I am proud to announce that Trifecta Publications is taking submissions for our first issue. As a submission-based publication, we are excited to see what original works you might be able to contribute. When we first came up with the idea for Trifecta, we had all of you in mind. Our first theme is BAMBOOZLED!.

Now, you might be asking yourself, “Who and what is Trifecta?” We, as people, are Alis Atwell, Ashley Singley, and Christopher Starbody. We, as Trifecta, are a submission-based triannual publication. We curate a collection of multimedia works by diverse artists and offer a broad range of perspectives on a simple idea. Our intent is to create a contained archive for collectors. Think “treasure box.”

Trifecta manufactures each individual archive by hand. We design the inside of the book around what you submit. We strive to work with our artists to create something unique, so we ask participants to be creative with the presentation of your submission and challenge us.

Each issue has a theme, which can be interpreted in any way you see fit.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE:
Trifecta accepts a wide variety of submissions. Please feel free to submit anything that moves you: audio, photocopies, video, text, found material, screen prints, photographs, etc. We don’t discriminate—we love it all. Please make sure that your submission is based on the announced theme. If we accept your submission, we will contact you within three weeks.
We only accept electronic submissions. Please send materials to trifectapublishing@gmail.com. Once accepted, the artist is responsible to supply fifty-four copies. FIFTY-FOUR copies! Yes, this may sound like a lot, but this is a chance to be a part of something unique. We aren’t asking for archival prints or hand-painted pieces (though we will gladly accept them), but we are asking you to be creative in your submissions.

Since this is our premiere project we can not issue monetary compensation, but we are offering a new way of thought and collaboration in order to present a wide range of ideas that will take your work, and the art world, to new heights. Additionally, we will be using all our man power to ensure that your work is presented in the highest quality to people in the professional world and into the hands of tastemakers and collectors around the world.

We only accept original pieces of art. If the piece has been published before, please let us know where.

Deadline for forthcoming issue: Monday, February 22, 2010

ABOUT US:
The founding members of Trifecta first met at Columbia College in Chicago. All three pursued a degree in photography and moved to New York on separate occasions to pursue careers in the arts. Feeling stifled by the art scene, but connected by the Midwest, these three curators decided to start a publication that is completely unique and challenging.

Alis Atwell: Founder, Editor, and Curator
Ashley Singley: Founder, Editor, and Curator
Christopher Starbody: Founder, Editor, and Curator
Ellie Clayman: Logo and Identity Designer

ROLL SERIES is a new collection of pocket-sized books from My Idea of Fun. Each book features one unedited roll of 35mm film by each artist. The books will be released in sets of three. The first set includes work by Ed Panar, Emmy Volkar and Ian Rummell.

Purchase Information:
Available for purchase on November 20, 2009 at myideaoffun.org/rollseries.

Submission Information:
We are now accepting submissions for future editions of ROLL SERIES.
For specific guidelines, please visit myideaoffun.org/rollseries

Blackbook Publications is a distribution network created by and for independent publishers of Artists books.

Our aim is to collaborate with Artists that work with books that lacks distribution and to give them the possibility to find their way out to museum shops, bookstores and collectors.

Blackbook Publication grows by voting. This means that if you want to become a part of our distribution network with your planed publication, it will be reviewed by the number of Artists so far published at Blackbook. This is how we secure our artistic vision and quality.

Do you want to be a part of Blackbook?
We are constantly expanding our network and always looking for new material and wider ways of distrubuting books by independent publishers. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you are interested in a collaboration.

http://www.blackbookpublications.com/

Pusteblume Journal of Translation is run entirely by Boston University students. We are seeking submissions of photography and other artwork that fits with the themes of world literature and international travel. Please e-mail submissions to pusteblume.translations@gmail.com.

www.bu.edu/pusteblume

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW

It’s the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s annual Photography Now call for entries where winners will be published in CPW’s magazine, PQ. This year CPW has invited acclaimed gallery owner and writer/curator, Debra Klomp Ching to select the most exciting new photography from the national and international field!

ELIGIBILITY

From traditional to digital, all photographic techniques and approaches are welcome. Straight photography, fine art, narrative, documentary, landscape, social issues, still life, mixed media incorporating photography, photographic installations, and digital images & collages – all will be considered! CPW staff and ADV/Board members and their families are not eligible to apply.

PUBLICATION

Accepted work will be published in issue #99 of CPW’s internationally distributed magazine, PQ. All who enter will receive a one year membership which includes a subscription to PQ.

TIMELINE

Results will be announced on or before December 4, 2009. Selected participants will be given instructions on how, when, and what to send for publication. Entries that are not selected for Photography Now 2009 – PQ will be returned in December, as long as they are accompanied by a clearly labeled self addressed, stamped, return envelope.

HOW TO ENTER

CPW has created a easy to follow application form with accompanying image script for you to use in submitting your entry. Entries that do not include the application form will not be accepted.

WHAT TO SUBMIT

Jurying will be conducted via projection of digital images only. A completed application form is required. Guidelines for submissions must be followed as outlined:

CD-ROM ENTRIES - If sending a CD-ROM, title each file with your “last name_ image title.” We accept JPEG files at 300 DPI, no larger than 5×7”. Include a separate printed image list with your submission information - See page 2 of application form.

No submissions will be accepted via email. Artist statements and resumes are encouraged, but not required. You must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return.

PLEASE NOTE: We are not responsible for unlabeled submission materials. In cases in which you are submitting a CD and do not want it returned, please be sure to provide your email address so we may notify you of the results. If a return envelope is not provided your materials will be discarded, but a letter of notice regarding acceptance status will be sent. Every precaution is taken to assure the return of your materials, but CPW is not responsible for loss or damage of any entry materials.

HOW TO ENTER

6 images: $50 ($30 student/senior discount in this category only) | 10 images: $60 | 20 images: $100

Residents of Canada & Mexico – please add $15 to any of the above categories. International applicants – please add $2

JUROR

Debra Klomp Ching is the co-owner/co-director of the KLOMPCHING GALLERY, described as dynamic and one of the galleries to watch in NYC. Its exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as The New Yorker, Hotshoe, New York Magazine, ArtReview, The New York Times, The British Journal of Photography, The Architect’s Newspaper and Modern Painters.

Mrs Ching has been an invited reviewer to several notable festivals including Houston’s Fotofest, Review Santa Fe, Rhubarb-Rhubarb, and Atlanta Celebrates Photography. She is an experienced juror and has been a judge for Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass, Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward, American Photo’s Emerging Talent, En Foco’s People, Places, Things and Perkins Center for the Arts Annual Photography Exhibition.

In addition to owning and operating the KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Debra Klomp Ching is a freelance consultant, writer and educator. Her writing has been published in Magenta Magazine, photo-eye Booklist, (re)collect (writer and editor), Nahtsellen and PDN. She will be serving as  the Guest Editor for the 99th issue of PQ and is serving as the 2009 external examiner for the photography thesis program at the Maryland Institute College of Arts. As a private consultant, she provides creative and professional advice to photographers intending to or working within a fine art context and acts as an adviser to collectors of contemporary photography.

DEADLINE

Entries must arrive by Friday October 30, 2009

Please deliver entries to:

attn: Photography Now 2009 | PQ

Center for Photography at Woodstock

59 Tinker Street Woodstock, New York 12498

http://cpw.org/CurrentOpportunities/PhotoNow/pages/PhotoNow.html 

Winter Issue 2009

The 2009 PORTFOLIO ISSUE

Submit a cohesive series or simply a selection of your best images. Photographers selected for inclusion will be interviewed for publication and featured on at least 4 pages in this annual edition of SHOTS.

(Note: Photographers who have been featured in past Portfolio Issues or who have been the subjects of interviews are not eligible for this issue.)

Send 12 to 20 images for consideration.

An established independent photography journal in its 23rd year of publication, SHOTS Magazine reaches an international audience of photographers, collectors, galleries, museums, educators and other fine art photography enthusiasts. Don’t miss this chance to have your work seen!

All submissions must be received by November 2, 2009

Submissions not prepared per the guidelines will not be accepted.

http://shotsmag.com/shotssubmission.htm

PILFERED is a place where artists, photographers, designers, and the inspired can submit their favorite visuals pilfered from the web to share with one another. Founded on the spirit of web democracy, and built to aid in communicating ideas and concepts, PILFERED Magazine aims to assist in speaking the thousand words – visually.

The hope is to build PILFERED into a destination for creatives to share, discover and participate in the dialogue of a new, exciting and forever changed media landscape.

The Annex, the sister version of Pilfered, is looking for guest editors to share what inspires you. The magazine is dedicated to showing the creative vision of emerging artists, photographers, curators, etc. the magazine itself is not published & no monetary profit is made.

if you’re interested in sharing and speaking a bit about why, please email: veronicaveronica[at]gmail.com

http://www.pilferedmagazine.com/blog/annex/

The hidden theme of 0_100_05 is “UNKNOWN”
If interested submit your link on flickr (please, separate link to photos that apply to the theme) or send jpg low res to: 0-100@fastwebmail.it

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/0_100/3758211684/

Capricious is an international fine art photography publication for emerging artists. The presented work is neither commercial, nor fashion photography; it creates visual narrative without intermediary contextualization. Capricious is a potential makeshift, personal gallery of autonomous works, as well as journal. Readers become critics, curators, and artists rather than mere consumers.

Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards: The Feminist Issue

Guest Editor, Tammy Rae Carland:

“As a culture, we have been poised in a national political climate that has hinged itself on hope as the vehicle for change. Hope, one of the most vague of conceptual feelings, has created real, tactile change historically within the leadership of big government. Work and ideas created with senses and sensibility at the core hold potential for transformative ideas and experience. If hope is something that can be politically argued for, then perhaps empathy is something that can change minds, and grief and love are things that can inspire social change. Perhaps anger, bitterness, tears and heartbreak cannot and should not be publicly avoided.

The possibilities that exist in a dialogue on feelings inflame the specter of feminism; feminist feelings are the final frontier. If we were to prioritize the world of feelings, what would it look like? Would it be humiliating or empowering, and would we be accused of acting like a girl? Perhaps making visual the world of feelings is the least we could do and the most honest we can be. Empathetic vision, relentless loss, identity melancholia, gender dysphoria, femme euphoria, sissy pride, compulsive hope, political depression, retooling trauma, shameless shame and feelings that have no names how do we photograph that?”

We want you to submit 8-12 photographs (more will not be viewed). We accept all formats and all colors. We also want you to tell us your story. Write an informal text about your thoughts, visions, dreams, or about the photographs you submitted, max 400 words; work submitted without text will not be considered. Email us your submission; 8×10 inches at 72 dpi to submit@capriciousmagazine.com

Not all submissions will be guaranteed a spot in the coming issue yet capricious will consider your submission for future issues. Please make sure you have model (or any other legally necessary) releases for all submitted work. Capricious has the right to use published material in promotional matters.

Deadline: September 20th

http://capriciousmagazine.com

We are looking for energetic and internet savvy young journalists students to join the COLORS editorial team. COLORS is part of the publishing activity of Fabrica (Treviso, Italy) and, if selected, you will spend one year in Treviso researching stories from across the globe for both our printed and online issues. You need to be able to speak and write in English and be under 25 years old.

Send to elena.favilli@colors.it

• Your C.V.
• A biography, not longer than 150 words
• 3 suggestions for stories to be featured in a COLORS issue themed “Revolution“

Your suggestions should be:
Diverse: We are “a magazine about the rest of the world”.
Original: Make sure your suggestions don’t come from or were featured in major newspapers or TV channels.
Visually impacting: COLORS believes the old saying about an image saying more than words.

Your scholarship includes:

• Return trip from your country;
• Accommodation in Treviso (to share with one or two Fabrica grant holders);
• Lunch from Monday to Friday;
• A monthly money supply to cover living expenses;
• Health insurance for the entire duration of the contract.