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/

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

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.

Here’s your chance to see your work in print! Beautiful/Decay will be producing a special issue compiling all of our favorite art & design entries based on the theme of “Underdog”.Please send an email to:
with the subject line: Underdog Magazine Submission.

• Include: A low-res 72dpi jpeg (for submission & review purposes only).
• Remember: For print purposes, please have a 300dpi CMYK vertical image of your work, 7.75″ X 9.85″ (dimensions include .125 ” bleed on top & sides). Sample PDF.

Or mail:
Beautiful/Decay Attn: Underdog Magazine Submissions
PO Box 2336 Culver City, CA 90231

• Include: A disc containing a 300dpi CMYK vertical image of your submission, 7.75″ X 9.85″ (dimensions include .125 ” bleed on top & sides). Sample PDF.
• Remember: Mailed submissions will not be returned to you unless you send a self addressed stamped envelope along with your submission.

By submitting you are allowing Beautiful/Decay to reproduce your work.

All submissions for the underdog issue must be made especially for Beautiful/Decay and not be posted on any magazine or website prior to the publish date.

Not all submissions may be featured. You will be notified via email within a month if your work has been selected for the underdog issue.

http://beautifuldecay.com/submit/

If you are interested in submitting your artwork, you need to send low res JPGs to contact@carpacciomagazine.com. Include your full name or your pseudonym and a short bio with a link to your website in the body of the email. You can send a writing (a short explanation, a poem…) about your artwork, as well.

If your artwork is selected, Carpaccio Magazine will e-mail you to ask for high res JPGs of your submitted artwork. If your artwork isn’t selected, Carpaccio Magazine will e-mail you anyway.

Issue #1 submissions deadline is on 7th April, 2009.

http://carpacciomagazine.com

National Geographic Traveler and Photo District News Present:

The Great Outdoors Photo ContestCelebrate the world outside: landscapes, vistas, adventures,and the bigbeyond.

Deadline: 4/20/2009

**Late? Pay $10 to extend your deadline to 5/4/09

Enter Online:http://www.thegreatoutdoorscontest.com

Amateur and Pro Channels to enter

Submissions for Issue 01 are now open. The theme for the issue is TITLE. Explorations on the theme INVISIBLE CITY are encouraged from artists and writers. INVISIBLE CITY is the encompassing idea of city as mutable elements, connected by memory and a sense of place and space. Work is encouraged in non-literal and conceptual approaches.

STORYTELLING. MONUMENTS. HISTORY. UNDERGROUND. DREAMSCAPES. TRAVEL. MOVEMENT. STASIS. COLLECTIVE MEMORY. NAVIGATION. ARCHITECTURE. MAPS. NOSTALGIA.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Writing
INVISIBLE CITY is seeking critical essays, interviews and creative writing pieces (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) to theme. Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:
- Please keep submission to 1500 words.
- Submissions in MSWord format sent as email attachment.
- Include in the body of the email a a small bio/artist’s statement (150 words or less) and a link to your website (if applicable)

Images
INVISIBLE CITY is seeking images of artworks to theme. Images can be mixed media, photomedia, film stills, painting or drawing or in site document of performance, projection, sculpture and installation.
Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:
- 5-10 images as email attachments
- Sized 1500 pixels on the leading edge
- 300 dpi
- Images should be titled your_name_01.jpg and so on
- Include in the body of the email a a small bio/artist’s statement (150 words or less); a link to your website (if applicable) and the title of your work/series.
- Please keep total email size < 15 megs.

Please send submissions to submit@invisiblecity.org.

http://invisiblecity.org

Submissions close March 09 2009.

Via The Exposure Project

Atlas Magazin is a monothematic, bilingual (english, deutsch) magazine that collects photographical, graphical and literary positions by different authors.

The theme of the first issue is Isolation.

Submission is open. If you have anything preexisting that you would like to submit or have time to create works related to the first issue, it would be greatly appreciated!

Please send your submissions to: jmw@atlas-magazin.de

Deadline is in the middle of February 2009.

Supposable the first issue will exist only as a downloadable pdf. But I want to go further and make it a real object up from the second or third issue.

http://www.atlas-magazin.de/