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

Deadline: March 20, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Visual Artists
Title: London International Creative Competition

LICC invites passionate visual artists, regardless of experience or nationality, to submit their innovative artwork for inclusion in the LICC competition. The artwork is juried by a board of internationally esteemed artists, writers, curators, gallery owners and other luminaries of the visual arts. The jury-selected finalists and shortlist will be published in the LICC Annual Awards Book, on this website and will be announced to the creative arts and media outlets worldwide. The 15 finalists work will be presented at the LICC awards ceremony in London, one prize-winner will be chosen by the jury to receive the £2,000 cash prize.

This year's categories:
Architectural
Audio/Music
Design (Environmental/Fashion/Graphic/Interior)
Drawing/Illustration
Installation
Mixed Media
NetArt/Web Design
Painting
Performance
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
Textile
Video and Film
Writing
Other

For more details and to enter the show, visit http://licc.us.

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Deadline: March 25, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: TeraBella Media's Signs of Love

Love is the emotion that binds all of us. Love signifies caring, faithfulness, devotion and hope. Love comes in all shapes and forms. A photograph can capture and display this emotion quite vividly or very subtly. TBM invites photographers to submit their own interpretation of this powerful emotion.

This competition is open to both professional and non professional photographers. Both B&W and color images will be accepted. First place award includes $500.00 plus exhibition opportunities.

Visit website for more information: http://www.terabellamedia.com/contest

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Deadline: March 26, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: Fredricksburg Center for Creative Arts

Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts. All-media juried national exhibit for May 2010. Theme "Conceal & Reveal." Cash awards. Entry fee: $25/1st, $5/each add'l; FCCA members $15/1st, $5/each add'l.

Download prospectus from website www.fccava.org and mail with entry form, fee, SASE, CD/slides to : FCCA, 813 Sophia St., Fredericksburg, VA 22401. For more info, 540-373-5646

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Deadline: March 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: Motion Portraiture & Self Portraiture

What is a motion portrait? Is there such a thing? What distinguishes motion portraits from biographical films and documentaries? Portraiture and self-portraiture have fascinating histories in painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, but what has happened to the form of the portrait in the digital age? Are contemporary filmmakers, video artists, animators and programmers pushing the disciplines of the portrait and self-portrait into motion? Accepting
all artworks which can be screened in video (including film, video, motion graphics, animation, programming, game interfaces, flip books, etc.) No entry fee.

Please send submissions as .mov data files on DVD, with current CV/resume and artist statement to: Open Call--Motion Portraiture and Self-Portraiture, c/o Darren Douglas Floyd AIR, 123 Risley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 or df278@cornell.edu

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Deadline: March 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: Direct Art Magazine Annual International Competition

This competition is for Direct Art Magazine, Volume 17, Fall 2010 edition. The competition is for twenty publication awards. Artist winners of the competition will, at no cost to the artist, have their work appear Volume 17 of the Direct Art Magazine.

Awards include Grand Prize: Front Cover and six page feature display.
Second Prize: Back Cover and four page feature display.
Awards 3-4: Four page feature.
Awards 5-6: Double page feature display.
Awards 7-20: Single full page display.

For more info, visit www.slowart.com/prospectus/spring.htm.

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Deadline: March 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: First Street Gallery 2010 National Juried Competition

Show dates: June 23 - July 17, 2010. Juror: Lance Esplund - art critic for the Wall Street Journal, senior art critic City Arts, NYC; former chief art critic of the New York Sun. Eligible entries: paintings, pastels, graphics, prints, sculpture. Fee: $30/3, $5 each additional image.

www.firststreetgallery.net

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Deadline: March 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: FotoDocument - Environment

Each year FotoDocument will commission documentary photographers worldwide to produce photo essays on a social, cultural or environmental theme designed to educate and inspire the viewer. Whilst the stories will expose the hard facts related to the issue, there will be an emphasis on solution-focused projects and positive outcomes. Through exposure to innovative projects happening in different countries around the world, the viewer will feel part of a growing global community who want to effect positive change. FotoDocument's aim is to create a visual dialogue between the local and the global.

FotoDocument will produce a collection of world-class images with dynamic story lines, which have the power to motivate. The final collective of photo essays will be displayed on-line enabling worldwide exposure. They will also be exhibited in public spaces in the UK and in the country where the photographs have been taken. In addition, the photo essays will be used to create a framework for our extensive education programme.

FotoDocument's theme for 2010 is the Environment, one of the most pressing issues of our time. For more info, visit www.fotodocument.org/commissions.htm.

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Deadline: March 31, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Photography Now

It’s the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s annual PHOTOGRAPHY NOW call for entries where winners will be exhibited in CPW’s main gallery from June 12 - August 22, 2010. This year CPW has invited the Aperture Foundations' acclaimed Book Publisher and Director of Content, Lesley A. Martin to select the most exciting new photography from the national and international field!

For entry guidelines, visit www.cpw.org/CurrentOpportunities/PhotoNow/pages/PhotoNow.html.

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Deadline: April 2, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: UltraViolence

This spring Projekt30 will host its second exhibition exploring the topic of violence. Our first violence exhibition pushed the envelope, consisting of artworks ranging from horrific to hopeful to hilariously gory. The exhibition
will include 30 artists; invitations will be sent to our potent and refined mailing list of galleries, collectors, and fellow artists. All Projekt30 exhibitions are publicly juried, meaning artwork submitted will be presented online prior to the exhibition so visitors may help select which artists will graduate to the final 30. Unlike other juried exhibitions, all participants receive exposure. Publicly Juried: April 5, 2010 - April 18, 2010. Opens: April 20, 2010.

www.projekt30.com/ultraviolence_prospectus.html

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Deadline: April 4, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Home Page Photo Contest, TWO

We hold the home page photo contest twice each year. The winning entries are displayed on our home page in a slide show for six months. Click the "Contest Winners" tab to view the slide show. The slide show from our second contest has been on display since October 2009. Nearly 500 photographs were submitted by 101 photographers for Home Page Photo Contest No.2.

Home Page Contest No.3 is our latest contest and our first with a theme. Since 2010 is the second year for ACP, the theme the contest is "Two". However, we're leaving the interpretation of "Two" up to you. Let your imagination run with it and see what you come up with. The juror for Home Page Contest No.3 is Julie Saul, owner of the Julie Saul Gallery in New York City.

www.visitacp.org/contest.

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Deadline: April 12, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: PhotoPlace Gallery Open 2010

PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT, is honored to announce that Keith Carter be the juror for our first annual PHOTOPLACE OPEN exhibition.  Portraits, landscapes, still life, documentation:  Send us your best photos on any theme and in any style.  Forty photographs will be chosen for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery in May and in PhotoPlace's on-line gallery.  An additional group will be selected for on-line exhibition only.  All accepted work will be included in a full-color small book publication that will be available for purchase.  To help defray artists' expenses, we provide free matting and framing of accepted photographs for the duration of our exhibitions, providing they are sized to fit our pre-cut mats.

Juror: Keith Carter, an internationally revered as a photographer and educator, Keith Carter has shown his remarkable work in over 100 solo exhibitions in thirteen countries.  He has also produced thirteen books, including Ezekiel's Horse, From Uncertain to Blue, A Certain Alchemy and, most recently, Fireflies.   Among his numerous honors are grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the University Professor Award from Lamar University, and the Texas Medal of Arts.

For details, see www.vtphotoworkplace.com or contact photos@vtphotoworkplace.com

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Deadline: April 15, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum International Photography Competition

Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum promotes creativity and community and provides educational programs and activities to photographers of all levels.
The competition has five categories: people, places, still-life,
nature, and alteration of reality. There are more than $8000 in prizes and winning photos will be displayed in a print exhibit at Morpho Gallery in Chicago in June 2010 and on the Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum website.

For details, see www.chicagophotoforum.org/IPC2010.html.

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Deadline: April 25, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: WPGA Robert Cornelius Award

The theme is Portrait in its broader sense and the photographs will be juried by Stephen Perloff, editor and founder of The Photo Review and editor of The Photograph Collector.

The winning images will be featured in The Photo Review, and published in the 2011 Robert Cornelius Portrait Award Calendar. The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award will consist in a cash prize of $1,000, and the winners of each category will receive a cash prize of $300.

50 selected images will be part of an itinerant exhibition during 2011 starting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then in Europe and US. As in other contests organized by WPGA who partner with Save the Children, a portion of its revenue will be donated to that humanitarian organization.

To register, visit www.thegalaawards.com/about.html.

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Deadline: April 30, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Paducah Photo Annual Juried Exhibition

Originating in 1975, Paducah Photo has grown from a fledgling contest to the Mid-South's most prestigious annual photographic event. Open to all
photographers working in digital or film photography, including color and black & white photography, photographic book arts, and photographic alternative processes. All work submitted must be original, completed in the last three years and not previously exhibited in a Paducah Photo exhibition. No size restrictions. Juror: Michael Johnson, Professor of Photography, Murray State University. Awards: $1,700.

For more info, visit www.paducahphoto.com.

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Deadline: April 30, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Self

SELF is a juried/judged exhibition based on variations of the theme of selfhood. What is a self? What does it mean to have a self? Self-portraits are welcome, as are more abstracted explorations of the question: who is this “I” of whom I speak? Open to all artists over the age of 18, all mediums considered, including photography. Show dates are July 1 - 31, 2010. This year's juror is Aaron Sacco, nationally acclaimed artist and illustrator ("A Scanner Darkly", Charles Schwab commercials, and more.)

To register, visit www.croftartgallery.com/artists/selfjuriedexhibition.html.

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Deadline: May 1, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: A Million Little Pictures

Artists from all over the world will attempt to create an accurate representation of the world in 2010. The goal of the exhibition is to create a physical wall of photos that creates an alternate world of our lives in 2010.
On the 9th of July, we will host an exhibition where at least one photo from each artist will be displayed. The walls of the gallery will be completely covered with the photos, creating a massive photographic installation.

Participation is easy. All you need is a camera (digital or film). After you sign up to participate, you can start shooting immediately. In the end, you'll be sending us up to 24 4x6 inch prints of your photos.

http://arthousecoop.com/projects/amlp

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Deadline: May 1, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Grants for Editorial Photography

"We believe that photojournalism is a powerful tool for telling compelling social, political and cultural stories. We also understand that creating and managing world-class photography assignments requires time, freedom, support and considerable resources.

Since 2005, we have awarded five Grants for Editorial Photography annually to professional photojournalists. Each grant provides $20,000, plus editorial, logistical and promotional support. We also award four student grants of $5,000 per year to photojournalism students at accredited schools.

We congratulate all of our recipients on the powerful and insightful work they created through our grants program, and thank our distinguished judges for elevating our competition."

Feel free to contact Getty Images with questions about Grants for Editorial Photography at grants@gettyimages.com.

http://imagery.gettyimages.com/getty_images_grants/overview.aspx

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Deadline: May 3, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Natural Wonders: Photographing the Natural World

PhotoPlace Gallery seeks photographs of the natural world, from sublime landscape vistas to detailed views of the forest floor. As our relationship to our planet seems increasingly fragile, images that encourage us to appreciate natural wonders seem ever more important. Juror David Middleton will choose approximately 40 photographs for exhibition on the walls of PhotoPlace Gallery and on this website, and another 35 for presentation on the website alone in the "On-Line Gallery Annex." All 75 photographs will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue to be published with Blurb Books. 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: May 15, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: WCP Portfoilio Competition

The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announced in first Photography Portfolio Competition. A jury of nationally recognized photography experts will select six entries for inclusion in a 16" x 20" portfolio to be published in an edition of 25 in fall 2010. Peter Barberie, the Museum's Brodsky Curator of Photographs, will select one additional honorable mention entry to be sold as an individual print in a limited edition.
 Each winning photographer will be awarded $1,000. The honorable mention photographer will be awarded $500.

For more info, visit http://pmaphotocompetition.org.

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Deadline: May 24, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Photo with Words: Imagery and Text in Photography

A photo is purported to be worth a thousand words. As visual images, photos communicate on multiple levels in complex ways. But what happens when words are part of a photograph? How can images and text communicate in connected, parallel, or divergent ways? This juried exhibition will explore the many ways in which photographs can incorporate words and the meanings that can result from such combinations. For example, words might be included as part of the image, as a caption within the image frame or margin, as an extended title, or as an additional wall text.
40 photographs will be selected for exhibition on the walls of PhotoPlace Gallery and on the gallery website by juror Liz Lee. An additional 35 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 from Blurb Books. 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: June 1, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Exhibit A

Exhibit A is an international competition that aims to showcase exceptional new talent. Juried by leading editors, curators, gallery owners, creative directors, and art directors, Exhibit A sees that emerging photographers are publicly recognized in the presence of known and respected art buyers, curators, galleries, magazines, and advertising agencies from around the world.

Submit your work by February 1 and receive a 10% discount on all entry fees.

Visit www.exhibitacomp.com for more info.

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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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