Organizer: Krakow Photomonth Festival

Date & Place: June 1, 2013. Krakow, Poland

Application Deadline: May 24, 2013

Number of Participants: Up to 100

Profiles of Reviewers: professional photographers, photo-editors, editors, critics, curators, owners of galleries and photography publishers

Registration Fee: 40 Euro for 4 meetings / 50 Euro for 6 meetings

Number of reviews: 4 to 6 reviews of 20 minutes

Price / Review Ratio: 8,33 to 10 Euro per review

Web: http://www.photomonth.com/

Email: portfolio@photomonth.com

Presentation Text: Over the course of one day, you’ll have the chance to meet a group of experts from Poland and abroad. The meetings with reviewers can provide you with an excellent form of promotion, as well as offering the opportunity to make contacts and begin cooperation with professionals whose experience, advice and opinions have often been responsible for participants’ further photographic development.

Please note: This and other international Portfolio Reviews are listed in our Curatorship post Portfolio Reviews 2013 

The Belo Horizonte International Photography Festival (FIF) released the present gratuitous convocation, open to artists from all over the world, with the objective of building the Great International Exhibit of the Festival with the selected works. The registration will be conducted exclusively on the website, by filling in and submitting the material requested on the form below. Before registering, read attentively the terms and conditions for this convocation on the following link:

OPEN CALL

ATTENTION: THE SIZE OF ALL SENT FILES COMBINED CANNOT EXCEED 10 MB

IMAGES + TECH SPECS + CURRICULM + PORTFLIO = (MAX) 10MB

The size of all proposed images together can not exceed 5 MB. The largest side of each image must have a maximum of 1024 px.

Inscription: http://www.en.fif.art.br/?page_id=177

GENERAL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

- Slideshows generally consist of 20-25 artists, with each artist featuring up to five minutes of original work.

- In most cases, this is a slideshow of between 15 to 40 images. We recommend 20 – 30 images.

- Every image must be at least 1024×768 pixels. We strongly recommend that you submit images that are 1440 pixels wide by 1080 pixels tall for maintaining the highest standards of quality.

- Every slideshow is set to music or an audio recording that the artist has selected. You will need to upload a music file during the submissions process.

Eligibility
Application Period
Rules and Conditions
Submitting prints
The Selection Committee

Prices
Exhibition
Application Fee
How to Apply
Registration and Payment Details

1) How to register on the Website
2) Payment of the Application Fee
How to bring or ship your work
Announcement of selections and returning work
Other points
For Submitting Applications and Further Information

Eligibility
Applicants must have been born after January 1, 1978 (i.e., must not be above 35 years of age); applications from photographers and artists who work in the medium of photography, regardless of gender, nationality or professional or amateur status, are welcome.

Application Period
Period for application via the Website and for receipt of submissions April 15 – May 15, 2013

Rules and Conditions
1. Submissions on CDs or other digital recording media will not be accepted. All submissions must be in the form of prints.
2. Previous publication of an image will not be a cause for disqualification.
3. Any theme or technique is acceptable. The images must, however, be of archival quality both in technique and materials, since they will become part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
4. Each applicant may submit up to 50 images, whether single-image or multi-image works.
5. An applicant who has submitted work for previous years’ Young Portfolio is welcome to apply again, as long as the applicant is not above 35 years of age; previous selection of a work for purchase for the Young Portfolio collection will not be a cause for disqualification.

Submitting prints
1. Works must be 20 cm x 25 cm or larger but no larger than 1 meter on either dimension.
2. If the print you are submitting is not in the size planned for the finished print, please include a note indicating the intended finished print size. If the Museum decides to acquire that image, the photographer must bear the cost of producing and shipping a print of the intended size. Bear in mind, however, that the selection committee will be basing its decision on the print submitted, including its size and quality.
3. If the Museum decides to acquire an image for which an ink-jet print of unsatisfactory permanence has been submitted, the photographer must then provide an archival quality color print, using pigment-based inks, suitable for long-term conservation. The cost of producing and shipping the new print is borne by the photographer.
4. Prints in black and white must be printed on fiber-based paper and processed for long-term conservation. Submissions for selection, however, may be RC paper prints; if the Museum decides to acquire an image on RC paper, the photographer must provide a print on fiber-based paper and processed for long-term conservation. The cost of producing and shipping the new print is borne by the photographer.
5. Works must be signed, either on the face or on the back. Use a pencil for prints on fiber-based photographic paper and a Stabilo pencil or other pencil that can write on plastic for prints on plastic-based photographic paper.
6. Each print should be placed a separate transparent polypropylene or other plastic envelope; the entry form for each print should be attached with adhesive tape to the back of the envelope. Do not place more than one print in an envelope.
7. Works that are panel mounted, framed, or mounted on mat board are not acceptable.

The Selection Committee
Selection will be made by a selection committee appointed by the Museum. The 2013 selection committee members are Kikuji KAWADA, Masato SETO and Eikoh HOSOE (Director of the Museum).

Prices
Selected works will be purchased by the Museum at prices from JPY30,000 to JPY100,000 per work. In the case of multi-image works, the selection committee may, at its discretion, choose to purchase only some of the images. Photographers (copyright holders) whose work is selected for acquisition will be requested to sign the purchase agreement prescribed by the Museum.

Exhibition
The “Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2013” exhibition is scheduled to open in March, 2014, at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.

Application Fee
< For applications from Japan>
The application fee is JPY2,000 for applicants submitting one to 30 prints; for applicants submitting 31 to 50 prints, the application fee is JPY3,000.
< For applications from other countries>
The application fee is US$15 regardless of the number of prints submitted.

How to Apply
1. Applications are made via the Internet by registering on the Young Portfolio website. Thus, to apply, applicants must use a personal computer with Internet access, a browser able to open the Young Portfolio website, and a printer.
2. To apply, go to the Young Portfolio website, http://yp.kmopa.org/ and register the requested information about yourself and the work you are submitting.
3. Applicants whose environments do not support registration via the Website should contact the Young Portfolio Section of the Museum by telephone, e-mail, fax, or postal mail (see below) to provide the address to which the application form should be sent. Follow the instructions we will provide for registering your application. The deadline for receipt of requests for application forms is April 30, 2013.
4. To apply, the applicant must submit the followings:
❶ One or more works, each with the prescribed entry form attached.
❷ One copy of print-out of the personal information registration confirmation form.
❸ One copy of print-out of the works submitted registration confirmation form.
❹ One copy of a document identifying the applicant and stating his or her birth date.
❺ One copy of print-out of the e-mailed receipt from Pay Pal (or other payment method).

Registration and Payment Details

1) How to register on the Website
Please have the prints you are submitting organized and at your side before starting to register via the Website.
❶First, register the requested information about yourself on the Website.
After entering all the information, click the “Confirm” button, and the confirmation screen will appear. Check that the information you have entered is correct. If it is, print out a copy of this confirmation screen, to include with the work you are submitting. Note that you must complete the next step to complete your registration: After printing out the confirmation screen, click the “Register” button. When you have completed your registration, you will be issued a Web Registration Number.
❷The Web Registration Number
When you have completed registration of the information about yourself on the Website, you will be issued a Web Registration Number on-screen. A confirmation of your registration, with your Web Registration Number, will automatically be e-mailed to the e-mail address you provided in the information you registered.
❸Now register the requested information about the works you are submitting on the Website
Input the Web Registration Number, your name, your e-mail address, and then the information requested about the works you are submitting. When you have input all the requested information, click the “Confirm” button, and the confirmation screen will appear. Check that all the information you have input is correct. If it is, print out two copies of this confirmation screen. Cut up one copy into separate entry forms, one for each title you are submitting. Attach one entry form to the back of each transparent plastic envelope in which you have placed one work. Do not cut up the other copy of the confirmation screen printout. Enclose it, along with the print out you made of your personal information confirmation screen, when you submit your works. After printing out the confirmation screen, click “Register” to complete registration of the works you are submitting. Please note that the procedure for registering works differs depending on whether you are submitting one to 30 or 31 to 50 images. A message confirming the information you have registered will automatically be sent to the e-mail address you provided.

2) Payment of the Application Fee
1. Payment is via PayPal. Go to the Young Portfolio site http://yp.kmopa.org/ and click on “Young Portfolio Application,” then “Application Fee Payment” to complete payment by PayPal. Click the “Pay Now” button to transfer to the PayPal site. There, fill in the required items, and pay the application fee. When you have completed payment, a receipt will be e-mailed to the e-mail address you provided in the information you registered. Print out the receipt and enclose it with the works you are submitting.
2. If you are unable to pay using PayPal, consult the FAQ on the Young Portfolio site or contact the Young Portfolio Section.

How to bring or ship your work
1. Applicants wishing to bring their work directly in the Museum should take it to the Museum’s reception desk during the hours the Museum is open, within the application period.
2. Applicants in Japan may send work by mail, by one of the small parcel delivery services, or by the post office parcel service. Applicants overseas may send work by airmail (including registered mail), EMS, or courier. The Museum will not pay any customs duties or other attendant fees.
3. The applicant must bear all the costs incurred in submitting. For applicants from other countries, the cost of returning work, however, is included in the handling fee.
4. The applicant is responsible for taking out, for instance, shipping insurance on the work, if necessary.
5. To confirm that your work has been delivered, contact the shipping company or post office directly. Please do not inquire of the Museum.

Announcement of selections and returning work
1. We plan to announce the selections and return work not selected in August to September, 2013. Any major deviation from that schedule will be announced on our Website.
2. Applicants whose work is chosen will be notified in writing.
3. In lieu of a notification, we will return the works not chosen to the applicants.
4. Applicants who would prefer to pick up their work in person should enter that information in advance when they register their personal information. Works must be removed from the Museum within three months of the Museum’s sending written notifications of the selections. Notify the Museum in advance of when you will be arriving to remove your work.

Other points
1. Acquisitions will be kept in the Museum’s collection and exhibited.
2. While the photographer will retain the copyright, the Museum reserves the right to use images of acquisitions in Museum publications such as catalogues.
3. The photographer will be responsible for any objections raised by the subject of the photograph or the owner of that subject.
4. The Museum will keep on file biographical information on the photographers whose works are acquired, as reference material.
5. Applicants who change addresses after submitting their work or who will be away in August or September, when the Museum is scheduled to return their work, should let us know immediately by telephone, fax, or e-mail. If we have no valid address for the applicant and are not informed of a change in address within three months after the notification of results, we will dispose of work not selected.
6. The Museum will not be held liable for any damages unless the Museum is clearly proven to be fault.
7. All applications are made in compliance with these rules and regulations.
8. The personal information you have registered here will be protected appropriately in accord with the museum’s privacy policy.

For Submitting Applications and Further Information
Please Contact the Young Portfolio Section

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Young Portfolio Section
3545 Kiyosato, Takane-cho, Hokuto-shi, Yamanashi 407-0301 Japan
Tel :+81-551-48-5599
Fax:+81-551-48-5445
E-mail:ypinfo@kmopa.com

BURN Magazine | Deadline: May 15, 2013 | Fee (USD): $25.00

Forms to be filled out

1. Title of the project:

   200 characters max

2. Provide a short artist statement about this project:

   2000 characters max

3. Provide a short bio:

   1000 characters max

4. Has this project been published before?

5. If yes, provide the details of the publication:

6. I understand that all uploaded images must be EXACTLY 1080px on the SHORTEST side, saved as JPG at quality 9 or 10. Video files must be at least 640x480px in size.

   I understand that if these requirements are not met, my project will not be reviewed

Media

Provide 1-25 items. Images (up to 5 MB each), Video (up to 60 MB each), Audio (up to 30 MB each) and PDFs (up to 10 MB each). You may also link to media from YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud

Website: http://www.burnmagazine.org/emerging-photographer-grant/

The Program Committee of the Association for Studies of Culture and
Representation invites proposal submissions for an interdisciplinary
panel titled “Post-medium Conditions of Moving Image.” The panel will
be held at the 8th Annual Meeting on June 29–30, 2013 at Kansai
University, Osaka, Japan. Submissions must be 20-minute presentations
that cover the theoretical and historical issues of moving image from
various disciplines and methodologies.

In A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of Post-medium Condition
(1999) and other writings, Rosalind Krauss proposed the idea of
“post-medium condition” in order to describe a series of artworks after
modernism that seek to reinvent medium in their own new ways. Although
Krauss’ critical interest lies in seeking for alternative critical
terminology against Clement Greenberg’s understanding of modernism as a
tendency toward medium specificity, the idea of “post-medium” can have
a broader scope than that of her own intention. Especially, it is
helpful to rethink the current state of moving image, now that the
medium of moving image cannot be attributed to a specific technological
condition; this is clear when considering the current state of
so-called “film,” which is not about the celluloid film as its material
support. As such, we invite contributions that address this post-medium
condition of moving image: its diverse variety of medium, from YouTube
and smartphone screen to 3D movie and gigantic urban screens; its
simultaneous complicated technology and cheap availability; and also
the counterpart of this social diffusion of moving image in practices
of contemporary art and other cultural representations.

While our interest lies in the contemporary situation and discourses of
moving image, we welcome a wide range of topics across media, genres,
historical periods and geographical locations in order to produce a
locus for critical dialogue. Possible topics include but are not
limited to:

Digital/analog
Immersive experience and sensory dimension of moving image
Archive and conservation of moving image
Historical background in the 19th century
Video art, media art and wide use of moving image in contemporary art
Meta-narrative expression of post-medium conditions in film and
other narrative-based genres
Moving image in performing arts and other genres of cultural
production
Tension between still and moving images
Confrontation between cinema and photography
Moving image in cityscape
Amateur practices of moving image
Surveillance and moving images
Possibility of theorization from practices in Japan and other Asian
countries

Please submit your proposal by email to conference@repre.org
Your submission email should include the following:

1) Your name
2) The title of your paper
3) A 200–250 word abstract
4) Your institutional affiliation and position
5) A brief Bio (limited to 50 words)
6) Your contact information (email address, phone number and physical
address)

The deadline for proposal submissions is May 17, 2013.

About the Conference:

As part of the 8th Annual Meeting, we will hold a symposium on
contemporary art and moving image. The symposium will include Akira
Mizuta Lippit, Sakamoto Hirofumi and Takehisa Yu as featured speakers.
For updated informations, please visit our website:

http://www.repre.org/conventions/

For further information about the Association, please visit the below
site:
(English) http://www.repre.org/association/english/
(Japanese) http://www.repre.org/association/about/
For information on past symposiums, events and panels, please see:
(Japanese) http://www.repre.org/conventions/

Membership:
The presenter must be a member of the Association for Studies of
Culture and Representation. There is no conference registration fee for
Association members. For more information about the general membership
procedure for those based in Japan, please see:
(English) http://www.repre.org/association/english/

If you have any further questions, please email us at:
conference@repre.org

Organizer: The Swedish Museum of Photography (Fotografiska)

Date & Place: May 31- June 1, 2013

Application Deadline: May 12, 2013

Number of Participants: 40

Profiles of Reviewers: 15 International Experts in photography, who can assist with exhibitions, publications and guidance for future career development.

Registration Fee: SEK 5950 (including VAT: SEK 1190) 660 Euros

Number of reviews: Minimum of 8

Price / Review Ratio: 82 Euros per review

Web: http://www.spwk.eu

Email: finearts@spwk.eu

Presentation Text:

The event offers all participants tremendous opportunities to share knowledge, connections and insights with other photographers and experts from various fields in photography. Participating photographers will get expert feedback about their work and have the possibility of getting editorial assignments, book publication contracts, art gallery representation, and feature articles in magazines, online and in print.

SPWK BEST PORTFOLIO AWARD – 2500 EUR CASH PRIZE 
2500 EUR will be awarded to the best and/or most promising portfolio presented during Stockholm Photography Week 2013. Reviewers from both the Fine Arts Portfolio Reviews and the Commercial Portfolio Reviews will each nominate one of the photographers taking part in the reviews during Stockholm Photography Week 2013. A jury then decides who gets the 2500 EUR cash award for Best Portfolio 2013.

Please note: This and other international Portfolio Reviews are listed in our Curatorship post Portfolio Reviews 2013 

Professionals, students, and photographers in general from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, are eligible to participate.

The registration period is from May 1^st to June 30^th, 2013 (the deadline for submissions will be July 31^st, 2013).

Participants must register solely and exclusively through the official RM webpage (www.editorialrm.com), using the “Registration” link and after having read and accepted the terms and conditions.

• Participants who register between May 1^st and May 31^st will receive a special discount of 50%. The registration will therefore be 500 pesos in Mexico, or 30 Euros or 40 US dollars for international registrations.
• Participants who register between June 1^st and June 30^th must pay 1,000 pesos in Mexico, or 60 Euros or 80 US dollars for international registrations.

Prizes:

First Place

• Publication of the winning submission in book form, in Spanish and English, with international distribution.
• 50 complementary copies for the author.
• Publicity through the distribution of 200 review copies to prominent critics and opinion makers.

Honorable Mentions:

• A packet of 2012 RM titles.

• Promotion and media publicity through a press kit.

+ info: http://concurso.editorialrm.com/en/

———————— Versión en español (English version above) ————————

Con el objetivo de difundir a jóvenes talentos de la fotografía iberoamericana en el mundo y abrir un espacio de diálogo visual más enriquecedor, convoca a su 4.^o Concurso Fotolibro Iberoamericano 2013.

La convocatoria está abierta a profesionales, estudiantes de fotografía y fotógrafos de América Latina, España y Portugal.
El periodo de inscripción y registro será del 1.o de mayo al 30 de junio de 2013 (la fecha máxima para el envío de trabajos será el  31 de julio).

El concursante deberá registrarse única y exclusivamente a través de la página oficial de RM (www.editorialrm.com), en el apartado “Inscripción”, no sin antes haber leído y aceptado los términos y las condiciones.

• Los participantes que se inscriban del 1.^o al 31 de mayo tendrán un descuento especial del 50%. Deberán pagar 500 pesos para inscripciones en México, o bien, 30 euros ó 40 USD para inscripciones internacionales.
• Los participantes que se inscriban del 1.^o al 30 de junio deberán pagar 1,000 pesos para inscripciones en México, o bien, 60 euros u 80 USD para inscripciones internacionales.

Premios:

Primer lugar

• Publicación del trabajo ganador en un libro con distribución internacional en español e inglés.
• 50 ejemplares del libro para el autor.
• Difusión mediante la asignación de 200 cortesías que serán enviadas a importantes críticos y formadores de opinión.
• Promoción y difusión mediática a través de un dossier de prensa.

Menciones honoríficas

• Paquete de libros RM 2012.
• Promoción y difusión mediática a través de un dossier de prensa.

+ info: http://concurso.editorialrm.com/es

Grant Information and Application Guidelines

Application Period: March 1 – May 24, 2013
Application Deadline: May 24, 2013 at 11:59 pm Mountain Time

General Information and Eligibility Requirements

The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for artists working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest judges on the basis of artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievement in the medium in its widest sense. The Foundation seeks to support artists/photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field, who are professionally active or employed in the field. The entry fee for this grant is $10USD.

Applications must be submitted through the CaFE application system at www.CallForEntry.org.

Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens and Legal Permanent Residents of the United States, who reside in the U.S., and who are at least 21 years of age. Recipients must provide legal proof of eligibility and a verifiable social security number.

Who May Not Apply: Students enrolled in a college degree program. Students who graduate before the 2013 application deadline are eligible to apply. Previous IPF recipients are not currently being considered for new awards. At this time, artists on temporary visas such as the O-1 visa are not eligible to apply.

Eligible Work: Still photography regardless of subject matter, genre, or process. Works submitted may be traditional photography projects or experimental works, but photographic techniques must be pivotal to the works submitted. The submission should consist of a mature, coherent body of work.

Examples of Non-Eligible Work: Film, video, interactive multimedia

Fellowship recipients will be notified by September 2013. Names of recipients and panelists will be announced shortly thereafter. The decisions of the Aaron Siskind Foundation and its designated judging panel as to who receives fellowship support will be final, private, and without appeal. As required by law, award funds must be used to further the artist’s creative endeavors. Recipients will be asked to provide a summary of the uses to which award funds are put. Award funds will be taxable to recipients in Tax Year 2013.

Application Information & Guidelines

Applicants must apply through the CaFE online application system at www.CallForEntry.org. Applications will not be accepted by any other delivery method. Internet access and a working email address are required in order to apply. The $10 entry fee must be paid via credit or debit card.

Once you have registered at CaFE, you can work on an application in multiple sessions, saving as you go, until it is completed and ready to submit. You can apply at any time up until the deadline; however, applications must be successfully received by 11:59 pm Mountain Time on May 24, 2013. Applications that are incomplete, or not received by the deadline, will be excluded from consideration. We recommended applying well in advance in order to avoid technical problems.

CaFE is a project of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts.

A completed application consists of the following information & files:

Applicant Profile: Name and contact information

Work Samples: A portfolio of ten (10) digital images showing representative, recent work. If your work is best communicated visually by showing its physical or installed nature, or aspects of detail, use one or more of the ten images for that purpose.

Exactly ten (10) images must be submitted. They will be projected for the panelists via high-definition digital projectors and viewed at roughly 30 x 40 inches per image. Images must be standard baseline JPEG files with the .jpg extension. The recommended color profile is sRGB. Maximum file size is 1.8 MB. Image size can be no larger than 1920 x 1920 pixels (smaller images will be shown against a 1920 x 1920 black background). Images should be 72 PPI; any higher will unnecessarily increase your file size.

Text descriptors for each image: Title, Year Completed, Medium, Dimensions

Note: There are also fields for image “Value” and “Description” in the application. We don’t include this information in our review process. “Description” can be left blank. $0.00 can be entered for image “Value”. Whatever you enter in these fields — it will not be seen by jurors.

Work Statement: (500 words maximum) The purpose of the Statement is to give the panel a better understanding of your work while they are viewing it. It should be very clear and concise, and relate to the specific works you are submitting.

Career summary, artist resume/CV, or short bio (500 words maximum)


Additional Help and Information

CallForEntry.org provides detailed instructions and tutorials on How to Apply, Image Prep, and a Help/FAQ that will answer most questions. CaFE Tech Support staff is available via email to respond to technical questions or problems. For grant-related questions, please email grant@aaronsiskind.org.

Previous winners can be found here: http://www.aaronsiskind.org/recipient.html

The inaugural Cord Prize – Contemporary art photography

The brief

Jurors

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