Spring 2012 International Women's Call for Entry - Deadline: January 31st, 2012

Published: Tue, 01/10/12


Spring 2012 International Women's Call for Entry

Deadline: January 31st, 2012

Professional Women Photographers (PWP) invites all women artists working with any photographic process to submit images for juror Mary Ellen Mark. The contest includes $3000 in cash awards; valuable prizes provided by Datacolor, global leader in color management solutions and color communication technology; a group show in Manhattan's .NO gallery; an online exhibition and a feature article in IMPRINTS Magazine Spring/Summer 2012 issue.

Awards: Winners will be selected in four categories. Submissions may be made to more than one category, and there is no limit to the number of images that may be submitted. The categories are:
  • 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.)
Selected images, as well as 15 Jurors' Selections, will be exhibited in May 2012 in a group show at .NO gallery, located in Manhattan's hottest new arts and culture area, the Lower East Side, and in an online exhibition on the PWP website for six months, June 1, 2012- November 30, 2012. An additional 30 images selected for Honorable Mention will also be included in the PWP online Exhibition.
  • GRAND PRIZE: One photographer will receive $600, plus a Datacolor Spyder3Elite color calibration system and SpyderCube raw calibration tool ($279 value.) Her image will be the subject of a feature interview in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of IMPRINTS Magazine. IMPRINTS, the official publication of PWP. Her image will also be in the .NO Gallery show and the online exhibition.
  • FIRST PRIZE: 4 photographers (one in each category) will receive $300, plus a Datacolor SpyderCheckr camera calibration system ($129 value.) Their selected images will appear in an article in the Spring/Summer issue of IMPRINTS Magazine. Their images will be exhibited in the .NO Gallery show and the online exhibition.
  • SECOND PRIZE: 4 photographers (one in each category) will receive $200, plus a Datacolor SpyderLensCal ($59 value.) Their images will appear in an article in IMPRINTS Spring/Summer issue. Their images will be exhibited in the .NO Gallery show and the online exhibition.
  • THIRD PRIZE: 4 photographers (one in each category) will receive $100 plus a Datacolor SpyderCube ($49 value.) Their images will appear in an article in the Spring/Summer issue of IMPRINTS. Their images will be exhibited in the .NO Gallery show and the online exhibition.
  • Jurors' Selections: 15 additional images will be included in the gallery and the online exhibitions.
  • Honorable Mention: 30 additional images will be included in the PWP online gallery exhibition.
Juror: Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.

Entry Fee: The entry fee is $35 for the first three images. Additional images may be submitted for $10 each. The same image may be submitted to more than one category. 

Important Dates:

  • Entries due: January 31,2012
  • Notice of Acceptance: February 18, 2012
  • Online Exhibition: June 1 - November 30, 2012
  • .NO Gallery Exhibition: May 2012
To Submit your work go to: https://www.smarterentry.com/imgapp/AccountServices/login.asp?SiteID=5042

For More Information: http://pwponline.org/calls/individual.php?which=2011-11-28-1
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