Photographs that focus on all things horses, from Appaloosas to Zebras, country roaming to carousel rotating, are welcome to this call for entry. Images of working horses, wild horses, dressage, tack, anything related to the life of our equine friends is welcome.

The Center for Fine Art Photography, located in Fort Collins, Colorado, invites photographers working in all mediums and styles to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works, including new processes, mixed techniques are welcome.

The exhibition, which will be held at The Center for Fine Art Photography’s gallery from September 5 through September 27, 2008, is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

Deadline is 18 June 2008. Visit the site to learn more about hte judge, the exhibition, and the prize awards.

The Center for Fine Art Photography in cooperation with Beet Street* will host a show of photographs created by Peace Corps Volunteers during its long history. The 2008 Peace Corps Exhibition will take place in Fort Collins, Colorado during the International Peace Corps Reunion. Selected images will be exhibited in the Center’s gallery during the reunion, August 20 – August 30, 2008 and on the Center’s website for two additional years. There are also plans for a traveling exhibition.

• Eligibility: Pictures created by current and former Peace Corps Volunteers will be accepted.
• The photos must be of events and everyday life during a Peace Corps Volunteer’s tour.
• Juror: Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director of the George Eastman House in Rochester New York.
• No entry fee, as the show is underwritten by Beet Street, an independent cultural and economic development entity of the Ft. Collins Downtown Develop Authority and sponsor for the Peace Corps Reunion.

Deadline is 29 May 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Photo above: Alema Rose, Aler IDP Camp, Uganda, 2006, by Heather McClintock.

Finalists announced and New Contest is Launched!

After thousands of photographs were submitted to the first ever international Garden Photographer of the Year competition earlier this year, the entrants have now been whittled down to a list of talented photographers, classed either as “Finalists” or “Commended” and announced today at www.igpoty.com.

The panel of eleven judges, including renowned garden photographer Clive Nichols and TV’s Chris Beardshaw, deliberated at length over photographs of an incredibly high standard from as far afield as Hawaii, Japan and Australia.

The Finalists’ photographs will be showcased at a high-profile exhibition launched on 22 May, in a purpose-built outdoor area at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and running until late September 2008. The winners themselves will be announced when the show opens, as part of the opening of Kew’s Summer festival.

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Photographer’s Forum Magazine presents the 28th Annual Spring Photography Contest sponsored by Canon. $4,000 in cash grants plus two - count ‘em - two Canon cameras will be awarded. Plus, winning photos will be published in the November 2008 issue of Photographer’s Forum Magazine. All contest finalists will be published in the Best of Photography Annual 2008.

Contestants can enter one of two ways - upload online or download and print an entry form. Early entry date is 21 April 2008, and final entry date is 12 May 2008 (the latter date will be on this site’s calendar). Visit the site to learn more.

If you’re interested in breaking into editorial photography, check out this seminar on building a freelance photo career on Wednesday, April 9, with Pulitzer-winning photo editor Stella Kramer in New York. A student at her last class wrote, “Stella offers refreshing, candid insights into a side of the business that photographers rarely see. Her ability to clearly describe what photo editors are looking for was a real eye-opener.”

This is a great opportunity to meet a top editor and learn how to get your work out there. “Breaking Into Editorial Photography” with a Pulitzer-winning photo editor will prepare you to get the best freelance photo jobs

Stella Kramer, multi-award-winning photo editor (The New York Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly), shares practical information and insider tips on how to get editorial assignments and build a career as an editorial freelancer. Visit mediabistro to learn more!

Sixth biennial competition reunites five generations of ADC Young Guns to select the next wave of creative wunderkinds

March 13, 2008, NEW YORK ­ To all young creative professionals across the map: It’s time to open those portfolios and find the pieces that show you at your freshest and most brilliant. ADC Young Guns 6 is fast approaching and will uncover the best under-30, professional talent throughout today’s multi-disciplinary creative industry.

Since its inception in 1996, ADC Young Guns has identified rising stars in the fields of graphic design (Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore), illustration (Deanne Cheuk), photography (floto+warner), advertising Alexander Gelman), interactive media (Rei Inamoto), film and video (Mike Mills), and animation (Todd St. John), among others. The competition discovers the most promising young creatives across various disciplines and brings these emerging talents into the spotlight.

The sixth class of ADC Young Guns will have their work showcased in a gallery exhibit and published in a limited edition book by Moleskine®. Their work will also reside in the ADC permanent collection online. These new Young Guns will be awarded the iconic ADC Cube and join the ADC’s membership, a veritable Who’s Who of advertising and design that counts Milton Glaser, Yohji Yamamoto, Ivan Chermayeff, Seymour Chwast, and Jay Maisel among its famous names.

This year the ADC has added a twist to Young Guns 6: for the first time, Young Guns alumni from classes 1­5 will serve as the jury and choose the new class to join their ranks. Having once been selected for the same award, these “old” Young Guns bring unique experience to the judges table, where they will evaluate each body of professional and personal work without the constraint of media categories.

In making the competition both for Young Guns and by Young Guns, the Art Directors Club with its singular capacity to connect several generations of visual talent‹has created a rare community characterized by its creative daring, forward-thinking ambitions, and level of prestige.

ADC Young Guns 6 opens its call for entries online on April 3 in conjunction with its launch party, Disclosure, at the Art Directors Club gallery. The launch will coincide with the ADC’s unveiling of The Undiscovered Letter (www.theundiscoveredletter.com).

For more info on this contest, please visit the site.

Now accepting entries for the 2008 Regional Design Annual. NEW for 2008: Entering your work is even easier. You can now register and pay for your entries online. Read the complete guidelines or access the official entry form (pdf).

This issue, the Regional Design Annual, is the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States-and one of the biggest issues to hit the graphic design industry each year. All winning work will be organized by region and featured in the December 2008 issue of PRINT. They received more than 20,000 individual entries for the 2007 Regional Annual, from almost every state. The process of selection in all regions of the country was as stringent as ever, and, as always, they feel that the work chosen is first-rate, and that it represents the best design, illustrations, and photography being produced throughout the United States.

NEW: Get inspired with ten year’s worth of Regional Design Annual Winners. Learn more about the Regional Design Annual 10 Year Retrospective DVD and website. Entry form pdf is here.

The premier design and interactive media competition for higher education students from around the world. The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrates student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative and interactive arts.

The competition honors the most talented and promising interactive, motion and video, and traditional media created by students.

Prizes awarded include a trip to the Adobe Design Achievement Awards in New York City, over $60K US in cash and Adobe software prizes.

12 categories in 3 Media Areas

Interactive Media Categories
Browser-Based Design
Non-Browser-Based Design
Designer/Developer Collaboration
Mobile Design
Installation Design
Motion and Video Categories
Animation
Live Action
Motion Graphics
Traditional Media Categories
Illustration
Packaging
Photography
Print Communications

For more info, please visit the site.

The 151st International Print Exhibition Entry Form AVAILABLE NOW. £10,000 FIRST PRIZE Closing date: 14th March 2008

The Royal Photographic Society is delighted to announce its partnership with international legal practice, Allen & Overy LLP, for The Society’s 151st International Print Exhibition.

Entry Form: Click here

The Entry Form will be sent to RPS members in the February RPS Journal

To obtain a hard copy of the Entry Form, contact RPS Reception: +44(0)1225 325733 reception [at] rps.org

Society Medals and Allen & Overy Awards

• 1 Gold Society Medal and a prize of £10,000
• 2 Silver Society Medals and prizes of £2,000 each
• 3 Bronze Society Medals and prizes of £1,000 each
• The Allen & Overy Prize of £1,000 awarded for the image which best reflects the theme of “Justice around the World”.

• Under 25 Gold Medal and a prize of an Olympus E510 Digital SLR with double zoom kit camera for the best image by an entrant under 25 years of age on the closing date. The Society is grateful to Olympus for their sponsorship of this award.

• Deadline for entries: Friday 14 March 2008
• Selection date: Thursday 15 and Friday 16 April 2008
• The winners will be announced and Awards presented at the Press Reception on Thursday 12 June 2008, at Allen & Overy’s new building at Spitalfields, London
• Entry fee is £15 (€25) per person
• Each photographer may submit up to 4 prints
• Image size should be no larger than 16” x 20” (40.7 x 50.8cm), with a maximum paper size of 20” x 24” (50.8 x 61cm)
• Over 120 prints will be selected and will be reproduced in a full colour catalogue. All entrants will receive a copy of the catalogue.
• The Exhibition will tour from June 2008.
• Exhibitors will have the opportunity to sell copies of their prints.

Student Entries – If 5 or more full time students enter from one educational institution, the entry fee will be reduced to £10 per student. Entries must be sent together in one package.

Selectors:

Barry Senior Hon.FRPS (Chairman)
President, The Royal Photographic Society
Visual Art Photographer

Julia Fullerton-Batten
Fine Art Photographer

Brian Griffin Hon.FRPS
Corporate Photographer

Lucilla Phelps FRPS
Fine Art Photographer

Nick Scott FRPS
Social and Visual Art Photographer

For more information, please visit www.rps.org

If you’re interested in breaking into editorial photography, check out our seminar on building a freelance photo career on Wednesday, 30 January with Pulitzer-winning photo editor Stella Kramer. A student at her last class wrote, “Stella offers refreshing, candid insights into a side of the business that photographers rarely see. Her ability to clearly describe what photo editors are looking for was a real eye-opener.”

Stella Kramer is a multi-award-winning photo editor who has worked in the New York publishing industry for more than 15 years. She was part of the photo team at The New York Times that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in recognition of the Portraits of Grief which ran after September 11th, and a 2002 Infinity Award for Public Service from the International Center of Photography. She has worked at The New York Times, People, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, MONEY, and Brill’s Content, where she was director of photography.

This seminar will be held Wednesday, 30 January from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at mediabistro in NY. Visit the site to learn more and to register.