PDN Student Photography Contest Winners Receive a Nikon DSLR & Publication

For More Details:

http://contest.pdnedu.com/

Enter the PDN Student Photography Contest! Deadline December 7th

Winners and selected honorable mentions will be featured in the Spring 2010 issue of PDNedu and on pdnedu.com. Additional Web winners will be featured on pdnedu.com in our Winners Gallery. Grand Prize winners, one per category, will receive a Nikon digital camera and a Crumpler bag. Student winners will also be displayed in an exhibit at The 2010 SPE National Conference is in Philadelphia, March 4-7, 2010. All winners and honorable mentions will get a one-year subscription to PDN. 

Grand Prize winners will receive an portfolio consultation with a PDN editor The Pre College winner will receive a review with Dennis Keeley: Chair of Photographyand Imaging at Art Center College of Design. 

FASHION / PORTRAITURE

Channel your inner Annie Leibovitz and give us some close-ups; self-portraits welcome.

DOCUMENTARY / PHOTOJOURNALISM

From the prayer rituals of Tibetan monks to the local demise of a farming community, show us the issues,
people and events in your periphery.

STILL LIFE

A glowing bowl of edamame or your mother's Tiffany lamp - if it's stationary, it counts.

TRAVEL / LANDSCAPE

Spring break in Mexico, studies abroad in Australia and camping trips-we want to see where you've been.

FINE ART / PERSONAL WORK

Your chance to get all avant-garde on us - the offbeat, unique and beautiful work that doesn't fit in the above categories.

Pre College - Open Category

Ok, you're getting up there, you've got what it takes, Show us your shots from any of the above categories
and prove it. Don't worry, you'll be judged against your peers. 

*Late? Pay $5 additional per entry for an extended deadline of 12/21/09. All entries uploaded after 12/7 will
be charged an extended deadline fee of $5 per entry. 

Students can submit a single image or a series, up to six images per entry. There is no limit of entries a student can submit; however, ALL submissions must be made by students currently enrolled in college or high school. Online entries only. If you're an educator looking to submit on behalf of your class, contact John Gimenez at jgimenez@pdnonline.com for special group rate deals. 

Dennis Keeley - Chair of Photography and Imaging - Art Center College of Design.

Bill Hunt - Hasted Hunt Gallery

Mickey Boardman - Editorial Director - Paper Magazine

Dan Westergren - Sr. Photo Editor - National Geographic Traveler 

Barbara Kruger Lecture @ LACMA Thursday October 29 7:30pm

Join LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan for a conversation with renowned contemporary artist Barbara Kruger. Barbara Kruger transformed LACMA's BCAM elevator from a functional object into a major work of art. She and Michael Govan will discuss how this work manifests her interest in creating art and commentary with "pictures and words." This popular series often sells out early so be sure to reserve your free tickets soon.
Bing Theater | Free, tickets required, available at the box office | For more information call 323 857-6010

Doug McCulloh Lecture in Burns 152 Monday, September 28 @ 4:30

Doug McCulloh is an artist based in Southern California. He is an honors graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and holds an MFA in photography and digital media from Claremont Graduate University. McCulloh’s work has been shown in museums, academic institutions, and galleries in the US, Europe, China and Mexico, including more than two dozen large-scale solo exhibitions. Exhibitions include: California Museum of Photography; KIT/Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Asian Cultural Center, New York City; China San Jiangyuan Photography Festival and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

For more information: www.douglasmcculloh.com

"...after winning the right to name a street in a new tract housing development," writes Sheila Pinkel in AfterImage, the journal of the Visual Studies Workshop, "McCulloh spent seven years working on "Dream Street," shooting 12,891 photos and taping 47.5 hours of interviews, in order to accomplish a reflection of the tract house building trade as it exists in Southern California at the beginning of the 21st Century... What makes McCulloh's insightful work so unusual is that he is both photographer and writer and the intersection of these two voices are at times informative, moving and/or shocking."

Polaroid Workshop and Demo Hosted by Melissa Sweet in the Student Art Gallery Thursday, September 18, Convo Hour

Magnum Expression Award

Magnum Photos is pleased to announce the first annual Expression Photography Award in association with HP. The award, established with the goal of inspiring change through photography, aims to discover compelling documentary photography employed to affect social awareness.

Magnum photographers Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Paolo Pellegrin, and Susan Meiselas and HP representative Louis Kim will judge on the panel and select one chosen winner to receive a $10,000 grant to support the continuation of his/her work, HP's large format Designjet Z3200 Photo printer for fine art printing, archival pigment inks, fine art paper and additional prizes from contributing partners Blurb and PhotoShelter.

Two honorable mentions and 17 finalists will also receive awards to support and encourage their photographic work. Participation is at no cost and photographers worldwide are encouraged to submit. http://expression.magnumphotos.com/expression_award/

Photo Philanthropy Awards for Sociallly Concerned Photographers

PhotoPhilanthropy—a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting photography for philanthropic purposes and activism in charitable organizations – is sponsoring the first-annual PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards.

Contest entrants are invited to submit a Photo Essay consisting of 7 – 10 digital images that tell the story of a non-profit organization and its work. Winning photographers will receive prize money and recognition while featured non-profit organizations and their causes will benefit from valuable exposure.

All Photo Essays that are accepted into the competition will be posted immediately to the www.photophilanthropy.org site, and will be considered for further recognition when awards submissions close October 31, 2009.

Call for Entries: Clara M Eagle Gallery: Magic Silver 2010

Call for Entries for group exhibition at the Clara M Eagle Gallery, Deadline 10/30/2009

$1000 in prizes will be awarded and a catalog will be produced featuring all works from the exhibition.


For more details: http://www.murraystate.edu/chfa/art/gallery/prospectus.html