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Focus Photo L.A. Summer 2020 in New York City

Deadline: June 21st, 2020

For 28 years, photo l.a. has celebrated and brought together the photography and arts community. It is with this mission that we presented a biannual photography competition with our partners to help provide emerging and mid-career artists/photographers a platform to broaden their career opportunities and promote their work on the photo l.a. network both nationally and internationally.

FOCUS photo l.a. is open to all Artists and Photographers working in all themes, types, and genres of photography.

The panel of world-renowned art and photography experts judge all submissions individually and through a single-image rating system. However, we also strongly encourage you to enter photographs from a full series as the Artist Statements submitted are also present during the jurying process.

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Dallas Center for Photography: Picturing Home

Deadline: June 21st, 2020

Home is both a place and a state of mind. It can be comforting or challenging, personal or communal, but always evocative. For many of us the idea and reality of home is changing. Our schedules, our relationships and the way we interact with our family and neighbors are all being reinvented. DCP invites you to enter this juried competition with photographs that illustrate how your home experience is evolving as we adapt and change during this unique time in history. The call is open to everyone. Students under 18 years old are encouraged to enter the Youth Category.

Selections will be featured in a virtual exhibition on the DCP website. We are also planning to have an exhibition catalog in book form that will be available for purchase. DCP will host a virtual opening reception (date to be announced) that is free and open to the public. Prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third winners in both the youth and adult categories.

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Grey Cube Gallery: Skies Art Contest

Deadline: June 23rd, 2020

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the first Skies online art contest for the month of June 2020. Contest is open to all artists worldwide over 18 years of age. The primary focus of this contest must be any depiction of the skies (clouds, rainbows, storms, stars, planets, moon, the night sky, the day sky, dusk and dawn). All visual art mediums (except video and sound) are allowed. The Best of Show winning artwork will be displayed as the poster of the show. All wining artists (Merit Award & Honorable Mention) will receive a digital award certificate. The application fee is $16 for the 2 images of artwork. You may enter more than once. The deadline to submit entries is the June 23 2020.

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This is your best chance to be seen by the world’s top experts and influencers in photography. Awards include exhibition in Paris alongside Paris Photo 2020, cash prizes for the top ten photographers, global media coverage, and more. Free entry for single image entries and written professional reviews of your submission available.

We look forward to seeing your work, especially if you’ve entered it before. Open to all types of photography, all levels of experience, all ages.

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Nature Talks Photo Festival: Nature Photographer of the Year 2020

Deadline: June 28th, 2020

Nature Photographer of the Year is a Nature Photography contest that celebrates the artistry of nature photography. The award ceremony where we present all the winning images of the Nature Photographer of the Year contest will take place during the Nature Talks Photo Festival in the Netherlands. This nature photography festival is a yearly two day event where visitors attend to enjoy presentations from more than 50 top nature photographers.

The Nature Photographer of the Year competition is open to residents of every country and to almost all ages starting from 10 years old. There are 10 different categories to enter, a portfolio award and a young NPOTY award.

If you enter our contest you automatically support the Nature Talks foundation (Stichting Nature Talks). This nonprofit organization contributes to various conservation projects in the Netherlands and Belgium. By doing this we give something back to the nature we love so much. So besides the chance to win great prizes, you also give nature a hand. Read here which project(s) will we be supporting this year.

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The Independent Photographer: Color Photography Award

Deadline: June 30th, 2020

The 2020 Color Photography Award is now open for entries and we’re delighted to announce that it will be judged by Magnum Photo’s Global Education Director Shannon Ghannam.

Cool or warm, soft, or vivid, how can subtle shades of colors affect mood and our perception of a scene? This month, we invite all photographers driven by their artistic eye and passion for color to join the award and celebrate with us the beauty and diversity of color photography.

Be it in portrait, landscape, fashion, street, documentary, fine art, or any other form of photography – classic or experimental: we’re open to all genres and want to see YOUR colors!”

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Rarytas Art Foundation: A View from the Window

Deadline: June 30th, 2020

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 has led to the greatest global crisis in post-war history. The epidemic is ravaging the world, including the world of art. Under these circumstances, ‘A View from the Window’ as a theme of the photography competition, though still risky, gains a completely different meaning. The seemingly trivial motif becomes dramatic and universal not in the symbolic, but rather in the real aspect.

A photography competition inspired by the theme ‘a view from the window’ addresses the current situation of global quarantine forced by the outbreak of a previously unknown virus.

The imposed safety restrictions locked millions of people in their homes. Quite unexpectedly and suddenly, the view from the window has ‘returned’ as a point of reference. What can we see from the window? What do the things we can see mean for us? What emotions do they evoke in us? Can screen be also regarded as a window? How do our perception, sense of time, and perspective change when we take a look from the intimate world of our fears, needs, dreams, and reflections? What do we feel when a window becomes a mirror…?

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Irix Edge Photography Contest: Elements 2020

Deadline: June 30th, 2020

The elements are some of the most spectacular phenomena in the world; the aim of photography has always been their visual representation. They include water, fire, earth and air. The phenomena of our modern world, however, are not only creations of nature, but also their interpretation, use of resources by man, and adaptation to our current society. Urban landscapes, omnipresent city lights, vessels soaring through the sky, and among them, the greatest element – mankind. To show the ever-changing evolution of the elements, it is necessary to use special tools that will bring out the true depth of these phenomena. Photo filters – polarizers (which limit the amount of light and neutralize shadows and reflections); UV (which protect the lens and increase contrast in high altitude conditions); gray and gradual filters (which limit the amount of light and add drama to the image) and light pollution filters (which reduce the yellow tint found in street/sodium lamps and cityscapes). These are indispensable accessories that allow us to capture the elements. Irix has a complete portfolio of high quality products ready for use. The photographer has a choice of a circular or square filter system that has an unlimited spectrum of possible applications.

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Benrido Atelier: Hariban Award 2020

Deadline: June 30th, 2020

Presented by the Benrido Collotype Atelier, the HARIBAN AWARD, now in its seventh year, combines a 160-year-old analogue technique with the new vision of digital-age photography. Professionals and amateurs alike are invited to submit black and white photographs for a chance to win this remarkable award. The winner will receive a trip to the ancient city of Kyoto to participate in the production of collotype prints and will be exhibited in a solo exhibition the following spring.

Produced by a process that combines photography and lithographic printmaking, the collotype was the state of the art for photographic reproduction at the turn of the twentieth century. Collotypes are printed from plates prepared using a photochemical process that renders the image in extremely fine tonal gradations with a practically infinite range of values. Unlike gelatin silver or inkjet prints, collotypes are printed with opaque oil-based pigment inks that can be meticulously layered to create images of unmatched richness and depth. Due to the high level of expertise needed to obtain consistent results, the technique has been replaced by faster, cheaper, more mechanized printing processes. Today the Benrido Atelier is one of the world’s few remaining collotype studios.

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InCadaqués Photography Festival: Open Call 2020

Deadline: June 30th, 2020

The third edition of the InCadaqués open call is now accepting new submissions! We invite photographers to submit projects that could be exhibited during the next edition of the International Photo Festival InCadaqués 2020. 15 projects will be selected and exhibited during the festival.

The jury, composed of experts in the field will select the most interesting projects that will become part of the official circuit of exhibitions. There are no age restrictions or imposed themes. Application fee is 22€/person and is payable online.

Each submission must be composed of one series of 15 pictures maximum (and 10 minimum)

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Cornel/Henry Art: ‘Debauchery’ – 2020 Fall Photo Contest

Deadline: June 30th, 2020

It is that time of the year again when we are looking for an amazing photographer to be awarded a Solo exhibition and an accompanying Book during our Winter season. Submit your best work expressing your view/perspective of what debauchery means to you.

This exhibition is open to all photographic styles and techniques. Please submit work via the from below, 10 jpegs sized to 72dpi and 1500px on the longest side (not to exceed 1MB in size), with an introductory $15 entry fee to support our administrative costs.

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Xposure: International Photography & Film Awards

Deadline: June 30th, 2020

A FREE to enter International Photography & Film Competition with great prizes across several genres. Photographers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience are eligible to enter the Xposure International Competitions. We have also include a category for film-makers. The panel of judges are looking to award an Overall Winner from the photography categories and additionally a winner and runner-up from each category including moving image & short-films. The Jury is looking for unique, exceptional and high quality images.

Categories include: Landscape Photography, Portraiture, Architectural Photography, Photojournalism, Aerial & Drone Photography, Travel Photography, Macro Photography, Junior Category, Sharjah Government Open (specifically for individuals who are in the employment of the Sharjah Government), and Short Film & Moving Image

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