(c) Marc Pagani Photography

New Orleans Photo Alliance members are invited to submit images for a slideshow which will be projected at the Eiffel Society Pay-It-Forward Happy Hour on March 11th. At this mixer, on the eve of the SPE National Conference, a slideshow featuring NOPA members' work will be looping throughout the night.

To have your work included, please submit 5 to 10 images in the following format:

Jpegs sized to fit 1600 x 1045 @ 150dpi

(If you want to display your image uncropped, make the HEIGHT 1045 px. Your image will be displayed with grey borders)

Name the files accordingly:
LAST NAME_FIRST NAME_001 (002, 003, etc.)

Use wetransfer.com to send your files to: seth@neworleansphotoalliance.org

In the message area of wetransfer.com please include your name (as you wish it to appear on the slide) and a website address or email to be shown on slide.

ex:
Jane P. Doe
www.janedoe.net

Deadline for submissions is midnight CST, Wednesday March 4, 2015.

Do NOT email files directly, they will rejected.

Not a NOPA member? Membership lapsed?
Simply join or re-up before submitting your files:
www.neworleansphotoalliance.org/membership

RSVP for the happy hour event here.

Diffusion magazine, a reader-supporter, independent annual that seeks to celebrate unconventional photographic processes and photo-related art, is seeking entries by July 15 for its 2014 competition, with the theme of, "The Matter of Light."

All photo-based artists may submit work. Artists who work with alternative processes and forms of presentation-- including, but not limited to, assemblage, historic processes, installation, mixed media, hand crafted processes--are especially encouraged to apply.

Serving as jurors for the competition are Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, N.M. and Blue Mitchell, the founding editor of Diffusion and an independent publisher, curator, educator, and photographer from Portland, Ore.

Awards will include several that entail an invitation to Diffusion's next annual group exhibit, among them those for Best in Show, a Spotlight Award, First Place and Second Place awards and Exhibition Awards for select artists. Other awards will include Third Place, Honorable Mentions and Purchase Awards.

The fee for entry is $20 for up to 10 images. No more than three portfolios may be submitted.

For more information, please see the call for entry page at the Diffusion magazine website.

New Orleans Photo Alliance members are invited to submit work for consideration in CURRENTS 2014: NOPA Members Showcase. The exhibit will open in December at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in connection with the 2014 PhotoNOLA festival.

This annual exhibition was created to showcase contemporary photographic work created by NOPA members. The 2014 show will include work by as many as fifteen Alliance members, featuring several images by each selected photographer.

CURRENTS 2014 will open on December 4 and run through January 5, 2015. The opening reception will be held on Friday, December 5.


Juror: Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator of Photography
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Entry Deadline: Sept 15, 2014 

Eligibility: Submission is open to all current members of the New Orleans Photo Alliance. Applicants may join at time of entry.

Submission Fee: $25 Submission Fee + NOPA
Membership: $60

Enter online here.

About the Juror:

ROY FLUKINGER is the Senior Research Curator of Photography at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, where he has served as a curator since 1977. He publishes, lectures, produces exhibitions, and serves as a chief resource individual for the Photography Department, which holds some five million images. He also teaches, serves on numerous boards, and serves as a juror, consultant and reviewer for many art and photography organizations and institutions.

Mr. Flukinger holds degrees from Tulane University and The University of Texas at Austin. He has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer and Assistant Professor at UT and other institutions of higher learning. He has published and lectured extensively in the fields of regional, cultural, and contemporary photography and the history of art and photography, and has produced or participated in nearly eighty exhibitions. His recent publications include: The Gernsheim Collection, Windows of Light, and Photography: The First 150 Years.

Image: Gordon Stettinius' jurors talk during CURRENTS 2013 opening, Samuel Portera, all rights reserved.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, August 3, 2014, 12:00 midnight

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is pleased to announce the second “Four by Five” show juried by Steve Simmons, publisher of VIEW CAMERA MAGAZINE and author of USING THE VIEW CAMERA.

NOPA is seeking work from photographers using large format cameras with film or plates that are larger than roll film formats. While antiquarian processes are accepted, lensless based work (pinhole, etc) will not be considered.

Four images from five different photographers will be chosen. The five photographers chosen will exhibit at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery in the Fall as well as be published in a future edition of View Camera Magazine.

For more information contact David Armentor Director of Programming (programming@neworleansphotoalliance.org), The New Orleans Photo Alliance.

ENTER HERE: Four by Five

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Deadline for submissions:
Sunday, August 3, 2014, 12:00 midnight

Notification of acceptance:
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Deadline for receiving accepted works:
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Opening reception:
Saturday September 6 | 6-9 pm

Exhibition dates:
September 6 - November 23, 2014

The Center for Fine Art Photography of Fort Collins, Colo. is seeking entrants for its next juried competition, "Still Life." The deadline for entry, recently extended, is Tuesday, June 10.

All subject matter and photographic processes are welcome, as is work from any photographer anywhere in the world, whether amateur or professional. Entry fees are $20 for members and $35 for non-members for five images. Additional images may be submitted for $10 for members and non-members alike.

The juried exhibit will be held at the Center from September 5-27, 2014. 

Photographers whose work is selected for the exhibition will receive prizes including the following:

• Juror’s Selection: $500
• Director’s Selection: $250
• 2 liveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks.com
• Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and an image submission for a Center competition.

Serving as juror for the competition is Rebecca Senf, the Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in association with Phoenix Art Museum.

For more information, please see the Center website.