News

Rayko Photo Center presents the 3rd Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, which is open to artists working with plastic cameras with plastic lenses. All images should be taken with cameras with limited controls, such as Diana, Holga, Lubitel, Lomo, Banner, and Ansco cameras. Best of Show receives $250 and 4 additional juror awards receive plastic cameras. The deadline for Submissions is Jan 5, 2010. For more information about this opportunity, visit http://raykophoto.com/?page_id=54.

The artists’ residence Schloß Balmoral in Bad Ems is an institution incorporated with the Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Kultur (Foundation for Culture, Rhineland-Palatinate). It is a place for artistic production, meeting and discussion. Since its foundation in 1995, Schloß Balmoral has sponsored artists working within the disciplines of painting, graphic design, sculpture, installation, photography, video and the new media.
Artists from Rhineland-Palatinate as well as national and international artists are sponsored through the Artist-in-residence scholarships and exchange scholarships.

The residence goes from 15 April - 15 October and gives an allowance 1.200 Euro/month. For more information about this opportunity, visit http://www.resartis.org/index.php?id=20[showUid]=62

10 from 25: Emerging Artists Using Photography will showcase the work of the ten founding members of 25CPW, each of whom use the medium of photography as a foundation for their artistic practice. The exhibition is comprised of varied approaches, ranging from traditional photography to video and sculpture.  The show forges new paths and offers fresh visions that challenge photographic representation, the tradition of portraiture, and the depiction of identity within a changing technological landscape.

Exhibition Dates: November 19th - December 13th, 2009                                  
Opening Reception on Thursday, November 19th, 2009, 6-9pm

25CPW is Located at 25 Central Park West in Manhattan

For more information about this event and 25CPW, visit http://www.25cpw.org/.

The year 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story. For more information about this award, visit http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html.