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Jury your Digital Art & Photography

L.A. Center for Digital Art Juried Competition
Deadline: November 30, 2005
Fee: $30
What You Get: 10 prints in a solo show

Click HERE for more.

Steve Smith's book

Congratulations to Steve Smith on the publication of his book, The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West. Which was made possible by, The Center for Documantary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize from Duke University.

And I remember when Steve Smith came to RISD. I wonder if he'll sign my copy.

Gotta Get a Getty Grant

Get your Getty Image Grant HERE. Deadline is November 15th.

Mass Photo Opps

Dec 01, 2005 JURIED SINGLE PHOTO CONTEST Seeking submissions in color and b&W from individual photographs. For more info please contact: Santa Fe Center for Photography OR 505-984-8353 OR http://www.sfcp.org

Nov 07, 2005 INTERNATIONAL FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Seeking all forms of photography (traditional, digital, and avant garde) for showcase. $1,500 Best of Show award and exhibition (including online). Low-cost shipping options for international entrants. For more info please contact: The Naked Truth, The Center for Fine Art Photography OR 970-224-1010 OR http://www.c4fap.org

December 31, 2005 The 2005 National Photo Awards is now accepting entries. Open to all amateur, emerging and professional
photographers. A separate monthly print competition is also available. The competition offers over $6,585.00 in cash and prizes
for the winners in the various categories. Winners will be selected in several categories. $9.00 for each photo entered into the monthly competition, $14.00 for each single photo or $28.00 for each series entered into the main competition. To request your 2005 entry forms and view past winners, contact: 2005 National Photo Awards, 59456 330th St, Warroad MN 56763 OR 218-386-2100 OR http://www.NationalPhotoAwards.com OR awards@mncable.net

November 7, 2005 THE NAKED TRUTH - CALL FOR ENTRIES The Center for Fine Art Photography invites U.S. and International photographers to submit their work. The Center accepts all forms of photography, both traditional and digital and those working in the avant garde. The Center encourages international participation. Awards include: 1. Best of Show, $1,500 US Dollars, 2. Featured Artist in ShowCase, an eight-page insert in CameraArts magazine February-March issue 3. Director's Selection - special recognition in the ShowCase publication, 4. Selected work of approximately 12 other artists from the exhibition will also be included in this edition of ShowCase. 5. All exhibitors' work is featured in the Center's online edition of ShowCase. The Center provides international artists with low-cost shipping options - see details on the Center's website under Call for Entries. Additional details and online submission at: www.c4fap.org, click on Calls for Entry, or call: 970-224-1010.

These appeared in my email yesterday from The Art List. You can subscribe HERE.

Jessica Dimmock

Jessica Dimmock is no longer just a NYT runner-up. A larger selection from her series, "Ninth Floor," is featured in New York Magazine. See it HERE.

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, the winner of the "Capture the Times Photography Contest" has been given a beautiful spread in The New York TImes Magazine with Osama bin Laden on the cover (9.11.05). Read the essay to discover more about Jeff's work HERE.

IPA Competition

Deadline: July 31, 2005

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - CALL FOR ENTRIES
Thousands of photographers compete in the annual International Photography Awards (IPA) competition. Fifteen finalists (eight professionals and seven non-professionals) are nominated for IPA's top award: The International Photographer of the Year Award, and invited to the Lucie Awards (October 17 at the American Airlines Theatre), where one winner will be announced, earning the coveted Lucie and $10,000. Visit our Web site for a competition entry form: www.photoawards.com.

Schweppes Award

Schweppes and London's National Portrait Gallery have teamed up for a third year to bring you the "2005 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize." Picture Magazine, calls it a "must enter" and at 20,000 British Pounds (approx. $35,000 according to Yahoo! finance), I see why. Hurry though, the deadline is July 22nd. Look here for PDF entry forms.