An International Student Photography Competition continued . . .

Open to All Students of all ages working in all mediums of photography.

Juror Statement
"As a photojournalist/documentary photographer what interests me most about photography is its unique ability to freeze a moment in time and reveal something within that instance, be it a 500th or even two seconds. When you document humanity, that moment can unveil emotions that exist within all of us whether it be one of joy, sorrow, anxiety, anger, boredom, ecstasy, frustration, hope, loneliness, resentment, vulnerability and a whole hosts of others. That revelation has the potential to bind us forever to the people we’ve gotten to know within that one moment frozen in time."

About the Juror
Lucian Perkins, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in biology, later studying photography with Garry Winogrand and working on the student newspaper, The Daily Texan. In 1979 he received an internship at The Washington Post, where he worked as a staff photographer for 27 years. He received the "Newspaper Photographer of the Year" by the National Press Photographers Association in 1994 for a portfolio that included projects in Russia and a “behind-the-scenes” look at the New York fashion shows. In 1995 with Post reporter, Leon Dash, he won a Pulitzer Prize for their four-year study on the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C. family through the eyes of the family's matriarch, Rosa Lee Cunningham. In 1996 he was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year for his photograph of a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. In 2000 Perkins won another Pulitzer Prize along with two colleagues at the Post for their coverage of the Kosovo conflict.

While at the Post, Perkins covered major international events, including Russia since 1988, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also chronicled local and national events throughout the United States, and worked closely with the online version of the newspaper to produce many of their first multimedia, interactive projects such as the Siberia and Finland Diaries. In October 1998, Chronicle Books published his first book, Runway Madness, which accompanied a national touring exhibition.

Perkins also co-founded InterFoto, a non-profit that mounted an annual international photography conference in Moscow, Russia (1995-2005), and organized exchange programs, exhibitions, workshops and a “Russian Photography of the Year” contest. In 1996 and 1997 Perkins curated an exhibition of Russian photography “Russia: Chronicles of Change” that traveled to museums in the United States.

Perkins’ own work has been in a number of solo and group exhibitions at World Press, Amsterdam; the ART in Embassies Program in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Havana, Cuba, Tokyo, Japan, and Ankara, Turkey; the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; the Newseum, Washington, D.C, San Francisco, and New York; American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; and the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, among others.

Currently, Perkins is an independent photographer and videographer concentrating on multimedia projects and video documentaries while still pursuing his love for the still image. Over the years, Perkins has developed a preference for human interest stories, and is known for an approach that counterpoints a deep sympathy for his subjects with an ability to expose their hopes and foibles, and a style that combines formal clarity with an off-beat humor.

Visit www.lucianperkins.com for more about juror.

To download the Call for Entries in text format.

To pay Student Competition entry fees.

Calendar of Events 2009

October 26
Entries due in San Antonio.

November 30
Notification to accepted entrants sent by mail and posted on the TPS website, www.texasphoto.org.

January 5
Prints due in San Antonio, TX.

January 21
Student Photography Show opens at Semmes Gallery at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX.

January 21
Artists reception from 5-7p.

February 19
Student Photography Show closes in San Antonio, TX.

A color exhibition catalogue will be sent to all entrants. Accepted entrants get 3 copies.

How to Enter
You do not need to be a member current member of TPS to enter the show. You may join TPS and enter the show.

Enclose one check to cover the entry fee of $25 plus $5 for each image over five and membership fee if joining TPS. Photographers may enter up to 10 images.

When emailing digital files:

1. Files should be 1000 pixels in the longest dimension saved in the JPEG format on high quality setting (not maximum). Images should be sampled at 72ppi and saved in the sRGB color space.

2. Label each file with consecutive numbers followed by your name. ie 1SamJones, 2SamJones. Also, from a networking standpoint, do not use spaces in the title of the JPEG (use underscores if needed) and limit to only alpha-numeric characters (do not use :.:’”/?}{()[ ]+-=*&^ %$#@!.).

3. In the body of an email, number each image so that it matches the above numbering system. For each image: provide the title, process, image size, and sale price. Images without a sale price will be considered not-for-sale. Include a Visa or Mastercard number along with the expiration date, 3 digit security code, your name, address, city, state, zip code and telephone numbers.

4. If you chose, you may send the credit card information from our secure website: www.texasphoto.org.

5. Email files to Clarke@texasphoto.org.

When sending digital files on a CD:

1. Files should be 1000 pixels in the longest dimension saved in the JPEG format on high quality setting (not maximum). Images should be sampled at 72ppi and saved in the sRGB color space.

2. Label each file with consecutive numbers followed by your name. ie 1AmyJones, 2AmyJones.

3. Fill out Entry & Membership Form and List of Entries form. Make certain that numbers and titles on forms match those on the CD. Mail payment, CD, entry form, and one SASE for return of CD to the address below. This is due by October 2, 2009.

Send to:
Texas Photographic Society
6338 N. New Braunfels # 174
San Antonio TX 78209

Sales

TPS encourages the sale of exhibited photographs. The commission charged will be 50% of the sales price. Print your name, address, telephone numbers (work and home), and sales amount on the back of each print accepted. If your print is Not-For-Sale (NFS) state so, but list a dollar amount for insurance. If you do not list a dollar amount, the art work will be listed as Not-For-Sale.

Liability
TPS will exercise all due care in handling slides and prints, but will not be responsible for loss or damage or replacement. Please submit duplicate slides.

Reproduction TPS retains the right to display, project and reproduce work accepted for this exhibition for publicity and promotional purposes only. Individual photographers retain Copyrights to their individual works.

Eligibility
The exhibition is open to amateur and professional artists internationally. You may join TPS and enter the competition. Entries must not have been exhibited previously in a TPS show and must have been taken within the last four years. Because of gallery limitations, three-dimensional work cannot be accepted. Artwork must be represented by 35mm slides or digital files.

If your work is accepted:
1. Send one exhibition print for each accepted photograph.

2. Prints must be mounted and overmatted using white matte board 16˝x 20˝ with at least 2˝ of border showing on all sides of the print. Maximum print size is 12˝x16˝. Smaller prints, 3˝x5˝ for example, are acceptable as long as they are mounted and overmatted to the 16˝x20˝ size.

3. Include return postage for prints to be shipped back to you after the exhibition. Prints WITHOUT postage will not be returned. Prints will be returned in the container in which they were received. Do NOT frame the print.

4. Send $5 for each print accepted to defray exhibition expense.

5. No peanuts.

6. The print must reach us by January 5, 2010.

Send your print to:

Texas Photographic Society
6338 N New Braunfels # 174
San Antonio TX 78209

Questions? Call Clarke at 210-824-4123

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