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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. Selected applicants will be featured in an exhibition at the CCNY gallery in the summer of 2011 and on our website. The first place selection will receive a $500.00 cash award.

This year marks the first time that CCNY will be using a completely online submission service, CallForEntry.org (CAFÈ) There is no extra fee for submitting through CAFÈ, and once you register to the CAFÈ system, you are more easily able to access other calls for entry and submit to those using a standardized procedure. CCNY will only be accepting entries submitted through this system. Click here to submit now or see more detailed guidelines.

ABOUT CCNY: 
One of New York’s oldest not-for-profit arts organizations, the Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is a workspace for photographers and a hub for the photo community, offering exhibitions, lectures, workshops, an online newsletter and Guest Blog, and a year-round Darkroom Residency Program. Today, CCNY is a thriving base for a diverse community interested in both traditional and experimental directions in photography. 

ABOUT THE JUROR: 
Richard Renaldi was born in 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, and received his BFA in photography from New York University. Exhibitions of his photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, including the House of Photography in Stockholm; The Robert Morat Gallery in Hamburg; The Nicolaysen Museum in Casper, Wyoming; the Gallery at Hermès and Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.  Renaldi’s work has also been exhibited in numerous group shows, including Strangers: The First ICP (International Center of Photography) Triennial of Photography and Video (2003). In 2006 Renaldi’s first monograph,Figure and Ground, was published by the Aperture Foundation. His second monograph, Fall River Boys, was released in 2009 by Charles Lane Press. Richard Renaldi is the founder and publisher of Charles Lane Press.  http://charleslanepress.com/> His website is www.renaldi.com. http://www.renaldi.com/> 

PRIZES: 
Selected applicants will be featured in an exhibition at the CCNY gallery in late July to late August 2011. Winners will also be featured on the CCNY website. The first place selection will receive a $500.00 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 CCNY members. Staff, board members, workspace fellows, artists-in-residence, and their families are not eligible. Only photographs or photo-based work will be considered. 

For more information, visit: http://www.cameraclubny.org/

En Foco, Inc. invites U.S. based photographers of Latino, African and Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and Pacific, to submit work to the New Works Photography Fellowship Awards #15. The program encourages artists to create or continue an in-depth photographic series, in any photo-based fine art or documentary style/genre. En Foco, Inc.'s aim is to identify and promote talented emerging and mid-career artists, creating a cross-cultural dialogue and providing artists with exposure and growth opportunities. There is no fee to apply.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

Wednesday July 27, 2011

PRIZES: 

While the products awarded varies from year to year, New Works fellows usually receive:
- a $1,000 honorarium ($100 for Honorable 
Mentions)
- a $500 product gift certificate from Canson
Infinity ($100 for Honorable Mentions)
- professional tripods from Manfrotto
- camera bags from Lowepro
- a feature article in Nueva Luz

- an exhibition in New York
- a photographer's page on enfoco.org
- a one-year En Foco membership 
($100 value)

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Your work should address issues that are relevant to your personal experience. Photographic imagery should contain a cultural consciousness that is grounded in identity and the search for a personal statement. This is completely open to your interpretation. Visit www.enfoco.org to view works by prior winners.
2. You may propose a new project idea, or propose to continue an existing body of work. Decisions will be based upon quality of images submitted.
3. If selected, your new work must consist of 15-20 exhibition-quality images. The group exhibition will be curated by En Foco staff in 2012, at which time the honorarium is paid.
4. Although not required, applicants are encouraged to become En Foco members. Basic membership includes a subscription to Nueva Luz photographic journal, a 1/2 hour in-house Portfolio Review, free admission at photo museums, discounts to En Foco workshops, and invitations to all En Foco events. Additional membership levels include more extensive benefits and substantial discounts.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Register at CallforEntry.org, and follow the directions for sizing and uploading your images.
2. A written project proposal/description (no more than 500 words). Describe specific aspects of your work such as subject matter, context, content, location, and personal relevance.
3. A one-page biography and/or resume.
4. A statement about your work as an artist.
5. Twenty tightly edited images from the same series. CaFÉ image preparation tips can be found at: https://www.callforentry.org/image_prep.phtml
6. For more submission tips, go to: http://www.enfoco.org/index.php/programs/submissions/ (scroll down for New Works FAQs).

The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non- professional, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today.

They invite pivotal experts and integral decision makers from the international photography community to select the overall top three photographers in each annual competition. There are $20,000 in total cash prizes, a chance to be recognized as the International Photographer of the Year, Discovery of the Year or the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: JUNE 24

Learn more and submit your work at www.photoawards.com.

Rather than closing next week, Doug Rickard's poignant exploration of Google Street View, A New American Picture, will be extended thourough just about Independence Day July 2, 2011, at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco. Some fo the work will also be on view in the same city at the Pilara Foundation's photography space, Pier 24. Those of us on the East Coast will have to wait to see next year's release of a monograph by Schaden or Moma's next installment of New Photography on September 27, 2011. Read about the project in a previous post here: http://www.daylightmagazine.org/blog/2011/3/6/1059

Stephen Wirtz: www.wirtzgallery.com/dougrickard

Pilara Foundation: www.pier24.org

The description of "The Ten" project on www.thetenphoto.com captures the innovation and intelligence of this undertaking far more adequately than this anonymous blogger could and for that reason, the following text is a direct quote from www.thetenphoto.com/content/4-about. Visit the website: http://www.thetenphoto.com to see, purchase and discover images from a group of extremely talented photographers. 

If photographers are true to themselves and their art, their focus will be on their work – on making strong images that connect.  And in order for the images to make an impact, move a dialog forward or spark an idea or emotion, they need to be seen.  The best way for a photograph to reach the highest volume of viewers is online.  The photograph and the internet are a beautiful pairing, full of opportunities for photographers and viewers alike.  The cost is low, the exposure is high, the conversation is endless.

The drawback to a photographic body of work having an exclusive online presence is the inability for photographers to receive any direct financial rewards from the exposure.  Photographers want potential patrons to be able to acquire physical prints for their collection, which gives the work a home and permanence.  A traditional gallery allows for this transaction to take place, but often at a great expense (printing and framing costs that come with gallery exhibitions) to the photographer with a much more limited audience.

Jennifer Schwartz Gallery’s mission is to go beyond the traditional gallery model and explore this new contemporary photographic landscape to help our artists move their careers forward and introduce their work to a larger audience.  We [Jennifer Schwartz Gallery] want to marry the opportunities for exposure online with the ability to acquire limited edition fine art photographs in order to help photographers reach a large audience and make money to finance the creation of future work.

The Ten is a highly curated monthly online exhibit of ten photographic images.  Each image is available at a 13x19 size in an edition of 25 for $250.  Whether a photographer makes a new body of work for The Ten, a guest curator selects images from different photographers, or a photographer self-curates from within his or her existing bodies of work, The Ten is an opportunity for photographers and curators to explore the creative possibilities of pulling together a selection of work with a strong statement and a tight edit.

The uniqueness of The Ten comes from its curation and its exclusivity.  Images on The Ten cannot be sold in any other size in any other location.  Once an image has been included in The Ten, it must be retired from sale.  The only opportunity to purchase that image is on the website for The Ten, and once 25 are sold, it is sold out forever.