If Your Work is Accepted:
1. Send one exhibition print for each accepted photograph.

2. Prints must be mounted and overmatted to 16˝x 20˝ using white matte board. 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. When packing your print – Do NOT use Styrofoam peanuts.

6. The print must reach us by December 19, 2008. Send your print to:

Texas Photographic Society
6338 N. New Braunfels # 174
San Antonio TX 78209
Questions? Call Clarke at 210-824-4123

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 matt board. 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 and prints.

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.

Accepted Artist

Juror's Pre-Jurying Comments:
One of the great pleasures of being a working photographer and Professor of Art is the path traveled leading to the profound enjoyment of the wide, eclectic, and sometimes tumultuous world of contemporary photography. I always look forward to discovering new work that engages.

My advice is donít try and second-guess an experienced juror as to what they may or may not respond to. Send what you think is your best work and Iíll give it my best attention. Many of us have wide-ranging tastes with great affection for alternative processes, documentary, digital, book arts, mixed media, and strong conceptual work.

My aesthetic, such as it is, is that of an art populist. I believe there are strong artists working in just about every town, small or large, in America. I also believe well intentioned work is important, and should be encouraged. Black and white, color, commercial, fine art, film, or digital, it's ALL good from this juror's viewpoint.

Keith Carter
Endowed Walles Chair of Art
Lamar University

About the Juror:
Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. He holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey Grants and the Lange-Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1997 Keith Carter was the subject of an arts profile on the national network television show, CBS Sunday Morning. In 1998, he received Lamar University’s highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award, and he was named the Lamar University Distinguished Lecturer. Eight monographs of his black and white photographs have been published. Called “a poet of the ordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Carter’s haunting, enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, The U.S., and Latin America.