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CALL for ENTRIES: Toyed With

Posted on May 27, 2012May 30, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

SIMPLY
divine

Simpler is generally best when it comes to food. Although I can complete understand the complex layered flavors of miso, I would still prefer a simple caprese salad of mozzarella, basil, tomatoes and olive oil any day. This next Call gives you an opportunity to prove that you make simple use of a simple camera. Don’t miss this chance…

Check out this Call for Art Entries for Toyed With a low-fidelity / alternative process photo show at Open Shutter Gallery (Durango, Colorado). Enter your photographs for $25, but be sure to make the July 14th deadline!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Toyed With

A juried exhibition for photographers working in low-fidelity or alternative process photography. Images must be shot with a toy or vintage camera and/or printed in an experimental or antique / alternative process.

ELIGIBILITY: This competition is open to all artists. Works must be original, created within the last two years and may not have been shown previously at Open Shutter Gallery. All works must be framed, ready to hang, and for sale.

MEDIA: Photographic images must be shot with a toy or vintage camera and/or printed in an experimental or antique/alternative process.

DEADLINE:
July 14, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
July 22, 2012

ENTRY FEE: First three entries: $25, each additional entry is $5 each.

JUROR: Christine So is the curator and PR manager for Holga Inspire, a fine art and film photography initiative co-founded by Mr. T.M. Lee, the inventor of the Holga camera. Christine is responsible for Holga Inspires’ strategic planning along with selecting, organizing, promoting, and connecting photographers and artists from around the world. She is the curator of the well-acclaimed international photography exhibition The Holga Inspire Show, which has traveled extensively throughout Asia and in the U.S. since 2009. She has invited many world-renowned artists and partnered with numerous international photographic institutions and galleries on various photography projects.

Christine acts as a juror for the annual Krappy Kamera Competition, which is held at Soho Photo Gallery in New York City, and has been on the judging panel for other recognized exhibitions worldwide. In addition, she works with energy and passion on a wide variety of other creative projects and has initiated and organized other exhibitions to raise funds for worthy charity organizations. In 2011, she published a photo book called Let There Be Light, for which the proceeds went to charity for philanthropic purposes.

She is a dedicated advocate of fine art photography, continuously on the lookout for ways to revive an interest in film photography. Christine lives and works in Hong Kong.

AWARDS: Cash awards and Holga cameras will be awarded. Winners will be notified at the show’s close.

SALES: A 50% commission will be retained on all artwork sold during the exhibition. Works should be priced accordingly and may not be changed after submission. Selected artists are encouraged to mat works in white and frame with black.

For complete details, visit the Toyed With website!

CALL for ENTRIES: Objects of Wonder

Posted on May 16, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

SOOTHE ME

Black foods are not abundant, and honestly, most of them aren’t really black anyway. They are usually a dark, purplish hue, but I digress. Not surprisingly, I have a favorite amongst them. Sticky black rice with Thai custard. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear it is spiked with sedatives. One bite and my spine is jelly. This next Call requires more than a spine of jelly, but black certainly plays a role. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Black Box Gallery (Portland, Oregon) for Still Life: Objects of Wonder. The fee is reasonable, and the juror has great curatorial vision. Don’t miss this opportunity!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Still Life:
Objects of Wonder

Still life photography is the depiction of inanimate subject matter, most typically a small grouping of objects. Still life photography more so than other types of photography gives the photographer more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition. Often still life photography is based on Dutch still life painting from the 17th century.

Still life photography is a demanding art, one in which the photographers are expected to be able to form their work with a refined sense of lighting, coupled with superb compositional skills. The still life photographer makes pictures rather than takes them. So what is contemporary still life photography?

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: June 5, 2012

NOTIFICATION: 7-10 days after the deadline

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 5 photos

*Black Box will provide all framing, matting and printing for our exhibitions. The photographers who are selected into the exhibition by the juror will provide a high resolution Tiff file for our gallery to print for the exhibition. Black Box covers all printing and framing costs. Other arrangements can be accommodated, if artist wants to send in a print.

JUROR: Todd Johnson is the Director of Black Box Gallery. He earned his MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited nationally in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Minneapolis, San Francisco and Portland Oregon. His work has been written about and reviewed in The Washington Post, The Oregonian, and online in Portland Art News. He has worked for The Portland Art Museum, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Reed College and Portland Community College. He has been an active photographer, educator and curator for over twenty years.

SALES: Black Box Gallery takes a 50% commission on all sales, 50% goes to the photographer. If artist prefers the print does not have to be for sale. Print will be for exhibition and promotion only.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Among Trees

Posted on May 13, 2012May 14, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

SQUEEZE
me

I dream of citrus trees. I long to have lemons and limes in constant supply. I live in snow country. It isn’t Vermont, by any means, but we see significant snow and freezing temperatures. Think I could grow patio size trees in my sunroom? Hmmm. This next call wants to see the heart of the tree as you see it. Investigate the theme…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Among Trees. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and they will provide free matting & framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Among Trees

We live among trees – depend on them – harvest them – eat from them – worship them – love them. To some people trees are home, to others — simply a resource. For this exhibit we want to examine the lives of trees and their intersection with our lives.

Trees transcend time as we experience it. How many of us as children have planted a tree, watched it grow and then left it behind to a new generation? Trees stand as witnesses to generations past, present and future. Trees are part of the ecological web of life on earth and whether we know it or not we all depend on them.

Show them what trees mean to you. Objects of beauty, reverence, necessity? Symbols of strength and stoicism? Monuments to the past? Victims of man’s consumption? They want to see how you envision life Among Trees.

ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, you must have a legal guardian make the submission for you.

MEDIA:
Photography

DEADLINE:
July 5, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
July 10, 2012

JUROR: Time, memory and nature are the central motifs that underlie the photographic imagery of American photographer Beth Moon.

Whether she is recording the majestic, sentinel-like Baobab trees for the Portraits of Time series; capturing the strange balance between childhood innocence and the darker wisdom of nature in the project, Thy Kingdom Come; rendering menacing carnivorous plants in the Savage Garden portfolio, or constructing fanciful, dreamscapes in the Seen But Not Heard portfolio; Moon reveals a magical and intuitive appreciation for the ways in which time, memory and nature define our understanding of man’s place in the universe.

Moon studied fine art at the University of Wisconsin. Moving to England and inspired by the many ancient trees there, she decided to make a series of their portraits. She mastered platinum/palladium printing, an ideal process for her vision. Her work has been the object of numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, receiving critical acclaim. Beth now resides in Marin County, California.

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Illusion

Posted on May 2, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

SURPRISE ME,
please

Rustic food is all the rage. Country tarts offer simple ingredients in a simple package. But I am still a sucker for elaborately top-crusted pies. A beautiful lattice can hide the simplest of ingredients. One of the best confections I ever ate looked like a simple pecan pie but turned out to be filled with a fudge and coconut concoction that I can still conjure in my head by simply closing my eyes. This next call wants your illusion, be it simple or complex. Take this chance…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO) for Illusion. This is a beautiful gallery that has repeatedly shown excellent curatorial vision. Don’t miss an opportunity to show at C4FAP!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Illusion

A false idea or belief, a deceptive appearance or impression, something that betrays by producing misleading impressions of reality.

Illusion: Delusion – Hallucination – Phantom

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Photography in all mediums, styles and schools of thought

DEADLINE: May 9, 2012

NOTIFICATION: May 18, 2012

ENTRY FEE:
Members: $20 for 3 images.

Non-Members: $35 for 3 images.

Add’l images $10 each. There is no limit to the number of images that may be submitted.

JUROR: In 1981, Terry Etherton founded the Etherton Gallery which specializes in 19th, 20th Century and Contemporary Fine Art Photography. As one of the Southwest’s premier galleries, its inventory incorporates museum quality works including turn-of-the-century western American ethnographic and landscape photographs. Mixing traditional black and white contemporary imagery with vintage classical and digital technologies, the history of photography is always evident in the gallery’s holdings.

AWARDS: With selection for this exhibition, featured artist’s work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and other advocates of fine art photography.

Each participant will be included in the Center’s Main Gallery exhibition and Online Gallery exhibition.

Juror’s Selection: $600

Director’s Selection: $250

2 liveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks.com

1 Blurb Book Award: Valued at $250 from blurb.com

Honorable Mention Awards:
2 year membership and a three image submission to a call for entry at the Center.

All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Play

Posted on April 30, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

PAINT
your face
with BARBECUE!

Why can’t we play with our food? If I have to get my kid to use green peas as a moat to his mashed potato castle to get dinner eat, well, so be it. And honestly, you can’t tell me that having the requisite clown face of barbeque sauce while eating ribs isn’t part of the the yum of it all. I’ll play with my food if I want to. This next call wants to see what you consider play. What will it be?

Check out this Call for Entries for Play brought to you by the A. Smith Gallery (Johnson City, Texas). The entry fee is low, and you might be inspired to create a little green space of your own. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Play

“play : amuse oneself, be the life of the party, portray, caper, carouse, cavort, impersonate, clown, frolic, perform, joke, jump, rejoice, have fun, theatrical performance, tickle, produce music, merriment, laughter

“Ahhhhhh….play. When I was a little girl I had an imaginary friend named Jingo. We contentedly played for hours. I even insisted my mother set a place at the dinner table for my special friend. Now that I’m all grown up, I seem to do much of my playing on my iPhone. Angry Birds and photography apps occupy my play time. So however, whenever and with whomever, look through your viewfinder and see what kind of “Play” you can capture. “ — from the A. Smith Gallery website.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists. Entries must not have been exhibited previously in an exhibition at A Smith Gallery.

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE:
May 7, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
May 20, 2012

ENTRY FEE: A non-refundable entry fee of $25 for the first 5 images and $5 for each additional image is required. The Paypal link is on the Entry Form.

JUROR: Angela Bacon-Kidwell is an award winning photographer and visual artist that lives and works in Wichita Falls, Texas where she lives with her husband and young son. Angela has a BFA from Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas, with specialization in painting and photography.

Her work emerges from her journey of recovering a sense of self, strength and spirituality through an examination of her identities as daughter, granddaughter, wife, mother and artist. Her photographic work has received numerous awards and honors and has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally.

AWARDS: Cash prizes of $250 each will be awarded for The Juror’s Award and The Director’s Award, along with a $100 prize for the Visitors’ Choice Award. There will also be five Honorable Mentions.

SALES: A Smith Gallery will retain 40% commission out of the sales price.

For complete details, Visit the Website!

CALL for ENTRIES: Secrets and Mysteries

Posted on April 21, 2012April 21, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

SURPRISE
me

I love the art of the secret ingredient. I long to have someone taste a dish I have created and wonder, “What IS that flavor?” I like it when you take a completely ordinary dish like mashed potatoes and add an unexpected dash of dry mustard that leaves people wondering. It is food that creates its own dinner conversation–the ultimate compliment. This next Call wants to see your your audience ponder the mysteries of your work. Can you stump them?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Secrets and Mysteries. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and they will provide free matting & framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Secrets and Mysteries

If your audience is standing indefinitely motionless, entranced by the possibilities in your work and in devising an infinitude of scenarios and alternate endings, then you’ve made an image that will inspire gallery visitors with the beauty of ambiguity, mystery and perplexity.

Photographers created images that baffled the viewer as early at the 1860s; Henry Peach Robinson was a pioneer of combination printing, creating the illusory photo montage long before there was Photoshop. Darkroom Gallery wants to see your images that lead the imagination to the edge, encouraging the mind to leap. Multiple exposures, constructions, staged, anything goes, just leave them guessing.

ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, you must have a legal guardian make the submission for you.

MEDIA:
Photography

DEADLINE:
June 6, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
June 12, 2012

JUROR: Opening in Chicago in 1987, the Catherine Edelman Gallery was quick to become one of the Midwest’s leading fine art photography galleries. Director and Owner Catherine Edelman has “a patient eye for artists, tracking their progress [and] representing mature photographers who deliver consistent, quality work, regardless of age or exposure.” Edelman has upheld her original promise to feature prominent Contemporary photographers alongside new and emerging talent, supplying her audience with a refreshing breadth of both subject matter and photographic technique.

Working closely with magazine editors and book publishers, the Catherine Edelman Gallery co-published several monographs and collections, including: Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust, photographs by Jeffrey Wolin (Chronicle Books), Pressure, photographs by Joe Ziolkowski (Pohlmann Press), What Were You Thinking (celebrating the 15 year anniversary of the gallery in association with Paper Mirror Press) and Iron Beauties, a monograph on the work of Chicago photographer Michelle Keim, published by Nazraeli Press.

Catherine Edelman is an executive board member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers and President of the Chicago Art Dealers Association. In addition to hosting Saturday Morning educational seminars for her community, Edelman recently opened an online gallery of underrepresented local artists, titled “The Chicago Project.”

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Portfolio Show

Posted on April 20, 2012April 20, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

BRUNCH
tells all

I don’t cook a lot. I feel confined by cooking a specific meal for the same audience day in and day out. So, my husband does most of the cooking. But, brunch is a different story. Typically if we are cooking brunch (as opposed to dining out), we have guests over in celebration. Plus, brunch offers an opportunity to show of skills and creations that span breakfast, lunch, dinner and even dessert–my whole portfolio, if you will. This next call wants to see YOUR whole portfolio. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for The Portfolio Show from the Kiernan Gallery (Lexington, Virginia). The entry is high compared to what I normally published, but I want you to make the decision about value to your own career. If the shoe fits…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Portfolio Show

Every photograph tells a story. When part of a body of work, the photograph takes on a new meaning, becoming part of a bigger and more complete narrative. A portfolio allows the photographer to explore the complexities of their subject, and provide context that gives it richness and meaning that is more than the sum of its parts. The Kiernan Gallery is pleased to announce its first annual portfolio showcase.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: All photographic media are encouraged.

DEADLINE: April 26, 2012

NOTIFICATION: Artists will be notified of accepted work via email approximately eight days after the submission deadline.

ENTRY FEE: Non-refundable fee of $75

JUROR: For over twenty years Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Recently he has focused on the earliest paper photographs – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil. He balances his interests in photography with forays into sculpture, painting, drawing, and other works on paper.

Dan has exhibited widely and has received several awards, including an Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994. He is also the subject of a recent documentary by Anthropy Arts. He is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York and Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

AWARDS: Eight photographers will be selected for the exhibition, split into two shows. Four will show at a time. The first four will show from June 6 – July 14, the other four will show from July 18 – August 25 (groups to be determined by the gallery).

SALES: Artists exhibiting at the gallery may offer their work for sale. The Kiernan Gallery retains 30% of the sale price as commission.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Fotoblur Issue 14

Posted on April 16, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

BEETS and GOAT
please

Food always sets the mood. Want to celebrate summer? Then it is time for barbeque chicken, corn on the cob and baked sweet potatoes. Settling in for a long winter’s night for a little cuddling? Potato soup with bacon and chive says it all. Is spring time calling your name? A salad with roasted beets and goat cheese says, “what a great day to be alive”. This next Call wants to know your mood. Who are you?

Check out this Call for Entries to get your work published in Fotoblur Issue 14 and become a part of a photography community. This Call from Fotoblur is FREE!

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OPEN CALL: Fotoblur Magazine

Fotoblur Magazine is a community-based, published photography magazine. Published photos are submitted by you. Fotoblur Magazine is published quarterly.

THEMES for ISSUE 14:

Mood: Images with a distinct emotional quality or character. These images can reflect a state of feeling, for example sullenness, a prevailing emotional tone, or simply a general attitude.

~and/or~

Who Am I? To turn the camera on one’s self is among one of the most difficult areas of photography. “Who Am I” are creative self portraits with an expressive edge.

How to contribute:

1. Join the community.

2. Create an account

3. When magazine submissions begin, submit high resolutions versions of your best gallery photos for possible publication.

4. Submit as many photos as you like. No restrictions, and it is FREE!

5. Photos are voted on by the Fotoblur community.

6. From the top photos editors make their final selections for publication. For more info on how to get your photos published in Fotoblur Magazine read their FAQ www.fotoblur.com/faq.

AWARD:
Published in Fotoblur Magazine.

ENTRY FEE: None

Issue 14 Schedule:

Submission Schedule
4/4/2012 – 4/30/2012

DEADLINE:
April 30, 2012

Selection Schedule
5/1/2012 – 5/12/2012

Submission Requirements:
Submit your photo as a 300dpi jpg file. Save your image so that the width is 7 inches or greater (7″ @ 300dpi = 2100px). They ask that you submit your images in high (80 – 100%) quality. Please keep the file size below 10 MB. Please refrain from adding borders, watermarks, or text of any kind.

Copyright information:
Fotoblur does not claim ownership rights in your works or other materials posted by you to Fotoblur (Your Content). For the sole purpose of enabling them to make your Content available through the Service, you grant to Fotoblur a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content.

Visit Fotoblur Magazine onlineToday!

CALL for ENTRIES: Photographer’s Forum 2012

Posted on April 13, 2012April 13, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

FINE furry
FRIENDS

There are always folks out there lately screaming about the dangers of free and low cost calls. I get accused of being all hearts and rainbows, but I think there is enough negativity out there. You’re smart. Read the fine print. Don’t refuse to enter because it is scary. If we didn’t try scary stuff, no one would ever have tried kiwi. This next call can be entered for next to nothing. I say… take a chance, but remember to always read the fine print…

Check out this Call for Entries, sponsored by Sigma, for the Photographer’s Forum 32nd Annual Photography Contest. It is hard to come up with an excuse not to spend $4.95 for the entry fee, and after 30 years… they have to be doing something right. Enter today!

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Photographer’s Forum 32st Annual
Spring Photography Contest

ELIGIBILITY: This contest is open to all amateur photographers in the United States, Canada, and around the world. Rights remain with photographer. Subject matter is open.

MEDIA: Photography

DEADLINE: Uploaded or postmarked on or before May 14, 2012.

NOTIFICATION: Finalists notified by July 30, 2012. Winners notified by August 13, 2012.

ENTRY FEE: Early entry fee is $4.95 per photo entered (uploaded or postmarked on or before the early deadline of April 16, 2012). Final entry fee is $5.95 per photo entered (all entries must be uploaded or postmarked on or before the final deadline of May 14, 2012).

AWARDS: 1st Place: $2,000 cash award from Photographer’s Forum
PLUS Sigma 120-400 mm lens (MSRP $1,400). 2nd Place: $1,500 cash award from Photographer’s Forum PLUS Sigma 8-16 mm lens (MSRP $1,100). 3rd Place: $1,000 cash award from Photographer’s Forum, PLUS Manfrotto 055XPROB Professional Aluminum tripod and 327RC2 Joystick head (MSRP $446). 4th Place: Five $125 cash awards. 100 Honorable mentions: All Honorable Mentions will be listed in the November 2012 issue of Photographer’s Forum magazine and will receive a gold embossed certificate of outstanding merit from Photographer’s Forum.

For complete details, visit PF Magazine online!

CALL for ENTRIES: Macro/Micro

Posted on April 5, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

TATER TOT
brulée

So I was watching a “hot dish” competition on Bizarre Foods America the other day. (A “hot dish” competition is sort of like a casserole contest.) This particular contest was being held in a mid-western town’s VFW or American Legion Hall. Many of the contestants sported beehive hairdos, mom jeans and gingham aprons. Then out of nowhere, a woman in Bermuda shorts whipped out a BLOW TORCH to brown the top of her tater tot casserole like it was creme brulée–proof positive that culinary technology and techniques have made it to every fishbowl, no matter how small. This next Call wants to see your techy stuff on a tiny scale or large, your choice. How big is your fishbowl?

Check out this Call for Entries from the Darkroom Gallery (Essex Junction, VT) for Macro/Micro: Photographic Extremes. The entry fee at Darkroom is always low ($20), and they will provide free matting & framing if you work in their standard sizes. Take a look…

*Editor’s Note: If you enter, please make sure to let them know that you found the Call on ArtAndArtDeadlines.com. We’ve got a great history with them…including Best of Show!

CALL for ENTRIES:

Macro/Micro:
Photographic Extremes

This exhibit is about two photographic extremes, regardless of what you call them: Micro Photography (AKA Macro Photography) and Macrophotography (AKA Wide Angle Photography). The Darkroom Gallery wants to see your best work using these photographic tools.

Look it up, Macro (from Greek prefix “makros-” meaning “large”). Most sciences or areas of study use this prefix as defined. Macroeconomics, for example: “dealing with the behavior of the whole economy”. Microeconomics: “study of the behavior of small economic units, such as that of individual consumers, opposite of macroeconomics”. So what happened with Photography? Commonly, photographers call images of things small and extreme closeups, Macro Photography.

What then is Microphotography? Interestingly, Nikon uses the term Micro for it’s close focusing lenses, but not Canon. So, even the manufacturers don’t agree.

Microphotography reveals a world unseen by the naked eye. It often exposes patterns and designs that create sublime abstract images. Macrophotography gathers a view often larger and grander than can be gathered with the human eye. Both introduce distortions either through lens characteristics or stitching construction techniques that are creative tools used to produce these distinctive images.

ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be at least 18 years old. If younger, you must have a legal guardian make the submission for you.

MEDIA:
Photography.

DEADLINE:
May 2, 2012

NOTIFICATION:
May 7, 2012

JUROR: Science photographer Felice Frankel is a research scientist in the Center for Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Felice’s images have been published in over 200 journal articles and/or covers and various other publications for general audiences such as National Geographic, Nature, Science, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, PNAS, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, and New Scientist among others.

She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received awards and grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, among others. Felice was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award at Brooklyn College, CUNY and the Lennart Nilsson Award for Scientific Photography.

Felice founded the Image and Meaning workshops and conferences whose purpose is to develop new approaches to promoting the public understanding of science through visual expression.

She and her work have been profiled in the New York Times, Wired, LIFE Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Science Friday, the Christian Science Monitor and various European publications. She exhibits throughout the United States and in Europe. Her limited edition photographs are included in a number of corporate and private collections.

AWARDS: All selected entries are exhibited in the gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog. Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35″ vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image. People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.

SALES: Darkroom offers free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of their exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work and retain all rights to their photographs. For commission details, go to the bottom of the Submisssion Rules page!

Tag: Photo Contest

SIMPLY divine

CALL for ENTRIES: Toyed With

For complete details, visit the Toyed With website!

SOOTHE ME

CALL for ENTRIES: Still Life: Objects of Wonder

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

SQUEEZE me

CALL for ENTRIES: Among Trees

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

SURPRISE ME, please

CALL for ENTRIES: Illusion

Illusion: Delusion – Hallucination – Phantom

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

PAINT your face with BARBECUE!

CALL for ENTRIES: Play

For complete details, Visit the Website!

SURPRISE me

CALL for ENTRIES: Secrets and Mysteries

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

BRUNCH tells all

CALL for ENTRIES: Portfolio Show

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

BEETS and GOAT please

OPEN CALL: Fotoblur Magazine

THEMES for ISSUE 14:

How to contribute:

Issue 14 Schedule:

Visit Fotoblur Magazine onlineToday!

FINE furry FRIENDS

CALL for ENTRIES: Photographer’s Forum 32st Annual Spring Photography Contest

For complete details, visit PF Magazine online!

TATER TOT brulée

CALL for ENTRIES:

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

SIMPLY
divine

CALL for ENTRIES:
Toyed With

CALL for ENTRIES:
Still Life:
Objects of Wonder

SQUEEZE
me

CALL for ENTRIES:
Among Trees

SURPRISE ME,
please

CALL for ENTRIES:
Illusion

PAINT
your face
with BARBECUE!

CALL for ENTRIES:
Play

SURPRISE
me

CALL for ENTRIES:
Secrets and Mysteries

BRUNCH
tells all

CALL for ENTRIES:
Portfolio Show

BEETS and GOAT
please

FINE furry
FRIENDS

CALL for ENTRIES:
Photographer’s Forum 32st Annual
Spring Photography Contest

TATER TOT
brulée