ENTER LUCIE PHOTO-BOOK PRIZE: New Extended Deadline August 31, 2021

2021 Lucie Photo Book Prize

The Lucie Photo Book Prize aims to support photographers in producing and promoting their photo-books through monetary prizes and exposure opportunities. The contest is divided into two separate awards - the Traditional Prize (worth US$3,000) and the Independent Prize (worth US$2,000). The Traditional Prize will be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator, or publisher whose book is commercially produced and distributed, while the Independent Prize will be granted to a photographer, editor, curator, or publisher whose book is published and distributed independently.

The 10-person jury this year consists of many acclaimed industry professionals working in a wide range of fields, from editors and publishers to creative directors. They are Bekie Ntini (Interim Head: Market Photo Workshop), Raina Lampkins-Fielder (Curator at Souls Grown Deep Foundation), Sarah Allen (Curator, Tate Modern), Elizabeth Avedon (Independent Curator, Photography Book and Exhibition Designer), Tracey Woods (Director of Photography, The Luupe), Mariama Attah (Curator, Open Eye Gallery), Emmeline Yong (Co-founder and Director of Objectifs), Chantal Pontbriand (Contemporary art curator, critic, and art consultant), Edie Peters (Manager PhotoQ Bookshop at World Press Photo), and our own Founder and Director Giuseppe Oliverio. 

 The top finalists will have their work displayed in New York City at a date to be set in 2022 as part of the Lucie Foundation’s annual programming. Entry fees vary from US$35 to US$55 depending on the award. An application form and a PDF file of the book must be submitted by 15 July. 

luciephotobookprize.org/photobookprize

 

Thrilled to be a Juror for The 2021 Lucie PhotoBook Prize!

luciephotobookprize.org/photobookprize

SANDRA CHEN WEINSTEIN: Kuala Lumpur International Photo Award Portrait Prize + Talk

1st Prize “Untitled” from "SHE/They" project

​Photograph © Sandra Chen Weinstein

KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARDS ( KLPA) Portrait Photography Prize was awarded to Sandra Chen Weinstein's photograph, “Untitled,” the 1st prize winner for Open Category in this year’s contest “Defining Family."

"The inside of "D's" mind is wonderland, chaotic, and unorganized. The only thing that makes sense in her mind is that nothing does and the only order, is no order. "D" had a tough time growing up - constantly bullied at school. She left home as a late teen from Los Angeles. Women in every society face the task of transforming these expectations of others in order to match their own sensibilities and ambitions. The series of candid yet intimate women portraits illuminates the dynamic and complex feminine psychology, the perception of tradition, love, identity and ideals in life. As a whole the work seeks to demonstrate how women inhabit diverse bodies and express complex forms of self-determination." 

– SANDRA CHEN WEINSTEIN, USA

 ​ "Woman of Nablus"
Photograph © Sandra Chen Weinstein

 ​"New Home" from Refuge in America
Photograph © Sandra Chen Weinstein

 "L.A. Women"
 Photograph © Sandra Chen Weinstein

 "Child Shiva"

Photograph © Sandra Chen Weinstein

KLPA 2017 Awards Ceremony Presentation + Opening of the Exhibition on September 9 includes an Artist talk by Sandra Chen Weinstein “PERSONAL STORIES’ Presentation at the White Box Gallery, WHITEBOX, Publika, Solaris Dutamas, 10.  

Events Schedule

Weinstein will present stories from a selection of images mainly focusing on intimate portraits of women with attention to their diversity, community, culture, and empowerment. The selection of images (above) are from women refugees in America, Middle East, India, and California.

Opening of Exhibition + Artist Talk 

“PERSONAL STORIES’ PRESENTATION
September 9, 2017

White Box Gallery, WHITEBOX
Publika, Solaris Dutamas, 10

https://www.klphotoawards.com/

KLPA PHOTOAWARDS
September 9, 2017–September 19, 2017
Whitebox Gallery, PUBLIKA

Sandra Chen Weinstein
Untitled from SHE/They project
www.SandraChenWeinstein.com

Awards Schedule

OFF THE CLOCK 2017 – CALL FOR ENTRIES : APA LA Curated Photo Exhibition

 (c) Erika Plummer

 

(c) Hannah Benet

APA LA

OFF THE CLOCK 2017 - Call for Entries
This Year's Guest Curator - Elizabeth Avedon

OFF THE CLOCK is APA-LA’s sixth annual curated exhibit of inspired personal photography. Images will be chosen by one curator who will carefully select the top 100 images from the submissions. Give it your best shot! This year we are honored to welcome ELIZABETH AVEDON as our curator for Off The Clock. Deadline for entries - Friday Feb 9, 2017

ONE RECEPTION, MULTIPLE ADVERTISING AGENCIES

EXCEPTIONAL EXPOSURE

All of the top Creatives in our region will receive special invitations, so this is a superb opportunity to show them your finest personal work. After the opening reception the 100 selected framed images will rotate throughout multiple agencies summer 2017. This gives your personal work exposure to creatives at the top advertising agencies in the US. We will also display the complete exhibition on our website for a full year, so your finest personal work will be available to thousands more clients. We’ve chosen a very large and wonderfully popular venue that will accommodate 100 framed prints, so your chances of participating in OFF THE CLOCK are truly excellent! You can online-enter as many JPEG images as you like. We’ve limited the number of accepted pieces from any one photographer to their top six, as decided by the curator.

YOUR FINEST PERSONAL WORK

Creatives love to see pro photographers’ personal work, because it reveals their true photographic style, without anyone else’s influence or input. OFF THE CLOCK is easy to enter. No confusing categories. No series of images. No creation date restrictions. No vastly different size prints or frames. Only strong, original, creative, truly personal work gets accepted. Entries may be black and white, duotone, or color, and should be self-commissioned and must represent what you consider to be your finest personal work. There is no limitation on when your images were created. Alternative print processes (copper plate, tin type, etc) are acceptable; there will be an extra framing fee.

CONTEST RULES + DETAILS

Deadline for entries - Friday Feb 9, 2017

 Winners announced on/or about March 11, 2017

Exhibition Opening: April 29, 2017

*American Photographic Artists

SAUL LEITER: Early Black and White Photography from the 1940's and 50's

Jean, c. 1948

Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

Scarf, c.1948

Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

Debra and Regina, c.1948

Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

‘He has a rapturous way with color, which stems from his love of the masters of modern art,’ writes Max Kozloff in the introduction to "Saul Leiter: Early Black and White." ‘But his black and white production is just as indebted to lessons he learned from those same masters.’

Saul Leiter 

Howard Greenberg Gallery

to October 25, 2014

Saul Leiter, presented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, represents the first solo show of the artist’s early black and white photography from the 1940s and 50s, focus's on more than 40 images including many unique prints that have never before been exhibited. Leiter made an enormous and unique contribution to photography with a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1940s and 50s. His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries. Well-known for his color work, Leiter’s earliest black and white photographs also show an extraordinary affinity for the medium. His distinctive imagery stems from his profound and touching response to the dynamic street life of New York City. This show includes the artist’s iconic street photography and intimate portraits of friends and family.

The exhibition coincides with the publication of "Saul Leiter: Early Black and White" a two-volume monograph published by Steidl / Howard Greenberg Library, a new imprint at Steidl. With text by Max Kozolff and an additional essay by Jane Livingston, the volumes show the impressive range of Leiter’s early photography.

From Wedding as a Funeral, c.1951

Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

LIFE Magazine, September 3, 1951

"Saul Leiter, who is a young free-lance photographer, spends a great deal of his time searching for incongruity...."text accompanying Leiter's award winning "Young Photographers Contest" spread in Life Magazine, displayed at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Saul Leiter's 1951 LIFE Magazine "Young Photographers Contest" Entries displayed at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Wedding as a Funeral, c.1951

Saul Leiter 

Howard Greenberg Gallery

41 East 57 St NY NY

to October 25, 2014 

Many thanks to Howard Greenberg Gallery for images and text

FEATURE SHOOT: 101 Photo Industry Professionals You Should Follow on Twitter

Do you want to keep up with what’s happening in the Photo Industry? Then this list of 101 Photo Industry Professionals is for you. I'm honored to be included at #54 with such a heady group!

Feature Shoot included "feeds that are informative, entertaining, and most importantly that offer us a window into the interests and inspirations of some of the most creative people in the photo world. Whether at the pinnacle of their careers or just starting out, the overriding common thread of those that made the list is that they all share a passion for photography and want to share their knowledge and findings with their followers."

The list is in no particular order.

1. Donald R. Winslow / @donaldrwinslow Editor at News Photographer magazine for NPPA. Teaches at John Cabot University & John Felice Rome Center.  2. David Campbell / @davidc7 Visual storytelling, politics, social media. Secretary to World Press Photo 2014 contest jury.  3. Kathy Ryan / @ryan_kathy  Director of Photography at The New York Times Magazine.  4. Ken Geiger / @kengeiger Deputy Director of Photography at National Geographic Magazine and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.  5. Michael Wichita / @MichaelWichita Director of Photography for AARP Media in DC.  6. Vaughn Wallace / @vaughnwallace Deputy Photo Editor at Al Jazeera America.  7. Kira Pollack / @KiraPollack Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise at TIME and Executive Producer of Red Border Films. 8. Alessia Glaviano / @AlessiaGlaviano  Senior Photo Editor at Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue.  9. Patrick Witty / @patrickwitty Director of Photography at WIRED.  10. Judith Wesch / @judith_photo Photo Editor at Le Figaro. 11. Yumi Goto / @Yumi_Goto Independent photo documentary/reportage project researcher, coordinator, consultant, editor and curator. 12. Rodrigo Orrantia / @rodrigoorrantia Photography curator, focusing on art photography publication and exhibition projects at DMB and Lucid-ly.  13. Santiago Lyon / @slyon66 Vice President and Director of Photography at The Associated Press.  14. Helen Trompeteler / @htrompeteler Assistant Curator of Photographs at The National Portrait Gallery. 15. Charles Guice / @CharlesGuice  Founder of Charles Guice Contemporary, which features modern and contemporary art, film/video and new media by nationally and internationally recognized visual artists.  16. Fiona Rogers / @Fiona_Rogers  Cultural and Education Manager, Magnum Photos London, and Founder of Firecracker, an online platform supporting European women photographers.  17. Patrick Baz  / @Patrick_Baz MENA Photo Manager for Agence France-Presse; has covered all major Mideast conflicts and crises—Bosnia, Somalia and Afghanistan.  18. Wayne Ford / @wayneford Designer/Creative Director—visual identity and communication.  19. SMBHmag / @BarryWHughes Editor at online photography magazine, SMBHmag (SuperMassiveBlackHole).  20. Emma Bowkett / @emmalbowkett Photo Editor at the Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine.  21. Elizabeth Orcutt / @PixEditor Deputy Picture Editor at The Times, academic artist (photography), PhD student and lecturer at Falmouth University.  22. Brad Smith / @BradSmithSI Director of Photography for Sports Illustrated.  23. Rebecca Mcclelland / @rlmcclelland Group Photo Editor at New Statesman, PCP Associate Lecturer Photo UCA, and Creative Director Ian Parry Scholarship.   24. Matthew Leifheit / @matte_mag Photo Editor at VICE and Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine.    25. Ángel Luis González / @bohoe Founder and Director of PhotoIreland and The Library Project.  26. Stuart Pilkington / @stupilkington Art photography curator and curator of ‘The Swap.’  27. Matt M. McKnight / @mattmillsphoto Photo editor, news junkie, and freelance photojournalist.  28. Scott Braut / @scottbraut VP of Content for Shutterstock and Offset.   29. Louise Clements / @mazmanian  Artistic Director of QUAD & FORMAT International Photo Festival.   30. Cheryl Newman / @cherylnewman1 Photo Director at Telegraph magazine. 31. Jennie Ricketts / @jennieric  Picture editor for the Observer Magazine c.1996-2004. Launched jenniericketts.com photography gallery in 2006.  32. Prison Photography / @brookpete Freelance scrawler, photography, prisons, and social justice. Writer for Raw File blog, WIRED photo blog, and BagNews Notes.  33. Sacha Lecca / @sachalecca Senior Photo Editor at Rolling Stone.   34. Emily Shornick / @EmilyShornick Photo Editor at NY Mag’s The Cut.  35. Conor Risch / @c_risch Senior Editor for PDNonline.   36. Manuela Oprea / @Takeoff  Photo Editor at Bloomberg Markets Magazine. 37. Katrin Eismann / @SVADigitalPhoto Artist, author, educator, digital photography fiend.  38. Geordie Wood / @geordiewood Photographer and Photo Editor at The FADER.   39. Olivier Laurent/ @olivierclaurent Associate Editor at the British Journal of Photography and new TIME LightBox Editor.  40. Bruno Decock / @brunodecock Documentary photographer and International Photo Editor for Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders (MSF).  41. Clint Alwahab/ @calwahab Photo editor at CNN and photographer.  42. Becky Senf / @RebeccaSenf Photography curator at Phoenix Art Museum.  43. Leslie K. Brown / @LeslieLKB Curator, photo historian, educator, PhD candidate in History of Photography.  44. David Griffin / @dgriffin56 Visuals Editor of The Washington Post, former Director of Photography of National Geographic Magazine.  45. aphotoeditor / @aphotoeditor Former Director of Photography at Men’s Journal and Outside Magazine. Publisher/Editor of A Photo Editor.  46. Elizabeth I. Johnson / @elizabethij Senior Photo Editor and typist for CNN Photos.  47. Pamela Chen / @pc Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic Magazine.  48. Mary Vignoles / @MVignoles Photo Editor at Los Angeles Times.  49. JamesEstrin / @JamesEstrin Co-Editor and Senior Staff Photographer at New York Times Lens Blog.  50. Pancho Bernasconi / @DailyLuca Director of Photography at Getty Images.   51. Oliver Lang / @oggsie Mobile photography curator, Instagram commercial and cultural consultant.  52. Sophie Wright / @wrightsophie Cultural and Print Room Director at Magnum Photos.  53. Rebecca Douglas-Home / @BeccaDH Picture Editor, London.  54. Elizabeth Avedon / @elizabethavedon Independent photography curator and writer.  55. Susan Bright / @SusanBrightNYC Curator and writer, NYC.  56. Tony Bell / @bellyboy69 Picture Editor at the Observer.  57. ANTON / @PhotoAnton Photographer, founder of Photographers Dining Club, producer of ‘Analogue Tribes’ short films.  58. Katy Barron / @KBarronPhotos Independent photography curator and consultant, London.  59. Andy Adams / @FlakPhoto Editor, producer, publisher at FlakPhoto.com  60. Anne McNeill / @impgalleryanne Director of Impressions Gallery, not for profit contemporary photography gallery, Bradford.  61. Sarah McDonald / @PhotoFramed Curator at Getty Images and writer specializing in historical and press photography. 62. Mia Diehl / @MiaDiehl Photography director of Fortune Magazine.  63. Larissa Leclair / @LarissaLeclair Founder  64. Luanne Dietz / @LuanneDietz Photo Editor at The San Francisco Chronicle. 65. Jennifer Schwartz / @Crusade4Art  Creator/director of Crusade for Art, a non-profit dedicated to building artists’ capacity to create demand for their work.  66. Andy Greenacre / @andygreenacre Picture Editor at The Telegraph Magazine.  67. David Bram / @dbram Editor of Fraction magazine.  68. Julie Grahame / @aCurator Publisher and editor of aCurator.com, a full-screen online photography magazine.  69. Gerry Brakus / @gerrylb Ex-Deputy Picture Editor of The Independent. Acting Photography Editor of New Statesman.  70. Ryan Grimley / @RLGrimley Currently picture desk intern at Wallpaper* Magazine and holds the fort at Darwin Magazine.  71. Gary Hershorn / @GaryHershorn Photojournalist and Photo Editor freelancing after 29 years working for a global news agency.  72. Daria Scolamacchia / @dariascola Editor at Fabrica.  73. Keith W. Jenkins / @keithwj Director of Photography for National Geographic Digital and former head of multimedia at NPR.  74. Kate Barrett / @kateelisabee Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine.  75. Stellazine / @StellaKramer Photo Editor and creative consultant working with photographers to help their careers.  76. Jon Levy / @FOTO8 Foto8 connects documentary photographers, authors and audiences creating interactive displays, photography exhibitions, books and magazine publications.  77. Brian Storm / @BrianStorm Founder and Executive Producer of MediaStorm.  78. Jen Bekman / @jenbee Founder and CEO of 20×200.  79. Lesley A. Martin / @lamartin Photobooks and other good things. Digi-curious, print passionate.  80. Josh K Lustig / @joshklustig Assignments Editor at Panos Pictures and publisher of Tartaruga Press.  81. Greg Whitmore / @G_Whizzz Picture Editor at The Observer.  82. Delphine Bedel / @delphinebedel  Photographer, lecturer, photobook publisher, curator and Founder of Monospace Press, Amsterdam Art/Book Fair.  83. Christine Santa Ana / @christinecurate  Independent photography curator, Pop-Up Exhibitions with Of The Afternoon.  84. Shawn Waldron / @shawnwald Senior Director, Conde Nast Archive.  85. Jörg M. Colberg / @jmcolberg Writer, photographer, teacher.  86. David Drake / @ffotodavid Curator, writer and producer, Director of ffotogallery.  87. Hamidah Glasgow / @HamidahGlasgow Executive Director of The Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado.  88. Susan Spiritus / @SusanSpiritus Owner/Director of Susan Spiritus Gallery, representing emerging and mid-career photographers since 1976.  89. Ashley Byford-Bates / @ashb_bates Global Head of Reuters Pictures and Archive Products.  90. Micha Bruinvels / @michabruinvels Manager Contests at World Press Photo.  91. Teru Kuwayama / @terukuwayama Hoover Institution fellow, Senior TED fellow, Ochberg fellow at Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, and Knight fellow at Stanford.  92. Amy Yenkin / @AmyYenkin Director of the Documentary Photography Project at the Open Society Foundations.  93. Max Houghton / @MaxHoughton8 Senior Lecturer in Photography at London College of Communication.  94. Chiara Palazzo / @cvpalazzo Assistant Picture Editor at The Telegraph.  95. Eric Baradat / @Ebaradat Photo Editor-in-Chief of Agence France-Presse.  96. Donna Cohen / @donnatova Photo Editor at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine.   97. Lars Boering / @larsboering Managing Director of FotografenFederatie of the Netherlands, art dealer at Lux Photo Gallery, teacher and consultant.  98. Chelsea Matiash / @cmatiash Photo Editor at Wall Street Journal.  99. Jordan G. Teicher / @teicherj Covers photography for Slate. 100. Tom Gifford / @graphitegrey Senior Creative Artworker at Table19.  101. Tabish Khan / @LondonArtCritic Reviewer of art and museum exhibits for Londonist, and weekly top 5 on FAD.

2012 HOLIDAY BOOKS: A Few New Favorites I

 Saul Leiter
With Vince Aletti and Margit Erb, and others

Kehrer Verlag; First Edition (2012)
 

"Painter and Photographer Saul Leiter (b. 1923) exhibited alongside abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning before beginning in the late 1940s to take photographs. Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt, he found his motifs on the streets of New York, but at the same time was visibly interested in abstraction. Edward Steichen was one of the first to discover Leiter's photography, showing it in the 1950s in two important exhibitions at New York's Museum of Modern Art. This book, published to mark the first major retrospective of Leiter's work anywhere in the world, features his early black and white and color images, his fashion photography, the over painted nudes, as well as his paintings and sketchbooks."

 

 Joel-Peter Witkin

Delpire; First Edition (2012)

"In addition to the 89 photographs published, there are 68 details, 24 pages of sketch and preparatory drawings and a text, Crazy About Christ by Eugenia Parry, who aims to give clues, if not guidelines to his work." Read the books review by Bernard Perrine here + Interview with Joel Peter-Witkin here

 Howard Greenberg: An American Gallery,  

Twenty-Five Years of Photography

"...my 25th Anniversary show and book, “An American Gallery, Twenty-Five Years of Photography” (although published by Lumiere Press in 2007, this Collection is timeless). I labored for a couple of years about the 25th anniversary, I want to do a publication, I want to  do a show, I didn’t know what to do. Part of the problem was I’ve worked with so many photographers and estates and I have so many friends out there that I didn’t feel I could be politically correct. So I just took twenty-five pictures from my own collection and spoke about them and about my involvement in photography." –Read the Interview with Howard Greenberg here

 

 Jonathan Becker: 30 Years at Vanity Fair

Assouline, 2012

 "It’s a document of documents spanning 30 years of time – actually fairly important times with important people in important places – all touched by Vanity Fair." –Jonathan Becker

As one of the great visual storytellers of our time, Becker has worked in an exclusive world of aristocrats, artists, and heads of state most would never observe except through the lens of his Rollei. He’s documented for Vanity Fair HRH The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles at their first public appearance together in Buckingham Palace, "Dr. Death" Jack Kevorkian, China’s outspoken human rights activist Ai Weiwei, the mother of modern dance Martha Graham, as well as countless other fascinating characters from the rarefied worlds of art, literature, politics, pop culture, and society. Read more in my Interview with Jonathan Becker...

Interview with Jonathan Becker here

John Schabel : Passengers

forthcoming from Twin Palms

"John Schabel’s series of photographs depicting anonymous airline passengers effectively captures the curious blend of impersonal efficiency and poignant humanity that pervades the experience of contemporary commercial air travel. Like products on an assembly line, the planes carrying Schabel’s subjects churn down the runway; and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge, identically framed, from his camera and onto the gallery wall. Interestingly, it is precisely this mechanized process that lays bare the active, but often overlooked, emotional and intellectual relationship between human beings and flight.” — Laura M. Andre

 

Gary Briechle Twin Palms, 2012

The rocky coast of Maine is where Briechle found himself driven to make pictures, using the wet-plate collodion process, of the individuals who constitute his stand-in family. “I've been in Maine close to eight years now and there are some people I've photographed for the entire time. A few have died and I've shot their likenesses tattooed on the chests of those they've left behind.”

 Sailboats and Swans

Michal Chelbin, text by novelist A.M. Homes Twin Palms, 2012

There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable.

The images are about a kind of discomfort—theirs, hers, mine and ours. It is like an old fashioned staring contest—one guy looks at the other and the first one who blinks is the loser, except Michal Chelbin never blinks. Instead she captures with the click of a shutter. Chelbin is always looking, drawing what is hidden to the surface. She captures—we shudder. — A.M. Homes

+

My Interview with Twin Palms Publisher Jack Woody

+
2012 BOOKS: A Few Favorites II 

FAMILY ELDERCARE PHOTO CONTEST: Celebrating Older Americans

Photograph (c) Michael O'Brien

Photograph (c) Henry Horenstein

Photograph (c) Robb Kendrick

Who We Are

Family Eldercare is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a continuum of professional services to seniors, caregivers and adults with disabilities in Central Texas. Family Eldercare’s mission is to help people live with dignity and independence in their own homes and community for as long as possible. To celebrate Family Eldercare’s 30th Anniversary and raise awareness of the changing and growing needs of older adults in Central Texas, Family Eldercare is sponsoring this Professional Photography Contest.

A Call For Entries

This contest is open to all photographers, and all forms of photographic expression are welcome. The contest will culminate in an exhibition and all winning selections will be included in an exhibition catalog. Photographers are encouraged to submit any image of an older adult, alone or with others, and in all stages of life. The judges will be especially interested in photographs that highlight the focus of Family Eldercare – images depicting the challenges facing older adults as well as images celebrating older adults leading dignified, independent and engaged lives.

The Judges
Mary Virginia Swanson, Michael O’Brien
Leslie Baldwin, Robb Kendrick

The Awards

From all the entries submitted, the judges will first choose up to 30 Judges Selection Images to be Printed and Framed (at no cost to the winners) and displayed at the Family Eldercare Exhibition to open in September, 2012. The Judges Selection Images will all be featured in an Exhibition Catalog. From among those images, Judges will award: First Prize: $400 cash award, plus the winning image on cover of the Exhibition Catalog. Second Prize: $300 cash award. Third Prize: $200 cash award. Honorable Mention (2): $100 cash award. Best Submission from applicants 18 years of age and younger: $100 cash award. The contest submission closes on June 23, 2012.

To register & submit photographs, please go to:
Family ElderCare Photo Contest

Thanks to Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio and Sean Perry for alerting me to this rewarding organization and Photography Contest!

IMAGE 12 | ASMP-NY | Photography Contest

First Prize, Image 06
Stranded: Peri, Route 64, Kentucky
Photograph (c) Amy Stein /All Rights Reserved

IMAGE 12 | ASMP-NY | PHOTO CONTEST
American Society of Media Photographers Competition
Open to Professional and Student Photographers residing in the U.S.
Submit one or more images created after January 1, 2011.
Entry Deadline: May 1, 2012

IMAGE 12 Judges
Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator and Correspondent, La Lettre
Holly Stuart Hughes, Editor, Photo District News and PDNonline
Jody Quon. Photography Director, New York Magazine
Marc Sobier, Global Creative Director, Y&R NY
Hosanna Marshall, Art Buyer/ Creative Producer, Sastchi & Saatchi

How to submit an image
View the previous years winning images

IMAGE 12: ASMPNY Photo Contest

Second Prize, Image 09

Islamic Woman Ascending Stairs
Photograph (c) Jeffris Elliott/All rights reserved
(read: Jeffris Elliott In His Own Words)

First Prize, Image 09
Photograph © Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête series
(read: Fundraising Campaign for Tête-à-Tête)

IMAGE 12 is a nationwide photo contest run by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers. The competition is open to all professional, serious amateur and student photographers residing in the United States. Contestants are asked to submit one or more images that were created after January 1, 2011. The deadline for entry submissions is May 1, 2012. Two categories: Professional and Student. Each category will have a first, second and third place prize awarded.

IMAGE 12 Judges

Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator and Correspondent, La Lettre
Holly Stuart Hughes, Editor, Photo District News and PDNonline
Jody Quon. Photography Director, New York Magazine
Marc Sobier, Global Creative Director, Y&R NY
Hosanna Marshall, Art Buyer/ Creative Producer, Sastchi & Saatchi

How to submit an image
View the previous years winning images

STEVE McCURRY: The Iconic Photographs

Rabari Tribal Elder, from McCurry's "The Last Roll of Kodachrome"
Photograph (c) Steve McCurry

Fishermen at Wiligama, Sri Lanka
Photograph (c) Steve McCurry

Afghan Girl, 1984

McCurry's 1985 portrait of the blue-eyed Afghan refugee girl is one of National Geographic's most popular magazine covers

Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs, Phaidon Press; Limited Edition

Steve McCurry is credited as having taken "the world’s most recognizable photograph," a young Afghan girl refugee in 1985, and then 17 years later defying odds and finding her again in remote Afghanistan. This work, along with selected images from "The Last Roll of Kodachrome," slide film discontinued in 2010 by Kodak after 74 years, will be exhibited at the Open Shutter Gallery in Durango Colorado this the Fall. He will also give a special slideshow and lecture at the Durango Arts Center, September 9th, 100% of the proceeds from the lecture will go to support Imagine-Asia.org, a not for profit organization, he founded.

McCurry is the recipient of an unprecedented four first prizes from the World Press Photo contest, as well as the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad Showing Courage and Enterprise. McCurry’s images span the globe documenting varying ethnicities and significant cultural icons.

Photographs by Steve McCurry Exhibition

September 9 – December 1, 2011
Open Shutter Gallery, Durango CO