Winners will receive cash prizes, exposure on the popular FotoDC website, exhibitions and/or projections during the FotoWeek Festival, public exhibition in Crystal City and exposure throughout the Cherry Blossom Festival March 20 – April 27.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS!! Entries received by March 11 receive a 20% discount

Categories:

Festivities -Action-filled images of Festival events: Opening Ceremony, Southwest Waterfront Fireworks Festival, National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, and performances

Landscape/Nature – Capture the beauty of blossoms in the Tidal Basin area

People – Images showing crowds or individuals enjoying and engaging with the cherry blossoms

Vintage -Images from 1930-1999; may be scanned and moderately retouched.

This well-known juried art contest is an annual event with prizes specifically designed to help artists advance their careers and to maximize their exposure to collectors. Not only will selected artists gain exposure by exhibiting their work in the famed Chelsea art community, the competition will be juried by an influential voice in the art world, Mr. Ira Goldberg, Executive Director of the prestigious Art Students League of New York.

Ilse Bormann, one of the selected artists from the 2011 competition, had this to say about her experience: “It was a pleasure to participate in the 2011 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. It was the second time I took part and I was very proud to be selected this time. It was amazing to have the chance to show my artwork in the Agora Gallery and it was a great feeling to be a New York City exhibited artist. It has motivated me to work even harder and to go my own way in my abstract painting. I would definitely recommend participating in the competition to my friends who are artists.”

The awards available for selected artists include cash prizes, internet promotion on ARTmine, one of the most comprehensive contemporary fine art resources online, and a one-page review with two color images in ARTisSpectrum, a prominent New York art publication. In addition, Mr. Ira Goldberg, Executive Director of The Art Students League of New York, will select the work of at least 25 artists to participate in a group exhibition at Agora Gallery. Awards are valued at a total of $55,000.

Agora Gallery director Angela Di Bello feels strongly that there is more to be gained from entering competitions than prizes and awards. She states: “In addition to providing a valuable career building experience, fine art competitions challenge professional artists as well as art students to create some of their most innovative and finest work. The excitement generated by simply entering a competition and “thinking outside the box” leads to numerous new possibilities and to opening doors that may otherwise remain shut. You must fearlessly take control of your own destiny and experience a quantum leap into the future…Yours!”
2012 Calendar
• February 7, 2012 – Competition opens
• March 13, 2012 – Submission deadline
• March 27, 2012 – Results announced
• August 24th through September 9th – Exhibition for the selected artists

The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition represents not just artists, but the countries and communities they hail from, each piece reflecting a little of humanity’s many faceted soul. Out of respect for this and in an effort to grant joy to children in need, 15% of Agora Gallery’s proceeds of sales resulting from the competition exhibition will be donated to Art Start, an award-winning, nationally recognized program. Art Start works with children and teens facing the daily uncertainties and instabilities of living in homeless shelters. Though these children face many obstacles, they have dreams. Art Start uses the arts to provide them with opportunities for success. It gives them the tools, structure, support and most importantly a chance to be heard.

Photos should document human suffering and the health care response to the following topics: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, measles, tetanus, diabetes, cervical cancer, infant and maternal mortality, chronic and infectious diseases. Also of interest are health issues surrounding disaster relief, healthcare worker safety, healthcare access, vaccination and diagnostics research, infection control and Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI’s).

Entries are $25 each. All funds raised from the Water in Focus Photo Contest will support the charitable work of the NSRK with a focus on youth and community watershed stewardship education.

The Categories

1. The North Saskatchewan River – Sponsored by Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd. – Whether it’s from the banks or from inside a dragon boat, we invite you to submit your favourite photos showcasing the North Saskatchewan River Watershed.

2. Frozen Water – Sponsored by Miller Thompson LLP – Ice appears in nature in many forms. From snowflakes, to icicles to glaciers, this category is about celebrating the beauty of frozen water. Whether it’s an ice sculpture or a frozen waterfall, we encourage you to be creative with this category.

3. International – Sponsored by Aquality Environmental Consultants Ltd – The vision of the Waterkeeper movement is for swimmable, drinkable, fishable waterways worldwide. From Victoria Falls to Lake Titikaka in Bolivia, this category is open to any photos encompassing water from around the globe.

4. “Life’s a Beach”: At play in our waters – Sponsored by World Floorcoverings – NSRK’s vision is A North Saskatchewan Watershed where we all have the ability to safely and enjoyably swim, drink and fish. Whether it’s surfing on the North Shore or wake boarding at Sylvan Lake, we encourage you to share your photos at play in our waters.

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.

Experimental and mixed techniques are welcome. We encourage submitting images from a singular body of work for a cohesive selection for the Juried Exhibition. A unified body of photographs indicates to the juror you’ve carefully considered your selected edit and are committed to your photography. Artwork selected for gallery exhibition will be limited to FRAMED SIZE of 30x40in.

JUROR: Paul Kopeikin, Kopeikin Gallery

Paul Kopeikin has owned and directed the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles since 1991. He has mounted over 150 exhibitions of classic, modern and contemporary photography and works on paper. This includes exhibitions by such luminaries as Diane Arbus, Garry Winnogrand, Helen Levitt, Lee Friedlander, Weegee, Marion Post Wolcott and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Contemporary artists Chris Jordan, Amy Stein and Jill Greenberg all got their start at the gallery. The gallery has participated in numerous art fairs and Mr. Kopeikin has juried numerous exhibitions. And yet he never tires of more.

Every category winner will be awarded $500, a 3-month 3rd Ward work residency and inclusion in a Group Show in the 3rd Ward Gallery. One Grand Prize Winner, as determined by the public, will win a $5,000 cash grant, a 1-year 3rd Ward work residency, and inclusion in a Group Show at the 3rd Ward Gallery!

For the past six years, 3rd Ward has been a leading resource for artists and creative professionals in New York City and around the world. You create inspired work. Now share it with the world

$15 per image, you can submit 7 or more images for a flat rate of $99 (maximum of 20 images). The $99 package includes a 1-year Basic 3rd Ward Membership free of charge.

Subject matter is open
• Finalists notified by July 30, 2012
• Winners notified by August 13, 2012

Monthly Categories:

February: Nature
March: Adventure
April: Street life
May: Water
June: Journey
July: Colour
August: Culture
September: Sport
October: Weather
November: Markets
December: Food

Continuing the procedure from the last two years, there will be no separate categories for digitals vs. prints. All photos, including prints, will be digitized and judged against all other entries in each category.

Categories:

Animals & Nature:  Photos of goats, sheep, horses, cows, trees, plants, flowers, wild animals, birds, poultry, dogs, fish, snakes, insects, etc.

Rural Life & Landscape : Ranch, farm, small town or rural settings, activities and scenes. Historical buildings, people enjoying themselves, farmers or ranchers at work, kids with goats, horseback riding, a teen and his car, the local hangout or chatter at the coffee shop. Be original.

People:  Portraits, whether planned or spontaneous, of people. Your family, friends, children, famous people, politicians, old folks, new clothes, family gathering, unusual characters, etc., etc. This category can include photos of kids and animals — kids showing goats, a girl with her puppy, kids and lambs, etc.

Youth – Open : Any photo taken by youths. Any subject. Photographer must be under 18 years of age.

Photo captions must accompany all submissions, and should include the subject of the image, the location the image was taken, and the name of the photographer(s).

Submission period is from January 25 to February 18, 2012. Voting will start as soon as the photos have been posted. Last day of voting is on February 18, 2012. All entries must be received by the advertised closing time and date. Winners will be announced soon after the last day of voting, February 18, 2012.

For this award, we have put together a panel of judges including: Leora Kahn, Executive Director of PROOF, Ed Kashi of VII, Amy Yenkin from the Open Society Foundations, and Ann Friedman, Executive Editor of GOOD.

This award is for emerging photojournalists. For the purposes of this call for entries, the term “emerging photojournalist” is to be defined as a photojournalist who has an accomplished body of photojournalistic work that a.) has not yet been exhibited or published widely, b.) demonstrates a commitment to human rights and social justice issues, and c.) does not have agency representation. There are no age or geographic restrictions.

Each application should include the following:
- Statement of Purpose (maximum 500 words)
- Project proposal and budget summary (maximum 500 words)
- Portfolio of 10-12 photographs that demonstrate your commitment to human rights and social justice issues
- Resume or CV
- Application fee of USD $10.00 made payable to PROOF: Media for Social Justice

CONTEST DIVISIONS
Student Senior Division: For anyone ages 15-18.
Student Junior Division: For anyone 14 years of age and younger.
Adult Division: For anyone 19 years of age and older.
Both amateurs and professionals are encouraged to enter.

II. CONTEST CATEGORIES
Note: You may submit a maximum of 3 entries in each of the 10 categories.

A. WILD NATURE: These categories represent nature unaffected by man’s presence. Within your images, there should be no indication of the “handof-man” in any form.
1. Wildlife: Non-captive animals in their natural habitat. Examples include: mammals, birds, marine life, reptiles,  amphibians and insects.
2. Nature, Other: Other natural objects in their natural habitat. Examples include: Plants, flowers, trees, rocks, shells, minerals, fungi and lichens.
3. Nature Scenics: Expansive views that may include landscapes, seascapes, cloudscapes, mountains, forests, deserts, oceans (below or above the surface), waterfalls, sunrise and sunsets.

B. SHARED WORLD: These categories are nature images which may include the influence of man. Although man’s influence is included, it should NOT be the focal point of the subject. For instance, architectural images or man’s interaction with man should not be included.
4. Animals: Images of any animal and may include zoo, aquarium, farm or captive animals.However, no household pets will be allowed in the adult division. Image may be a portrait or group, and should show animal interaction, or display
animal behavior.
5. Flora: Images of any plant life. Examples include flowers, plants, gardens, trees, and may include any cultivated plant life.
6. Shared Scenics: Expansive views of landscapes, seascapes, cloudscapes, mountains, forests, deserts, oceans, etc. which include evidence of the hand-of-man. The focus is to be on nature; the ‘hand-of-man’ (fences, barns, bridges, etc) is not to be the subject.
7. Household Pets: (Youth only) The pet must be the principal subject.

C. ARTISTIC and CREATIVE
INTERPRETATION: These images include elements of design: line, shape, pattern, texture, form, and perspective, in addition to creative composites and creations from the digital darkroom.
8. Art in Nature: Naturally occurring patterns, lines, shapes, and forms of animals, objects, or plants in nature; also may include macro and extreme close-up images.
9. Creative Interpretation: A nature-related image created with traditional or digital tools (digital darkroom) that is intended to express the photographer’s artistic impression of the subject. Examples include: Creative blurs, multiple
exposures, abstracts etc. Place a 4×6 print showing the original photo, prior to manipulation, to a lower corner on the back of the mat board.

D. NATURE EXPERIENCES AT THE HEARD:
10. This category includes images taken on the Heard grounds, including birds, insects and other animals as well as flora and fauna. Images should NOT include the hand of man.

In order to enter, simply create an account and upload your landscape photo to the contest album. Limit one photo per user. Good luck!
The photo with the largest number of “Likes” in the album will be the winner! We will continue monitoring the “Likes” for two weeks after the contest closes, and we’ll announce this so that users can browse their entries and choose their favorites and this time.

Since its inception in 2005, Hey, Hot Shot!, the premier international photography competition, has provided over 145 photographers from all over the world with unrivaled exposure, support and recognition. Our esteemed panel of industry professionals selects five photographers per round of competition as the 2011 Hot Shots. From these Hot Shots, one image maker will be selected by Jen Bekman Projects to win the grand prize of $10,000, in addition to the hallmark awards we offer.

If you have had the opportunity to visit the Polar Regions as part of scientific research or while traveling, or you are a resident of the North, here is an opportunity to share the best pictures of your latest journey in the Arctic and Antarctic territories.

Submit your photos now in one of four categories and get a chance to see one of your masterpieces on display at the conference From Knowledge to Action happening from 22 to 27 April 2012 in Montreal.

We’re sure this theme will generate a really broad range of photographs, reflecting the great variety of people, places and events that make Britain special.

Photographs could focus on a particular place or person, a spectacular event, occasion or landscape, or could be a snapshot of everyday British life.

Competition judged by Ashley Franklin ARPS, ABPPA, APAGB.

Demonstrate the sensitivity necessary to move beyond literal renderings to more intimate portraits. Create images that go below the surface and penetrate deeply into a subject’s character. Tell a story with the camera and with the subject that leaves both you and the viewer wanting more. All images selected by juror will be exhibited throughout the Mpls Photo Center Galleries and published in an Exhibit Book for purchase. Exhibit Juror: Andrea Mellard Curator of Exhibitons and Public Programs at AMOA – Arthouse in Austin, Texas.

Monthly Themes

January: Winter

February: Nighttime

March: Cities

April: Spring

May: Water

June: Summer

July: Weather

August: Americana

September: Fall

October: Wildlife

November: Transportation

December: People

The 21 February Photo Contest 2012 is an international photography contest observing the International Mother Language Day 2012. This photo contest is focused with the same goals, as obtained by the UNESCO for the International Mother Language Day, to promote the importance of linguistic, cultural diversity and multilingualism.

I’m hoping all of you extremely talented photographers here can let your cameras be a window to the world this week. Have fun with it- I look forward to seeing your results!

Your images must be taken in one of our open space preserves open to the public

The “Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award” competition is open to any (prospective) professional photographer aged 25 or under at the time of entering. To take part, participants must send in a series of photographs taken in 2011 or 2012 or long-term projects containing at least one photo from 2011 or 2012. Only one entry per photographer is accepted.

the desire to bring more attention to works that may not fit neatly into easily defined categories, a belief in the significance of dialogue, and an effort to make participation accessible by not asking you to pay an arm and a leg for the chance to possibly maybe have your work seen.

Project Eve wants you to share a photo! Submit a photo that you think might visually capture an aspect of starting a business be it long hours, the creative spark, a challenge, a change of direction, struggle, new beginning, mistake, triumph, or whatever else you might imagine. Your photo can be of a person, group, nature or even an object. Get creative, be original, be humorous, be inspirational!

The 10 entries that receive the most votes, and comply with all Contest Rules, will be the finalists. All finalists will be featured on the launch of our website. The Contest Administrators will then select a winner, who will receive a $500 gift card to B&H Photo!

Get your entry in by March 1st and encourage your friends to vote. Finalists will be contacted over email to submit a minimally compressed JPEG file that is at least 960 pixels at its longest dimension. A winner will be announced on or around March 15th.

The funds are intended to cover the costs of travel, lodging, and expenses for up to one-month of full time photography. If you are doing a project close to home, then the funds do not need to be spent on travel and lodging, but a case must be made for how they will be spent.

The funds will be disbursed in two portions. Photocrati Fellows will receive $4000 up-front prior to the project. The remaining $1000 will be disbursed to the Grantee upon completion of the project and upon receipt of a Project Report and an image portfolio from the project.

The Grantee is expected to provide a brief follow-up report upon completion of the project that describes how the project progressed, and which provides a detailed explanation of how funds were used. Receipts should be provided for all expenditures over $50. Grant recipients are advised to keep conscientious records of expenses.

Along with the Project Report, the Fellow should submit a final Image Portfolio of 20-30 images. These can be presented in an online gallery or sent to Photocrati Fund staff via email or FTP. These images should be 800 pixels in the longest dimension and they should be accompanied by detailed captions. The resulting Photo Essay will be displayed on Photocrati.com for at least one year following the project.

The Grantee will have 12 months from the announcement of the award to complete his or her project and to provide Photocrati Fund staff with a Project Report and captioned Photo Essay of 20-30 images from the Photocrati Fund project.

The exhibit will be on display in The Art Center’s Richard Low Evans Gallery, located in the picturesque mountain town of Blue Ridge, Georgia, during the Fall Arts in the Park Festival. The juried show is open to all photographers, both amateur and professional, and all original photographic media, including film and digital images. Photographers may submit up to three images for an entry fee of $40 ($35, BRMP members). Entries submitted by the early bird deadline of June 1 have an entry fee of $35 ($30, members).

Entries must be designated as Nature or Fine Art on the entry form. The Nature subject category includes, but is not limited to, wildlife, landscapes, waterscapes, plant materials and abstracts in nature. Work submitted in the Nature category must have no elements of mankind and cannot be subject composites. Combined multiple exposures for HDR or panoramas are allowed. The Fine Art category includes, but is not limited to cityscapes, landscapes (including structures), portraits, abstracts and florals or plant life. Subject composites and fine art techniques are acceptable in this category.

Digital images of the work to be submitted should be in the form of JPEG files on CDs. Images should be approximately 1800 pixels by 1200 pixels (6 inches x 4 inches) and print quality (about 300 ppi). Raw files may be requested by the jurors. Note: All image files must be entitled with photographer’s last name, first initial and the entry’s title. This information must match the title and name on the entry form.

All entries must be an original photograph made by the submitting photographer during the previous 2 years. No submissions from previous BRMP competitions, nor photographs previously displayed in the Richard Low Evans Gallery, will be accepted.

Submitted images will be viewed by jurors who will select the photographs accepted for the exhibit. The accepted entries will be judged on technical and artistic merits as determined by the judge, who will choose the prize winners.

You are encouraged to take spontaneous photos of men and children together, this is not a competition based only on photographic perfection – rather it is about capturing a ‘special’ moment between the man and the child. Not just dads either – in many cases the man who plays this important role is a granddad, uncle, step dad, friend, older brother or even sports coach. These are the men who enrich our children’s lives and at Thanks Dad there is an opportunity to ‘thank’ them for all they do and, at the same time, encourage more men to spend more quality time with their children.

This program helps to develop relationships between men and children across the country. This can only help build happier, and stronger, young people who will go on to be better parents to their children.

This idea defines our mission to raise awareness about endangered cultures, threatened environments, and critical social concerns through photography.

Blue Earth helps photographers educate the public and motivate society to make positive change – we invite contest entries that exemplify our mission and the power of photographic storytelling

Entries must be photographic in nature and made using a camera – images created exclusively through digital means are not permitted.

The Festival of Ethical Photography of Lodi, that will take place in Lodi from 19th to 22nd of April 2012, was created and is managed on voluntary basis. Its purpose is to bring the general public close to ethically significant contents using photography as communication and knowledge means and to offer different nuances of the fine relationship between ethics, communication and photography. The Festival has a great audience for the high quality of the projects presented and for the presence of photographers well known internationally.

This year Snowden has included four new categories for the competition as a way of providing additional options and inspiration in ‘celebrating the mining industry’.

Significant achievements in Mining
Technology and innovation in Mining
Environmental or sustainability successes in Mining
People in Mining and their stories

People’s Choice winner

Once again we are privileged to have world renowned landscape photographer, Richard Woldendorp, lead the judging panel, together with key industry representatives and Snowden’s CEO and specialists.

The show is open to all photographers. All forms of photographic expression are encouraged: from film-based to digital capture — black and white darkroom to digital manipulation and alternative processing — out-of-the-camera images to hand-colored photographs and montages.

We have an outstanding juror, Jennifer L. Daly MFA with Distinction-Photography, Art and Art History Instructor at Shasta College. Jennifer describes her view of photography as follows: ” Photography has always been a diverse art form with evolving and emerging technologies, ideas, and styles. As a juror, I look forward to seeing the breadth of the medium from “straight” photography to photo-manipulation, digital, traditional and alternative process and everything in between in order to facilitate an exhibition of interpretations of photography today.”

2012 and Beyond: Charting the Future focuses on speculations for the future and exploring worlds, technologies & movements we have yet to create. It approaches science fiction through the lens of speculative fiction, observing technology and environments that evolved from dreams into reality.

The contest is divided into two categories – one open to the public and another exclusive to current IFES employees

This project is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council

This contest is open to photographers from any country, but you must be over the age of 18 years.

You retain the copyright to your photos and we ask for limited usage rights. We believe in fair terms and conditions.

FREE TO ENTER
$100 IN CASH TO BE WON!
WINNER CHOSEN FROM LIKES & JUDGING

THE THEME IS OPEN SO YOU CAN SUBMIT ANY PHOTO YOU WISH

The contest aims to encourage and disseminate knowledge about birds, while at the same time inspiring creativity in the art of photography. To these ends, its focus is on photography that is ethical, grounded in the utmost respect for the conservation of birds and their habitats, and without unnecessary digital manipulation.