Extended Deadline Call for Photography - Fading Light

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Current Calls for Photographers Fading Light
Judge George Slade, Photography Curator + Writer, re:photographica

Extended Deadline to Submit June 26, 2012

Photo Credit: Jim McKinniss, Monika Lawrence, Jeff Grant,
Shea Naer, Lora Abernathy, Joseph D.R. OLeary

Entries Due June 26, 2012

Submission Fees $40 for 5 images ($10 each additional image).

New Award Levels for Fading Light
$1000 Grand Prize Cover Image

$500 Judge's Choice Award

Theme Fading Light. The tension between wanting to hang on to the light but at the same time welcoming the darkness. Fading light - shadows, absence of light, twilight, darkness, losing sight, transformative. This theme can be used figuratively as well as literally. Portraits, fashion, editorial, landscape, documentary, conceptual or any other genre is open for consideration. Both color and b&w are eligible.

Judge George Slade has provided fine photographic artists and their audiences with insightful interpretation and curatorial expertise in exhibitions, classes, writings, lectures, and face-to-face exchanges for over 25 years. Formerly the artistic director of Minnesota Center for Photography, the director of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers Program, and recently the curator at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, George is a veteran presence at portfolio review events like Fotofest, Photolucida, Critical Mass, PhotoNOLA, and the Society for Photographic Education's regional and national conferences. In the last three years he juried regional and national exhibitions for the Coalition of Photographic Arts (Milwaukee), New Directions 2009 at the Wallspace Gallery (Seattle), the 2011 Clarence John Laughlin Award at the New Orleans Photographic Alliance, the New England Photography Biennial at the Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA), and IRevelar at the Naomi Silva Gallery in Atlanta. George received a 2007 award from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program; his writings and reviews appear extensively in print and online; some may be found at his web site, re:photographica. He lives in Minneapolis with his partner Stephanie and their children.

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Important Dates

Submissions Currently Open

Deadline: June 26, 2012

Results: July 9, 2012

Book Launch: May 2013

Current Publications

Hardcover, 92 pages, 10.5 x 11 inches 32 color images:64 interpretations ISBN: 978-0-9848064-0-9

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