With the first installment completed and awaiting exhibition, The Exposure Project is pleased to announce that it will be moderating Graphic Intersections: v. 02, a second chapter of the project. The first round was one of the most unexpected and rewarding projects that we’ve worked on to date and we are excited to see another installment unfold. For those of you unfamiliar with the project, the statement below explains it in detail:

Graphic Intersections, loosely inspired by the old Surrealist and Dadaist game Exquisite Corpse, is a project that will attempt to unite disparate artists in an interconnected, photographic relay of images inspired by one another. For those unfamiliar with Exquisite Corpse, it is succinctly described here:

“Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution.”

Essentially, this is how Graphic Intersections works. We will collect submissions from interested photographers until January 5th, at which point we will select the participating artists and designate one of these photographers to start the whole thing off. The first photographer will be given a prompting word to work from and will subsequently make photographs inspired by this idea. They will send us their favorite and most representative image from this session which we will then send along to the next artist. The succeeding artist, based solely on their visual, emotional, intellectual, or philosophical response, will in turn make photographs in artistic reaction to the one they were given. The artists involved will not be given any written material to accompany the photograph, nor will they know whose image they’re responding to. This is designed to propagate randomness and avoid preconceived biases. This process will continue until the chain has been completed.

There are a few stipulations with the Graphic Intersections project. Firstly, participating photographers will be required to shoot, develop/import and submit their chosen image in no more than 2 weeks. I realize that this does not leave a tremendous amount of time to carry out this process. However, in the interest of completing this venture in under a year it seems necessary to instate a time frame. Secondly, chosen photographers will have to exercise a certain amount of patience and trust in the process, as there will be 20 artists each with a two week time slot. Lastly, images submitted for this project must be taken specifically for Graphic Intersections. Each photographer must submit a new image which does exist in a previously constructed body of work.

Submission Procedure

- Interested photographers should visit the Exposure Project website and pay the $10 submission fee.
- You may then submit up to 10 images
- Images should be at least 1000 pixels on the longest side
- Formatted as RGB JPG’s @ 72 dpi
- All files should be labeled with the artist’s last name and corresponding # (example: smith_1.jpg)
- E-mail submitted images to: ben@theexposureproject.com

Please note that submitted images will not be included in Graphic Intersections. They are simply used reference points in the curatorial process. Additionally, all photographers will receive a confirmation e-mail within 24 hours of their submission.

Submission Deadline

January 5th, 2010 @ 11:59pm

http://theexposureproject.com/submission.html

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/

Too Much Chocolate is excited to partner with Kodak in offering its first-ever film grant program, with submissions opening September 1st, 2009.

This grant will provide 10 non-represented photographers with the film needed to execute a new or ongoing personal project, to be completed during 2010.

This partnership aims to recognize strong project ideas from talented and emerging photographers, allowing them to fully realize a body of work that may not have been achieved otherwise. At the start of 2011, the recipients’ final projects will be brought together and exhibited through a variety of online, magazine, and gallery showcases.”

In the spirit of assistance and approachability, and to guarantee that no photographer is priced out of applying for this film grant, the submission fee is $10.

The judging panel for the film grant will consist of:

- Marcel Saba, Director of Redux Pictures
- Clinton Cargill, Associate Picture Editor of the New York Times Magazine
- Conor Risch, Features Editor of PDN
- Andy Adams, Editor / Publisher of Flak Photo
- Alison Morley, Chair of ICP’s Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program
- Audrey Jonckheer, Director of Worldwide Pro Photographer Relations at Kodak
- Jake Stangel, Founder / Editor of Too Much Chocolate

Kodak thrives on supporting as well as promoting talented photographers, and looks forward to developing meaningful and sustainable relationships with the recipients of the too much chocolate + Kodak film grant. Kodak will work with the photographers to promote their work on web sites, blogs as well as by photography trades.

Additionally, a selection of each grant recipient’s work have a chance to be exhibited on Kodak’s Times Square Jumbotron.

In return for providing film, Kodak asks grant recipients to mention Kodak for contributing the film in any media interviews, blogs, gallery shows, books and on their websites with a Kodak logo and a link to Kodak.com. In addition, Kodak will have the option to use 2-3 project images at no cost for a 2-year period for display at trade shows and maybe on the Kodak.com website.

http://toomuchchocolate.org/?page_id=1127

Everything is changing…

… how we take photographs, manipulate them, share them, store them — even how we pose for them. Our tools are mutating quickly, promising ever faster, clearer, brighter and cheaper pictures. Meanwhile telephones become cameras, desktop printers morph into mini-printing labs, and high-definition screens threaten to dislodge the venerable photographic print from gallery walls. And the eyes of the whole world are only a click away on the computer keyboard.

Where are we all heading?

During photography’s entire history, the amateur and the professional have represented distinct and often contrary approaches to photography, each battling for supremacy. Has the digital revolution tilted the field of battle irrevocably in the amateur’s favour? Or has it swept this traditional rivalry into the dustbin? Can anyone say?

And what about your photographs?

Why not share one or more of your photographs with the festival’s visitors? They’ll be projected in the public arena, with your name clearly visible in the corner of each image. And afterwards, you’ll get back proof in the form of an email — your photo as it appeared on the festival screen! Participate!

Sincerely,

William A. Ewing
Curator
New York Photo Festival ‘09
Director, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne

http://www.allphotographersnow.ch

ASDF is offering One Hundred $1 Grants. Documentation of all completed projects will be available in a downloadable exhibition. Anyone is eligible. There are no restrictions on proposed projects. All forms of creative activity are encouraged. Money can be used for cost of production or for monetary compensation.

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Projects should be completed one month of receiving the grant.

We will review each application.

click below to learn how to submit a proposal!

www.asdfmakes.com/onehundredgrants.html

We are asking photographers working in any facet of the medium to send the following:

-5-7 Low Res JPEG’s sized @ 72 dpi

-These images should reflect the vision of an ongoing, or recently completed body of work

-In addition, please send a brief artist statement which corresponds to the work submitted

We are also hoping to publish literary works in addition to the photographs chosen. If you have written an essay, article, review, or conducted an interview that is in some way related to photography we would love to review it. Proposals for unwritten works can also be submitted; simply send Microsoft Word formatted material in an e-mail.

Deadline for submissions is: Monday, January 5th, 2009

All submitted material should be sent to ben@theexposureproject.com.  Selected photographers and authors will be notified of acceptance no later than February 1st.

mus-mus.org invites PHOTOGRAPHERS to participate to the project @600 to take place November 4th, 2008 @600 Internet time.Many photographers from around the world have been invited to make one picture on the same day at the same moment. All these photographs will be joined and archived on the website mus-mus.org for a unique document of that special day. We have invited many photographers who have agreed to join us and participate to this project.We would like to add additional visions through an open call process!We are happy to announced that two special guests, Michael David Murphy and Jason Fulford will be among the participants in the @600 project.We have reserved places for twenty-five of the participants to be selected through a juried process. Apply now and submit an email request to participate together with a link to your website or no more than 3 jpg files at 800 pixels larger size and 72 dpi. Please add in the subject of your email your name and the town and country you live in.The submission should be directed to at600@mus-mus.org.If there are places remaining we will accept submissions of @600 photographs for one week after November 4 that have been made for @600 according to the project parameters. Those images and a weblink and\or CV should be submitted as outlined above.You will find all necessary information on www.mus-mus.org/at600.All photographers who will participate to this experiment will be listed in the mus-mus website.We sincerely hope that you like this idea and will be part of this experiment @600!For any questions, email us at600@mus-mus.org. Via Amy Stein’s blog.

The Entopic Group  will be an online space to showcase the work of young artists in the fine arts field. Our main objective is to collect a solid amount of new work that deserves to be seen. We accept all kinds of work (photography, drawing, etc).

Submissions are now open for the first Group Show. There is no theme. The deadline is November 30th, 2008. Send us an
email to entopicgroup@gmail.com with a short bio, some info about the work that you are submitting and up to 8 jpegs of your work. 700 pixels on the longest side.

www.entopicgroup.com

Emprise Review is a new literary journal in search of stimulating original art. The staff is composed of an international group of writers who are looking to create an outlet for the best works without consideration for past accomplishments or genre. We want high-quality, compelling work.

For photography, one submission of up to five photos per month. Must be sent as attachments and should be the highest resolution possible.

Send to empreview@gmail.com

 http://www.muttsbane.com/