PWP
37th Anniversary International Open Call for Entry
Deadline:
September 30th, 2012
Women photographers - amateur and professional; PWP members and
non-members - are invited to this call for entry. Deborah Willis, Chair
of the Photography and Imaging Department at NYU will award $5400 in
cash, plus the cover or inside spread of IMPRINTS Magazine, a six-month
online gallery exhibition and valuable prizes from Datacolor, global
leader in color calibration technology.
Categories
Winners will be selected in each of the following four categories:
• The Human Experience (Portraiture,
Street Photography, etc.)
• Our Earth (Landscape, Cityscapes,
Animals, Nature, etc.)
• Travel (Any subject or genre, taken
while away from home)
• Digital Imagination (Digitally enhanced
images, including Composites, Montages, Abstracts, etc.)
Exhibition and
Awards
Grand Prize: One photographer will
receive $1000, plus a Datacolor Spyder4PRO color calibration system and
SpyderCube raw calibration tool ($225 value.) Her image will appear on
the cover of the Winter 2012/2013 issue of IMPRINTS Magazine, and will
exhibited for six months on PWP’s online gallery.
First Prizes: 4 photographers (one in
each category) will receive $500, plus a Datacolor SpyderCHECKR PRO
camera calibration system ($139 value.) Their selected images will
appear in a glossy pullout section of the Winter 2012/2013 issue of
IMPRINTS Magazine, and will be exhibited for six months on PWP’s online
gallery.
Second Prizes: 4 photographers (one in
each category) will receive $250. Their selected images will appear in
a glossy pullout section of the Winter 2012/2013 issue of IMPRINTS
Magazine, and will be exhibited for six months on PWP’s online gallery.
Third Prizes: 4 photographers (one in
each category) will receive $100. Their selected images will appear in
a glossy pullout section of the Winter 2012/2013 issue of IMPRINTS
Magazine, and will be exhibited for six months on PWP’s online gallery.
Jurors’ Selections: 20 photographers
will receive $50. Their selected images will appear in a glossy pullout
section of the Winter 2012/2013 issue of IMPRINTS Magazine, and will be
exhibited for six months on PWP’s online gallery.
Honorable Mention: 60 additional images
will be exhibited for six months on PWP’s online gallery.
Eligibility
This Call for Entries is open worldwide to ALL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS;
NON-MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF PWP, AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL. PWP invites
women photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of
thought to participate. Experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.
Entry Fee
The entry fee is $35 for the first four images. Additional images may
be submitted for $10 each. The same image may be submitted to more than
one category and there is no limit to the number of images submitted.
Note: Images selected by jurors for exhibition by PWP in the previous
12 months are NOT eligible. Images previously submitted but not yet
selected for exhibition may be resubmitted as often as you wish.
Juror
Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is the Chair of the Department of Photography
& Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York
University. Professor Willis is an educator, curator, fine art
photographer, and author. Among many honors, she recently received the
honored educator award at the Society for Photographic Education.
She has curated numerous exhibitions, including: Posing Beauty which is
touring the US, 1968: Then and Now in fall 2008, Let Your Motto Be
Resistance: African American Portraits at the International Center of
Photography in 2007, and Engulfed by Katrina: Photographs before and
After the Storm at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Publications include
Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (WW Norton, 2009 and
NAACP Image Award Literature Winner), A Small Nation of People: W.E.B.
DuBois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition (Amistad Press,
2003), and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the
Present (WW Norton, 2009.)
Exhibitions of her work include: A Sense of Place, Frick, University of
Pittsburgh, 2005; Regarding Beauty, University of Wisconsin, 2003;
Embracing Eatonville, Light Works, Syracuse, NY, 2003-4; HairStories,
Scottsdale Contemporary Art Museum, Scottsdale, AZ 2003-4; The Comforts
of Home, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 1999; Re/Righting
History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists,
Katonah Museum of Art, 1999; Memorable Histories and Historic Memories,
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1998; Cultural Baggage, Rice University,
Houston, TX, 1995.
Important Dates
• Entries due: September 30, 2012
• Notice of Acceptance: October 20, 2012
• Online Exhibition: January 1 – June 30,
2013
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