THE INGE MORATH AWARD, 2019

The Inge Morath Award, 2019 Guidelines (Deadline: April 30th, 2019)

The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Estate are pleased to announce the 18th annual Inge Morath Award, a $5,000 grant given to a female photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One Awardee and up to two finalists are selected by a jury composed of Magnum photographers, the Executive Director of the Magnum Foundation, and Inge Morath Estate.

Inge Morath was an Austrian-born photographer who was associated with Magnum Photos for nearly fifty years. After her death in 2002, the Inge Morath Foundation was established with a limited-term mission to manage Morath’s estate and facilitate the study and appreciation of her contribution to photography. With the closure of the research space in 2014, all ongoing activities of the estate were folded into the Legacy Program of the Magnum Foundation, New York. The Inge Morath archive was acquired by the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and a set of Morath’s master prints by the Yale University Art Gallery, where they are now available to scholars.

IM Award Guidelines:

1. All submissions must be made online using the interface at Submittable.com.
2. The Award is given to a female photographer to complete a long-term documentary project. Proposals and accompanying material should present only the project for which the Award is being requested.
3. All applicants must be under the age of 30 on April 30th, 2019 (in other words, if April 30th is your birthday, and you’re turning 30, then you’re no longer eligible to submit a proposal).
4. Presentation guidelines and image specifications are given at our Submittable.com page.

Submit here: https://ingemorath.submittable.com/submit
All IM Award submissions must be received by April 30th, 2019.

Eugene Smith Grant

Eugene Smith Grant

GRANT SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED UNTIL 11:59 PM (EST) ON APRIL 20, 2019 

The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s concerned photography and dedicated compassion evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. This Grant is designed to help a photographer begin a photographic project or help complete an ongoing photographic project. The Judges will be looking for a photographer whose proposed project seems most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition; social change; humanitarian concern; armed conflict or interpersonal, psychological, cultural, social environmental, scientific, medical and/or political significance, ideally expressing an underlying acknowledgement of our common humanity

Applicants should submit provisional or ongoing work from an as-yet-to-be completed project that would likely benefit from (and likely be concluded if) the photographer were to receive the grant. Applicants may also submit limited supplementary past work on a related subject as a way of demonstrating the photographer’s ability to execute the new proposed project. A written project proposal is required.

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, independently administers the grant program that provides photographers with the financial freedom to carry out or complete a major photographic essay. For 2019, the amount of the grant will be $40,000. An additional $5,000 grant will be dispersed as a Fellowship, and two finalists deemed worthy of special recognition will each be given a grant of $2,500. All awards will be presented in a ceremony held in New York City on October 16, 2019.

Requirements

A biography with up to 1500 characters (approximately 275 words) and a CV with up to 2000 characters (approximately 350 words). The CV can be submitted as a PDF.

The Project Proposal which should be titled and begin with a single paragraph summary of the project. The proposal description may be more fully described; however, this should be concise, journalistically realizable, visually translatable, humanistically driven, and not exceed 3000 characters (approximately 550/600 words). The applicant must affirm that the proposed project is ongoing and indicate how they will use the Smith Grant to fulfill it.

IMAGES: Applicants can submit up to 40 images total. These should consist of representative images from the project being proposed to the W. Eugene Smith Fund. The applicant can include in his/her submission, past work clearly marked that represents the candidate’s vision and his or her ability to execute the project being proposed to the fund.

Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize

Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize (deadline May 15th, 2019) 

Submissions for the 2019 Lange-Taylor Prize will be accepted from February 1 to May 15, 2019. Entries must be submitted no later than May 15, 2019. The winner of the 2019 Lange-Taylor Prize will be publicly announced in September 2019. See How to Enter and FAQs.

First announced in 1990, the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize was created by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies.

Like Lange and Taylor, and all serious documentarians, the competitive applicants to this prize have a point of view derived from an in-depth understanding of place, history, and the current situation, in concert with a personal relationship to the proposed work. Ultimately, their commitment is to use documentary expression to motivate the thinking and reflection of others. 

In 2011, in recognition of the changing environment in which documentary artists conduct their work, we reframed the prize guidelines to allow single artists to apply. In part, this new approach to the prize was inspired by the Center for Documentary Studies’ commitment to the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University, which brings together two forms of artistic activity—the documentary approach and experimental production in analog, digital, and computational media.

The Lange-Taylor Prize is intended to support artists, working alone or in teams, who are engaged in extended, ongoing fieldwork projects that fully exploit the relationship of words and images in the powerful, persuasive representation of a subject.

The prize is not awarded for completed projects or to support the production of a book, exhibit, website, or other outcomes.

The winner receives $10,000, features in Center for Documentary Studies’ digital publications, and inclusion in the Archive of Documentary Arts at Rubenstein Library, Duke University.

Small Artist Group Photography Exhibition Opportunity at PH21 Gallery

Small Artist Group Photography Exhibition Opportunity at PH21 Gallery 

(Submission deadline: April 15, 2019 NEXT WEEK!) 

Small artist group photography exhibition opportunity at PH21 Gallery

May 9 – June 1, 2019

PH21 Gallery invites small groups of photographers (2-5 artists) to submit their collective work for a small artist group exhibition in PH21 Gallery's new exhibition space, the PH21 Gallery Project Room. Please submit a coherent portfolio suitable for a unified exhibition, a joint artist statement and short bios of the photographers. The portfolio should consist of at least 15 and at most 35 images. The submission may include different series, provided that they are suitable for a joint presentation in a single exhibition. There are no generic, stylistic or thematic constraints; small artist groups working in all photographic areas and styles are welcome to submit their work.

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Our new exhibition space at 52 Ráday St. is located just across the street from our main gallery. The PH21 Gallery Project Room has two rooms that are especially well suited for solo and small artist group exhibitions.

One winner group and up to three honourable mentions will be selected and announced on our website and social media pages.

• The winner group of this competition is awarded with a small artist group exhibition at PH21 Gallery Project Room from May 9 – June 1, 2019.
• PH21 Gallery will cover all printing and installation costs. In addition to the brick-and-mortar exhibition, the work of the winner group will also be presented on a dedicated page of our website, along with the artist statement and the bios of the photographers. 
• The work of the three honourable mentions will be presented on our website, along with the artist statement and the bios of the photographers.

Curator: Zsolt Bátori

Zsolt is a philosopher of art and photographer. He currently serves as dean of the Faculty of Art and Creative Industries of the Budapest Metropolitan University, and visits the University of Murcia, Spain for regular research collaboration. He has conducted research and taught philosophy of art and photography courses at various universities in Hungary, the United States, Spain and Argentina, and has exhibited his photographic work internationally. Zsolt is also the founder and director of PH21 Gallery.

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Submission deadline: April 15, 2019

Notification: All entrants will be notified 7-10 days after the deadline.

Exhibition dates: May 9 – June 1, 2019

Open Call for Participation in PHOTO IS:RAEL (Submission deadline: 22.5.2019)

Open Call for Participation in the 7th International Photography Festival (Submission deadline: 22.5.2019) 

PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to submit proposals for participation in the central exhibition as well as special projects at the 7th International Photography Festival, taking place in Tel Aviv in November 2019. 25 artists will be chosen to exhibit their work in the festival’s central exhibition or as a special project within the festival. The selected artists’ works will also be published online and in the festival’s catalog. 50 additional artists will exhibit their work to an audience of professionals in a special screening event during the festival. One artist will be selected as the Jury Favorite, and will be hosted in Tel Aviv during the festival. This year’s topic will be: Fantasy – Between Reality and Imagination Photographers as well as video, performance and interdisciplinary artists from around the world and at different stages of their career are all welcome to submit their existing works, or proposals for new work on the topic. 

Submission deadline: 22.5.2019 

Submission fee: 15$, including a free entry ticket to the Photography Festival for all submitting artists. 

PHOTO IS:RAEL is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering dialogue via research and the highlighting of 

FEMALE IN FOCUS Deadline: 9 May 2019

FEMALE IN FOCUS

Deadline: 9 May 2019 – 23:59 (UK Time) 

Female in Focus is a new award from 1854 Media, running for the first time in 2019. The aim of the award is to highlight the exceptional quality of work by female photographers around the world.

Female in Focus is our way of addressing gender imbalance in the industry. While 80% of photography graduates are female¹, only 15% of professional photographers are women². On top of this, 8 out of 9 photography award winners are male³.

Our mission is to open up the world of photography to diverse talent, and to empower women and those who identify as women to step behind the lens.

We must start at home. Equality in our own awards is improving but is not equal yet; just 38% of our winners are female. We are determined to see this number rise. This is why we have created Female in Focus. We hope to see more work by women at festivals and in galleries, and to elevate the work and careers of female photographers across the globe.

We believe that gender is a spectrum. Female in Focus is inclusive of a multitude of feminine voices, including those who are trans and non-binary.

Calling all street photographers!

If you are creatively capturing the weird and wonderful moments of life as they unfold around you, we want to see your work! You might be shooting with an analog camera in the city that never sleeps or using your smartphone to document daily life in your hometown. No matter your tools or your location, we want to see your unique perspective from the street, however you define it.


Winning photographers for this award will be exhibited in New York City! An opening reception will be held for artists, invited media, photo editors and industry insiders for a night of art appreciation and networking.


DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019

https://www.lensculture.com/photo-competitions/street-photography-awards-2019?fbclid=IwAR2fC5QfAIdZjNfpFHKxroHzVZIRd_4TCZgNNTgrg4S_Ocx6aZzrSxXBeg8

"Best Portfolio" Call for Entries

Submit your portfolio

You can submit your portfolio until May 19, 2019

The best portfolio will be exhibited totally free for 2 weeks in Blank Wall Gallery
The artist will be able to present up to 36 photographs.

1. The exhibition will be presented on the Blank Wall Gallery web page as is the case with all the solo exhibitions.

2. Blank Wall Gallery will produce the prints the artist will choose for the exhibition, with a maximum of 36 photographs, in our printing labs, completely free of charge.

3. Newsletter and invitations for the opening night will be sent to all the contacts of the gallery.

4. Personalised Press Release will be sent to magazines so that the exhibition gains exposure.

5. The winner will be awarded a Certificate of achievement by Blank Wall Gallery.

6. A free submission for the next Best Portfolio competition will also be given to the winner.

7. At the end of the exhibition Blank Wall Gallery will create a detailed folder with publications, photographic material from the exhibition, posters and any other material and will send it to the artist.

Two portfolios will receive a certificate of honorable mention and they will be entitled to submit 10 photographs in one of the following group contests of Blank Wall Gallery.

All participants to the Best Portfolio 2019 Contest will have a 25% discount for future prints that will be made at the Blank Wall Gallery lab until the end of 2019.

Aperture Summer Open 2019

The Aperture Summer Open is an annual open-submission exhibition at Aperture Foundation's gallery in New York, featuring a wide variety of work by photographers and lens-based artists from around the world. Selected by a jury of leading editors, curators, and writers, the exhibition seeks to reveal and report on key themes and trends driving contemporary photography. The exhibition opens the doors to photographers of all ages, at all points in their careers, as we seek to promote new ideas and talent.

The theme of the 2019 Aperture Summer Open is "Delirious Cities." The city is a laboratory of new identities, a place of contested freedom, a magnet for immigration, a supermarket of desires, a landscape of ever-changing structures. How can photographs define the diversity of urban experience today? The curators of the Summer Open are looking for new bodies of work that cross a wide visual range, from a community, architecture, land use, and environmental concerns to fashion, technology, and individual expression.

The 2019 Aperture Summer Open is curated by Brendan Embser, managing editor, Aperture magazine; Matthew Leifheit, artist and editor of MATTE magazine; Chiara Bardelli Nonino, photo editor, Vogue Italia and L'Uomo Vogue; Azu Nwagbogu, director of African Artists' Foundation and LagosPhoto; and Guadalupe Rosales, artist and founder of Veterans & Rucas and Map Pointz.

Timeline

Call for entries open

18 February 2019

Submission deadline

12 April 2019

Notification of selected artists

May 2019

Start of Exhibition at Aperture Gallery

25 July 2019

The 2019 GUILD Mentorship Open Call

The 2019 GUILD Mentorship Open Call for Visura Storytellers

An opportunity to receive mentorship and career development consultation and support from the Visura team and its extended professional network for a mutually agreed upon time. The GUILD mentorship is designed to recognize, empower and connect early-stage professional visual storytellers with media professionals, publishers, designers, leaders, computer engineers, scientists, researchers, grant writers, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs worldwide. 
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Accepting submissions: February 12 to December 31, 2019

The Visura platform empowers visual storytellers and organizations with tools to build a website, access quality and diverse content and share news with a broader audience.

Using technology, publishing, and a career development program, Visura's mission is to increase the quality, value, and diversity of the professional content and talent found online today.

Our story

Adriana and Graham first conceived Visura at their home in Brooklyn, New York, in 2008. Together, they produced the FotoVisura Exhibition Pavilion (2008 — 2013), Visura Magazine (2009 — 2013), the FotoVisura.com self-publishing platform (2010 — 2015), and a long list of Grants, Panel Talks, and Workshops (2009 — 2014). In 2015, the duo united these efforts by creating an all-in-one platform, known simply as Visura.co. Visura is structured to reduce the amount of time and money visual storytellers, editors and organizations invest in having an online presence to further their work and career.

Visura is based between Brooklyn, New York and the mountains of Stowe, Vermont.

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!

COLORS

Deadline: 31 March 2019

“A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.” – Joel Sternfeld

Life is a stream of color. Red, blue, yellow, and a billion pigments in between! We are looking for color-inspired photographs…literally and figuratively. A scene, a detail, a narrative or mood. A single tone or a technicolor daydream.

Urban street scenes, portraits, travel adventures, landscapes, editorial, conceptual, still life… Color our lives.

Judge: Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse has developed a body of work that is both unabashedly aesthetic whilst simultaneously fraught with political and ethical implications. Throughout his work, Mosse subverts weaponized photographic technologies, using them to confront the viewer and refresh documentary forms. His latest work, Incoming, was made in response to the mass migration crisis unfolding across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Mosse has won both the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Prix Pictet and has represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. 

https://www.life-framer.com/enter

Calling all street photographers!

Where can you photograph the heart and soul of a society and its people? From the street! As people move between private and public spaces, the street can be a generous and vibrant stage for photographers, offering a window into a particularly compelling place and time for the careful observer.

Throughout history many of the world’s most iconic and memorable photographs have been made by street photographers, but who is is defining this genre today? For the 2019 LensCulture Street Photography Awards, we are searching the globe to find out.

If you are creatively capturing the weird and wonderful moments of life as they unfold around you, we want to see your work! You might be shooting with an analog camera in the city that never sleeps or using your smartphone to document daily life in your hometown. No matter your tools or your location, we want to see your unique perspective from the street, however you define it.

Read on for information about our expert jury, our free entry option for single image submissions, and award benefits including an exhibition in New York and free access to The Art of Street Photography, an online course from Magnum Photos.

https://www.lensculture.com/photo-competitions/street-photography-awards-2019?fbclid=IwAR2fC5QfAIdZjNfpFHKxroHzVZIRd_4TCZgNNTgrg4S_Ocx6aZzrSxXBeg8

More outlets for small books and subscriptions

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Pocket-size accordion books to unfold and reveal 2.5x3.5 inch photos. 


Groove Books

The app that helps you free your photos + puts them 

into a monthly photo book for $3.99/month.

Prints bundles and photo journals at Timeshel

Chatbooks

Book series pulls from your instagram, facebook or camera roll. 

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The Curated Fridge deadline this Saturday (FREE!)

The Curated Fridge Spring 2019 Show And now for something completely different… A duo of curators and a traveling show!

 

The call for The Curated Fridge Spring 2019 Show is here, with curators Ashly Stohl and David Carol, founders and publishers of Peanut Press!

After their selections and the opening in Boston, the show will travel to Ashly's kitchen in NYC! 

Deadline: Saturday, March 30 (postmarked mail)
Theme: "Family Values"

- Guidelines:
* Open to all photographers worldwide, both amateur and professional. All mediums are invited. Previous participants are welcome to apply again.
* You can submit up to 5 images. As always, the submission is FREE!
* Submitted prints should not be bigger than 5x7” or 6x6".
* Try to avoid type if sending promo cards.
* If you send original artwork, please sign it on the back and specifically mention that it's for The Curated Fridge. All the original artwork will be saved after each Fridge Show. No artwork will be returned. By sending original artwork, you agree to all the above.
* Accepted images will be posted on The Curated Fridge website and social media.

- Mail your artwork to:
Yorgos Efthymiadis
The Curated Fridge
77 Oak Street
Somerville, MA 02143

Palm* Photo Prize call for submissions

Palm* Photo Prize deadline 04/15/2019

Palm* Photo Prize is an official satellite event to Photo London Fair and open to photographers working in all disciplines and styles to submit images for an exhibition at the printspace gallery opening on 14th May 2019.

Exhibited entries will be in the running to win prizes in the following categories:

Judge’s Panel 1st place
Judge’s Panel 2nd place
People’s Choice Award
People’s Choice Instagram Award

Judges Panel:

Karen McQuaid – Senior Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery
Sarah Allen – Assistant Curator at Tate Modern
David Campany – writer, curator, artist and teacher
Jessica Lopez – Photo editor at Polaroid Originals

Call for Entry

94th ANNUAL International Competition 

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Print Center is very pleased to announce the 94th ANNUAL International Competition juried by Charlotte Cotton andGretchen Wagner. Cotton is a curator of photography and author based in Los Angeles; she is Curator-in-Residence at the California Museum of Photography, Riverside and recently published Photography Is Magic (Aperture, 2015). Wagner is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum and co-curator/co-author of Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now (Saint Louis Art Museum, 2018).

The ANNUAL is one of the oldest and most prestigious competitions in the United States. The Print Center is particularly interested in highlighting local, national and international artists who utilize photography and printmaking in new and intriguing ways, both in content and process.

Any artist using Photography and/or Printmaking as critical components in their work can enter. Artists whose work pushes the boundaries of traditional photographic and printmaking practices are encouraged to enter.

Portrait Exhibition

Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall
June 22 – September 15, 2019

The 1969 Stonewall riots are viewed as an important turning point in the LGBTQ civil rights movement. Be Seen explores how artists have used portrait photography to challenge, subvert, and play with societal norms of gender and sexuality. In the past 50 years, photographers have documented the experiences of the queer community. They have also examined how gender identity and sexual orientation were viewed historically and how they are constructed today. For many of the artists in Be Seen, gender is not simply something we are, but something we perform. Just as the subjects of these photographs “pose” for the camera, so too do we perform our gender through the clothes we wear and how we interact with others.

Be Seen features twenty-four artists including Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Mickalene Thomas.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103
(860) 278-2670