Open Now is the Photo Factory’s annual open exhibition showcase.
There is no set theme and photographers are invited to submit personal work undertaken recently, of any subject, style or genre.
Exhibition:
Open Now will be exhibited twice, once in Belfast (from 3rd – 24th May 2012) and once in Dublin.
Judges: Donovan Wylie (Magnum), Trish Lambe and Tanya Kiang (Gallery of Photography, Dublin).
Successful entrants will be notified by Friday 23rd March 2012 and will be required to provide high quality, unmounted archival prints, 24 inches on the longest side (to include a two inch white border).
The Awards are not themed so all photographic images are welcome
Prizes:
The winner of Best Single Image will receive £1000
The winner of Best Set of Images will receive £250 cash, £250 vouchers for photographic lab Photographique and a 4 page feature in Vignette
The RGB Awards selection panel will select around 50 photographs to be included in a finalists exhibition at the Grant Bradley Gallery in Bristol.
The judges are: Tamany Baker, Peter Brisley, Martin Edwards, Rachel Profit, Philip Searle, Iris Veysey. Winners will be announced on May 3, 2012 at the finalists exhibition opening.
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. 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.
Exhibition dates: 22 March - 15 April 2012
Awards:
All selected entries are exhibited in our gallery and included in a full color exhibit catalog.
Juror’s Choice receives a 20×35" vinyl exhibit banner featuring their image.
People’s Choice gains free entry into a future exhibit.
Free matting and framing of accepted entries are offered for the duration of each of our exhibition, subject to standard sizes.
Fotoblur is currently looking for photographers who would like to become contributors to Fotoblur Magazine, Issue 13. Fotoblur Magazine is a community based photography publication which has published works by many up and coming photographers including some of worlds top known talents.
Themes:
Lines, Shapes, and Patterns
Images which possess one or more of the following forms: Lines which lead the eye, shapes which create in interesting composition, or repeated patterns.
Conceptual
Images which represent a concept or idea. Your images should attempt to convey a message. Usually this message is conveyed through some abstract symbolism which can be interpreted by the viewer.
The winning photographs will be turned into a beautiful postcard which will be distributed to leading independent bookshops in Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto & Vancouver for people to pick them up for free.
Award:
There will be two winners and two postcards will be printed (2000 of each). Your work will be sent all around the world. The winning entries will also be published on the website.
An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award / Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of a minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive.
Prize:
The winner of the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” receives a Leica M9-P camera and a lens worth 10.000 Euros in addition to a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.
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.
The perception of night is different for each photographer. For some, the darkness can present a time for reflection and repose, for others, the fear of the unknown instills feelings of anxiety and uncertainty. For Between Dusk and Dawn, The Kiernan Gallery seeks images that explore the night or other darkness visually, metaphorically, and emotionally.
Awards:
30 images will be exhibited in The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia (May 8 - June 2, 2012). Up to an additional 40 images will be selected for exhibition in the online gallery.
All selected works will be published in a full color exhibition catalogue available for purchase from Blurb Books.
This exhibition will look at what is the possible range of color photography and how do contemporary photographers use color to captivate, compose and stylize their subjects. In 1974 William Eggleston had the first solo show of color photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The MoMA show is regarded as a watershed moment in the history of photography, by marking the acceptance of color photography by the highest validating institution in the art world. A lot has changed and evolved in the field of photography in the last 38 years, but we are still captivated by dynamic, bold, vivid, colorful photographs of diverse and fascinating visual subjects.
Juror: Todd Johnson
Award:
20 photographers will be slected for this exhibition in Black Box Gallery, Portland Oregon (March 1-23, 2012)
Black Box will provide all framing, matting and printing for our exhibitions. Each exhibition will have 20 photographers included by the juror.
A photographer’s most reliable subject is his or her self. By turning the camera on oneself the photographer is brought out from behind their lens, presenting themselves to the world as both artist and subject. 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.
Awards:
Up to 30 images will be exhibited in The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia (April 10 - May 6, 2012). Up to an additional 40 images will be selected for exhibition in the online gallery.
All selected works will be published in a full color exhibition catalogue available for purchase.
A Juror’s Choice and Director’s Choice award will also be given.
Bauhaus: Art as Life, opening at the Barbican in May 2012, will feature painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation from the modern world’s most famous art school.
To celebrate the exhibition, IdeasTap wants you to design a series of Bauhaus-inspired images to be sold as products in the Barbican shop. Six designs will be selected by an esteemed panel of judges to be made into paper-based products such as greetings cards, posters or prints. You’ll even receive 10% of the initial print run for your own use. You will also receive an invite to the exclusive private view to mark the opening of the exhibition.
Open Now is the Photo Factory’s annual open exhibition showcase.
The Awards are not themed so all photographic images are welcome
Theme: Spontaneous
Fotoblur is currently looking for photographers who would like to become contributors to Fotoblur Magazine, Issue 13. Fotoblur Magazine is a community based photography publication which has published works by many up and coming photographers including some of worlds top known talents.
An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award / Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of a minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive.
Theme: Between Dusk and Dawn
Theme: Both Sides of the Lens: Self-Portraiture
