TEXAS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Regional, National, and International Competitions

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

Deadline: February 5, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers over 18
Title: The Photographic Nude 2012
Sponsor: LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon

This is a juried exhibit exploring the artistic and creative view of the body and it's form. This exhibit celebrates the nude in photography by embracing a variety of styles. We welcome the timeless elegance of a classical study, while also encouraging alternative and provocative styles. Studies of the whole or partial human form, nude or semi-nude are eligible. LightBox is pleased to have photographer and educator Heidi Kirkpatrick as juror for this exhibit. The Group exhibit will display in the gallery between the dates of March 3rd - April 4, with the Artist opening reception Saturday March 3, 6-9.

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Deadline: February 6, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers over 18
Title: In Your Dreams
Sponsor: Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

The camera is a wonderful tool for recording the here-and-now things in front of the lens. But it can also be used in the service of imagination, mystery, and especially the dream. For In Your Dreams, juror Susan Burnstine [Los Angeles, CA] will select forty photos for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from April 17th through May 12th, 2012. She will also choose an additional thirty-five photos for the gallery's On-Line Annex. All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalog 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. Submission fee: $25 for five photos, $6 each additional photo.

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Deadline: February 10, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers
Title: Our World Portfolio Review
Sponsor: PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, California

A fantastic opportunity to show your photographs to professionals who publish, exhibit, write and teach. Get new ideas, make connections, and find opportunities to distribute, publish and exhibit your work.

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Deadline: February 22, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all photographers
Title: Spontaneous
Sponsor: Darkroom Gallery, Esses Junction, Vermont

Spontaneity is the hallmark for great documentary and street photography where the moments of life, often ironic, poignant, emotionally charged, tragic or absurd are frozen. Photography provides the means to capture a moment but which moment makes all the difference. Well known masters include Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith with recent discoveries such as Vivian Maier and Frank Oscar Larson adding to a long list of great photographers.

Many of the scenes captured by practitioners of this art, with the possible exception of war and extreme sports documentary, pass before us every day, but we do not see. This exhibit is dedicated to those who strive to see, realize and then manifest vision and moment into an image so that we can all see what is right in front of us or inaccessible in some other way. Showing us the remarkable moments that make up the, often unconscious, Human Experience. Juror: Nikos Economopoulos.

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Deadline: February 24, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all photographers
Title: Renaissance Photography Prize, 2012
Sponsor: Lavender Trust, London, England

The Renaissance Photography Prize is an international photography competition which raises money to support younger women with breast cancer. By entering, you get the chance to have your work judged by some of the top names in photography, be exhibited in the prestigious Mall Galleries in the heart of London and win over £8,000 ($12,000) worth of prizes. You'll also be donating to breast cancer as all of your entry fee is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care. Renaissance is run entirely by volunteers. Every penny goes to charity. Everyone gives their time and expertise for free which has allowed us to raise over £150,000 so far. There will be five categories this year, Expression, Environment, Memory, Perspective and Disorientation, with prizes awarded in each category as well as the overall Renaissance prize. The Calumet prize of a Nikon F6 camera worth £2,000 will be awarded to the best photo taken on film.

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Deadline: February 29, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all photographers 18 years and older
Title: The Open Portfolio
Sponsor: TeraBella Media, Richmond, Texas

Whether your passion is landscape, portrait, documentary/street or something entirely unique, TeraBella Media is interested in viewing your interpretations. All photographers are invited to send images that best represent their own personal style. The subject matter is open for each photographer. Image files may be in black and white or color. Participants may submit up to eight images which are most characteristic of their individual photographic approach. First Place winner receives $500.00 cash prize.

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Deadline: March 2, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all photographers
Title: Both Sides of the Lens: Self-Portraiture
Sponsor: Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, Virginia

Self-portraiture is often used to explore and manipulate identity. The photographer invites judgement and critique on not only their artistic message, but also their appearance and demeanor. For this exhibition, The Kiernan Gallery seeks self-portraits that provide insight into the artist; their stories, struggles and triumphs.

For this exhibition, juror Russell Joslin will select up to 30 images for display in the main gallery and up to an additional 40 images to be included in the online gallery. All images will be reproduced in an exhibition catalogue available for purchase. A Juror's Choice and Director's Choice award will also be announced. All photographic media are encouraged.

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Deadline: March 8, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers over 18
Title: Abstract Expressions
Sponsor: Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

Cameras are terrific tools for telling stories about the world. But they can also capture abstract designs based on pattern, texture, light, or color. For this exhibition, PhotoPlace Gallery seeks photographs that explore abstraction in the visual world.

For Abstract Expressions, juror Carl Chiarenza will select forty photos for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from May 15 through June 9, 2012. He will also choose an additional thirty-five photos for the gallery's On-Line Annex. All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalog 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. Submission fee: $25 for five photos, $6 each additional photo.

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Deadline: March 19, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers
Title: Gardens
Sponsor: A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas

gar-dens : plants, flowers, vegetables, bed, conservatory, field, greenhouse, nursery, oasis, patch, plot, sanctuary, spread, green, bugs, trees.

"...let us cultivate our garden." Voltaire, from Candide

Sowing seeds, watching them sprout and ultimately grow into plants is an amazing and awe inspiring magical experience. Plants, flowers and trees in a garden have their own quiet life affirming force.From inspiring poetry and art to cleansing the Earth's atmosphere and providing life sustaining nourishment, plants and flowers in a garden are essential to human existence.

Forty five to fifty images will be selected for exhibition and a Blurb full color catalogue of the exhibit with all the accepted entries will be available for purchase. Awards are $250 for Juror's Award, $250 for Director's Award, $100 for Visitors' Choice and five Honorable Mentions.

Steve Goff, Professor and Chair of Photography, Art and Mass Communication at Odessa College, will be the juror of Gardens.

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Deadline: March 19, 2012
Eligibility: Must be a member of PRC
Title: Exposure 2012
Sponsor: Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Juror Alison Nordstrom will select ten photographers to comprise the seventeenth iteration of the PRC's highly regarded annual juried exhibition. Nordstrom is Curator of Photographs and Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House.

Awards
Ten entries selected by juror will be invited to exhibit in EXPOSURE 2012: The 17th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition,
June 5 - July 18, 2012.
Best of Show: Selected by juror from winning entries.
$500 cash prize.
Staff Picks: PRC staff will select two entries to be exhibited in Loupe, the journal of the PRC, and in NEO, the PRC's monthly online gallery.

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Deadline: March 19, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers over 18
Title: Home
Sponsor: Umbrella Arts, New York, New York

The exhibit HOME continues curator Harvey Stein's investigation of themes that explore the basic yet complex and necessary needs and desires of the human condition. Former exhibits in this series, all using photography as the medium of choice include BED, BED 2, and DINNER, each juried and presented by Harvey Stein over the last three year's at Umbrella Arts.

Juror: Harvey Stein [New York, NY] is a professional photographer, educator, lecturer, curator, and author of five photography books.

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Deadline: March 23, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Artists
Title: The Hand-Made Photograph
Sponsor: Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, New York

Smithtown Township Arts Council seeks entries for its 32nd Annual Juried Photography Exhibition The Hand-Made Photograph at the Mills Pond House Gallery, May 5-June 1, 2012. Juror: Christopher James [Dublin, NH]. Entry deadline March 23, 2012. National call. 660 Route 25A, St. James, NY 11780. (631) 862-6575. $45/3 entries. Cash Prize.

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Deadline: March 26, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers
Title: The Curator
Sponsor: Photo District News, New York, New York

The selected artists will be part of The Curator group show in New York City, summer 2012. The opening reception, which is open to the gallery-going public, will be attended by top industry creatives and personalities, all coming together for music, cocktails, and to celebrate your work! In addition, each chosen photographer will receive a two-page spread in PDN's July issue. PDN has expanded our distribution of 25,000 to include over 5,000 creatives! Winning work will be seen by industry photo editors, art directors and art buyers! An extended gallery will be archived on PDNOnline.com.

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Deadline: March 30, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers over 18
Title: Between Dusk and Dawn
Sponsor: Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, Virginia

Between the last light of day and the first rays of dawn, the world as we normally see it transforms to one in which nightclubs, all-night stores, third shift workers, and nocturnal wildlife take center stage. Spaces abuzz with activity during the day become quiet and desolate, and artificial light transforms mundane spaces into something almost magical. Photographers who work at night experience a nocturnal world through which most sleep. For Between Dusk and Dawn, The Kiernan Gallery seeks images that explore the night or other darkness visually, metaphorically, and emotionally. For this exhibition, juror Brie Castell will select up to 30 images for display in the main gallery, and up to an additional 40 to be included in the online gallery. All images will be reproduced in an exhibition catalogue available for purchase. A Juror's Choice and Director's Choice award will also be announced. All photographic media are encouraged.
About the Juror:

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Deadline: March 30, 2012
Eligibility: Open to a Gulf Coast Photographer
Title: Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography
Sponsor: New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, Louisiana

The New Orleans Alliance (NOPA) is proud to announce a call for applications for the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography (MPS Fund) 2012 grant. This fund, established by NOPA to honor the legendary New Orleans photographer Michael P. Smith, will award one $5,000 grant annually to a Gulf Coast photographer whose work combines artistic excellence and a sustained commitment to a long-term cultural documentary project. Both emerging and established photographers residing in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida are eligible to apply. The subject matter for the proposed project, however, is not limited to the Gulf Coast region. NOPA will accept grant applications from February 1 through March 30, 2012. Three preliminary jurors will select ten finalists. They are Glenn Ruga, director of the Photographic Resource Center and the SocialDocumentary.net website, Paul Moakley, Photo Editor at TIME magazine, and Ellen Fleurov, Director of the Silver Center For Photography. Brett Abbott, the Curator of Photography at the High Museum in Atlanta GA will select the 2012 recipient from the ten finalists.

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Deadline: April 9, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers over 18
Title: PhotoPlace Open, 2012
Sponsor: Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

PhotoPlace Gallery is pleased to welcome Kyohei Abe as the juror for the 3rd annual PhotoPlace Open. Kyohei Abe is Chief Curator and Director of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. Abe holds an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his photos are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the Detroit Institute of Art, and numerous private and corporate collections around the world. He is a faculty member at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. For PhotoPlace Open, 2012, Abe will select forty photos for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from June 12 thru July 9, 2012. He will also choose an additional thirty-five photos for the gallery's On-Line Annex. All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalog 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. Submission fee: $25 for five photos, $6 each additional photo.

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Deadline: April 20, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Photographers
Title: 2012 Summer/Fall Scholarships for Workshops in Santa Fe
Sponsor: Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe Photographic Workshops is committed to creating opportunities for photographers of all ages and skill levels. We offer six $1,000 scholarships - two awarded by Nikon and four by the Workshops - for workshops running between June and the end of December 2012. The $1,000 scholarships are provided as credit towards tuition and fees for the recipient's workshop of choice, subject to portfolio approval. There are also two unique, $825 scholarships offered - the Rick Allred Scholarship for Young Photographers.

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Deadline: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: Open to all Artists
Title: 2012 Art Kudos Juried Online Competition
Sponsor: Artshow.com

Artshow.com is currently accepting entries for the 8th annual Art Kudos Online Competition, an annual international juried competition that serves to recognize and honor excellence in the visual arts. Artists who are selected as finalists benefit from world-wide exposure in a year-long online exhibition (www.artkudos.com) beginning July 15th and compete for $4,400 in cash awards: Best of Show - $1,200; Second Place - $900; Third Place - $750; Founder's Award of Distinction - $500; (3) Merit Awards - $250 each; (3) Honorable Mentions - $100 each. Awards Judge: David Cohen, editor and publisher of artcritical.

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Last updated: February 3, 2012