Monochrome Awards 2016

The competition is open to everyone, amateurs and professionals alike. Entries are welcome from any country in the world. Your work will be judged by an international panel of high profile photographers.

The winners of the Professional and Amateur sections will receive the titles: Monochrome Photographer of the Year and Monochrome Discovery of the Year and $3000 in cash prizes.

List of categories: Abstract, Architecture, Conceptual, Fashion / Beauty, Fine Art, Landscapes, Nature, Nude, People, Photojournalism, Photomanipulation, Portrait, Wildlife.

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call for entry - COLOR PROSPECTUS

The Color photograph. Since the mid 20th century when our lives forever changed with the advent of Living Color, Color has become dominant in our imagery. We want to celebrate Color in all it’s forms at the SE Center.

Color of course, all subjects, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Entering Your Images   You can enter your images online at www.SmarterEntry.com For best results, make sure your image is 1200 pixels @72 dpi on the longest side, Images should be in JPEG format, sRGB color space. Please name your files: Color.Last Name_First Initial.Image#.jpg (Examples: Color.Smith_J.Image1.jpg, Color.Jones_R.Image3.jpg) 

If you need help entering your images or are unable to, please contact info@sec4p.com or call 864.605.7400

Eligibility All photographers regardless of location, age or skill level.

Fees $35 for up to 5 Images, $5 for each additional image up to 10. 

Juror: Our juror for Color is Diana Bloomfield. Diana has been an exhibiting photographer for over thirty years.  She has received numerous awards for her images, including a 1985 New Jersey State Visual Arts Fellowship, and five Regional Artist Grants from the United Arts Council of Raleigh, NC, most recently for 2015-16.  

Calendar          

Submissions Open 7/12/16

Submissions Close 9/11/16

Selections Announced 9/26/16

Drop Off or Arrival at SEC 10/24/16

Exhibition Opens 11/4/16

Exhibition Closes 11/26/16

Return of Works 12/21/16

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Open call group exhibition: ON DEMOCRACY

Exhibition dates: October 7 – 29, 2016

Opening: Friday, October 7, 6-8pm
Deadline for submissions: Friday, July 29, 5pm PST

Selections made by:
Claartje van Dijk, Assistant Curator, International Center of Photography, New York

About the exhibition:

Coinciding with the presidential and local elections, Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR announces an open call for a group exhibition centered on the theme of democracy. Submissions should respond to the question “what does democracy look like in 2016?” We encourage experimentation with different genres and formats of photography.

Leading up to the elections we will host a discussion, gatherings, and presidential debate screenings in conjunction with this exhibition, which address how democracy is interpreted through the camera lens and how our governing system functions in current times.

How to apply:

Each entry may contain up to five images. You may submit as many entries as you like. All entries must be submitted using the online entry system below. CD entries will not be accepted. Each entry costs $40* (free for Newspace Members at the Patron Level and above).

Images must be sized as 72dpi jpg files that are 10 inches in their longest dimension. Each jpg file should be titled with your last name, first initial, ‘underscore’ and the entry number, i.e. the first image uploaded by Mike Smith would be SmithM_1.jpg

Timeline:

Submissions due by July 29, 2016

Selected artists notified by August 23, 2016

Work delivery by September 28, 2016

Opening reception on October 7, 2016

Exhibition dates: October 7 – October 29 2016

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International Call for Entries | HOME Call for Entry with Juror Kevin Miller

THEME | HOME
The theme is Home. All subject matter, photographic genres, capture types, and photo-based processes are eligible to submit.

JUROR |  Kevin Miller
Kevin Miller was the Director and Senior Curator at the Southeast Museumof Photography (SMP) from 2001 to 2014. He is currently an associate curator at SMP, which is a public museum located in Florida that holds the largest photography collection in Florida and is the largest exclusively photographic museum in the southeastern US. 

HONORS | AWARDS

An international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and other advocates of fine art photography will view the chosen artist’s work throughout the exhibition. All chosen artists are invited to complimentary portfolio reviews, lunch and portfolio sharing on the reception weekend. Each participant is included in the Center’s Main Gallery exhibition in Fort Collins, Colorado and Online Gallery exhibition.

Juror’s Selection: $400.00
Director’s Selection: $200.00
Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and image submission to a Call for Entry at C4FAP.

In addition artists’ selected for the exhibition will also receive:
Promotion on The Center’s large social media platforms.
Professional installation images for your use.
In-gallery and online exhibition with links to artists’ websites
Press releases are sent to artists’ choice of media outlets.

 The SMP is one of one of the largest photographic museums  in the US and holds a significant permanent collection with strengths in general photographic history and contemporary photographic art. Since 2001 Miller has curated and presented more than 280 exhibitions and produced numerous catalogue texts and publications.

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International Call for Entries | Portraits 2017 with Juror Karen Marks

THEME | Portraits
Our annual portraits exhibition brings artists from around the globe into the spotlight. A portrait is a visual representation that portrays the likeness of a person, place, animal, or object. All subject matter, photographic genres, capture types, and photo-based processes are eligible to submit.

JUROR | Karen Marks
Karen Marks has been Director of Howard Greenberg Gallery for over 15 years. In that time she has organized countless exhibitions, curated international art fairs and edited many publications. She is also an active board member of Association of International Photography Art Dealers. Karen Marks has been working in the world of fine art photography since her graduation from the School of Visual Arts in 1984. Starting as a junior specialist in the photography department at Swann Galleries, since then she has worked in both public and private galleries, advising private clients and working closely with public institutions. She has juried numerous competitions and is called upon frequently as a portfolio reviewer for many programs.

HONORS | AWARDS
An international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and other advocates of fine art photography will view the chosen artist’s work throughout the exhibition. All chosen artists are invited to complimentary portfolio reviews, lunch and portfolio sharing on the reception weekend. Each participant is included in the Center’s Main Gallery exhibition in Fort Collins, Colorado and Online Gallery exhibition.

Juror’s Selection: $400.00
Director’s Selection: $200.00
Honorable Mention Awards: 1 year membership and image submission to a Call for Entry at C4FAP.

In addition artists’ selected for the exhibition will also receive:
Promotion on The Center’s large social media platforms.
Professional installation images for your use.
In-gallery and online exhibition with links to artists’ websites
Press releases are sent to artists’ choice of media outlets.

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The Seven Seas - Don't Take Pictures magazine

EMAIL ENTRY ONLY

Don’t Take Pictures exists to showcase the work of emerging photographers. In addition to publishing photographers in print, and online in our monthly columns, we also publish quarterly online exhibitions.

Coastal living is not for the faint of heart, lives lived by the sea are dictated by weather and tide. One of nature’s most powerful forces, the ocean can transform from calm to terrible in the blink of an eye. Connecting people from around the globe, our oceans are used for fishing, transportation, recreation, and more. From the safety of the shoreline, the bow of a ship, or beneath the waves, for “The Seven Seas,” Don’t Take Pictures seeks photographic images that explore the many facets of the ocean.

Requirements

File specs:
- 72 dpi
- sRGB
- JPEG
- No less than 1024 pixels and no more than 1500 pixels on the longest side.

Email up to three photographs to:

info@donttakepictures.com with “Seven Seas” in the subject line.

Include your name, title of photograph, and a link to your website (if applicable). Ex: Kat Kiernan, Untitled, www.katkiernan.com

Awards

Up to 50 photographers will be on view from August 24 - November 22, 2016.

Contact Information

Kat Kiernan

W: www.donttakepictures.com
E: info@donttakepictures.com

Masks - SE Center for Photography

MASKS -The dream, the nightmare, the impossible and the unusual. 

We all wear masks. At Halloween, Mardi Gras. At work we are one person, at home- another, and with friends we have yet more masks to choose from. We're looking for images with masks, literal and figurative, color or BW, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Our juror for Masks is Aline Smithson. After a career as a New York Fashion Editor and working along side the greats of fashion photography, Aline Smithson discovered the family Rolleiflex and never looked back. An artist now represented by galleries in the U.S. and Europe and published throughout the world, Aline continues to create her award-winning photography with humor, compassion, and a 50-year-old camera
Aline founded and writes the blogzine, Lenscratch, that celebrates a different contemporary photographer each day and offers opportunity for exhibition. Aline has curated and juried exhibitions for a number of galleries, organizations, and on-line magazines. She was an overall juror in 2012 for Review Santa Fe, a juror for Critical Mass from 2009-2015, a juror and curator for Flash Forward, and is a reviewer at many photo festivals across the United States.

Location

Greenville, SC

Fees

$35 for 5 images, $5 per additional

Eligibility

All locations, all ages

Awards

Juror's Choice will receive $300, Director's Choice will receive $200. 35-40 Selected images will hang in the SE Center’s main gallery space for approximately one month with the opportunity to be invited for a solo show at a later date.

Evaluation Criteria

Juried

Contact Information

Michael Pannier
SE Center for Photography 1239 Pendleton ST
Greenville, SC 29611

P: 301-213-2512
F: 864-605-7400
W: http://www.sec4p.com/masks/
E: michael@sec4p.com

PDN Taste $3500 in prizes

the fine print

PhotoPlace Gallery

The hand of man may lie lightly or heavily on the landscape, but few places on earth are completely untouched; the visible presence of humans on the planet is almost unavoidable. Here we seek images that demonstrate human impact in ways ranging from subtle to grotesque.

All capture methods and processes are welcome.

We are very pleased that Brett Erickson has agreed to jury Man in the Landscape. He will select 35 images for exhibition in the gallery, and another 40 images for exhibition in our online gallery. All 75 will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog.

Fees

$30 for up to 5 images, $7 each additional

Eligibility

Open to all photographers. To encourage international participation, we offer printing of accepted work, as well as free matting and framing for the duration of the exhibit.

Requirements

Submission deadline is midnight, August 15, 2016. For details and submission, see http://photoplacegallery.com/man-in-the-landscape/

Awards

Brett Erickson will select 35 images for exhibition in the Gallery, and an additional 40 images for the Online Gallery. A Juror's Award and a Director's Award will be honored. All 75 images will be reproduced in the exhibition catalog and remain permanently on our website.

FotoTexas: People, Places & Culture $500 first prize

First Place = $500 
Second Place = $300 
Third Place = $200 
Up to 5 Honorable Mentions may be awarded

Texas Photographic Society sets an August 15, 2016 deadline for FotoTexas: People, Places & Culture. This call will be juried by Dan Burkholder, fine art photographer, author and educator based in Palenville, New York. FotoTexas seeks work produced in Texas and wishes to celebrate the rich history, culture, people, icons and landscape of the state that TPS proudly calls home. The exhibition will be supplemented by exciting programming with Burkholder, including a public lecture and iPhone workshop.

Location

Show opens at Brazos Gallery at Richland College in Dallas, Texas

Fees

Entry fee is $30 for 5 images, plus $6 for each additional image. Photographers may enter up to 10 images. Please don't forget to include your membership fee, if also joining TPS at the time of entry.

The Environmental Portrait

"A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he (she) is being photographed, and what he (she) does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he (she) is wearing of how he (she) looks." -Richard Avedon

Location

The Darkroom Gallery,12 Main StreetEssex Junction, VT 05453

Fees

$29 for 5 web submissions, $34 for email submissions and $5/image after original five.

Eligibility

Any photographer

Requirements

Above 18 year old

Awards

Juror's Choice receives a 30x48" vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image, free entry into a future exhibition, and a free exhibition catalog.
Honorable Mentions receive free exhibition catalogs and free entry in a future exhibition. 
People's Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

“Landscapes 2” $8,125 in Cash & Art Marketing Prizes

Art-Competition.net announces a Call to Artists for “Landscapes 2” an online international competition. $8,125 in Cash and Extensive Art Marketing Prizes. Deadline: August 2, 2016 (Midnight EST). The judges for this art call will be looking for artwork where the artist presents their unique vision of a landscape and also looks at the quality of composition and execution of the art. The power of landscape art is that the artist presents us with their unique interpretation of a landscape. We get to see the landscape from each of their emotional interpretations and perspectives. Perhaps the actual landscape itself is not as important as the many interpretations we are presented with by the fertile minds of artists. The challenge for the viewer is to find insight into the artists and how they are experiencing the land. The work can be expressed from representational to abstraction.

W: http://www.art-competition.net/Landscapes_2.cfm

Identity: Race in America Call for Entry

Portfolio Showcase: In each of five shows, the gallery features the portfolios of two photographers selected through a call for work. The theme of each call is directly related to the scheduled exhibition. Portfolios of up to 12 images are shown in two ways: prints (up to 22″ on longest side) are displayed on a stand; above, an HD monitor presents a continuous slide show of the two portfolios.

Location

Davis Orton Gallery, 114 Warren St., Hudson NY 12534

Fees

$35

Eligibility

All processes, capture techniques and approaches to image construction are welcomed: film, digital, scanner, b/w, color, collage/montage, and alternative processes.

Requirements

Calls for Work are open to all photographers internationally over the age of 18.

Awards

Selection - Inclusion in exhibition October 7 - November 13, 2016

Evaluation Criteria

Cohesive portfolio, composition, relevance to theme and exhibition

Contact Information

Karen Davis
114 Warren St 
Hudson, NY 12534

P: 617-645-1616
W: http://davisortongallery.com
E: karen@davisortongallery.com

WATER IN MOTION

Photography Center of Cape Cod, a program of Cape Cod Art Association, seeks entries for their WATER IN MOTION Online Exhibition. Water surrounds us and comes in many forms. We play in it, with it and on it. There isn’t a day that goes by where it isn’t a part of our lives. Water in motion is beautiful when it cascades down a mountain or playfully dances in a fountain. However it can also be destructive when Mother Nature tears into our beaches during a storm. All photographers of any level are invited to submit to this open juried online photography exhibit.

Visit https://client.smarterentry.com/capecodart to enter online. $10 per entry. Top works will be chosen and exhibited on our Photography Center and Cape Cod Art Association websites.

On the Shelf

On the Shelf

Filter Photo   /   Deadline: 07/25/16

Filter Photo is pleased to announce an open call for a photo book exhibition, juried by artist and co-founder of SKYLARK Editions, Kelli Connell. 

On the Shelf is an open theme and Connell is interested in showcasing well conceived, original, and compelling photo books. Eligible entries include all types of photo books, whether self-published, handmade, or commercially published. Books by or featuring the work of more than one photographer/artist are also eligible. All are welcome to apply.

Location

Filter Space
1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 207
Chicago, IL 60622

Fees

$20

Eligibility

Eligible entries include all types of photo books, whether self-published, handmade, or commercially published. Books by or featuring the work of more than one photographer/artist are also eligible. All are welcome to apply. The entry fee is $20 for up to two books. Accepted artists are subject to their work being used to promote the exhibition under permission from the artist with an image credit.

Book submissions must be arrive at Filter Photo by July 25. Shipping or hand-delivery is required and shipping costs are the responsibility of the artist. After the close of the exhibition, accepted artists can choose to have their books returned to them or donated to the Filter Photo book collection.

Please submit books to the address below:

Filter Photo
Attn: On the Shelf
1821 W. Hubbard St.
Suite 207
Chicago, IL 60622

Entrants will be informed of the juror’s decision in mid-August.

Awards

The Juror’s choice award comes with a $500 cash prize.

Contact Information

Jennifer Murray
1821 W. Hubbard Street Suite 207
Chicago, IL 60622

P: 312.282.6818
W: http://www.filterfestival.com/on%20the%20shelf/
E: info@filterfestival.com

  Manifest Artist Residency Award

Deadline for Application:  April 9, 2017

Notification of Selection:   On or around May 1, 2017

Residency commences:   By July 1, 2017 (for a one year period)

Artists are invited to submit complete applications to Manifest's  Manifest Artist Residency program (MAR).Applications will be reviewed on a competitive basis. One or two artists will be selected as the recipient(s) of the MAR award which consists of the following

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It's Liquid Group

Call for submissions: FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES

It’s LIQUID Group   /   Deadline: 07/23/16

FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES is the second appointment of BORDERS festival, which will be organized in Venice at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and Venice Art House Gallery, in the months between May and November 2016, during the same period of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. We will give audience the possibility to have private meetings with artists, architects and designers, to meet them personally and share their art and experience. Each event will have a strong program of video art screenings and premiers, art residencies, talks, workshops, live dj set, live experimental dance and art performances.

FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES

Location

Venice

Fees

Only for selected artworks

Contact Information

Luca Curci

E: lucacurci@lucacurci.com

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

Photolucida's four-day Biennial Portfolio Review event will happen April 20-23rd, 2017. 

Registration will open in September, 2016.

Portfolio Review 2015 - Image by John A. Stewart

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

“Attending a Portfolio Reviews event is perhaps the most efficient investment you can make in marketing your work. Sitting face-to-face with industry professionals who you would not usually find accessible can be priceless – they are there to specifically offer opportunities and/or feedback in a supportive environment. Portfolio Reviews are an intense experience, both for the reviewers and photographers. Professional and personal relationships are forged, networks are strengthened, and the immersion in all things photographic, around the clock, can be a cathartic, inspirational adventure!”

-Laura Moya, Photolucida Executive Director

Lens-flare: A Photography Exhibition

By Las Laguna Gallery

International Deadline: August 1, 2016 Las Laguna Gallery presents, ‘Lensflare’ A Photography Show. For this call for art Las Laguna Gallery is looking for works by photographers. Las Laguna Gallery invites artists working in all photographic mediums to submit images to be considered for an exhibition.

The theme for this Call for Entry is open.

Apply online

Exhibition Opportunity for Art Basel Miami

Exhibition Opportunity for Art Basel Miami

By Starry Night Exposure Program

International Deadline: July 30, 2016 – The Starry Night Exposure program provides visual artists with the opportunity to show their work at large internationally attended art fairs in the US and abroad. There is no fee to apply. http://artdeadlines.com/news/exposure

LAST CHANCE: CALL FOR ENTRY

Enter and compete to become the one photographer designated as the “2016 Hot New Pic”. This exhibition celebrates the range of creative exploration in photography. So during this sizzling hot summer season, get out your best shots, let’s discover what’s hot right now. 

Location

Midwest Center for Photography, 1215 Franklin, Wichita, KS 67203

Fees

$40

Eligibility

Open to all photographers internationally, and open to all photographic genre and subject matter. MWCP will provide the printing for this exhibition.

Requirements

Submit up to 5 images for $40, $5 for each additional image. Send .jpeg files to info@mwcponline.org and follow the online payment instructions at http://MWCPONLINE.ORG/Midwest_Center_for_Photography/hot_new_pics_entry.html

Awards

$250 HOT NEW PIC AWARD and one year artist representation at MWCP online.

Considerations

Each photograph will be considered based on the merit of the single image. Theme based entries are not necessary.

Evaluation Criteria

Juror:
Linda Robinson, Gallery Director,
Midwest Center for Photography

Contact Information

Linda Robinson Robinson
111 Ellis New Address: 1215 Franklin
Wichita, KS 67203

P: 316-269-1250
W: www.mwcponline.org
E: info@mwcponline.org