This listing of photographic competitions everywhere is provided as a resource for Photographers

Deadline: July 21, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Mencap Photography Contest

Last year there has been big news for sports people with a learning disability.
They can now take part in a sports event called the Paralympics in London, in 2012. This sports event is for people with a learning disability from all over the world. Mencap and other groups worked hard to make sure people were included. We are really happy that this has happened. That is why we want you to send us your photo or film about how you would like to be active.

Prize: Digital camera from Fujifilm UK Ltd or a photography voucher courtesy of the Sorrell Foundation, winners will be invited to a glittering awards ceremony in London where they will rub shoulders with some of Mencap’s celebrity supporters. The winning entries will be shown in an exhibition at a London art gallery and on the Mencap website. Following this, the exhibition will go on tour across the UK.

Copyright: Photographers and film-makers must get permission from everyone involved, including permission for the use of any music in films. Photographers retain ownership of their copyright but as part of the entering process, the entrant will agree to Mencap using the photos in publications, press releases or any other way chosen to promote the competition and organisation. Mencap will also have the right to sell the framed photos after the exhibition display.

www.mencap.org.uk/page.asp?id=14304.

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Deadline: July 21, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: Texas Biennial

As an independent survey of contemporary art in Texas, the 2011 Biennial is an opportunity to investigate current art-making in Texas and promote the incredible innovation happening within our great state. We are pleased to announce New York based art historian Virginia Rutledge as this year's curator. In the same independent spirit as years past, the 2011 Biennial will encourage a dialogue amongst artists, curators, writers and art lovers alike!

For more info, visit www.texasbiennial.com.

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Deadline: July 21, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Interactive Portraits

For this portrait exhibit juror Graham Gordon Ramsay seeks portraits that “bring the viewer into a visual dialogue with the sitter”. It’s a challenge to have such rapport with your subject that they let down their guard and suddenly you know that you have an extraordinary Portrait. Have you got portrait shots that draw out your subjects in ways that reveals personality, character, emotions? Up to 45 photographs will be chosen by juror Graham Gordon Ramsay for exhibition at the Vermont Photo Space Gallery, on our website and in a full color catalog available to the public for purchase.

Vermont Photo Space provide free matting and framing of accepted entries for the duration of each of our exhibitions, subject to standard sizes. Photographers set their own prices if they wish to sell their work, and retain all rights.

More details at www.vermontpotospace.com/ex4.
email: submissions@vermontphotospace.com.

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Deadline: July 23, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: Transitions

The Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, its history, historic building, art exhibits, planned trips, classes & workshops, and other activities. All-media juried national exhibit for September 2010. Theme "Transitions". Cash awards.

Download prospectus from website www.fccava.org/main_gal/9-10/prospectus_Transitions9-10.pdf.

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Deadline: July 23, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The Wonder of Water

Water is our foremost resource. TerraBella Media is asking for images that examine the beauty and power of water. Photos can be of water in all forms: liquid, gas and solid. We are looking for creative interpretations of the beauty and power of this resource. Submitted images should represent the qualities of water and inspire all people to protect and be thankful for this life giving force.

All accepted entries will also be featured and archived in the Alliance’s online gallery. $500 in cash prizes will be awarded at the juror’s discretion.

For submission form and guidelines, visit www.terabellamedia.com/contest.

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Deadline: July 25, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Domicile

do-mi-cile : a dwelling place, place of residence, home, abode, habitation, place, dwelling, roof over one's head,residence, pad, crib, lodging, nest, roof, address,homestead, place to hang one's hat, household, ancestral halls, habitat, range, locality, house, lodge, manor, town house, ranch house, farmhouse, sod house, houseboat, cave or cliff, dwelling, penthouse,split-level, parsonage, vicarage, manse, estate, mansion, villa, chateau, cottage, cabin, cabana, bungalow, hut, shack, shanty, shed.

Domicile has a variety of meanings depending on your personal viewpoint. It could be interiors or exteriors, where ever you get the sense of home. In honor of my move to my new home and gallery, I have chosen Domicile as the theme of the first juried exhibition at A Smith Gallery. Forty five images will be selected for exhibition and a catalogue of the exhibit with all the accepted entries will be available for purchase. Awards are $250 for Jurors Choice, $100 for Visitors Choice and five Honorable mentions.

The juror for "Domicile" will be Susan Kirchman, the owner and director of Kirchman Galleries in Johnson City, Texas. http://www.kirchmangallery.com/index.htm

For more details and to enter, please see www.asmithgallery.com or email director@asmithgallery.com.

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Deadline: July 26, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: TAG 2010 California Open Exhibition

The 2010 California Open Exhibition is the fifth annual juried art competition sponsored by TAG Gallery, located at Bergamot Station Arts Center, Southern California’s largest art gallery complex and cultural center. The exhibition recognizes excellence in a diverse range of media and offers artists exposure at a world-class destination. TAG Gallery Juried Show, August 17-September 3, at Bergamot Station. Open to U.S. artists 18+ working in computer art, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking & sculpture. 2-D works: 48"h x 36"w & no more than 30lbs.

For more details and to enter, visit http://taggallery.net/ca_open/TAG_2010_CA_Open_Prospectus.pdf.

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Deadline: July 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 Competition

The Chartered Institute of Water and Envionmental Management Environmental Photographer of the Year honours amateur and professional photographers who use their ability to raise awareness of environmental and social issues. The competition encourages entries that are contemporary, creative, resonant, challenging, original and beautiful. But most of all, we want your pictures to inspire people around the world to start taking care of our environment.

This is a huge Opportunity. To see a list of Jurors, prizes and categories, visit www.ciwem.org/arts/photographer/epoty_competition_2010.asp.

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Deadline: July 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Colors of Life 2011 International Photo Contest

An International Photo Contest representing an opportunity for photographers worldwide (professionals, students and amateurs) to submit and exhibit their works in the United States and internationally.
A portion of the funds collected from sales of artists' works and otherwise at exhibitions will support the Institute of Neurology of Guatemala (www. juannio.org), a private non-profit organization actively providing and giving assistance to underprivileged children with special learning needs.
The work of the participants selected by Colors of Life will be submitted to a jury of leading international gallery owners, academics and artists and a collective exhibition of 35 selected finalist photographs in the Competition will be held at The Embassy of Guatemala in Washington DC, Capital One Corporate Gallery, Richmond VA, and Art Works, Richmond VA.

Prizes total $2700. For more visit www.colorsoflife.org/photocontest.

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Deadline: July 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 2010 Safe Travel for Women

Women are encouraged to share their travel photographs with ST4W as a way of celebrating female travel. We are particulary interested in representations of the courageous female traveller, of the vibrant colours of the world, and of the resonances of femininity found within nature.

Photographs will be rotated on the website and each quarter our favourite photograph will feature on the homepage.

Prizes: Two nights* in the very female friendly Darlington Hyde Park Hotel , London.

Visit www.safetravel4women.com for more details.

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Deadline: August 2, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Shots Magazine-CHILDREN

SHOTS Magazine announces an international CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS to be considered for the Autumn Issue (no. 109). The theme for this issue is CHILDREN. Please visit the SHOTS website for further information and submission guidelines.

An established independent photography journal in its 24th year of publication, SHOTS Magazine reaches an international audience of photographers, collectors, galleries, museums, educators and other fine art photography enthusiasts. Don't miss this chance to have your work seen!

http://shotsmag.com/shotssubmission.htm.

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Deadline: August 5, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 4th Annual Re-Imagined

This is Tilt Galleries 4nd Annual Juried Alternative & Historical Process Show. Juror, Anna Strickland is a Senior Critic in the Photography Dept. at Rhode Island School of Design where she has taught the Antique and Alternative Processes Class for over two decades. She has also taught the contemporary application of historical processes at a number of other colleges, universities and workshops throughout the US and Europe. Originally trained in antique processes at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY in the 70’s, she has continuously employed these alternative methods in her installations and other professional productions.
She holds a graduate degree from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she did original research in historical processes as part of her thesis. Her work is found in both private and public collections throughout the US and Europe. This year she exhibited work from her seminal“Ladder Series” at the Galerie Spéos, which included Platinum/palladium prints. She is currently working on a portfolio of platinum and gum bi-chromate prints.

For more info, visit http://www.tiltgallery.com.

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Deadline: August 9, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Beyond the Lens

Open to photographic media only — Innovative and Traditional Photography. Conceptual work, mobiles, 2-D and 3-D wall and standing pieces are eligible. No giclee reproductions on canvas are permitted. Work must have been completed within the last 2 years. Work that has been previously displayed in Tubac is not eligible.

Juror, Ken Rosenthal received a BA in still photography from the University of S. California School of Cinema-Television, & an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rosenthal’s artwork is represented by several galleries in the US, including Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ; Gerald Peters Gallery (Santa Fe); Michael Dawson Gallery (LA); DeSantos Gallery, Houston; Dolby Chadwick Gallery (SF). Rosenthal’s photographs are in many public and private collections internationally including The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Portrait Gallery, London; The Art Institute of Chicago; Smithsonian Ntl. Portrait Gallery, Washington DC; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Worcester Museum of Art, MA; and the Wittliff Gallery of Southwest and Mexican Photography, which recently established a major collection of his work. Since 2002 his work has been featured in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions Internationally. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; El Cabildo
de la Ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina; Espacio Foto, Montevideo, Uruguay; and Etherton Gallery in Tucson, AZ. In September 2010 a solo exhibition of new and recent work will open at DeSantos Gallery in Houston, Texas.

http://tubacarts.org/images/stories/Beyond_the_Lens_Prospectus.pdf.

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Deadline: August 16, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Abstraction on Photography

The camera is a tool for recording minute details of the visual world, in images that sometimes seem so real they could be mistaken for actual experience. But photographs can also build on abstract elements inherent in the medium, such as blur or selective focus, and in the visual world, such as pattern and texture. For “Abstraction in Photography” we seek images that utilize abstract components as their primary mode of expression. Fields of color and exquisite shapes found in nature, linear designs discovered in the built environment, blur created in-camera or with vintage processes—the sky’s the limit. Astonish us with your eye and mind for the abstract.

Juror Stephen Strom will select forty photographs for exhibition on the walls of PhotoPlace Gallery in August and on the gallery website. An additional thirty-five images will be chosen for PhotoPlace's "On-Line Gallery Annex." All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

For further information visit www.vtphotoworkplace.com or e-mail photos@vtphotoworkplace.com

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Deadline: August 16, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 6th Annual Alternative Processes Competition

Soho Photo Gallery in New York City invites entries to its Sixth Alternative Processes Competition. Open to photographs made through alternative processes that include (but are not limited to) albumen, cyanotype, platinum/palladium, Van Dyke, gum bichromate, tintypes, image transfers, liquid emulsions. Traditional silver gelatin prints, c-prints and digital prints are not eligible, but handmade prints created from digital negatives are welcome. The distinguished jurors, France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman, will select 30-40 photographers.

For more info, visit http://www.sohophoto.com.

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Deadline: August 18, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Managed Landscapes

The touch of man on the natural landscape is all around us. From shimmering cityscapes and rural farms to strip mines and garbage dumps. Let's see images that show the touch of man, light or heavy, on the earth around us. "Contemporary landscape photography's insights and observations reach far beyond the natural environment. A close examination of the land will often reveal more about ourselves as individuals, communities, and society at large." Thomas Bachand. Up to 44 photographs will be chosen by juror Thomas Bachand for exhibition at the Vermont Photo Space Gallery, on our website and in a full color catalog available to the public for purchase.

More details at www.vermontpotospace.com/ex5.

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Deadline: August 27, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Fellowship 2010 Competition

Silver Eye Center for Photography, the region’s only non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to photography, is pleased to announce Fellowship 2010, their 11th annual international photography competition. Deborah Klochko, Executive Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California, will jury the competition.

The competition is open to all international photographers, as well as Silver Eye members. Two Fellowships are being awarded. The first carries a $3,500 award and is open to all eligible photographers. The second award, new in 2010, is open only to Pennsylvania residents and carries a $1,500 award. Both winning artists’ work will be exhibited at Silver Eye in late November 2010.

www.silvereye.org/exhibitions_opportunities.htm.

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Deadline: August 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Texas Biennial

Big Medium is extending the Call for Entry for the Texas Biennial 2011. As an independent survey of contemporary art in Texas, the 2011 Biennial is an opportunity to investigate and promote the incredible innovation happening within our great state. We are also pleased to announce Virginia Rutledge; New York based art historian and attorney, as this year's curator. In the same independent spirit as years past, the 2011 Biennial will encourage a dialogue among artists, curators, writers and art lovers that will echo throughout the run of the 4th Biennial exhibition and beyond.

To read more about this exhibit, it's curator and to register, visit www.texasbiennial.com.

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Deadline: September 10, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Holgapalooza

Holgapolooza is an annual photo contest and celebration of the Holga camera. Each year from June to September, photographers from around the world are encouraged to participate in an international contest featuring Holga photography. This annual contest is presented by Light Leaks Press, an independent group who have brought you Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com.

Categories will be presented and submissions will be reviewed by well-respected and internationally renowned judges who will determine winners in each of the categories. Winners will be rewarded with cash and prizes donated by our sponsors as well as have their photos published in Light Leaks magazine.

For Early Bird Draws, a list of jurors and categories and submission guidelines, visit www.holgapalooza.com.

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Deadline: September 13, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Wid-Awake Dreaming

Dreams and fantasies often seem like the terrain of stories and poems, rather than the literal lens of the camera. However, from the early days of the medium to the present, the capacity of the photograph to suggest, as well as to state, has preoccupied visionary photographers. For “Wide-Awake Dreaming” PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, seeks images that conjure up states of mind, memories, emotions, metaphors, and the surreal through their subjects and style. Juror Russell Joslin will select forty photographs for exhibition on the walls of PhotoPlace Gallery in August and on the gallery website. An additional thirty-five images will be chosen for PhotoPlace's "On-Line Gallery Annex." All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Juror: Photographer Russell Joslin is editor of SHOTS magazine.

For further information visit www.vtphotoworkplace.com or e-mail photos@vtphotoworkplace.com.

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Deadline: September 18, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: National Photography '10

Photographers residing in the USA and 18 years of age or older are eligible to submit digital images for consideration. Entry fee $30/2 pieces of artwork. CD images must be either a jpeg or gif image (600 dpi largest dimensional side, PC compatible and 72 dpi).

JURORS are:
KEITH MILLMAN is an artist currently living in Ithaca, New York whose work is based on photographic imagery. He is Associate Professor and Department Chair of New Media at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
ROGER SMITH - Painter, Sculptor, Educator and Co- Director of the Main Street Gallery.

For more info, visit www.mainstreetgal.com/links.php?3643.

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Deadline: November 10, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 31st Annual Juried Photography Exhibition

The subject matter for this exhibit is limited only by your imagination! We are looking to show the contemporary use of historical processes. Show us the way in which you bring the past and future together.
Bromoil, albumen, collotype, kallitype, lazertran, anthotype, ziatype, carbon, argyrotype, cyanotype, daguerreotype, gum bichromate, salted paper, photogravure, solarplate, tintype, platinum and palladium, van dyke, hand applied emulsions, wet-plate collodion, silver gelatin and combinations of all of the above will be considered.

This year's Juror is Joy Goldkind of St. James, NY.

For more info, visit www.stacarts.org/uploads/File/AlternativeProcessProspectus-Entry%20for%20PRINT.pdf.

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Deadline: November 30, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: Dave Bown Projects 1st Semiannual Competition

Juror: Eva Frosch, Co-owner, frosch&portmann, New York
Prizes: $5,000 USD (1st Prize: $2,500; 2nd Prize: $1,500; 3rd Prize: $1,000)
Dave Bown will be buying works of art, on an ongoing basis, from select artists as submissions are received.
Entry Fee: $30 USD. There are no additional fees.
Contact: Dave Bown at (917) 365-5265 or info@davebownprojects.com
Prospectus: davebownprojects.com/submissions.html

For more info, visit http://davebownprojects.com/competitions.html.

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