This listing of photographic competitions everywhere is provided as a resource for Photographers

Deadline: September 1, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Texas Highways Magazine

It is that time of year again and I am calling for submissions for the 2012 Calendar. Please send me your scenic selects (lo-res is fine for now) that you wish to be considered. It is also important to include the location AND your contact info in the metadata of the photograph.

Texas Highway Magazine is looking for horizontal only photographs of beautiful, dynamic, and interesting scenery all across Texas. Please have these submitted to me by
September 1st, 2010. We will begin the selection process at that point.

Email images to J. Griffis Smith: Griff.Smith@txdot.gov.

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Deadline: September 3, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 2nd Annual Members' Showcase

Newspace Center for Photography invites our members to enter work to be considered for our 2nd Annual Members' Showcase: A Juried Exhibition. Selected images will be shown at the Center during the month of October 2010. The call is open to all photographic themes and processes.

To enter the you must be a current Newpace member at any level. If you are not a current member, you may sign up or renew at the time of submitting your entry. Membership information can be found at www.newspacephoto.org/membership.

Visit www.newspacephoto.org/callforentries to enter.

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Deadline: September 10, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Holgapalooza

Holgapolooza is an annual photo contest and celebration of the Holga camera. Each year from June to September, photographers from around the world are encouraged to participate in an international contest featuring Holga photography. This annual contest is presented by Light Leaks Press, an independent group who have brought you Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com.

Categories will be presented and submissions will be reviewed by well-respected and internationally renowned judges who will determine winners in each of the categories. Winners will be rewarded with cash and prizes donated by our sponsors as well as have their photos published in Light Leaks magazine.

For Early Bird Draws, a list of jurors and categories and submission guidelines, visit www.holgapalooza.com.

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Deadline: September 13, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Wid-Awake Dreaming

Dreams and fantasies often seem like the terrain of stories and poems, rather than the literal lens of the camera. However, from the early days of the medium to the present, the capacity of the photograph to suggest, as well as to state, has preoccupied visionary photographers. For “Wide-Awake Dreaming” PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, seeks images that conjure up states of mind, memories, emotions, metaphors, and the surreal through their subjects and style. Juror Russell Joslin will select forty photographs for exhibition on the walls of PhotoPlace Gallery in August and on the gallery website. An additional thirty-five images will be chosen for PhotoPlace's "On-Line Gallery Annex." All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalogue available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Juror: Photographer Russell Joslin is editor of SHOTS magazine.

For further information visit www.vtphotoworkplace.com or e-mail photos@vtphotoworkplace.com.

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Deadline: September 14, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Artifice: How do you veil your illusion?

Artifice: trickery, ruse, deception, a clever device, ingenuity

Assuming that you are a good person, consider the possibility, as you partake in Halloween festivities this year and put on a sinister mask, that perhaps the 364 other days of the year are the domain of sinister people who don masks of respectability, warmth and kindness, who conjure superficial fictions but succeed surprisingly often in passing them off as real. Consider the possibility that mainstream consensual ‘reality’ is in fact a thin façade concealing a web of hastily assembled and continually reinforced supports not unlike the back-stage scaffolding at a travelling carnival, with hawkers and performers intent on emptying their patrons’ pockets before the fraud is discovered. –

Excerpt from the art statement of feature artist, Marc Silva Feature artist, Marc Silva, offers his view of illusion through masterful images of layered perceptions, and worlds merged. Studio2Gallery seeks artworks offering the artificial, illusion, ingenuity or masked perceptions. –Juror and owner, Tina Weitz

Follow www.studio2gallery.com/eform/e-form-artifice for entry form and more info.

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Deadline: September 15, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 7 Billionth Person Project

We have roughly 1,000 days before the seven billionth human being joins the rest of us on Planet Earth. We do not know what country she will be born in, or who her family will be, or if she will be a she or a he. But we do know this being will join the rest of us as a citizen of this world. Working on a welcome message to our seventh billion fellow human being provides us with a rare but overdue opportunity for introspection as well as a frank accounting of the implicit responsibilities we have toward other human beings and future generations. What would you like to tell her about this world, about life, about your story? What would you like to show her about the world?

The 7 Billionth Person Project aims to collect creative expressions from citizens from around the world. Visual submissions are highly encouraged. All media accepted. www.collectiveanswers.org. Questions? Email Valerie Belanger at info@collectiveanswers.org.

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Deadline: September 15, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: After Dark

As the sun sets, a whole new world of photographic opportunities presents itself. Buildings, streets and time lapse take on a different light at night. But don't stop there. Ever hear of "Night life"? Carnivals? Animals? People? Theater? There is a voyeuristic feel to night images, the viewer senses that they are observing life from the shadows. Urban lights create high drama - colors intensify and shadows loom. In the country, things become scary and still. Is there just a hint of the sunset left? Time lapse can create fantastic swirls of lights creating abstract compositions. Show us what your camera sees "After Dark".

Up to 44 photographs will be chosen by juror Tom Paiva for exhibition at the Vermont Photo Space Gallery, on our website and in a full color catalog available to the public for purchase.

For more details, please visit www.vermontphotospace.com/index.php/ex6.

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Deadline: September 15, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Santa Fe Workshop: Our First Ever Photography Contest

Win the Workshop of your choice and be honored by leaders in the Photographic Community.
For many of us our families are a great source of photographic inspiration. In delight, and in heartache, they are our muse. We're looking for images that speak of FAMILY—in all its glory, from its humor to its quiet moments of grace.

To see the other prizes, the panel of jurors and to register, visit www.santafeworkshops.com/contest.

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Deadline: September 15, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The Clarence John Laughlin Award

The Clarence John Laughlin Award was created by the New Orleans Photo Alliance to support the work of photographers who use the medium as a means of creative expression. It honors the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), a New Orleans photographer best known for his surrealist images of the American South. The Clarence John Laughlin Award grants one $5000 prize annually to a photographer whose work exhibits sustained artistic excellence and creative vision.

Both emerging and established photographers residing in the U.S. may apply. http://neworleansphotoalliance.org/grants/CJL_Award.

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Deadline: September 17, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: New Directions '10

The Bartlett Art Center's 26th Annual National Contemporary Art Exhibition, October 23rd – November 20th, 2010. Juror: Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY. Cash Awards/ Exhibition Opportunities. Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media.

Follow http://www.barrettartcenter.org/pdfs for prospectus.

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Deadline: September 17, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 6th Annual Creekside Festival Photography Contest

Show off your favorite shots by entering the 6th Annual Creekside Festival Photography Contest. The Flagler County Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates will exhibit all entries and select winners during the Sixth Annual Creekside Festival October 9 & 10.

Contest cash prizes for winners will include Best of Show, as well as first place and second place winners selected for five categories: Sports/action, Manipulated image/photo art, Portrait/lifestyle, Landscape/flora & fauna and Wildlife/pets.

The application is available at http://flaglerchamber.org/creekside_festival.html.

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Deadline: September 18, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: Lens Culture International Exposure Awards

Lens Culture International Exposure Awards aim to discover, reward, and promote talented, new, emerging and established photographers from around the world. They’re looking for exciting images from every continent, and from diverse points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, street photography, nature, sports, fashion, poetic, personal, abstract and human.

This year, in addition to cash awards and other prizes, we're delighted to announce that all winning photographs will be featured in well-publicized International Exposure Awards traveling exhibitions at galleries in Paris, New York and San Francisco in 2011. (Additional international gallery venues may be announced soon.) The winning photographs will also get prominent, exclusive photo features in Lens Culture, giving them access and broad exposure to an enthusiastic, influential worldwide audience.

Six photographers will win cash prizes and top honors (3 Portfolio Awards, and 3 Single Image Awards). Additionally, 25 photographers (from either category) will win Honorable Mention Awards.

For more info, visit www.lensculture.com/awards.

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Deadline: September 18, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: National Photography '10

Photographers residing in the USA and 18 years of age or older are eligible to submit digital images for consideration. Entry fee $30/2 pieces of artwork. CD images must be either a jpeg or gif image (600 dpi largest dimensional side, PC compatible and 72 dpi).

JURORS are:
KEITH MILLMAN is an artist currently living in Ithaca, New York whose work is based on photographic imagery. He is Associate Professor and Department Chair of New Media at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
ROGER SMITH - Painter, Sculptor, Educator and Co- Director of the Main Street Gallery.

For more info, visit www.mainstreetgal.com/links.php?3643.

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Deadline: September 29, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The Portrait

TeraBella Media is sponsoring a call for entry entitled "The Portrait."
As in the past we would be most appreciative if you could place our announcement on your competitions page. The following is text explaining our contest.

The human face has always been the greatest resource for photographic expression. One of the very first images to be captured by a camera was a portrait. All of life's moments can be seen through a person's smile or frown. All joys or sorrows can be viewed through a person's eyes. TBM is seeking those images that best represent the human face as it displays these feelings.

For more information: www.terabellamedia.com/contest.

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Deadline: September 30, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The Dominant Color

WPGA will select open theme single images with a dominant color. The dominant element in the image must be a specific color, such as red, yellow, blue, white, black, green, etc. Black & White images, toned, duotones, are excluded from this competition.

For more info, visit www.thegalaawards.net/call-for-entries/dominant-color.

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Deadline: September 30, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The APA Awards

Each year, the APA National Photo Competition recognizes outstanding imagery within eight professional categories, plus a student category. There is no limit on the number of entries you can submit, and the more images you enter, the better your chances are of winning a prestigious, career-changing APA Award. You can also win some great prizes from leading photo industry companies, and you’ll get some great exposure too.

CATEGORIES
Action (Sports / Adventure)
Architectural
Fashion
Landscape
Lifestyle
Personal / Fine Art
Portrait
Still Life
Student

For more info and to enter, please visit www.apanational.com.

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Deadline: October 1, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The 10th Annual High and Dry: People and Places of the World's Dry Lands

The tenth annual High and Dry photography competition at the International Cultural Center of Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX) will be juried this year by Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. As long as the work reflects some aspect of the arid/semiarid theme, the choice of subject is up to the photographer. Over $800 in cash prizes.

For full details, please consult the online Call for Entry www.iaff.ttu.edu/main/Exhbt-High&Dry%20x-CallForEntries.doc.

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Deadline: October 3, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: The Urban & Country Landscape

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards invite photographers from all over the world to submit their work to be featured in The Urban and Country Landscape Annual Book - Nature and People, Life and Culture, and in the online WonderPick Gallery

Jurors
First Screening (no entry fee): WPGA Artistic & Editorial Staff
Second Screening: Julio Hardy, Managing Director, WPGA

For more info, visit www.thegalaawards.net/call-for-entries/2010-wpga-annual.

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Deadline: November 10, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Photographers
Title: 31st Annual Juried Photography Exhibition

The subject matter for this exhibit is limited only by your imagination! We are looking to show the contemporary use of historical processes. Show us the way in which you bring the past and future together.
Bromoil, albumen, collotype, kallitype, lazertran, anthotype, ziatype, carbon, argyrotype, cyanotype, daguerreotype, gum bichromate, salted paper, photogravure, solarplate, tintype, platinum and palladium, van dyke, hand applied emulsions, wet-plate collodion, silver gelatin and combinations of all of the above will be considered.

This year's Juror is Joy Goldkind of St. James, NY.

For more info, visit www.stacarts.org/uploads/File/AlternativeProcessProspectus-Entry%20for%20PRINT.pdf.

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Deadline: November 30, 2010
Eligibility: Open to All Artists
Title: Dave Bown Projects 1st Semiannual Competition

Juror: Eva Frosch, Co-owner, frosch&portmann, New York
Prizes: $5,000 USD (1st Prize: $2,500; 2nd Prize: $1,500; 3rd Prize: $1,000)
Dave Bown will be buying works of art, on an ongoing basis, from select artists as submissions are received.
Entry Fee: $30 USD. There are no additional fees.
Contact: Dave Bown at (917) 365-5265 or info@davebownprojects.com
Prospectus: davebownprojects.com/submissions.html

For more info, visit http://davebownprojects.com/competitions.html.

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