THE COMPETITION: Accepted work will be exhibited in the 2011 International Photo Competition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa Florida. The winning photos will also be featured on The FMoPA website. Contest winners will become honorary members of FMoPA for a period of one year.

AWARDS: First Prize: $500, Second Prize $250, Third Prize: $100 and three Honorable Mention Awards of $50 each.

SPECIFICATIONS: All photographs, black and white, color, non-silver, computer-manipulated, etc., are eligible. Please note that images can be submitted on-line only as digital files for the initial judging. Matted, unframed prints will be required for the actual exhibition. Digital images should be less than 2 Megabytes. If your images are chosen for exhibition, you will be sent a specification sheet for sending in your prints.

FEES: The entry fee is $10 for each image. There is no maximum number of entries. Please click the link below to be taken to our FMoPA Contest site. There are three simple steps to entry: register, pay, upload. Payment can be made by major credit card or Paypal. All fees are nonrefundable.

DUE DATES: Entries must be received between January 1st and March 31st, 2011.

NOTIFICATION AND RETURN: Prize notifications will be emailed by April 15th, 2010. Details for delivery and presentation of framed work for exhibition will be explained in the acceptance letter to prize winners.

LIABILITY: The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts reserves the right to reproduce accepted work for contest promotion in both printed and electronic forms. Artists retain all other rights. Submission of an entry to this competition implies acceptance of all conditions stated herein and in the complete contest rules available at the contest site.

CONTACT ADDRESS: Please send all inquiries to IPC@FMoPA.org

Submit your work to be featured in the book The Beauty Around Us and win B&H gift certificates or equivalent cash.

Theme: The Beauty Around Us

Both color and black and white (including duotones, toned, and all kind of alternative processes) will be accepted to be screened. All kind of processes, including digital manipulation will be accepted.

Prizes:

* Best Image of Show (to be featured in the book cover): $ 500 B&H gift certificate or equivalent cash.
* Runner up (to be featured in the book back cover) $ 300 B&H gift certificate or equivalent cash.

Email Images composing the series noentryfeecontest@thegalaawards.com

There’s is no entry fee to submit your series to the first screening, and you must submit a minimum of 3 images and can submit up to 12 images.

Image specifications: File extension: jpg, Size: minimum of 800 and maximum of 1200 pixels in the largest sid, Resolution: 72 dpi, Jpeg compression (quality): 7 or 8 in RGB Profile.

Copyright: All images featured in the book will be also posted in the online WonderPick Gallery for one year, as well as all images that have been selected in the second screening. Submtted photographs may be reproduced for the purpose of marketing and promoting WPGA contests and awards.
Eligibility: Open to all photographers, worldwide.
Entry fee: First screening is free. Second screening: $45 the first 3 images accepted; $10 each additional image accepted.
Entry deadline: 15 March 2011

Official website: www.thegalaawards.net/call-for-entries/beauty-around-us

OPEN CALL for all ART STUDENTS

Win with your interpretation of Dr. János Szász’s amazing photography

An unexpected find from Pécs, Hungary is the estate of Dr. János Szász who lived and worked as a productive and inspirational photographer for most of his life. The oeuvre was discovered due to the Pécs – European Capital of Culture 2010 year, and represents the perhaps most important artistic discovery of the event! Hungarian photography has always been world class (just think of Brassai, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy and many more), now you are invited to show your reaction!

Your reflecting photograph should somehow connect with the original. How so is completely up to you!

HOW TO ENTER?

Quickly check out the János Szász collection of 40 pictures below. Pick the one(s) that inspire(s) you and get to work. Take your own picture inspired by Dr Szász. Send it in!

Send one photo only (for now, not larger than 2 MBs) via e-mail to: art@hungary.org.uk In your entry e-mail, please include a small explanation (cca 150 words) on how you believe your photo connects with the original Szasz image, and your phone number. The subject of the e-mail shall read: SZASZ – OPEN CALL – YOUR NAME.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

GRAND PRIZE:

An amazing visit to Pecs and Villany’s Ordogkatlan Festival (situated in the heart of wonderful Hungarian wine country) this August (5-8 August, 2010) for the open-air exhibition of images from the open call – including yours!

The trip will include return plane tickets to Budapest, return 1st class train tickets to Pecs and transfer to the Festival and back. It will also include accomodation for 4 nights. Additionally the winner will have a chance to participate in art workshops with Gyor’s Mediawave Group and meet the relevant figures of the Hungarian art society. A little extra: one night stay in Budapest upon arrival or departure and a tour through Mai Mano House – Hungarian House of Photography.

BONUS:

Award-winning images will be part of the Hungarian Cultural Centre’s János Szász Exhibition in London, Covent Garden starting 13 May 2010 and finishing 8 June 2010.

In addition, selected images will be printed and exhibited during the open-air Ordogkatlan Festival in one of its most frequented locations (5-8 August, 2010).

The above material will also be part of the Pécs – European Capital of Culture 2010 events by participating in an open-air exhibition in the city during this summer.

Terms & Conditions apply!

blog of the contest

Theme:
All black and white photography is welcome
and all subjects are eligible.

Deadline June 9, 2009

Eligibility:
The exhibition is open to photographers world wide, both amateur and professional. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Juror:
Jim Casper, Editor and Publisher of Lens Culture, Paris, France. Lens Culture is a popular
online magazine featuring international contemporary photography, attracting more than two
million unique visitors per year from more than 100 countries worldwide. Since early 2004,
Jim Casper has edited and published Lens Culture; including writing articles, essays and criticism
about photography; conducting, recording and publishing audio interviews with important
photographers; and participating in portfolio reviews, conferences and photography festivals
worldwide. Casper also serves on the board of directors of San Francisco’s PhotoAlliance,
a non-profit educational organization.

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