internt revolution.
A ceremony honoring Vaitheeswaran and the other winners will take place on Monday, December 6, 7PM @ The Asia Society, 70th/Park Ave, New York City.
Via NCM
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides an opportunity for an immigrant, or the child of 2 immigrant parents, to attend graduate school. Two-year awards are $20,000 per year in living expenses plus half of tuition. Applications are due November 1. For more information and an application, click on the link above.
Exposure Gallery in San Francisco is seeking email submissions for its second "Instant Exhibition."
"We are looking for personal, thought-provoking images that speak to all sides of the issues under discussion as American voters turn to the polls on November 2."
Go to it.
I was on a very interesting photo shoot for India Today on Friday. It is likely to be another cover image but I am not terribly sure till I actually see it. The journalism business is sure fickle and things can change at the drop of a hat. I can't say much more about who or where I was as things are still under wraps. But it was a thrill nonetheless. I'll reveal all in a few days.
On a whim to do something totally out of the ordinary, my wife and I woke up early (I woke up at 3 a.m. for some un-Godly reason) and opened the doors at our local Border's bookstore. While I am not terribly keen on corporate bookstores (prefer smelly second-hand bookstores), the coffee and the array of magazines is always a great draw.
So, thumbing through PICTURE magazine today I came to know about the Lucie Awards for new and emerging photographers. Definitely worth taking a look. If you apply and win, do let me know. I would be happy to feature your work here on this site.
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Ok, UNITY convention is just around the corner. What is it? Find out here. I am heading to DC on Wednesday and will try and blog the convention as best as I can.
Meanwhile, for those of you who are photographers, check the extended post below for more information about the UNITY Photography Competition.
PDN's Digital Imaging Contest has a August 8 deadline. Here is where you can find the submission form and other information. I have wanted to enter this image (see below):
Thoughts?
Via Shana Dressler
The Indo-American Arts Council, Inc. is calling for artists to submit work for it's September show – "Passport To Contemporary Indian Art". The show will be held September 16-30, 2004 at the State Bank of India Gallery, 39 Broadway, 8th Floor, NYC.
SAJA, or the South Asian Journalists Association, in which I serve as a board member, has announced its annual awards.
I am particularly proud to let you all know of the photographers who won this year are some of my personal favorites:
William Albert Allard, National Geographic, for "Untouchables." A photo essay about the lives of India's lowest castes.
John Stanmeyer, Time & VII, for two photo essays about Pakistan, "Live and Die in Karachi" (about the country's biggest city), and "Lost Lives" (about the lives of the mentally ill). This is Stanmeyer's second SAJA Award.
Robb Kendrick, National Geographic for "The Sherpas." A photo essay that ran as part of the magazine's 50th anniversary of the conquest of Mt. Everest.
According to the press release, "The awards will be presented on Saturday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m. at a gala awards ceremony at the Roone Arledge Auditorium at Columbia's Lerner Hall (115th St & Broadway) as part of the four-day SAJA Convention."
Couldn't they have made it an even $100k? That was my initial knee jerk reaction until I read the fine print and found out that this contest was based out of England where the currency is pounding (pun intended) the crap out of the US dollar. Regardless, it's a photography contest that I think might be worth looking into.
Magnum Photos announces the second $5,000 Inge Morath Prize, which will be awarded to a female photographer under 30 years of age. The prize is designed to assist in the completion of a long term documentary project.
Morath, an Austrian-born photographer who was associated with Magnum for almost 50 years, died in January, 2002. As Morath devoted much of her enthusiasm to encouraging women photographers, this award is given as a tribute by her colleagues.
Applicants should assemble a portfolio of slides or a CD--between 40 and 80 images--and a one-page project description. The photographer's name, telephone number and shipping and mailing address should be included.
Send support material to:
Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award
c/o Magnum Photos
151 West 25th Street 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
USA
The deadline is June 1, 2004, and the award will be announced on July 15, 2004. Return of material is the responsibility of the applicant. Please send sufficient postage or return shipping address and courier account number.
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 23 lecturing, research and lecturing/research awards worldwide in journalism and communications for the 2005-2006 academic year. Amy Flickinger at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars is the source of this information and the point of contact.
Awards for both faculty and professionals range from two months to one academic year. Some are at host institutions, while a number of the grants are open "All Disciplines" awards that allow candidates to propose their own project and determine their own host institution affiliation. Some foreign language skills are needed in some countries, but most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. Grant awards are available in Algeria, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Singapore, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, and the West Bank.
The application deadline is August 1st. U.S. citizenship is required.
To learn more about the particular awards and other grants in journalism and communication, other eligibility requirements, and an online application, please see this web site or this web site. Or, directly contact Amy Flickinger.
Resolution217 "an association of photographers, journalists, teachers, designers and artists brought together by a shared concern for the current state of human rights, particularly the right of freedom of expression, to actively work to overcome hatred, ignorance and injustice" has issued a call for entries.
The International Freedom of Expression Festival 2005 exhibitions are open to photographers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, journalists, authors and poets. Please see our website for all eligibility requirements, accepted formats and entry forms. There is no registration entry fee.
Via Eyebeam reBlog
Photographers and film makers belly aching over the lack of resources and finances? Creative Capital 2004 Grants in Visual Arts and Film/Video announced.
Via Stefanie Hsien Liang (Art Director at Hyphen Magazine)
COMMUNICATION ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATION COMPETITIONSNow is the time to promote your talent to the creative community and potential clients worldwide by having your work selected for the largest
and most important juried competitions for illustration and photography.Communication Arts invites you to enter your work in the 45th Annual Photography and Illustration competitions.
Selected, award-winning pieces will appear in Communication Arts magazine, in either the July Illustration Annual or August Photography Annual. More than 72,000 copies of each Annual will be distributed worldwide, assuring the selected entries important exposure to professionals in the fields of advertising and design.
The deadline for both competitions is March 15, 2004.
For submission guidelines, PDF entry forms and FAQs, click here.
Ok, so, it's NOT a clip-contest. But all you folks with digital cameras - this is your chance to show your stuff. The 2004 Philadelphia Conference Monthly Digital Competition is underway. I am assuming it's meant for working photojournalists but check the rules and submission guidelines before sending in pictures of Fluffy the dog.
Enter photos taken in January 2004. The Photo of the Month winner will be awarded a $100 gift certificate from Allen's Camera Shop of Levittown, PA. 215.547.2841.Participation is quick and easy. Click for instructions:
http://www.philadelphiaconference.org/competitions/monthly/Shared username (pconf) and password (pixels) will get you access to the competition and submission pages.
Matt Stanley is our monthly competition chair and can be contacted for more information. DEADLINE 01.07.04, 11 p.m.
(Membership dues may be required later in 2004, but free members may participate until then.)
I am not entirely sure of the deadline. 01.07? That's almost a month ago now is it. Time does fly when you are having fun.
Via Melissa Lyttle
Photo District News, the industry's best trade zine has issued a call for entries for 2004. Last year's winners here. Deadline is February 15, 2004.
Tick, tock ... hop to it!
Photo District News, the trade publication I urge all to subscribe, has this for student photographers:
Attention students: Want to shoot for PDN?PDNedu is holding its first competition for students, with help from Epson. PDN Edu is looking for your pictures of "people," "places" and "things" printed on Epson paper. You could win a photo assignment from Photo District News.
Much in the spirit of the M.I.L.K. contest (see the book series in The Book Nook, in the left column), here is something for Singaporeans and presumably other South Asians to consider entering.
The HAPPY WRINKLES Digital Photography Competition runs from September 1 to October 22. You don't have much time, so get out there and get your grandma to say "cheese." Or, better yet, how about a documentary on the elderly in your neck of the woods. If you are working on a project along those lines, drop me a note and I'll be happy to feature it here on TiffinBox!
I got this from the Google News service. Didn't cut and paste the original URL, but the information reads more like a press release and I am skipping attributing the source this one time.
The International Library of Photography is pleased to announce that over $60,000 in prizes will be awarded this year in the International Open Amateur Photography Contest. Photographers from the Durham and Middlefield area, particularly beginners, are welcome to try to win their share of over 1,300 prizes. The deadline for the contest is October 31, 2003. The contest is open to everyone and entry is free.
"Everyone has at least one memorable photo that captures a special moment in time," stated Christina Baylon, contest director. "When people learn about our free photography contest, they suddenly realize that their own favorite photos can win cash prizes, as well as gain national exposure," continued Baylon.
To enter, send ONE photograph in only one of the following categories: people, travel, pets, children, sports, nature, action, humor, portraiture, or other. The photo must be a color or black-and-white print (unmounted) and 8" by 10" or smaller. All entries must include the photographer's name and address on the back, as well as the category and the title of the photo. Photographs should be sent to: The International Library of Photography, Suite 101-2617, 3600 Crondall Lane, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Entries must be postmarked by October 31, 2003. You may also submit your photo directly online at www.picture.com.
The International Library of Photography is an organization dedicated to bringing the work of amateur photographers to the public's attention. You can view the work of over 1.1 million amateur photographers at their website, www.picture.com.
