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

A Search for the Best Emerging Photographers

Accepting Submissions Through August 7th, 11:59 p.

‘Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it,
miniatures of reality….’ - Susan Sontag

Photography has been reinventing itself since its inception. From daguerreotypes to glass negatives, instant Polaroid film to unlimited digital shots, images are our reflections, our fantasies and our teachers. This competition is an international search for the best new work from emerging photographers.

For this call we are joined by judges Peter van Agtmael, Magnum Photographer, Sean Fader, Photographer, FIT Professor & Solo Show Artist, Amani Olu, Co-founder & Executive Director of Humble Arts Foundation and Alexandra Niki, Editor in Chief, Resource Magazine.

One photographer will be awarded $500 & a 3rd Ward bike and the top 25 photographers will receive:

* A group show in 3rd Ward’s gallery

* A feature in 3rd Ward’s Quarterly Publication

* 1-month Basic Membership at 3rd Ward with access to our four photo studios

* NYC wide exposure – post cards, flyers, press!

http://www.3rdward.com/fallgroupshow09/

What Is Critical Mass?

The aim of Critical Mass, and all Photolucida programming, is to provide participants with career-building opportunities and to promote the best emerging and mid-career artists working today.

Critical Mass is a program about exposure and community. The idea is simple- photographers (from anywhere) submit a 10 image portfolio for $75. This work then gets pre-screened by a committee of approximately 20-25 great jurors and from there, 175 top Finalists are determined. These top finalists then pay an additional submission fee and their work goes on to a jury of approximately 200 of the world’s best curators, editors, and professionals who have agreed to view and vote on these finalists. From these votes, two or three photographers receive book awards and once the monographs are published, everyone who enters and reviews will receive copies of the books.

We are pleased to continue to give scholarships to pre-selected photographers by geographical region. In 2007, we gave scholarships to Polish photographers, in 2008 it was Mexico. This year, the lucky country is Italy.

What to expect?

As an entrant to Critical Mass, you shouldn’t necessarily expect feedback from the jurors unless they want to contact you about doing something with your work. Reviewers are given the opportunity and encouraged to provide written feedback, but we can’t guarantee anything other than:

• Everyone who enters will receive copies of each of the Book Award Winners.
• Everyone who enters will receive a CD containing all of the submitted work.
• Everyone who enters will have their work seen, and voted on, by the Pre-Screening committee.
• Those who continue on in the top 175 Finalists will have their work seen, and voted on, by over 200 jurors.
• Those who make the Top 50 will be given the opportunity to have their work in a Critical Mass Top 50 show at PCNW, curated by Andy Adams, editor/publisher of Flak Photo.

Deadline:  July 22, 2009

http://www.photolucida.org/current.php

Theme:
All subjects are eligible.

Eligibility:
The exhibition is open to photographers world wide, both amateur and professional.  The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Juror: Andy Adams
Andy Adams is the editor/publisher of Flak Photo (www.flakphoto.com), a contemporary photography website that celebrates the art of publishing photography online. Flak Photo provides unique opportunities for artists and photography organizations to share their work with a burgeoning online photographic community and highlights new series work, book projects and gallery exhibitions from established and emerging photographers. Recent features include 3030 Press’ New Photography in China, Humble Arts Foundation’s 31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography, Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine’s Inside Burgerworld, the Photographic Resource Center’s EXPOSURE: The Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, Big City Press’ Hijacked, Volume One: Australia & America, and David Wright + Ethan Jones’ Pause to Begin.

Exhibition and Awards:
With selection for this exhibition, artists and their work will be seen by an international audience of
collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate the fine art of photography.

• Juror’s Selection: $300 and an online marketing consultation with Andy Adams, Editor of Flak Photo. The Juror’s Selection will also be included in Flak Photo’s Online Exhibition during the
  month of October 2009.
• Director’s Selection award: $200
• Gallery Visitor’s Choice Award: $100
• Flak Photo’s Online Exhibition:  A selection of artists will be chosen to exhibit their work in the Flak Photo Gallery (www.flakphoto.com) during the month of October, 2009.
• Two Artists’ ShowCase Online subscriptions for one year:  (preview at www.artists-showcase.org)
• All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery

Important Dates:

• Entries due: July 14, 2009
• Notice of acceptance:  July 24
• Exhibition dates: October 2 – October 31
• Reception: October 2

Entry Fee:

• The entry fee for non-members is $35 USD for the first three images.
• The entry fee for members of The Center for Fine Art Photography is $20.00 USD for 3 images.
• Additional images may be submitted for $10 each.
  There is no limit to the number of images that may be submitted.

Applicants signing up for membership at the time they submit their work for
jurying may become a member and meet the entry fee for a total of $77.00 USD.

Deadline July 14, 2009

http://www.c4fap.org/cfe/2009International/intl.asp

London-based photography and fine art printer, theprintspace, is running a monthly photography competition judged by photographers Julia Fullerton-Batten, Harry Borden, Rob Jarvis, and Editor & director of 1000 Words Photography Magazine, Tim Clark.

Each month brings a new theme and a new round of the competition; photographers can submit up to 5 images each month. All images selected for monthly competitions will also be included in theprintspace’s two-week long grand bi-annual group show at their gallery in East London, opening at a TBD date. Winners of the monthly competitions will also receive a mounted 20×24-inch print of their choice from theprintspace studio, an entry on the 1000 Words photography blog and continued exposure from theprintspace.

This month’s theme is Portraiture and the deadline for entries is tomorrow, June 30th. Applicants must join theprintspace’s Facebook group for further details about entry terms and conditions. Winners will be announced on July 13th and notified via Facebook. Good luck to all applicants!

 Deadline:  June 30, 2009

via HHS blog

The Summer Solo Show is a nationwide open call for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums - sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video, and more!

The selected artist will receive:

* $1,000 cash grant
* A solo exhibition in 3rd Ward’s gallery, complete with a massive opening reception
* A 2-page spread in 3rd Ward’s quarterly publication
* 1-month residency at 3rd Ward with FULL facility access
* NYC wide exposure – post cards, flyers, press!

For this call we are joined by judges: Katherine Brinson, Curator at the Guggenheim, Amy Kisch of Sotheby’s and Jeremy Ortega Art Director at Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.

All Submissions must be recieved by July 2, 2009, 11:59 p.

http://www.3rdward.com/summersoloshow09/

@Paris _ mus-mus.org
Jurors: Stephen Shore and Gil Blank
Deadline: July 14th, 2009

@Paris is a return to an early and sustaining subject of photography — Paris.

As with @600 Mus-Mus will strive to use the ease and power of the web combined with the talents and camaraderie of the global photography community to develop a striking online archive of images. This time the focus is around this singular place, Paris, as seen through the vision of photographers from all parts of the world.

It is fitting that Paris, lovingly called “The City of Light” should have been one of the first and most thoroughly photographic and photographed places on earth. The list of Paris’ photographers runs from Daguerre and Nadar to Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson and from Atget to Man Ray, Kertez and Klein and many more, a remarkable number of photography’s greatest artists made their mark ‘a travers’ Paris. Their photographs and publications have fixed in our mind’s eye a vision of Paris that is beautiful, often as edgy as elegant, and always complex.

The rules are simple:

1. submit one photograph taken by you in Paris before July 14th, 2009 (JPEG format, 72dpi, 1000 pixels larger side, Srgb Please name your file this way: SurnameName.jpg). Photo can be taken for the project or chosen from your archives.

2. include information about the date, the place and some brief statement about the photograph and its relationship to your sense of Paris.

3. certify that the submission information is correct and that the photograph is previously unpublished and that the copyright is yours.

4. Curriculum Vitae together with your website and email

5. be older than 18 year old

Please check the complete submission guidelines, technical details and conditions at www.mus-mus.org/atparis !
We look forward to seeing what you see. And thanks in advance for sharing your wonderful work and participation.
Best,
mus-mus.org

Jury: Idris Khan, Tim Marlow, Michael Hoppen and Susanna Brown.

The Google Photography Prize is a global competition for students to create themes for iGoogle. Run in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery London, the Google Photography Prize is open to students across the world.

We have opened up iGoogle, our personalised homepage, as the digital canvas for your creativity. We invite you to submit your compelling photography and bring your art online to a global audience.
How it works

Enter your portfolio of five digital photos that together will make up the iGoogle theme.

We will also be running a leader board for the university/college with the most entrants for everyone to see, so tell your friends to enter to see your university at the top.

* The shortlist: 36 shortlisted entries will be turned into iGoogle themes, shown on Google and put to public vote.
* The finalists: 6 finalists will be exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery London, and reviewed by our independent jury.
* The winner: 1 winner will receive a £5,000 ($7500 USD) bursary.

Deadline

Submit your entry on this website by 31st May. How to enter:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/photographyprize/

* Submission Talent Call 2009

Submission requirements “CALL FOR TALENT 2009!”

As in 2008, Foam Magazine’s Fall issue will present the work of young talented photographers worldwide. If you would like to submit your work for publication please read the following regulations.

- You are a photographer between 18 and 35 years old.

- The submission period is between the 21st of March and the 17th of May 2009.

- Please note that when you submit to the “Call for Talent”, we have the right to use your work for promotional purposes for a maximum period of 18 months. We will consult you before using the material.

Requested information and series of work

- Upload two projects/series of work with at least eight digital low-resolution images per project.
- There is a maximum of 20 low-resolution files in total.
- All images preferably in JPG format.
- Please note: a selection of random photos will not be considered.
- Include a brief description (maximum one A4) of the projects/series in a Word document.
- Include an abridged CV in a Word document
- When you have completed the submission, you will immediately see if it is done succesfully.
- After you have completed the contact form we will send you a login and password to upload your submission at our FTP server.
- Login with this password and please make sure that all requested information and images are compressed into ONE ZIPFILE which is named in this order: first name surname. IMPORTANT If it is not submitted in this format we will not take the application in consideration.
-Please note that it takes a few minutes to upload your work depending on the actual size of the work you submit.

Selection procedure

- The selection procedure will take until mid-june. If you are selected we will notify you as soon as possible. Please do not contact us to see whether you have been selected before this date.
- If you will be selected one of our editors will contact you to discuss further details about the publication.
- If you have any questions concerning the talentcall which haven’t been answered here please mail to : contact@foammagazine.nl
- Please take into consideration that we will receive many submissions and that we may not be able to respond directly to all of your queries.
- Again: Only complete submissions will be taken into consideration.
-The Talent issue will be out on the 21st of September 2009

 http://www.foammagazine.nl/index.php?pageId=25

Juror, Henry Horenstein

Deadline postmarked by May 29, 2009

The Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is pleased to announce an open call for applications for its Annual National Photography Competition. Photographers and photo-based artists working in any genre are eligible to apply. Applicants are encouraged to submit a cohesive body of work.

PRIZES:
Selected applicants will be featured in an exhibition sponsored by the CCNY in the gallery at Calumet Photographic in New York City in December 2009. Winners will also be featured on the CCNY website. The first place selection will receive a $300.00 cash award. Sales will be encouraged. (A 30% commission applies to all sales.)

ENTRY:
The competition is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older who are Participating Members of CCNY. Resident members, staff, board members, artists-in-residence, and their families are not eligible. Only photographs or photo-based work will be considered

FEE:
There is no Fee to apply. All applicants must be Participating Members of the CCNY. A one-year Participating Membership is $40.

Participating Member benefits:
• free entry CCNY’s Lecture Series at The
School of Visual Arts
• 10% discount on classes, workshops, and
book sales
• portfolio review with CCNY staff (limit one
review per year)
• free entry to competitions and juried
exhibitions

http://www.cameraclubny.org