Your chance to win a prestigious photography award and cash prize of £5,000. With an overall prize fund worth £20,000, winners and commended entrants will have their work showcased in a national touring exhibition and stunning book, published by AA Publishing.

The British Wildlife Photography Awards were established in 2009. The key aims of the Awards are to:

Recognise the talents of photographers practicing in the UK, while at the same time highlight the great wealth and diversity of Britain’s natural history.
Celebrate British wildlife, in all its beauty and diversity, through a collection of inspirational photographs.
Showcase the very best of our nature photography to a wide audience and engage all ages with evocative and powerful imagery.
Encourage discovery, exploration, conservation and enjoyment of our natural heritage.
Raise awareness about British biodiversity, species and habitats.

Entries must have been taken in the United Kingdom of Great Britain Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

Images can be of native or migrant wild species. Also non-indigenous wild species that reside permanently in the UK. British wildlife subjects photographed in a studio setting or a captive environment are eligible provided this information is supplied when submitting images. Exotic wildlife photographed in British zoos, safari parks or similar locations, and domestic pets are not eligible.

Contest Prize & TERMS
PRIZE DETAILS: British Wildlife Photographer: £5,000

The winning pictures and best entries will be included in a touring exhibition across the UK and a stunning coffee table book, published by AA publishing.

All adult category winners will receive photographic products or similar – to a total value of value £1,000

There are two special awards to encourage participation by young people.

Young British Wildlife Photographer (Up to 11) £300
Young British Wildlife Photographer (12 – 18) £500

ELIGIBILITY: Open to All

COPYRIGHT: Entrants retain the copyright to images submitted.

USAGE RIGHTS: By entering the competition, you grant BWPA and its sponsors and supporters a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to reproduce, enlarge, publish or exhibit, on any media, the images for any purpose directly connected with the competition. This may include, but is not limited to: inclusion in a book of winning and commended images; display at exhibitions; display on a web browser for judging purposes; on the BWPA website and on the websites of sponsors and supporters; for use in press releases to be distributed to national, regional & specialist press giving information about or promoting the competition.

Entrants also agree that the organisers can sub-license images to the media for reproduction in connection with the competition and exhibition only.

BWPA will make every reasonable effort to ensure that name credits are given to any photograph published in any medium.

Free usage of any photograph will not be permitted by BWPA, or any of its partners or sponsors outside of the scope of the competition and exhibition.

There is no plan envisaged by BWPA, or any of its partners or sponsors, to create a general commercial library of the images entered into this competition.

Commercial use of images not directly associated with the competition will be at the entrants’ discretion and with their permission and, on granting such permission, will be subject to a reasonable payment.

For any use that falls outside this remit, royalties will be discussed & negotiated with the photographer concerned.

Entry Fee: Youth Free / Adult from £10

Deadline: May 12, 2012

Official website and Enter here

‘beyondmemory’ is an open call which invites artists to reflect on contemporary photography and video’s role in perceiving history and collective memory. The project is based on an idea suggested by the curator Marinella Paderni, and is a collaboration between Fondazione Studio Marangoni and Celeste Network.

Theme
Memory has been for centuries a community’s natural repository of symbolic and mythical meaning; a combination of true stories and fantastical representations, which mixed, history with poetry, reality with art, artistic conjecture with collective unconscious, the universal with the singular. With the end of dogmas and grand ideological narratives, memory is no longer a producer of myths, rather it survives as the basis for a search of truth, taking up the role of instrument of knowledge, of historical production and verification of information. The idea that memory is repository of a single, absolute truth, has been replaced in our information age by the notion of many memories: micro-truths without universal authenticity which act on the knowledge and production of history. In particular, according to Michel Foucault’s view, photography has given birth to the idea of archive as a repository of memory and a fundamental building-block of the present.

“beyondmemory” reflects on photography and video’s role in the perception of history and collective memory, with particular attention given to the importance of archives and photographic documents in artistic research – a cultural phenomenon which the philosopher Jacques Derrida called “le mal d’archive.”

Archive fever is one of contemporary art’s principal themes. Photography provides another viewpoint on history, revealing misunderstood or possible ‘truths’, transforming traces of information and documents into visual monuments of our time, often creating their own devices and taking up other languages of expression. Works submitted to Beyond Memory can contain images as clues for paradigms, textual elements, photographic installations with archive material, sound fragments, the use of photographs which are simply found or tell a common story, are some of the forms adopted by contemporary photography to give images various levels of significance to history and collective memory.

Projects
All projects presented to ‘beyondmemory’ must relate to the theme proposed by Marinella Paderni. Each project can contain one work or upto a maximum of 10 works – containing photographs and/or videos (max 10 miunutes) – supported by a textual statement. Works and statements can be uploaded directly by artists from personal accounts in Celeste Network, and instantly published in the appropriate area onsite called ‘Beyondmemory’.

Who can Submit?
‘beyondmemory’ is an international call for projects, in which artists or artist groups members of Celeste from anywhere in the world can participate without limits of age, sex or profession.

Deadline
Projects can be presented directly online no later than midnight 29 February 2012.

Fee
30 € for each project (contains one work or upto a maximum of 10 works). The fee is payable directly online Celeste via PayPal before upload of projects.

Prizes*
First prize: 1,000 €
Second prize: 500 €
Third prize: 500 €

Shortlist Selections
A shortlist of 10 selected projects made by a Selection Committee which includes Giovanna Calvenzi, Daniele De Luigi and George Tatge will be announced on 31 March 2012. The 10 selected projects will be exhibited in the fmsgallery of the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence, Italy.

Production and Transport
Selected artists invited to exhibit their works in the fmsgallery, Florence, will be responsible for their personal travel costs, and all costs related to the transport of their works to and from the exhibition. Only works which are at the exhibition can be considered for the prizes.

Exhibition and Prizes
The three winning projects will be chosen by Marinella Paderni and announced on 15 May at the opening of the exhibition, which will last from 15 May to 12 June 2012. Following the announcement of selected projects, the curator of the exhibition Marinella Paderni will decide whether some or all of works in each selected project will be exhibited, having taken into consideration the nature of all other selected projects and available exhibition space.

Catalogue
A catalogue containing images of all selected works, as well as brief artists’ bios, and critical texts with be published.

Rights
Artists retain copyright of all works and texts they upload, but give Celeste Network the right to use them for communication and promotion purposes only: to create the prize catalogue or other promotional material associated with the prize, and in Celeste’s websites. Artists who submit works to ‘beyondmemory’ declare and accept that they are the authors of the images they upload and possess all rights to use these images, including musical scores if used. Artists guarantee that they have received permission and authorization, as required by law, from persons represented in their photographic or video works, or from their legal representatives. The organizer is not and cannot be held responsible for any dispute among artists and persons or third parties who might claim author’s rights over images of a work.

*Celeste Network has by Italian law to hand over to the Italian state 25% of prize money for tax purposes. This sum will be withheld by the organizer from each prize winner. A prize winner who is non-resident in Italy can request the Italian tax authorities to have his or her tax advance recredited in his/her country of residence, this is a suggestion and in no way represents a certainty guaranteed by Celeste Network.

Submit here

Canadian International Digital Photography Award

The main mission of the Canadian International Digital Photography Award is to discover and support new names in professional photography as well as to acknowledge new digital art of the experienced professionals through the International Photography Contest.

Categories:

Portraiture (people, glamour)
Nature and Wildlife (landscape, animals, urban, rural, wild)
Travel (scenic, travel, cultural)
Documentary (photojournalism, editorial photography)
Lifestyle
Baby and child
Commerce (services, products)
Advertisement

Prize(s):

The Gold Prize is the “Photographer in Distinction 2012” winner – $10,000.00 cash prize, a “Taros” Trophy and an Gold Award Certificate.
The 1st place winner of each category – $500.00 cash plus a “Taros” Trophy, an Award Certificate and a gift from a sponsor.

Entry fee: From C$20 (Canadian dollars)

Your Rights: The photographer keeps the copyrights and all other rights of submitted to Competitions images. Any image used by CIDPA shall carry the photographer’s name. All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competitions may be used by CIDPA, and its media partners, for marketing and promotional purposes of the event only, for three years and author may not pretend to any monetary compensation.

Closing date: 2012-09-27

Website: http://photographyaward.org/contests.html

Through A Lens: Vibrant!

Vibrant and vibrate have the same Latin root word: “vibrare” meaning to move rapidly and rhythmically to and fro. While vibrate means virtually the same thing in English, vibrant has additional connotations as it applies to brightness of light or colour, or as in how alive or energetic is the given subject – literally vibrating with life. “Through a Lens: Vibrant!” gives the photographer several options. Vibrant could apply to a light or hue in the composition, or it could apply to the subject, as to a person or in a street. It could even be stretched to apply to the process – check out the vibrance adjustment layer in Photoshop. Which definition of “Vibrant!” will you choose? For images juried into the hanging show, you will need to send a framed image no wider than 30″. When pricing your piece, keep in mind that the museum will charge a 30% commission.

Entry eligibility: Open to all photographers internationally and all forms of photography.

Prize(s): First Prize: $2,000 (Over $3,500 in total prizes)

Entry fee: $20 for first entry, $5 per additional entry up to a total of ten.

Your Rights: You are granting The Coast Arts League the right to use entered work for the their Website, printed lists of selected images, and for future show promotions. All rights to the submitted images remain the property of the artist.

Closing date: 2012-02-29

Website: http://www.kellicutt.org

Today, Thursday 2 February, the World Photography Organisation announces the shortlist for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards. The Awards celebrate the very best in photography from around the world, from the next generation of emerging photographers through to the established masters of the art.

photo by Edina Csoboth/Punk City

The 2012 competition has garnered increased worldwide interest with over 112,000 entries from 171 countries, with the shortlisted images depicting the stories of extraordinary lives from around the world. The Professional competition reflects a turbulent year of global events with the war in Libya; the Greek and European economic crisis; the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and the fall of Gaddafi, in the Photojournalism & Documentary categories. The shortlist for the Fine Art and Commercial categories gets to the very heart of daily life – a small sheep-farming community in Iceland; the rice harvest in South China; a religious pilgrimage in Poland and gold diggers in Chile.

This year the honorary jury found the quality of work exceptionally strong across all categories, discovering many photographers new to the Sony World Photography Awards roster. Manuel Geerinck (Belgium); Lee Chee Wai (China); Alejandro Cartagena (Mexico), Irina Werning (Argentina); Gwenn Dubourthoumieu (Republic of the Congo) and Simon Norfolk (UK), are but a few of the new names to place as finalists and shortlisted photographers.

Returning photographers from previous years, include 2010 Professional Landscape winner, Peter Franck (Germany); who this year is a finalist in three categories; 2011 Professional Contemporary Issues and Current Affairs winner, Javier Arcenillas (Spain); and Chan Kwok Hung (Hong Kong) whose stunningly dramatic image ‘Buffalo Race’ won the Overall Open Competition in 2011.

In being shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards, photographers can now look forward to the invaluable support of the World Photography Organisation, which includes having their work exhibited at a major exhibition at London’s Somerset House, to coincide with the award ceremony in April 2012.

The annual Sony World Photography Awards ceremony and gala dinner will take place on 26 April at the Hilton Hotel in London’s Park Lane. The awards celebration will once again take place alongside World Photo, London, a month-long event which brings an eclectic mix of photographic events for all to enjoy. The opening weekend of World Photo London will be held at Somerset House from 27 – 30 April with selected events including portfolio reviews, workshops, symposiums and the Sony World Photography Awards winners’ exhibitions, which continue through to 20 May 2012. Honorary Judges for the 2012 Awards and other international industry experts will be leading many of the festival events.

Professional shortlisted photographers

Honorary judging committee:

Presiding Chair: W. M. Hunt (USA) Photographic Consultant.

Chairs: Michael Benson (UK) Director, Prix Pictet; James Reid (UK) Photography Director of Wallpaper*; Claudia Hinterseer (Netherlands) Managing Director and co-owner of NOOR.

Additional Jury: Jodi Bieber (South Africa) Photographer; Jon Jones (UK) Director of Photography Sunday Times Magazine; Rebecca Lewis (US) Vice-President and Senior Agent for Art+Commerce; Prabuddha Dasgupta (India) Photographer; Shizuka Yokomizo (Japan) Photographer.

In each category the judges could select up to three finalist photographers and up to seven additional shortlist photographers. From the finalists, the winners plus 2nd and 3rd place will be chosen and announced at the awards ceremony on 26 April.

Photographers are listed alphabetically.

PHOTOJOURNALISM & DOCUMENTARY

Current Affairs

Finalists:

? Fernando Alfonso Brito Lizárraga Mexico

(El Debate de Culiacan)

? Rémi Ochlik (IP3 Press) France

? Donald Weber (VII PHOTO) Canada

Shortlisted:

? Javier Arcenillas Spain

? Fabio Bucciarelli Italy

? Pietro Masturzo Italy

? Giorgos Moutafis Greece

? Goran Tomasevic United Kingdom

Contemporary Issues

Finalists:

? Kasia Bielska Poland

? Alessandro Grassani Italy

? Gustavo Jononovich Argentina

Shortlisted:

? Francesco Giusti Italy

? Sebastian Liste Spain

? Ivor Prickett Ireland

? Jose Luis Rodriguez Maldonado Columbia

? Natasha Shulte Ukraine

? Anastasia Taylor-Lind United Kingdom

? Donald Weber (VII PHOTO) Canada

People

Finalists:

? Alejandro Cartagena Mexico

? Maja Daniels Sweden

? Simon Norfolk United Kingdom

Shortlisted:

? Philippe Leroux France

? Kerry Mansfield United States

? Francesca Oggiano Italy

? Huage Shang China

? Salvi Danés Vernedas Spain

Sport

Finalists:

? Pawel Kopczynski (Thomson Reuters) Poland

? Andrew McConnell Ireland

? Palmer + Pawel United Kingdom

Shortlisted:

? Delfosse Colin Belgium

? Alvaro Deprit Italy

? Mikhail Domozhilov Russian Federation

? Adam Pretty Australia

? Scott Robin Barbour New Zealand

? Robin Utrecht Netherlands

Nature & Wildlife

Finalists:

? David Chancellor (Institute) United Kingdom
? Jacek Kusz Poland
? Palani Mohan India

Shortlisted:

? Salil Bera India
? Terence du Fresne Switzerland
? Barbara Leven United States
? Suren Manvelyan Armenia
? Tapash Paul Bangladesh

Arts and Culture

Finalists:

? Rob Hornstra Netherlands

? Anastasia Taylor-Lind United Kingdom

? Mattia Vacca Italy

Shortlisted:

? Javier Arcenillas Spain

? Jacek Swierczynski Poland

? Yannick Cormier France

? Alvaro Deprit Italy

? Susana Girón Spain

? Davide Monteleone Italy

? Andrea Santolaya Spain

COMMERCIAL

Campaign

Finalists:

? Javier Arcenillas Spain

? Peter Franck (Büro stoltenhoff) Germany

? Laura Pannack United Kingdom

Shortlisted:

? Michael Blann United Kingdom

? Felipe Cantillana Chile

? Jan von Holleben Germany

? Miguel Navarro United Kingdom

? Michelle Siu Canada

? Roberto Soares-Gomes Brazil

? Daniele Testa Italy

Travel

Finalists:

? Jan Brykczynski Poland

? Luis Henry Agudelo Cano Colombia

? Peter Franck Germany

Shortlisted:

? Giancarlo Ceraudo Italy

? Andrea Hamilton United Kingdom

? Cristina De Middel Spain

? Yurian Quintanas Nobel Spain

? Gianluca Pulcini Italy

? Lisa Wiltse United States

Fashion

Finalists:

? Peter Franck Germany

? Elizaveta Porodina Germany

? Jayden Tang United Kingdom

Shortlisted:

? Michelle Beatty United Kingdom

? Susi Belianska Italy

? Romano Decker Dejan Kutic Croatia

? Filippo Del Vita Italy

? Alice Pavesi Italy

? Dasha Ketsko Ukraine

? Frauke Thielking Germany

FINE ART

Architecture

Finalists:

? Igor Chirikov Russian Federation

? David Ibernón Boria Spain

? Simon Norfolk United Kingdom

Shortlisted:

? Robin Broderick Canada

? Riccardo Budini Italy

? Tamas Bujnovszky Hungary

? Alejandro Cartagena Mexico

? Paula Gortazar United Kingdom

? David de Jong Netherlands

? Michael Joseph United States

Portraiture

Finalists:

? Lei Liu China

? Paolo Marchetti Italy

? Irina Werning Argentina

Shortlisted:

? Gwenn Dubourthoumieu The Democratic Republic of Congo

? Lavinia Parlamenti Italy

? Johann Rousselot France

? Javier Arcenillas Spain

? George Mayer Russian Federation

Landscape

Finalists :

? Rona Chang United States

? Lee Chee Wai Malaysia

? Mitch Dobrowner United States

Shortlisted:

? Regis Boileau France

? Ximena Etchart Argentina

? Jeroen Hofman Netherlands

? Zhang Kechun China

? Matthias H. Risse Germany

? Chaoliang Shen Taiwan, Province of China

? Stephen Wilkes United States

Still Life

Finalists:

? Renan Cepeda Brazil

? Rena Effendi (INSTITUTE) Azerbaijan

? Helen Thompson United Kingdom

Shortlisted:

? Michal Cole United Kingdom

? Peter Franck Germany

? Martina Geccelli United Kingdom

? Miri Mor Israel

? Song Nian Ang Singapore

? Gicheol Shin Republic of Korea

Conceptual

Finalists:

? Manuel Geerinck Belgium

? Luis Mallo United States

? Cristina De Middel Spain

Shortlisted:

? Carlo D’Orta Italy

? Photographer Hal Japan

? Giuseppe Parisi Italy

? Carlos Henrique Reinesch Brazil

? Sanne Maloe Slecht Netherlands

? Frauke Thielking Germany

? Patricia van de Camp Netherlands

Open shortlisted photographers

In each category judges were able to select up to ten images.

Architecture

? Babul Bhatt India

? Patrice Carré France

? Filippo Di Rosa Italy

? Fabrizio Intonti Italy

? Francisco Mendes Portugal

? Rui Nunes United Kingdom

? Fulvio Pellegrini Italy

? José Ramón Montes Spain

? Thai Son Huynh Vietnam

Arts & Culture

? Dovile Dagiene Lithuania

? Levi Fanan Brazil

? Kushal Gangopadhyay India

? Antonio Iubatti Italy

? Sanket K India

? Klaartje Lambrechts Belgium

? Oliver Mezger Germany

? Tan Nono Rahardian Indonesia

? Samanta Sollima Italy

? Paul Störm Australia

Enhanced

? Alexandr Afonin Russian Federation

? Sandra Cifo United States

? Paul Irving United Kingdom

? Milan Makarský Czech Republic

? Frank Martin Eisele Germany

? Rodolfo Mejías Venezuela

? Jochen Resch Germany

? Oren Shved Israel

? Victor Vargas Villafuerte Canada

? Antonios Vlachou Slovakia

Low Light

? Elmar Akhmetov Kazakhstan

? Edoardo Brotto Italy

? Ignasi cunill Spain

? Teng Hin Khoo Malaysia

? Sergey Kochmak Russian Federation

? Christoph Krüger Germany

? Belentsova Natalia Russian Federation

? Pansiri Pikunkaew Thailand

? Derrick Woo Hong Kong

? Heng Zee Kek Singapore

Nature & Wildlife

? Nadav Bagim Israel

? Anita Erdmann Canada

? Handri Fitrido Indonesia

? Felicitas Frei Switzerland

? Giovanni Frescura Italy

? Peter Krejzl Czech Republic

? Chan Kwok Hung Hong Kong

? William Lee United States

? Kuntal Paul India

? Petar Sabol Croatia

Panoramic

? Pramiga Aditya Indonesia

? Ionut Hrenciuc Romania

? Istvan Nagy Netherlands

? Noel Plaszkó Hungary

? Matthew Post Australia

? James Rider United Kingdom

? Terry Soo Australia

? Ian Taylor United Kingdom

? steve Williams United Kingdom

? Denise Worden United States

People

? Victoria Bolshemennik Israel

? Tommy Braxton United Kingdom

? Thomas Dymond United Kingdom

? Mehmet Fatih Yaldiz Turkey

? Ana Gregoric Slovenia

? Paul MacKinnon United Kingdom

? Christine Pearl United States

? Fulvio Pellegrini Italy

? Zulkifli Thalib Indonesia

? ????? ??????? Russian Federation

Smile

? Ricky Alexander Indonesia

? Nguyen Duc Tri Vietnam

? Gerold Guggenbuehl Switzerland

? Arnold Jumpay Philippines

? Anom Manik Agung Indonesia

? Kivera Mara Réunion

? Diana Mrazikova Slovakia

? Meghann Prouse United States

? Nick Redman United Kingdom

? Piotr Stasiuk Poland

Split Second

? Cemhan Biricik United States

? Tobias Bräuning Germany

? Samuel Chan China

? Andrzej Chrobot Poland

? Alessandro Falco Italy

? Don Horne Ireland

? Johnny Joo United States

? Gustavo Magnavacca Argentina

? Greg Parker United Kingdom

? Peter Prazenka Slovakia

Travel

? Krzysztof Browko Poland

? Krzysztof Browko Poland

? Marco Lachmann-Anke Germany

? John Lai Teck Kee Malaysia

? Carlos Macedonio Brazil

? N S Ng Singapore

? Keith Pace Malta

? Suprijanto Suprijanto Indonesia

? George Turnbull United Kingdom

? Malte Wittmann Germany

Youth shortlisted photographers

Culture

Hanne Grannestad Norway
Lam Ka Ho Hong Kong
Sahil Lodha India
Merijn Mulder Netherlands
Carolina Paltrinieri Italy
Adrian Pelegrin Bonet Spain
Kolyaskin Sergey Russian Federation
Benedek Varga Hungary

Environment

Alla Aliokhina Ukraine
Kolyaskin Sergey Russian Federation
Thamyres Matarozzi Brazil
Adrian Pelegrin Bonet Spain
Bernard Pieterse South Africa
Imanuel Thallinger Austria
Kazi Sudipto Bangladesh
Kseniya Sovenko United States

Portraits

Tertious Alio Russian Federation
Hadi Asgari Iran
Lidia K United Kingdom
Darya Kasyanova Russian Federation
Samujjwal Sahu India
Karina Sembe Ukraine
Kolyaskin Sergey Russian Federation
Felicia Simion Romania
Marina Tkhorzhevskaya Russian Federation
Berta Vicente Spain

Key dates 2012

07 February Student Focus finalists announcement

20 March Open (amateur) category winners announced

26 April Sony World Photography Awards, gala ceremony held London Hilton

27 April Sony World Photography Award Winners and World Photo, London exhibitions open at Somerset House London

Celebrating its 6th year, Photography Masters Cup is the leading international award honoring color photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers in a prestigious annual contest and globally webcast event.

With a collective Jury of the world’s most recognized experts from National Geographic Channel to Hasted Hunt Kraeutler in New York, the Masters Cup is the industry’s most authoritative and important photographic event for color photography and brings to light the best work of the year as nominated by members of the esteemed international panel.

Photography Masters Cup is open to professional and non-professional photographers shooting in all forms of color photography using traditional or digital methods. We encourage classic styles, new creative ideas and photographers who are driven by their artistic eye and a desire to excel in this classic art form.

Prizes:
Masters Cup Award Title
Published in The PHOTO Paper Magazine
Featured in Movie
Showcased in the Winners Gallery
International press and exposure

ELIGIBILITY: Worldwide

COPYRIGHT: Copyright and ownership of photograph remains with the photographer at all times

USAGE RIGHTS: All entrants agree to grant Photography Masters Cup, International Color Awards and its owner World Photographic Arts Corporation permission to use submitted work for promotional purposes only in any of their electronic media, printed materials, or advertising. The use is granted for a period of two years from the Photoshow, without further permission or remuneration. All published images will be credited with the photographer’s name. Entrants also agree to allow their images to be reproduced in third-party newspapers and magazines (printed and electronic) solely for the purpose of promoting the work, photographer, and the Awards.

Usage Rights

Copyright and ownership of photograph remains with the photographer at all times. All entrants agree to grant Photography Masters Cup, International Color Awards and its owner World Photographic Arts Corporation permission to use submitted work for promotional purposes only in any of their electronic media, printed materials, or advertising. The use is granted for a period of two years from the Photoshow, without further permission or remuneration. All published images will be credited with the photographer’s name. Entrants also agree to allow their images to be reproduced in third-party newspapers and magazines (printed and electronic) solely for the purpose of promoting the work, photographer, and the Awards.

Deadline: May 25, 2012

website: http://www.thecolorawards.com/index.php

CALL FOR ENTRIES

155th International Print Competition in partnership with Allen & Overy LLP

OPEN TO ALL (RPS MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS)

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 21st March 2012

DOWNLOAD ENTRY FORM (PDF 522KB)

When your work is ready to post, you can pay for your entry online in our online shop

Selection dates: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th April 2012
Entry fee per person (includes receipt of Exhibition catalogue)
RPS Member £15, Non-Member £18, Under 25 £10

Selectors:

Tom Hunter Hon.FRPS
Photographic Artist
www.tomhunter.org

Roger Tooth
Head of Photography, The Guardian & The Observer

Ian Beesley
Social Documentary Photographer
Course Leader, MA Photography. University of Bolton
www.ianbeesley.com

Sandy Cleland FRPS – Chairman of Selectors
Nature & Pictorial Photographer
RPS Distinctions Advisory & Fellowship Boards

Vanessa Slawson FRPS
Documentary & Creative Photographer
RPS Licentiateship Panel Chariman
www.vanessapix.co.uk

Awards:

1 Gold Society Medal and a prize of £2,000
2 Silver Society Medals and prizes of £1,000 each
3 Bronze Society Medals and prizes of £500 each
Allen & Overy Award of £1,000 on the theme of ‘Change’
Under 25 – Gold Society Medal and a prize of an Olympus PEN Lite E-PL3 with zoom lens kit.

Enter up to 5 prints. Up to 125 prints will be selected for the Exhibition
All selected images will be reproduced in a full colour catalogue which all entrants receive
The Exhibition will open in the City of London in July 2012 and will tour the UK for a nearly a year
Exhibitors will have the opportunity to sell copies of their prints

The facility to pay for your entry online is now available from our online shop.

FAQ’s – Our frequently asked questions sheet is available to answer some of the more common questions regarding entry to the 155th International Print Exhibition.

For further enquiries please contact;

Lesley Goode
Exhibitions Manager
Lesley@rps.org

+44(0)1225 325720
www.rps.org/exhibitions

Website: http://www.rps.org

A $50,000US worldwide search for the greatest photographers of our generation. It features both online and live events and delivers one of the largest prize purses ever offered in the photo industry. It is an exposure powerhouse that connects photographers with a global audience.

True to its name, The Open welcomes all photographers. It is a search across six continents with a simple mission: discover the undiscovered; rediscover the established; bring the best photographers to the forefront.

DETAILS
The Open is comprised of two separate events.

An online competition gallery of single images, where half of the finalists are selected by an expert panel of judges and the other half are driven by public voting, fueled by the major social media platforms. The Photographer of the Year and the category winners share $25,000US.

A mind-blowing live competition in which 6 invited photographers choreograph the best images of their careers into 7-minute productions. The selected location for 2012 is Vancouver, Canada and the prize purse is $25,000US.

ELIGIBILITY
The OPEN Contest is open to any professional, student, or amateur photographer at least eighteen (18) years of age at the time of entry.

ENTRY FEE
Each submission must be accompanied by a submission fee ranging from $4.80 to $16 (USD) per photograph depending on the submission package purchased. These fees are reduced by 50% for developing economies.

PRIZES
The total prize purse for The Open Contest is $50,000 USD cash shared by the online SOLO competition and LIVE Event.

SOLO Competition
Total Prize Purse: $25,000US broken down as follows:
Photographer of the Year, SOLO event : $20,000US;
Category Winners: $1000US each;
People’s Choice (winner who accumulated the highest number of total online votes): $1000US.

LIVE Event
Total Prize Purse: $25,000US broken down as follows:
Photographer of the Year, LIVE event (Best of Show): $20,000US
All other invited participants: $1000US.

LIMIT OF ENTRY PER PERSON
There is no limit, contestants are free to load in as many paid competitive images as they wish.

COPYRIGHT
The Organizer respects all artists rights to protect their intellectual property and to defend their creations from unauthorized or unlawful use. All Entrants retain full ownership and copyright of each submission. In addition, each Entrants moral rights are respected, but this does not restrict the right of the Organizer to resize or slightly crop a submission to fit promotional materials.

DEADLINE
May 1 2012

LINK
http://www.theworldopen.com

2012 Wedding & Engagement Photography Competition
Deadline: Mar 15,2012
Entry fee: $15.00
Prize Value: $1,450

The Gold Prize is a Title “The Best Wedding Photographer 2012” – $1,000.00 cash prize and Gold Award Certificate.
The Silver Prize is a Title “The Best Wedding Photographer 2012” – $300.00 cash prize and Silver Award Certificate.
The Bronze Prize is a Title “The Best Wedding Photographer 2012” – $150.00 cash prize and Bronze Award Certificate.

Eligibily: All 18+

Website: http://photographyaward.org/contests.html
Rules: http://photographyaward.org/rules.html